Wednesday, January 30, 2008

JANUARY: A recap

Blog posts are supposed to be short, but it's been a month fraught with unforeseen challenges. If you get bored, skip to January 12th.

January 5th:
I am wild with desire for homemade pumpkin muffins. I have all the ingredients, but discover that I sold my large muffin tins at the garage sale we had before moving into Ugly Betty (the nickname for our tiny, ugly, $$-saving apt). The old "tins" were made of silicon, and I was afraid they would give us cancer. So I sold them to someone else. I should probably examine this behavior.

January 6th:
I have been to three Goodwills, and no muffin tins.

January 11th:
I dream of muffins. In other news, my favorite and only wristwatch breaks in an irreparable way.



January 12th:
What the %$#@%^&! My trusty five-year-old iBook, which has never once forsaken me, has a fatal meltdown. To fix the logic board will cost $500, more than the computer is worth, with no guarantee that it will be fixed for good. Did I mention that I write (on a computer) for a living? My Hot Canadian Boyfriend gives me one of his old watches. Still no muffins.



January 14th:
Oh Steve Jobs and your sexy talk! The MacBook Air. So light, so suave, so purportedly earth-friendly! Steve, Steve, Steve. Could your timing be more opportunistic?

January 20th:
A trek to the ultimate vintage cooking store, Cookin', provides me with the shiniest, most professional, most indestructible, least used-looking used muffin tins a girl could ever hope for. Better than Williams Sonoma, and only $11! While there, I also purchase wholly unnecessary (but used) placemats.

January 23rd:
My genius HCB performs a hard drive transplant, placing my iBook brain in a vintage Carrie Bradshaw-era PowerBook he had lying around the house. I now lack the processing power for YouTube, but that's probably for the best. Hopefully this fix will get me through the year.

January 30th:
Despite availability of muffin tins and looming expiration date of necessary dairy products, I have yet to make muffins. But I will. I will make them and I will post pictures of their yumminess cast in the romantic afternoon light. And then you too will be wild with desire for homemade pumpkin muffins.

1 comment:

j. ethan duran said...

great!
now i want some muffins...