This morning on the metro

- Sick passenger on orange line
- Suspicious package at Farragut West
- Power outage at Takoma
- An "incident" at Twinbrook
- Mechanical failure at Smithsonian.

Cakes that go off on a tangent

If I could ever remember my phone, I will call bakery #2.

Bakery #1 is going to make me a sample of the cupcake I had in mind for the wedding. I am already suspicious of them though, because when I say chocolate star, they hear gum paste star. What is gum paste? It sounds vile like fondant. I need him to understand that I would be happy with the ugliest cupcake in the world if it TASTES GREAT.

Anyway, if I have a star on the cakes, it will cost an extra $1 for EACH cupcake. After a few emails back and forth, I have discovered I can supply my own chocolate stars and avoid the charge. So that is what I will do if I go with this bakery.

I wish there was some sort of magical phrase I could use to get vendors to understand that I am not THAT bride! I don't want fondant or gum paste or delicate little sugar flowers. I want CAKE. Moist tasty cake. I believe in food, not architecture!

( And I start to ramble... )

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My mom mailed me 12lbs of wedding magazines.