Weight, birthday cake and music

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I’ve got lots to talk about today so let’s dive right in!

First, the weekly weigh in for Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans because I should have posted it Wednesday but it’s been so busy around here, I’ve hardly had time to sneeze.

And the answer is – I have no idea! LOL. The scale is still broken and I have yet to replace it. But I don’t think I’m going to. Anyway, I haven’t really noticed any changes this week. My clothes are still fitting the same. We’ll just call it good.

The other day, I mentioned it was The Teenager’s Birthday this week – yesterday, actually. Grandma surprised her with a trip to Jazz Alley to see Peter White – a jazz guitarist. We had a great time although we were not impressed with our server. He was not very attentive and never came around to take our dessert order. It was a bit disconcerting and incredibly unusual – the service is usually above and beyond at jazz Alley.

Nonetheless, we enjoyed the concert. About halfway through when Peter White came out into the audience – we couldn’t have planned it better if we’d tried – he sat down next to me at our booth in the middle of his song. I told him it was The Teenager’s 15th Birthday and we were there celebrating. When he got back up on the stage, he said “Well, I had the opportunity to meet (The Teenager). Today is her 15th Birthday so let’s all sing Happy Birthday to (The Teenager).” And he got the entire place to sing!

It was very cool!

Even though we didn’t get dessert.

We did, however, have some birthday cake when we got home.

A very chocolate birthday cake that I spent the day making from scratch. It was D E L I C I O U S! I’ll post the recipe later for both the cake and the frosting. They’re very simple and the cake is nice and moist. Actually, I think it’s the moistest cake I’ve ever baked.

It was supposed to be a double layer cake but one of the layers had trouble coming out of the pan and cracked. I wasn’t able to salvage it for the cake so we only ended up with a single layer cake. The good news is . . . everybody LOVED it! The cake really turned out great and it’s most definitely one I’ll be making again when we have need for another cake.

Probably in a couple weeks since MY birthday is coming up.

So, now that I’ve spent entirely too long writing this post (I got interrupted for a couple of hours!), it’s nearly time for bed. I’m very tired and looking forward to getting a good sleep. I spent nearly the entire day at one child’s school or another in meetings with teachers, directors and other support persons trying to straighten out a few issues The Short Dude and The Teenager are having. (Maybe I’ll write about those soon.)

And now I’m beat.

Night, y’all!

In the arena,

A quote from one of my favorite authors. “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” ~ Hermann Hesse – Swiss (German-born) author (1877 – 1962)

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