No Big Plans, But a Good Idea

Wowee, so my friend Anna came up with this delicious sounding cupcake combo... lemon and passionfruit. Oooooheeeeee... as someone who is very keen on the whole soury-sweety mixture, this sounds like a goer, but I'd have to change the name that she came up with for it. Not that the name that she came up with is bad, it just reminds me a bit too much of that song from Grease 'Summer Lovin', which I then start to sing in my head. Which I then start to sing out loud. Which is not a good thing. Oh yeah, I was thinking of calling them 'Sour Times' (with a nod and smile at Portishead.)

Shake that (Library)Thing!

So, I've become a convert of LibraryThing.  This innocuous little Web 2.0 gadget is (for book-geeks such as myself) almost as bad as Facebook with the way it sucks up your time.  Let me give you a play-by-play.

First, you sign in.  Then you look at the pitiful amount of books that you have to your name, and the sheer gajillions that others have.  Your competitive instinct kicks in.  So you decide to add the books that you can remember off the top of your head, and since you're currently reading Christine by Stephen King (for lunchtime reading, I learnt the hard way, you don't read that shiz before you go to bed), you think to yourself, sweet, I'll add that.  Fifteen minutes goes by and you're still looking for the entry of Christine. You have searched for Christine, which brings up all the authors who have the first name Christine.  You search for Stephen King, and that brings up not only all of the books that Stephen King as we know and love him has written, but also the books by Stephen C. King (who writes books on management techniques) and Steven King.  Plus all the seemingly endless books that are about a King, the King James Bible, and everything else in the world except Christine.

Black Velvet

Wow, I have to say that after about a months worth of hiatus, I've come back with a bang!

These were the nicest cupcakes I've made in a while... gorgeous cake-y interior, smooth sweet (but not too sweet) frosting, the stars aligned!  I think the Elvis link is a wee bit tenuous, but since I hate (and I do mean hate) bananas, that's about as close as I can bring myself.  Plus, peanut butter and chocolate is such an awesome combo, I don't know how anyone can go past it.