This post has absolutely nothing to do with mystery shopping and everything to do with my love for sugar, or cupcakes in particular. Everyone knows I love cupcakes. Friends post cupcake pictures on my Facebook wall and message me pictures of particularly appetizing cupcakes on my phone. My favorite editor trainee sent me an awesome cupcake calendar for Christmas with recipes for each month that I still have not found time to make yet. Some people even bribe me with cupcakes when they want something from me (yes, it works)! So EVERYONE knows I love cupcakes. Or almost everyone.
Which is why I received a phone call from my husband this morning asking me what type of chocolates I prefer. Hello? First of all, we've been married for eleven years. You should know what type of chocolates I prefer. But really, chocolate? Even in cupcakes, I prefer vanilla. I might be more forgiving if he skipped the cupcakes in favor of diamonds. Or a trip to Aruba for the weekend. Or dinner at Ruth's Chris. But chocolates?
So while he is deciding between Lindt, Russell Stover and Whitman's, I am scouring the internet and a year's worth of Better Homes and Gardens back issues for pictures of cupcakes. Next year, I'll be prepared. I will hide pictures of cupcakes in the nightstand, in the medicine cabinet and under the coffee maker lid. I will hang my cupcake calendar in a prominent position next to the refrigerator. Maybe then he'll get the message!
So for this year, I will abandon my hopes for cupcakes and mentally prepare myself for a box of chocolates. Unlike Forrest Gump, I know what I'm gonna get.
Happy Valentine's Day!
