So Rick has started to take retaliatory measures towards the fact that the sandman and I aren’t getting along. Tonight for instance he ran in, a good hour after he normally heads bedwards, yelled ‘Emergency Bedtime’, flipped the switch to plunge the world into darkness and lunged for the bedroom. And I was left in my little pool of laptop illuminated gloom going, “What? What was that? How can it suddenly be ‘emergency bed time’? Where did that come from?”.
A minute later he wanders past, still in complete darkness, and says, “Do you have any plates for the dishwasher?” To which I, naturally, reply: “Probably. But I can’t see because you turned the lights off when you declared Emergency Bedtime.” And he eventually relented about the lights. And went to bed without me. Which is probably for the best. But it’s sweet that he tried. And I didn’t take that long before I followed.
It’s just that I clearly have a problem with staying in bed.
To be fair, I’d probably stay in bed a lot more if Rick didn’t start to make those growly noises when I grab my laptop from the bedside table to write just one more thing.
And when I do go to bed, Rick rolls over, flings an arm around my waist, pulls me close and says, “We should thank Caris for the carrot cake.” And I tell him, “I thanked her. With fic. Although I didn’t tell her we just had it for dinner again. Perhaps I should.” Pause. “Perhaps I shouldn’t.”
This is not Caris's carrot cake. That is all gone. And you don't want a picture of the contents of my stomach. And if you do -- keep it to yourself.
What’s the appropriate etiquette for, ‘the only thing I’ve eaten in the last two days apart of a packet of ramen noodles and juice is the carrot cake you left in the fridge. It was delicious yesterday when I had it for dinner and today I accidentally did the same thing again. And Rick joined me’? I mean, on the one hand it’s, You brought me delicious cream cheese frostinged goodness. On the other it’s, I’m attempting to get scurvy and you’re helping.
Also, surely if I was going to go that way I would have before now? I was a grad student. Was. Now I’m a graduated student. Which is… okay not that much different at the moment. But surely it ought to involve a wider variety of snacks?
And is linking someone to hilarious fiction an appropriate thank you for baked goods? What if you would have done it anyway?
Kandace Mavrick
Paul McLaughlan
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Caris
19/08/2011
Linking to good fic is always a correct response to being given baked goods. Another alternative is writing fic your self for the person 🙂
But any way glad you enjoyed the cake but really it is not dinner food.
Hugs
Kandace Mavrick
19/08/2011
Well it’s all gone now, so presumably I’ll have to actually eat something else today.
I can totally write fix for peeps… er, yes. I am not paranoid and insane. I am totally capable of letting people read things that are not already polished for publication. Am. Totally. Rick read that bit about the coffee on Wednesday. And I didn’t even watch him the whole entire time.
Jared S (@jareds)
19/08/2011
I chose not to make it a substitute dinner and now I regret it (even though it’s bad for me).
With that said, I had no fic to offer in return anyway 🙂
Paul McLaughlan
19/08/2011
It all rather depends on whether Caris is sneaky enough… and she knows of your, er… proclivities… as such she may have included ‘hidden vegetables’ in the cake.
… my housemates were telling me how they once cooked brownies with smooshed *lentils* in them! (Apparently, they were not bad at all.)
(Note: I enjoy messing with Kandace’s food issues too much.)
Kandace Mavrick
19/08/2011
Well it was CARROT cake. That’s not that stealth as hidden vegetables go. And, as Arkem pointed out the carrots do rather defeat the scurvy angle. But then… the cake is gone now.
But for all your information, I totally ate food today. Well, I had a hotdog and a donut. And I might even have dinner later.
You need to be much more hardcore about it if you want to succeed at this whole scurvy thing. If I remember correctly my Dad said his friend was living off only chips and beer for about six months before it caught up with him. I’d get distracted long before that.
I mean, maybe I could get distracted and just try to live off juice for that long. But real juice has vitamin c all over the place. I’d have to try to die of malnutrition or something instead.
{K|J|P}{a|e}{n|m}{e|a|i}
21/08/2011
Well, I do not know if that’s going to work for me, however definitely proved helpful for you! 🙂 Excellent post!