Best week ever

Awesome birthday surprises, graduating in 3 and a half hours, and flying to London in 24 hours. I will be updating my blog, just not "live." I plan to take notes in a journal, and post things when I can or in the weeks after I get back.

Shoot. I know I'm forgetting something.

Quadrupleganger

People keep coming up to me - at work, school, the gym - asking me:

1) If they know me from somewhere
2) If my name is ______ (so far I've gotten Mike, Chris, and Steve)
3) If I go to their school because they think they have a class with me

Does this happen to everybody, or do I have four twins (yeah, I know that doesn't make sense) running around Berkeley, Oakland, and Pleasant Hill?

Another fun scenario: My real parents had quadruplets and weren't able to raise all of us so they gave three of us up for adoption.

ANYWAY. If you see any of my twins try to get their info because I wanna see them in person.

Win!

Milk Dud Cupcakes

I'm experimenting right now. I've got a potluck to go to tomorrow, and I'm bringing dessert. I wasn't sure what to make, so I looked in the pantry and found yellow cake mix, milk duds, and frosting. I guess it's easy to figure out what I did next, but here's my pseudo-recipe anyway:

Ingredients:

1 box of yellow cake mix
1 cup of water
1/3 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
48 milk duds
1 can of chocolate frosting

Directions:

1) Prepare the cake mix according to the directions on the box.
2) Line two 12 cupcake pans.
3) Fill each liner about 1/2 full.
4) Place a milk dud in the center of each 1/2 full liner.
5) Fill the liners up to about 2/3 full.
6) Bake according to the box directions.
7) Cool completely before frosting.
8) Place 1 more milk dud on top of each cupcake.

I'm at step 7 right now, but look out for pictures tomorrow after I frost them and eat one (hey, gotta make sure they're not poisonous, right?)