It's Official!

After several attempts at getting my "identity" it is finally done and I am an official resident of the District of Columbia!

You would have thought DC would have needed DNA & blood samples to accomplish this.

But now that it's all done I will probably get my first summons for jury duty by Monday.

The Birthday cake

Yesterday was my friend Mark's birthday and I told him that I would make whatever kind of cake he wanted.

He asked for something with chocolate and peanut butter so I whipped up this little delight.

It is a dark chocolate and peanut butter flourless chocolate torte, a variation of a recipe that I used when making desserts at the hotel on Saba. And just to add a few extra calories I topped it with a peanut butter ganache frosting.

It was almost too obnoxiously rich to eat but the party guests seemed to manage choking it down.

It turned out so well I am making another one this morning to take to the family's house for Mother's Day.

I almost got Beat Up today

So I had to go out to Virginia into "the burbs" to run some errands and buy a wedding gift today and.....

as I was checking out at the local "Specialty Store" with my gift the cashier told me the total was $76.21. I reached into my pocket and gave her $81.26.

She told me "No, no you gave too much moonee" I replied "Yes, I know. I gave you an extra dollar and penny because I don't want singles and the pennies back".

She looked at me with confusion and curiosity in her eyes and tried to return the single dollar and penny.

I told her to just simply put in the amount into the big machine and it will tell you how much I get back!

She tried again to return the dollar and the penny at which point I commented to the customer behind me...

"and I thought the Chinese were good at Math" while chuckling to myself.

Well the customer scoffed and said to me "My husband is Viatnamese"

I said "I'm sorry" to which she replied "Well, you should be!"

I said "No, honey. I meant I'm sorry that your husband is Viatnamese"

I rapidly got my $5 and nickel back and literally ran for the car, locked the doors and sped away.