The place I go to has private beaches, soft serve ice cream machines, and after the French custom, people wear dark socks to the beach...

Okay, maybe that's Liz Lemon's happy place. Mine? Right now, it's Georgetown Cupcakes, because cupcakes are all I can think of lately.
(...this post just happened to coincide with "frost your own cupcake" day in TDR. It was like they read my mind)


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viewer discretion is advised: you may hate me after watching that video, but the eyebrow raise at the end just gets me every time!

Anyways, I've just discovered the online oasis of cupcakes, courtesy of my wonderful roommate. And no, she wasn't talking about a fashion blog this time...just some of the most delicious looking cupcakes I've ever seen!

coconut rum with coconut cream cheese frosting vanilla with strawberry filling and milk chocolate glaze gingerbread with fluffy cream cheese filling vanilla almond with maple cream cheese frosting port wine and cherry chocolate with mascarpone frosting sour cream raspberry with cream cheese frosting coffee chocolate with baileys irish cream frosting vanilla with lemon filling and meringue frosting sour cream chocolate with nutella frosting coconut sponge with chocolate espresso buttercream blueberry with maple brown butter frosting sour cream apricot with mascarpone frosting and toasted almonds and sooooo many more!

My mouth is watering already, and it only gets better. They come with recipes.
If I were you, I would check this out immediately.
There are cupcakes to be made!


And on that note, here's a random pie chart you might enjoy...



P.S. That's not a spelling error.
If I'm told to make a pie chart, it should just be assumed that I'll be thinking about desserts.
Desserts like...

cupcakes creme brulee cheese cake cream puffs sorbet crepes girl scout cookies chocolate lava cake vanilla ice cream brownies strawberry shortcake popsicles jello key lime pie spongecake poundcake gelato angel food cake flan snow cones tiramisu peach pie tarts froyo apple pie blueberry cobbler strudle bread pudding pastries chocolate covered strawberries lemon bars chocolate fondue apple crisp pudding chocolate chip cookies blondies baklava turkish delight lemon cake oreo scones chocolate fudge milk shakes truffles rootbeer floats cream puffs banana splits chocolate malts hot fudge sundaes

I could go on for ages, but I think you get the general idea...









disclaimer: no food was consumed in the making of this blog. unfortunately.

i don't drink coffee sir, i don't drink hot liquids of any kind

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Okay, so maybe it's not that Bel Air, but how many cliche Fresh Prince jokes do you think I've had to endure over the years?
...it's about time I got my own turn

You might think that working at a bakery in high school was my wish come true.

WRONG.

True, I have a somewhat extreme infatuation with food, but the only time i was even allowed near the kitchen was to wash off sticky donut trays.

But hey, if scraping icing off wooden stairs with a garden tool and squeezing into small glass cases to wipe up leftover pastry filling is your thing...you may have just found your dream job.

And you're in luck, I hear they're hiring...can't imagine why.

The one perk of the job...an unlimited coffee supply.

It almost made up for having to sweep old rugs, mop floors, and deal with a few customers that I swore were ready to knife me if I told them we were out of the jelly filled donuts.

My daily caffeine fix is vital if I'm planning on being a functional member of society. Otherwise, I might look something like this...

or this...

but probably more like this...

I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich

You can only imagine my confusion when I borrowed my roommates computer and saw that her last Google search was "how to eat a cupcake."

Hey Christina, if you really want to know how to eat a cupcake, just ask the expert...and by expert i mean me.

And then she explained that it was a fashion blog.....one that had nothing to do with cupcakes.
My heart _sank.

On a scale of 1 to boring this conversation was quickly heading towards zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, so she showed me one of the other blogs she follows religiously.

It's written by a 13 year old girl named Tavi.

We're always debating about what makes a blog legitimate, and it always seems to come down to the person that's writing...and that always seems to lead to the writer's credentials.

But who's to say that really matters? I'd even go so far as to say it's irrelevant. What matters is content.

If a 13 year old girl can become an elite in the fashion world and build a reputation off this blog, then who are we to argue that experience is what defines a blog's legitimacy?

In my pursuit of delicious foods, I've discovered scanwiches. Their claim to fame? "Scans of sandwiches for education and delight." Every sandwich lovers dream.

Unfortunately, it was yet another unsuccessful ftp. But not to worry, I'm getting closer to my ftp goals.

This time there was only a server error, not the usual spiel about not being guest accessible.

On a side note, I've discovered where I'm moving when I'm older.

Mbabane has the highest web search interest for food...

Swaziland here I come.

I can't sleep without the sound of the ocean and the smell of bacon...

The obvious trend here (and by trend, i mean food in all it's internet glory) is not going away. Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution is my background music, and the diets of the lovely folks of Huntington, West Virginia, don't even compare to what I'm looking at right now.

Mr. Oliver would be appalled if he could see this bacon bouquet, but personally I think it's kind of awesome

Liz Lemon wouldn't have had to leave the party on a bacon run if they had this decorating genius.

If you're wondering where I found this little delicacy, you should wander around thisiswhyyourfat.com for a bit. It's guaranteed to horrify and excite you at the same time. But alas, foiled again. Even in all my infinite wisdom I couldn't guess the password to ftp this site either.

It's crazy how everything works with html. Just change one word, one letter and you have an entirely different effect on a web page. I could play with this stuff all day. There are soooo many factors to the internet and the web. I'd settle for understanding just a few.

Me Want Food!

Oh, TDR you've met your match. A few supplemented hours of foodporndaily.com, and I feel like I could handle anything...even the mexican lasagna you tried to feed me for dinner. Although, how you managed to cook such an oxymoron still astounds me.

Seriously though, just one look at this and my mouth is already watering. I typed in ftp, instead of www, hoping to get an all access look at some of the delicious morsels filling my computer screen. Unfortunately, I had little success. The secrets behind foodporndaily have evaded me...for now.

I did have an awesome time switching around the foodnetwork website in class today, though. I may or may not have replaced Paula Dean's name with my own, taking credit for a few of her recipes. That's about the only recognition in the kitchen I'll ever be getting.

I obviously love food, but my skills in the kitchen leave much to be desired. Unless you're craving pancakes and grilled cheese, I suggest you look elsewhere for a good meal.

Anyways, I'll be trying to find some more htmls to rearrange and websites to ftp, so stay tuned.

"Perhaps one day we'll live in a world where you ask us to pretend to be scientists..."

but for now you're just asking us to blog.
I've obviously mastered the talents of google searching and facebook stalking, but blogging is a whole new experience. Yea, I've read blogs before, but written them? Not so much. "And your motto is: above all, be boring." I want to know how to write for the web and make it interesting. This means learning to add video, photos, and links to my blog.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about writing (otherwise I wouldn't be a print journalism major!), but I'm a visual person. I think sights and sounds are crucial.
Just as important, I want to learn the ins and outs of the web itself. I've been using the internet for years, but what do I really know about how it works? Not a lot. (A little disheartening considering my parents both make their living by programming computers.) If I ever truly want to master the web (aka get a job), I have to get familiar with the language. Because let's face it; we're living in a technological world, and if you don't know the basics, you'll get left behind.


I have some pretty high expectations for this class, but most importantly, "don't drag my best friend, TV, into this..."
Number one goal: not to be so distracted by Hulu that I almost miss my blogging deadlines.


And in the future, I'll try to keep my 30 Rock references to a minimum.

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