Confessions of a 20-something mother

[Gravity Defier]

I may have worded that wrong. More like, I get into bad food ruts where I eat things I normally wouldn't eat back to back. Namely, I will eat sweets for all three meals one day, some days. Stuff like that. Or instead of making something proper, I'll just go to town on chips.

[LilBee91]

Confession: I have a really hard keeping an open mind when people start acting superior. It makes me want to go against them just to prove them wrong, whether they are or not.

[zeroguy]

Confession: I have a really hard keeping an open mind when people start acting superior.

Look, I've been around for a while, and I can tell you this is the better way to go about things. People sometimes ask me how I got so great, and I tell them that proving smug people wrong is my key. I mean, you see someone sitting around saying they're all better because they do something or other, and you're just going to listen to them? Hell no, you gotta show them otherwise. Does it make me better than them? Yes, yes it does. One day the contrarian master race will prevail.






(If someone doesn't see the joke I'm trying to make, look harder. It's in there.)

[locke]

Confession:

I will never, ever understand Red Velvet Cake. If ever there was a cake that is just appalling in every possible way, it is Red Velvet. Whether it is a cupcake or cake, or cheesecake, from a fancy bakery, friend, chain or fancy restaurant it is always abysmally disappointing.

First of all, Red Velvet frosting is horrifically nasty. I can tolerate most frostings, even the ones that are really nothing more than powdered sugar whipped with crisco and food coloring (a popular midwest "homemade" frosting) but Red Velvet Frosting is profoundly wrong in so many ways. It is syrupy glue in your mouth, a hideous coat of venomous white poison that I want to scrape out of my mouth every time I get around to trying it again (maybe this time it will be good, everyone else thinks RV is the greatest thing of all time).

On top of all the offensive flavor combinations assaulting the palate with the frosting is the horror of the actual cake itself. Firstly, it has a bizarre flat sweetness (how do you make a brassy or bright flavor like sweet flat? it shouldn't be possible), or sometimes somewhat actinic blandness (perhaps it's all the coloring?) and always with a texture that is all wrong. It's soggy without being wet, the wobbly cake crumb is like placing in your mouth a mushy sponge soaked in old cereal milk and left sitting on the table all morning long on a hot summer day.

It's just a miserable experience that befouls the good name of cake in just about every way other than general shape and form. It really is disgusting and I don't think I'll ever understand the attraction.

[Luet]

Wow, the red velvet cupcake at a local cupcakery is one of my favorites. And the frosting is just a good old cream cheese frosting. Most red velvet cakes are just some type of mild chocolate cake with red food coloring added. It sounds like you have happened upon a lot of bad ones.

[VelvetElvis]

Confession:

I will never, ever understand Red Velvet Cake. If ever there was a cake that is just appalling in every possible way, it is Red Velvet. Whether it is a cupcake or cake, or cheesecake, from a fancy bakery, friend, chain or fancy restaurant it is always abysmally disappointing.

First of all, Red Velvet frosting is horrifically nasty. I can tolerate most frostings, even the ones that are really nothing more than powdered sugar whipped with crisco and food coloring (a popular midwest "homemade" frosting) but Red Velvet Frosting is profoundly wrong in so many ways. It is syrupy glue in your mouth, a hideous coat of venomous white poison that I want to scrape out of my mouth every time I get around to trying it again (maybe this time it will be good, everyone else thinks RV is the greatest thing of all time).

On top of all the offensive flavor combinations assaulting the palate with the frosting is the horror of the actual cake itself. Firstly, it has a bizarre flat sweetness (how do you make a brassy or bright flavor like sweet flat? it shouldn't be possible), or sometimes somewhat actinic blandness (perhaps it's all the coloring?) and always with a texture that is all wrong. It's soggy without being wet, the wobbly cake crumb is like placing in your mouth a mushy sponge soaked in old cereal milk and left sitting on the table all morning long on a hot summer day.

It's just a miserable experience that befouls the good name of cake in just about every way other than general shape and form. It really is disgusting and I don't think I'll ever understand the attraction.

My only conclusion is that you've never had it made right. I've had some that are just chocolate with red food coloring. But, if it consoles you, I prefer a nice yellow cake to even a properly made red velvet.

[steph]

Wow, the red velvet cupcake at a local cupcakery is one of my favorites. And the frosting is just a good old cream cheese frosting. Most red velvet cakes are just some type of mild chocolate cake with red food coloring added. It sounds like you have happened upon a lot of bad ones.

I was going to say that about the frosting. How can cream cheese frosting be so offensive to you? It's amazing in it's combination of tangy and sweet.

[Eaquae Legit]

I've never had red velvet cake. Isn't that the weird one with ketchup?

[LilBee91]

I've never had red velvet cake. Isn't that the weird one with ketchup?

There is a cake with ketchup? Ew.

[ender1]

I've never had red velvet cake. Isn't that the weird one with ketchup?

Oh god no. I've never heard of a cake with ketchup...ew.

Red velvet is essentially a less sweet? chocolate, dyed red.

[Luet]

I've never heard of a version of red velvet with ketchup. Some use beet juice as a natural red dye instead of food coloring.

