Thwarted

It’s been… a week at work. One of those weeks where, when you tell your non-librarian friends about the things that happened, their eyes get big, their jaws hang open, and they vow never again to tell people that libraries are boring places. And tomorrow, it’s mine (and half the staff’s) Saturday to work. It sucks knowing that you have to work the Saturday of a long weekend while the other half go breezing out of the building at 5 on Friday, knowing they don’t have to come in the next day but you do [1. And I know this because we all do it to them when we don't have to work long-weekend-Saturdays. ].

As well, yesterday I had quite a time editing and uploading some pictures to Ravelry – I’d taken them, I’d edited them, and they only needed uploading. But for some reason the file format wasn’t being recognized, which meant re-editing all 40 or so photos. What was supposed to be a relaxing evening updating my stash turned into a hair-pulling exercise and several rants about Gimp.

To make having to work on a Saturday more palatable, and to do some activity that might bring me some contentment, I declared that I would bring in cupcakes the next day. Because who doesn’t love them some cupcakes? Stephen Harper supporters, that’s who! [2. Also, probably Stephen Harper. ]

So, with purpose and determination, I came home, had supper and got to work. The first thing I saw when I got in was some week old bananas that needed to be turned into something delicious. Chocolate chip banana muffins – perfect! [3. It's a recipe from a hippie-earth-crunchy muffin cookbook my mom has. Originally, it calls for some kind of nuts in the muffin and somewhere along the way the nuts turned into chocolate chips. I don't recall who's to blame for this delicious substitution. ] Now what? Carrots! I got some carrots at the farmer’s market last weekend, let’s make carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese icing! And what else? What about chocolate cupcakes with caramel icing? Only CHILDREN who support Stephen Harper don’t like chocolate cupcakes!

Then I looked around, specifically at my sugar. And flour. And eggs. How is it possible that I’m low or almost out of ALL of them AT THE SAME TIME, when I most definitely need them? And what’s worse is that I only had enough paper liners for the muffins. GAH!

I hope the staff like their stupid chocolate chip banana muffins and their stupid carrot cake IN A PAN with stupid cream cheese icing. I’m going to be over here sulking while I lick the bowls.