Things That Kind Of Suck.

* Pregnancy leg cramps that wake you up in the middle of the night and twist your foot around to an angle that is just...un-natural.

* Two Year Old temper tantrums in public.

* People who scare your shy toddler on purpose, as a funny joke.

* When husbands look around the playground and say, 'I don't see anyone ELSE'S kid flipping out like this...'

* Wanting to eat ice cream at 8:00AM.  

* Really, REALLY wanting to eat ice cream at 8AM.

* Reflux.

* Feeling dead tired but being completely unable to fall asleep.

 

* The new book I'm reading.

 

* Having to think of SOMETHING! TO MAKE! FOR DINNER! AGAIN!

 

* Having to wait for the season opener of The Closer.

 

* Needing to clean porch furniture.  With cushions that you were too [lazy] [careless] [stupid] busy to bring in for the winter.

 

* Carpenter Bees.

 

* Not having a good MOIST chocolate cake recipe. (HINT HINT.) 

 

* The word 'moist.'  ACK.

Comments

[A New Duck]

Eew, moist. That totally gags me. It reminds me of a sweaty scrotum.

[Jennifer, Playgroups are no place for children]

When husbands look around the playground and say, 'I don't see anyone ELSE'S kid flipping out like this...'

THAT MAKES ME CRAZY! I just want to smack my husband when he says that. I feel solely responsible for my child's awful behavior when he says this stuff.

[Bridget]

ugh "moist" is totally my gross word too.

[Miss Grace]

So. What are you reading?

[Lori]

My favorite: SOMETHING! TO MAKE! FOR DINNER! AGAIN!

And of course the porch furniture- I SO get that.

[astarte]

Moist is a yukky word. It makes me think of yeast infections or something. But CAKE is a very, VERY good word!!!! Especially CHOCOLATE cake!!!!

If your book sucks, stop reading it and go get The Book Thief. That's the best book I've read in a loooooong time.

[Wide Lawns]

Saskia's chocolate cake sounds wonderful, or you can do the chocolate version of the doctored up yellow cake I posted today, used secretly in pastry shops worldwide.

1 Box of Duncan Hines chocolate cake mix
replace oil with equal amounts of melted real butter
use 4 eggs
replace water with buttermilk
If you feel like getting crazy, which I always do, throw in a shot of espresso, a little box of chocolate instant pudding powder (so white trashy, but it works)and a few good handfuls of semi-sweet chocolate chips. Then frost it with cream cheese frosting, chocolate ganache or don't frost it at all. It's just good. I wish I didn't have stupid gluten intolerance so I could still eat it.

[clink]

eww you said moist.

Take a can of pumpkin and a box of chocolate cake mix. Blend, bake as a bundt and YUM...and so umm...damp? No I guess I have to say it.

moist.

ew ew ew!

[ali]

moist. I KNOW.
i also can't handle the word slacks.
also? ointment.

[Emily]

Uggg moist.

And the leg cramps. Unbelievably painful. Try taking calcium & magnesium right before bed - has definitely helped but not irradicated.

[Saskia]

The best basic chocolate cake recipe EVAH. In fact, my husband ordered choc cake for dessert recently and laughed and made me try a bite - it was this recipe! I love doing a layer cake, making the middle raspberry jam w/ some chambord mixed in, then frosting w/ whipped cream.

Black Magic Cake
(get all ingredients ready to go)
1 3/4 c. flour
2 c. sugar
3/4 c. Hershey's cocoa
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. strong black coffee
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. veg. oil
1 c. buttermilk (I never have any on-hand, so I mix milk & plain yoghurt - works well and delivers the moist...)
2 eggs

Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl; add wet ingredients; beat at med. speed for 2 mins (batter will be thin). Pour into greased & floured cake tins; bake at 350 --> 35-40 mins for oblong/bundt pan, 30-35 mins for layer pans.

Enjoy!

[Well Read Hostess]

I hate the word moist like no other.

Try the recipe on the back of the Hershey's cocoa powder tin.

Barring that, go flourless with the Barefoot Contessa recipe. It's on WRH and I'll send you the link if you want.

leg cramps = el sucko

[Manic Mommy]

Be excellent to yourself: Go to Pier One. Buy new cushions.

Don't worry about the tantrums in public. If you look closely all the other mommies are just grateful it's not their turn (this time).

[Beth]

Go to www.allrecipes.com and look up Too Much Chocolate Cake - very easy, very good, and not dry at all. Notice I am not typing the word that think sucks!

[Brandi]

moist is one of my least favorite words ever. and my husband likes to say it just to ick me out. and then another poster had to say the word crotch. that one's pretty bad, too. blech.

[Erica]

Things that do not suck: BlogHer is less than two months away and I will get to hug you senseless!

OK, well that might be a sucky thing for you, but not for me.

[MidLifeMama]

Carpenter bees. Got em. At least one. The bug guy says there is never just one. Great.

[RuthWells]

The chocolate buttercake recipe from The Whimsical Bakehouse cookbook is the yummiest and most moist I've ever baked, bar none. (And I've baked plenty.) I'll dig the recipe out and email it to you.

Leg cramps suck. My are kidney-related, not pregnancy-related, but they still suck. I feel you.

[Swistle]

I like boxed cake mixes, but am intrigued by the one that has BOOZE in it.

[Di]

Ugh - I totally hear you on the pregnant and unable to sleep comfortably thing...haven't had too many leg cramps, but waking up soaked to the skin in your own sweat...yes ma'am.

Also, things that suck - having a cold or cold-like symptoms for going on THREE WEEKS NOW...however, I love, love, and want to marry my Vicks/Puffs Tissues. Man, in the absence of actual medicine, these suckers are doing me a world of GOOD!

[Sam]

My new least favorite word is Crotch. Which is weird, because I like words in general. Even words like Twat and Cunt. But crotch skeeves me out. EW.

[anne nahm]

Nom, nom, nom: Very easy and yet doesn't taste boxy:

http://www.bakespace.com/recipes/detail/Chocolate-Kahlua-Bundt-Cake/6300/

[Angela]

Try this: http://www.hersheys.com/recipes/recipes/detail.asp?id=184

Or, if you like cherries, try this one: http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/cookingschool/videos/videoplayer.aspx?vid=366

Both have been well received every time I've made them. heh