[Petra456]

Wow, you must have had some horrible red velvet! It's one of my favorite cakes and it's fun to make! I also LOVE cream cheese frosting.

[Claire]

I am absolutely heartbroken to leave St. Louis. I love this city. I love my social circles here. I love my apartment and my roommates and everything. Some day I will be back.

[Gravity Defier]

Confession: I would love to go to San Diego Comic Con one day. I've wanted to go for years but for one reason or another couldn't, despite SD being really close by, relatively speaking.

But. I'm starting to hate image galleries from it because it feels like The Second Coming of Halloween, in that it gives women an excuse to wear unnecessarily slutty outfits. Sure, they're based on costumes that start out pretty revealing but it's like everything gets sexed up and to an 11 on a 10 point scale.

[zeroguy]

It's not just women (Warning: uh, "sexy" costume? But drawn; not a picture.) And for those who don't know, this is tails.

[neo-dragon]

We should look on the positive side and note what a good thing it is that women (and men) have a safe environment where they can feel comfortable dressing slutty and not be judged or accosted for it.

[Mich]

Confession: Browsing through a Christian bookstore today when bored at an outlet mall kind of was a kick to the face that, oh, yeah, I've finally come to terms with the fact that I'm most likely atheist. That was weird.

[Eaquae Legit]

When I get held up by perfectly healthy-looking young people in the bike lane, I can't help wanting to shout "I'm 6 months pregnant, what's your excuse?!"

On the flip side, when I get passed by older folks, I feel a sense of awe and want to be like them when I get older!

Edit: And I finally got the response I wanted to my 21 mile trip last weekend. When Rei mentioned it to his mother over skype, she said (roughly), "At HOW many months pregnant?!" Now I can stop wishing people would notice, lol.

[Gravity Defier]

Confession: I still have an awfully hard time saying no to certain people and I find it annoying, to say the least, but I feel too bad to tell them I don't want to do whatever it is they want, so I do it anyway and then spend a good portion of the time resenting them for not knowing, without my saying, that I wanted to say no. (In the latest case, that I'm currently thinking of, it's a volunteer position that involves sitting in a smoke-filled room for two hours a week while my eyes and lungs scream for fresh air.)

[Confessions]

I've never had a sexual fantasy.

[Gravity Defier]

I've never had a sexual fantasy.

Oh, yeah. This is why Pweb makes me feel like a pervert on a semi-regular basis.


Actually, it really makes me think I need to have some more boundaries put in place and tell you all less but same difference.

[neo-dragon]

I haven't had a sexual fantasy either...

In the last 5 minutes! Wait... 5 seconds... Wait...

[mr_thebrain]

i can't say as i've had much by way of fantasies. or if you'd consider them fantasies because they don't go into any detail or anything. i get ideas, or think of things i'd like to try. but i really don't think of them as fantasies.

i can't say as pweb makes me feel like a pervert. i always feel like a pervert. pweb just makes me feel like i'm a dirty dirty pervert.

it's kind of fun!

[neo-dragon]

To be honest, I suspect that women have more of what you might call "fantasies" while guys just have more frequent sexual thoughts. I'm sure we've all heard the old "men think about sex every 8 seconds" line, but of course there's no way to test that claim so I'm pretty sure that someone just pulled it out of their a$$.

[Mich]

My sexual fantasy is P-Web discussing the perversion power of their sexual fantasies.

[Confessions]

Please don't feel like a pervert, Alea. My comment was more a confession that I feel like a weirdo because I haven't. On the spectrum of sexuality, I fall close to the asexual range.

[Gravity Defier]

I'd rather you not feel like a weirdo. There's a whole wide spectrum when it comes to sexuality and I suspect that is a really good thing.

I mean, it feels like a lot of Pwebbers would rather not talk about it (never put much thought into them not feeling/thinking it), so that makes me feel strange but that's all on me and my norms around here and not a comment on anyone else's norms, ya know?

[zeroguy]

My comment was more a confession that I feel like a weirdo

And Alea is your comparison for the norm? :D

[Gravity Defier]

Shhh. Not while I'm pouring.*



*And by that I mean, "Shh. Not while I'm basking in my supposed normalcy."

[Eaquae Legit]

I'm jealous of people who have grandparents.

[VelvetElvis]

Sometimes I feel very very inadequate here. Our members? Fancy academics. Wonderful crafters. Inspired cooks. Dedicated parents. I... have a BSN, craft only when I have to, and cook if it's the only option (just forget baking), and have a dog.

[mr_thebrain]

sure, but the dog means you win.

and don't worry, you fit in here just fine.

[Gravity Defier]

Sometimes I feel very very inadequate here.

I know this feeling like the back of my hand. (Wait, which side counts as the back? The one that has the fingernails, right?)

don't worry, you fit in here just fine.

But yes, this is true. I think the nursing thing is pretty darn impressive; I mean, a useful degree? Pssh, who ever heard of that and actually got one?

[Luet]

I think we all feel like that at times, some of us more often than others. Heck, you do a lot more than I do. I don't have a degree or a job or kids or anything. So, you got me beat.

[Young Val]

and have a dog.

Helen, I have a cat, it's true, but only because David brought her into the relationship. I am a dog person to the core and both of my dogs were pit bulls. My heart goes with yours.