Let them eat CAKE!!

The car place called and to fix the breaks and replace the serpentine belt it’ll be “around $400”. They also checked the CV boots, but advised that they didn’t need to be fixed yet. I’m so happy happy happy! Based on the numbers I heard from Firestone, I was seriously expecting to hear that the necessary repairs would run $1200+!

Hooray!

Picture today of the most amazing cake ever! Courtesy of the smittenkitchen (http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/08/chocolate-peanut-butter-cake/) it’s the chocolate sour cream cake with peanut butter frosting and chocolate peanut butter glaze! It looked like a million bucks and tasted that good too! CC did such an amazing job – dutifully chilling the cakes in between frosting layers, doing a crumb layer first, etc.

Sunday night we went to WA Frost with friend SD before the So You Think You Can Dance concert. Dinner and the tickets were courtesy of SD’s law firm – yay! The show was amazing and dinner was good. The weird part was that as soon as we sat down at our table I saw one of the waiters and was like, “That’s Paul”. We sort-of dated for about two months back in 1999. He was the first guy I thought had long-term potential – he was witty, had goals (to go MIT and study linguistics – guess that didn’t happen), read for fun. And then he sort-of broke my heart.
And even though it has been nine years, I recognized him immediately (and I’m not that good at remembering faces). Wondering if this happens to anyone else…

Today’s CC’s birthday! The weekend sapped more energy than we anticipated, so we’re having a mellow night at home.

Last night we dropped off the car and were feeling lazy about dinner. I reheated the leftover chili and then we tossed in a can of diced tomatoes and a can of mock pork (“mock polk”) – delicious and easy.