I don't understand people who use cake mix for simple things like yellow cake/cupcakes

[lodessa]

Last night, while watching Bones, I made 35 cupcakes, frosted them, and even put little sprinkles on top.



10 went to work with the boyfriend to remind his coworkers that he is taken (and they cannot hope to compete with a girlfriend who bakes cupcakes for him to bring his minions).

10 went to work with me to attempt to win my coworkers' love (so far 4 have been eaten, but it's only 11 so I have high hopes for them all being gone before I go home).

15 stayed at home for people to eat during our Office Season 4 Premiere Party (I also might make more with the second tub of frosting I bought just in case 1 wasn't enough).






While my sister was at therapy, J and I went shopping for snack foods and drinks (plus a few things we were out of). The results were such that I felt obliged to tell the checker that we were having people over and this wasn't how we normally shopped/ate. Our cart contents were as follows:

For the Party
12 Pack of Cans of Mountain Dew
12 Pack of Cans of Squirt
12 Pack of Cans of Pepsi
6 Pack of Hornsby's Crisp Apple Cider
6 Pack of Mike's Hard Lemonade
4 Pack of Bartles & James' Exotic Berry Wine Coolers
1 Bag of Lays Waves Ranch Potato Chips
1 Bag of Lays Baked Sour Cream and Onion Chips
1 Box of Reduced Fat Cheese-Its
1 Package of Chewy Chips Ahoy
1 Package of Generic Fudge Stripe Cookies
1 Package of Mother's Wafer Cookies


Not for the Party
1 Gallon of 2% Milk
4 Large Chunks of Beef
1 Loaf of Oroweat Potato Bread



ETA: It's about 1:30 and only two cupcakes remain. Both bitchy co workers have not eaten one so far... I think it's an instinctive aversion towards the classic Greek guest/host obligations enacted by one person eating food from another person.


ETA: 4 minutes to 2PM and the cupcakes I brought to work are gone. The last two were eaten by the Patriarch and my most problematic co-worker. Excellent.

Comments

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Hey, I forgot to say yesterday -- should we be helping to reimburse you for any of this? Also, I think only 6-7 people will be there total, so we will be eating a lot of junk food in the days to come. ;)

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

You don't need to, unless you like want to take a bunch of stuff home or something?

I know it is way overkill but I always do that. I figure leftover junk food can be brought to work (theirs and/or mine)when we reach the point of OMG I need to suffer for all the badness.

Also all this stuff keeps for a long time unopened and Jeremy will drink the soda (which was 3 for 2)

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

OK. I just felt like it was a bunch of stuff and a) I would be eating a lot, and b) the party is only at your place for space issues, because A. is really the one who put the whole thing together. So thank you for that. :)

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

I totally appreciate it. If I'd been expecting you to chip in I would have either suggested me go get stuff together or asked you if you'd grab certain items. But it reflects well on you that you'd be willing to anyway.

ps. We totally got the wine coolers/cider because A. likes them

[novin-ha.livejournal.com]

I now have a Bones icon. And have watched 2x05, and am liking it more and more :D

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

And it's such a pretty one!

That's the thing about Bones... at first it's just enjoyable but then it creeps up on you and becomes terribly awesome and beloved while you are not paying attention.

[juushika.livejournal.com]

And now... I crave cupcakes. Gah.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I'd offer to ship you some but they'd probably get destroyed en route

[hobviously.livejournal.com]

Reduced Fat Cheez-its?! *disowns*

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

M and I have been compromising for quite some time with that.

[hobviously.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's anything wrong with healthy snacking, but Reduced Fat Cheez-its are a classic lose-lose compromise IMO.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

They've sort of grown on me.

[qt-ninja.livejournal.com]

wow! yu r a regular betty crocker

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Not really... cupcakes are really easy. Like pancakes only with less milk and more vanilla and you bake instead of cooking on stove, which is actually easier.

Mainly I just like the frosting.

[hamsterwoman]

Mmm, cupcakes! (Oddly, this is the second cupcakes-related post I'm reading today. I think the universe is trying to tell me something...)

And that's a pretty impressive cupcake-snarfing rate for your co-workers.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Clearly you need cupcakes of your own.

Well I did tell everyone who walked by to have one...