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Red Velvet Cake

This is essentially the Red Velvet Cake recipe that I made for the boy's birthday. It's a tradition in my family to have Red Velvet Cake for birthdays using the Waldorf recipe that my mother transcribed onto an index card many, many moons ago. This year, for my birthday, she could not find her recipe card and my father, god bless him, found the recipe online.

Substitute real butter for the shortening and make two rounds of icing to make sure that there's enough. (The extra goes great between homemade cookies for impromptu moon pies!)

This recipe makes great cupcakes too!

GIST:

1. Not Martha

2. The new Tim Burton movie: Alice in Wonderland

3. Paper Pot via Apartment Therapy

4. Woody the Drum Light wants to live in my dining room.

5. Beautiful jewelry by Elizabeth Scott

GIST: 34 of 365

1. Spending lots of time with the boy this weekend.

2. Trying new things: frogs legs.

3. The cafe at the American Indian Museum. They always have great things to eat there!

4. The Hirshorn.

5. Making new friends at Art-O-Matic.

GIST: 34.5 of 365

1. Leftover crabcakes and red velvet cake for lunch. The crabcakes are from dinner with my dad for Father's Day yesterday, the red velvet is from the cake I made for the boy for his birthday!

2. Cornmeal buttermilk pancakes & BACON for breakfast made by my fantastic roommate.

3. Getting caught up at work.

Making out in Seven Springs, PA

In the pool, under water at Seven Springs Ski Resort.

It was a bit wet. :)

I jumped off the diving board and he jumped off the side of the pool. it seemed like a good idea at the time. I was 9.

Zombies!

I have no concrete plan, but my friend Souza does, so I will be holing up with him. I believe that machetes and shotguns are in order as well as the stockpiling of foodstuffs, but really he's the expert.

GIST: 33 of 365

1. Sleeping until 3:00.

2. Sorta successfully making not only a new Indian dish last night, but also a peach pie and whipped cream.

3. Slumdog Millionaire FTW!

4. Sean Penn and Dustin Lance Black's acceptance speeches.

5. Initiating a talk about "important things" with the boy.

GIST: 32 of 365

1. Having an actual desk to work at for the first time in a while.

2. Getting a call from the Paralegal asking if I could meet her for sushi for restaurant week.

3. Really big beer.

4. Green tea ice cream!

5. Catching up on TV shows with onDemand.

GIST: 31 of 365

1. Meeting the boy to go to the Archives to see the Emancipation Proclamation which was only on view for 6 days.

2. Being adopted by the family behind me in line when he left to go to work. (He came back when the line started moving again.)

3. Pre-adolescent boys roughhousing in the grass to keep warm.

4. The cool seal in the floor of the lobby to the Rotunda.

5. Seeing the country's founding documents for the first time. It was really moving to see not only the Emancipation Proclamation, but the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.