Happy Birthday Jamie!

There is an old Yiddish adage that claims, "Man plans, God Laughs." I can think of no better subtitle for today.

Gav, Laynie and I got up early so that we could be among the first cars to have a safety and emissions test. But when the 20 minute drive lasted 35 minutes, we were the fourth car in line. We ended up waiting almost two hours. So much for the early bird. (Question: If the early bird gets the worm, what does the early bird-of-prey get?)

Next stop: Grocery store. I had a list...but it didn't do me any good when I 1) forgot to put important items on the list and 2) couldn't find them anyway. It's a little hard to make a Pineapple Coconut Cream Cake without pineapple or coconut. And it's hard to frost the cake with Cool Whip when the store doesn't carry it in tubs. No big deal, right? I could make do with two cans of the spray stuff. Sure.

Jamie asked for Italian Chicken for dinner tonight. I got plain cream cheese, not onion and chives. We had kielbasa instead.

There is a silver lining to this cliche filled post. I nixed the coconut and used strawberries in place of pineapple and....the cake was delicious! Jamie told me it was his new favorite. In fact he said that had I soaked it with a little cream, it would have ranked with his favorite tres leche from a gourmet Houston restaurant. He had three pieces. Gav and I each had two. Laynie crammed it in by the handful.

Those smiling faces made it all worth it! At least mostly...