Of course I voted today, didn’t you? Though I must admit to a smidge of annoyance that we had to vote AGAIN this year, the third year in a row. But it’s probably mostly because I am still low-level sick (going on 10 days or so) and I have a bunch of schoolwork to do right now and thus could really have used a workday today rather than spending the day:<\/p>\n
– Answering 1001 election-related questions from the peanut gallery, which I am ashamed to say tested my brainpower far more than they should have.<\/p>\n
– Indulging 1002 requests for watching videos of jelly chus<\/a>, looking at pictures of jelly chus, and killing jelly chus (wait, didn’t we FINISH that game recently? Yes, we did.<\/a>).<\/p>\n – Enduring a screaming jumping fit when I would not buy him a smashy penny<\/a> when we got to our local, tiny zoo RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE, instead insisting that he wait til a little later.<\/p>\n The school where we vote always has a bake sale, and since I’m a suckah I promised Gus we could get something. This year’s was a little slim but we did score some delicious red velvet cake* that we all shared after dinner. It was clearly homemade and had the perfect cake-to-frosting ratio (I’m a light-on-the-frosting gal, myself). Mmmm, cake. Lately I’ve been really craving cake for some reason, so this hit the spot.<\/p>\n * Red velvet cake is totally the it cake here in Brooklyn right now. We had it in its cupcake variant from Baked<\/a> over the summer (they do it with a cinnamon frosting rather than the traditional cream cheese), and the newest bestest bakery<\/a> in our hood also does a fine version. I’ll say it again: mmmm, cake. Though I’d prefer a carrot or pumpkin or caramel cake, really.<\/p>\n This year the school also had a Scholastic book fair. All my guilt about sending Gus to an all-lottery school (more about this another time) flew right up to the surface so of course I let Gus pick one book to buy, too. He picked this one, sure to become a timeless classic on feces<\/a>. We haven’t read it yet but I am not so sure it was a good idea. Will keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Of course I voted today, didn’t you? Though I must admit to a smidge of annoyance that we had to vote AGAIN this year, the third year in a row. But it’s probably mostly because I am still low-level sick (going on 10 days or so) and I have a bunch of schoolwork to do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}