Yes. I get it. My last twenty-five posts have somehow centered back to food. I clearly have a problem. I should be on Maury or Montel or The View discussing my awful obsession with frosting and dinners and celebrations that center around both.
Or maybe just the sick obsession with frosting.
I realize the food posts need to stop. However, today something happened that I simply had to share. I found myself hovering over the sink thinking, “Wow. I really don’t want to tell anyone about the shame I just experienced.”
And then five minutes later I was in the car laughing thinking, “Ahaha, I have to tell someone about this.”
So here we are.
Tomorrow is Will’s birthday. Yesterday we drove down to Will’s parent’s house to celebrate his birthday. We went to eat and afterwards Will’s mom sent us home with a dirty cake.
Heh heh. Dirty cake.
Doesn’t it just sound sleazy? Like you need to be listening to Keith Sweat or R. Kelly while you take the lid off? Or like you should be slathering it in some sort of edible oil?
Sorry for the visual. Let’s get back on track.
Anyway- dirty cake. Us. Taking it home.
We brought the cake home but didn’t have any last night. Which meant there was untouched cake in my house for more than 12 hours, which is pretty much a miracle.
In fact you may want to check page 22A of your local newspaper. I bet I’m in there.
So today for lunch I had to run to the post office to mail off my transcripts for my school application. I had already brought my lunch to work with me, so there was really no need for me to go home for lunch yet somehow I found myself getting into the car, as if on autopilot, and driving home. You know, to let Boz and Lucy out. Wink.
So I get there, let them out, and am standing around the kitchen thinking, “What am I doing here?” Knowing full well what was really going on in my mind. The cake.
So, I play with a little fire and open the fridge- and there it is.
In fact, as I opened the fridge I’m pretty sure I heard some Marvin Gaye playing in the back of the Crisper area- and as soon as I shut the fridge the music went away.
I peeked it open again, to be greeted with the same sound. Only this time I exercised some degree of willpower and got a nectarine.
Because, as we all know, nectarines are just as satisfying as chocolatey cake, yes?
I finished the nectarine and really realize I need to go back to work.
I mean that is Will’s cake! His mom made it for him! It’s meant for us to share it together in honor of his special day. What sort of sick, awful, hormonal person eats their husband’s birthday ca…
And before I could finish the word, there I was. Standing over the sink trying to slyly carve out a tiny piece of dirty cake so that Will would never know someone sampled it before he did. Only the tiny sliver soon became about half a cup.
Wow.
An all time low, I thought to myself.
So what was I to do!? I couldn’t let Will know I was such a selfish awful wife!
Think, Brittny, Think!
Ahaha!
If you’ve ever had dirty cake, you know that it’s topped with whip cream.
So, in my genius, I went to the freezer and pulled out our gigantic tub of Cool Whip.
Because, as you know, every two person household has a costco size bucket of Cool Whip in their house.
I went to work, almost artist-like, filling in the “tiny” hole I had created, and spreading the oreos overtop.
Brilliant.Before I knew it- Tada! Good as new. Like I never ate a giant hole through Will’s birthday cake.
So now I don’t feel so much like a heel. Now I simply feel like I need to spend all week at the gym.
I made myself laugh, so I figured I’d share the moment with you all.
Happy Monday!
