Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Sgt. Assassin is still home! But I had to share this with you…my faithful minions. About a year ago, Sgt. A thought it would be the most amazing thing ever, to buy me a set of penis drink stirrers. Imagine the hilarity that ensued when family and friends found them in the silverware drawer! How about sticking them in martinis when my quieter friends are over? Apparently, I do get embarrassed.
As many of my followers know, every year we have to do a cake for Jack’s Cub Scout Cake Auction. This year’s theme was flight. Naturally, my idea of doing a rubber chicken cake was shot down. So we opted for an aircraft carrier. Easy, right? Long and rectangular with some toy planes slapped on it.
The first dilemma was gray frosting. And not just any gray, but gunmetal, Navy gray. I bought white frosting thinking I could just buy black food coloring. Guess what? There is no black food coloring. Huh. I was getting kind of desperate because Sgt. Assassin said there was “no way in hell” he was settling for a white or brown aircraft carrier. I was trying to figure out how many Sharpies I could crack open and mix with the frosting when my friend Michele stopped me and said I could get black frosting in a tube. It was a miracle…a Christmas miracle.
By the way, gray frosting, while pretty when mixing, is completely unappetizing. Just thought you should know.
So. After putting the cake together and frosting it, Sgt. A says, “You should do little black windows on the superstructure (which is an idiotic military term for “little building on an aircraft carrier).” I looked through every drawer I had to try to find something I could dab a block of black frosting onto the cake. Nothing seemed to work.
And then I found the penis drink stirrers. Voila.
And that’s what I call, a “win-win.”
The Assassin