{"id":3483,"date":"2011-07-14T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/14\/trading-one-addiction-for-another"},"modified":"2011-07-14T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T14:49:00","slug":"trading-one-addiction-for-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=3483","title":{"rendered":"Trading one addiction for another"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently, with the help of my community’s department of mental health services, I was informed that I am addicted to work. Apparently, “workaholic” is an actual thing. Usually, I feel as though if I work twelve hours a day, it’s not enough, and I don’t have enough time to get anything done.<\/p>\n

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As a result, I am now taking my first hiatus from writing in six years. I needn’t tell you, gentle reader, that it blows real hard. All I want to do is write. Great ideas just keep popping up. But I’m forcing myself to ignore that urge, and, like a smoker who chews gum to quit smoking or a heroin addict who smokes cigarettes to quit heroin, I’ve found a parallel addiction to rule my time.<\/div>\n
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Crafts.<\/div>\n
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The glorious anniversary of my birth is tomorrow, and as a present, my friend Cheryl Sterling over at Writers, Like Me<\/a> gave me this:<\/div>\n
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This is A Zombie Ate My Cupcake<\/a><\/i>, a book full of some of the strangest, most pointlessly complicated cupcakes you will ever see. And I have made it my personal mission this summer to make them. All of them.<\/p>\n

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I started out with Lily Vanilli’s Rainbow Cupcakes. Now, I’ll be honest. She has a recipe for the actual cake in there. But cake and I… we don’t get along. I’m not good at making cakes without a mix, so I will confess, I used a mix. But I did make her frosting recipe (I am amazing at making frosting). The cupcakes turned out like this (pre-frosting):<\/div>\n
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Mine turned out quite short, because I am new to this whole cupcake thing and I didn’t fill the cups enough. As it turns out, that was a point in my favor, because once I had made twelve little cupcakes, I had enough left to make my own version of a rainbow cake. I made a tie-dye cake:<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>This fulfilled my life-long need to eat something that looked like the pretend food they ate in Neverland in Hook<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Once I got the cakes frosted, I decided to take a look at the inside, to see how the rainbow effect worked out:<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Aww and yeah. Look at all that rainbow-y goodness. These cupcakes are magical. I don’t know what it is about eating something that looks like you’re having a mild hallucination, but it tasted delicious. As per Ms. Vanili’s forward, I used fair-trade ingredients whenever possible. Farm fresh eggs and hand churned, organic butter from the hippie farm. I think it made the cake taste more psychedelic, even if it came out of a boxed mix.<\/div>\n
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I’m letting my daughter pick out the next cupcake design to try, though I’m a bit nervous she’s going to want to jump right into the ones with sculpted marzipan fingers.<\/div>\n
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Stay tuned for further projects. Besides the cupcakes, I’ve also got some other things up my sleeve, crafts wise, this summer.<\/div>\n
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