It's National Cupcake Day and I sit here and wait. Where is my cupcake? Are they hand-delivered? Is it a virtual email thing? Will someone show up and hand one to me, sitting beside me to devour their own? What nation are we talking about specifically? Does this mean there is a Cake Day too? (Oh, there is! But not in my nation but I still missed it, or did I? I eat cake a lot so I don't remember, exactly. It's my favourite thing. A cake means a celebration or an event. I don't think there's anything much better on earth than a forkful of chocolate cake. I don't even care if there's icing but frankly every day should be cake day. In every nation.
What are you doing? Lochlan comes in and I am just sitting. Hands on either side of my coffee cup, waiting for my pretty-muffin.
It's National Cupcake Day.
Which nation? He asks. God, we share a brain. I should go rewire a compute while I'm on the inside.
Not sure. Probably America.
Oh. I don't think he has anything else to say, and so he heads to the Keurig. Did I tell you I discovered Sumatra beans for the thing and now I like it again? Yes. I am ridiculously picky and not at all picky with coffee. Literally the greatest coffees in the world are the ones in tiny white styrofoam cups that people hand you when you're cold. Don't ask me why and I've had coffee in France AND Italy. But yes, my standards are low. But not so low that I will get coffee from a chain from a window or anything. That's not coffee, I don't know what that is, but you go ahead if you like it.
I need a cupcake window, that's what I need.
No, not muffins. Pretty-muffins is just another way to describe them. Muffins with hats is another thing we say sometimes. Does it matter?
Are you cranky?
Maybe.
Not enough sugar?
Never enough sugar.
Are we being literal?
I don't know, I've lost track of the conversation.
Want some toast?
Yes.
I can put cinnamon sugar on it-
Oh, lord no. Cheese will be fine.
We can go get cupcakes later.
This house is full of fancy Christmas desserts and baked goods. I think the cupcakes can wait.
But what about the day?
It's not Cupcake day in Canada.
What is it?
It's Tuesday.