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Dear Denise,

I know you did not believe me when I said I would blog a monthly letter to you, but here I am. Writing you a letter. It will not happen monthly (notice I didn’t say it PROBABLY will not - I went straight to the will not), please try to console yourself before I see you next, as I don’t deal well with weeping.

This month? Is May, 2008. That is very exciting because May? Is right before June, July, August - aka summer. Woo! You know you are excited. Your favorite days ever happen in July, I remember! The 4th, and the 18th! Ha, yes. Extra brownie points for me please. Make sure they are served with ice cream.

I am not good at writing letters to you, I’m sorry! Pretty much everything I could tell you I already have via IM. So, maybe you won’t mind a recap? There won’t be a test. A pop quiz maybe, but no test.

On Friday night Jeff and I went to dinner with my work people. It was interesting. We went to a very fancy place (for us. Our idea of a big dinner out is Applebee’s.) that no one would ever have guessed existed where it exists. Apparently it is a 5-star establishment? In the middle of nowhere.

As you know, I am a very picky eater. Just call me whitebread. (But only in terms of my dietary preferences, okay? Thanks.) So fancy = panic/drama. I survived the evening, of course. And? I ATE A DUCK. I was a little worried that I would wake up the next day with webbed toes as a result, but deep down I must have known that was absurd. Or at least unlikely. Duck? Is not bad! It came with some weird wild rice thing though, and odd, flat little peas in their pods. I wasn’t a fan of either of those things. And then? I had chocolate cake for dessert. But - not just chocolate cake - it was DEATH BY CHOCOLATE cake. And it was yummy.

So yummy? That I ended up making my very own chocolate cake last night. Really, I have no idea if the two cakes are related at all, but the restaurant’s cake probably planted the seed. The cake I made? Is from a recipe that you shared with me a few weeks ago, saying something like “DAMN THIS LOOKS GOOD!” Here it is: Hershey’s “Perfectly Chocolate” Chocolate Cake. I printed that recipe because you were right. It did look good. Really, really good. And it is super good!

Mine is not as pretty as the cake on the site though. I didn’t feel up to washing the regular cake pan, so I used two round pans that were already clean and just waiting to be used. No problem! I’ve made round cakes before! But this cake is so moist and delicious that when I tried to remove them from their pans? They fell apart. So I mostly have a pile of delicious cake, that doesn’t really look all that cake like. Frosting that mess was interesting too (I didn’t make the frosting on that recipe, I just bought some to use). But hey - it’s just going in my tummy anyway, right? Right!

So yeah! That’s pretty much going to be my whole letter to you now. I hope you liked it a super lot! I hope it makes you feel all warm and tingly inside. Have a nice Monday!

Sincerely,
Sarah

(And hi to everyone else out there, too! I’m still alive.)