{"id":5928,"date":"2012-06-03T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=5928"},"modified":"2012-06-02T18:45:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T01:45:06","slug":"cindy-bakes-a-cake-the-twitter-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/cindy-bakes-a-cake-the-twitter-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cindy Bakes a Cake: The Twitter Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever wonder about those people who tweet\u00a0while they’re watching Toddlers & Tiaras or cutting the grass? Well, I have. I’ve wondered how they can enjoy what they’re watching or doing while under the stress of tweeting every two seconds. So yesterday I decided to put Power Tweeting to the test (here’s a link to my Twitter feed,<\/a> if you’re interested. I’m not over there all that much. Honest.)<\/p>\n

I probably lost a few followers during the cake-making process, but it was actually fun. I\u00a0tweeted about baking my first “from scratch” cake in over twenty years. You see, today’s my father’s 80th birthday (Happy Birthday, Dad!), and I wanted to do something special for him. When my kids were little, I iced the most amazing cakes for their birthdays. One sweltering summer night, when we had no air-conditioning, I spent 4 hours decorating a Bert-and-Ernie-shaped cake. All those shirt stripes! All those colors! My son loved it, but little did he know…I used cake mix. I have always used cake mix, no matter how fancy the decorating (I’m an awesome decorator). I’m too lazy to bake cake from scratch. Mainly because I don’t usually like cake, so it’s not worth the effort. I’m more a chocolate mousse girl. However, Youngest Son’s girlfriend (G-2 for the purposes of this blog) is an excellent baker, and she makes the most Divine Chocolate Raspberry Torte ever! It is DELISH. I wanted to make my own Divine Chocolate Raspberry Torte for my dad.<\/p>\n

Note, G-2 is of those bakers who doesn’t have the recipe written down. She had to type up the instructions special for me. My mother is like this. These “natural” bakers and gourmet cooks will trip you up if you’re not careful.<\/p>\n

The resulting Twitter feed:<\/p>\n