Cake

In our refrigerator we have a big piece of leftover wedding cake. It rests on its cardboard dais -- a footprint far too large for our fridge, really -- and it is covered by a plastic dome that is the inverted bowl of my salad spinner. The cake looks okay, but the frosting no longer looks appetizing: the couple of flowers on it are kind of pitted and runny.

We have not touched the cake for the entire two weeks it's been in the refrigerator, which suggests we're unlikely to eat it (which is probably all the healthier a way for it to be). But I'm not sure I'm up to throwing it away.

The frosting is my favorite part... it was a white cake, with all these crazy colored flowers. Last week we had also in our refrigerator an additional container with already cut pieces of cake. My husband ATE ALL THE CAKE PARTS out of the frosting, leaving all these frosting husks. And yeah, I couldn't throw the frosting away, I'd loved it so much and hadn't even taken a picture of it,* so for a week or more we had a container in our refrigerator with all these sad little pieces of frosting, no cake.

So really there's no reason to keep the cake. If we ate all that sugar ourselves, we would probably die, and the cake is really in no condition to serve to friends.

Also, I have to take my laptop into the shop. It could be the logic board, the same problem that plagued the previous generation of iBooks. If so I will have to buy a new one with my credit card, or with Student Loan Money perhaps. My husband is astounded that such a major sort of problem would hurt my brand loyalty not a bit.



*Fortunately other people did.