Mixed Moss

So I have a secret valentine. They left a bag on my doorstep this morning with conversation hearts, a red rose, a box of Russel Stover (score!) and some cupcakes with bright (and I do mean bright– it was worthy of the late eighties or early nineties!) pink frosting. I figure it was a boy because there was still a price tag on the cupcakes, and the handwriting looked like boy handwriting. It was a happy way to start my day. (Which subsequently went down-hill after an interaction with a highly sexist prof, but that’s another story).

The cupcakes had an interesting fate. I shared them with one of my best friends, Heidi, commenting that I was a little afraid to eat them because the frosting was so bright, it looked like something that would be poisoned if it were in a cartoon. She laughed and decided to smear some of the icing on her cupcake across my face. Now, some years ago on the occassion of her 21st birthday surprise party, their was a famous confrontation between Steve Shary and herself armed with the icing from her birthday cake. I got caught in the crossfire at the time, and certainly proved to both Steve and Heidi that I could indeed give as good as I got. So she should have known better on this one. I do not like getting messy; but if I do, I don’t hesitate to retaliate.

After much frosting smearing and giggling and some digital picture taking (I’ll post them if I can get one of the Wentzes to help me figure out how to!), I proceeded to wash my hands. And then I shrieked; the color would not come off my hands!!! What did this mean for my face?!? Heidi came running and promptly freaked out as well. Subsequent scrubbing with hot water and make-up remover and face wash has gotten most of it off our faces, but we are still faintly pink.

Only Heidi and I! As she put it, we’ll have some great stories to tell when we’re old.

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