Finnigan's RPG

Activity check on 28th October will end here!

Tsveta and I have been messing up the kitchen making Caramel Popcorn Lions today. They were surprisingly easy to make and even more surprisingly: very tasty.

Our small masterpieces:



[Private to Viktor]
How much of Tsveta and I talking in the kitchen did you hear today?

WARDED TO FINBAR

Birthday dinner Thursday night? I know summer has been... I know I haven't been the easiest, lately. I'm hoping 26 will start off on the right foot.

WARDED TO MEL & MARIETTA

Ladies, when do we want to do the birthday bash? You know I need time to plan.

WARDED TO CORMAC & LAVENDER

You two should get used to getting notes together, starting now, just as a heads up. Also: Cormac's Mum sent me and my Mum a note and wanted to know your date. She said Cormac hasn't gotten back to her, yet.

Just in time for the start of the 2005/-06 Quidditch season and due to popular demand, Sweet Nothings will be adding the team cakes to the menu for the next three weeks, starting this Tuesday. Like last year, the cakes are a generous 1-serving size, however special orders for larger cakes are also welcome.

We're still looking for full- or part-time employees to fill the position Bryn left when he started up Crumbs (We would like to use this opportunity to give him our fullest recommendation and support: If you haven't tried his sandwiches, you've missed out!). Training will be provided and we will do what we can to find the best suitable tasks for you.

Team Cakes Appleby Arrows - Pale blue Vanilla Cake with silver Cream Cheese Filling and Topping. Ballycastle Bats - Chocolate Velvet Cake with scarlet Cream Cheese Icing. Caerphilly Catapults - Mint Cake with Red Velvet Cake swirls, iced with red and green striped Butter Cream. Chudley Cannons - Carrot Cake with orange and black Cream Cheese Frosting. Falmouth Falcons - Earl Grey Poppy Seed Tea Cake with zesty citrus Butter Cream Filling and dark grey Vanilla Fondant. Holyhead Harpies - Green Chocolate Fudge Cake with gold Chocolate Icing. Kenmare Kestrels - Green Tea and Lemon Opera Cake. Montrose Magpies - Black Chocolate Cake with bittersweet Ganache and Vanilla Bean Buttercream. Pride of Portree - Blackberry Mousse Cake with gold Biscuit base. Puddlemere United - Ombre layers of blue Vanilla, Caramel and Chocolate Sponge Cake with Salted Caramel Filling and gold Chocolate Ganache. Tutshill Tornados - White Chocolate Blueberry Cheesecake. Wigtown Wanderers - Raspberry Victoria Sponge Cake with silver Orange Buttercream Icing. Wimbourne Wasps - Banana Cake with black Chocolate Mousse Filling and yellow Buttercream Icing.

[Warded to Cho and Marietta]
So, ladies, we have some birthdays coming up. Same procedure as last year?

[Warded to Viktor]
Are you free tonight?

[Warded (heavily) to Mel] Neighbor. I'm taking a deep breath as I say this (it's a good one, though). I... SHE SAID YES I WANT TO SHOUT OMIGODS SHE SAID YES.

I asked Lavender to marry me. We're insane, but we're insane together.

You're the third person I've told, after Mum & Dad. I thought it only right seeing as you've gotten me this far and kept her from kicking me to the curb.

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!

p.s. thank you for my birthday sweets; they were a perfect morning-after breakfast *waggles eyebrows suggestively*

More seriously, though, I couldn't ask for a better friend.

[Warded to Melinda & Marietta] -- Girls... I'm sort of freaking out. I hadn't been, but then last night I hosted a wedding rehearsal dinner and the Bride & Groom's speeches were so beautiful and I was in the back and I just... Merlin. I've been a wreck ever since and just started crying and what am I doing? It's, like, 8 in the morning. Fin maybe sort of might be falling for me and I just don't know what to do. I'm devastated.

[Warded to Viktor]
Oliver came into the shop today. Apparently he's going to Seamus' party tonight, which is going to be awkward. It's just a heads up, though if you don't want to go, I completely understand.

[Warded to Cho, Marietta, and Roger]
He came in today and there was a girl and I didn't handle it well. At all. This is all wrong! Just WRONG! I shouldn't care, right?

With summer come all the deliciously fresh fruits and other goodies for cakes and desserts, and this year is no different. However, I’m missing the sun a bit, even if only a few rays to makes some rainbows out of all this rain. Those of you who make your way through Monument Alley these days will see that Wingbeat is making up for the lack of real rainbows in their preparation for their upcoming celebration of Pride 2005.

Here at Sweet Nothings we’d like to show our support, both for Pride and for the lack of real rainbows, so this week we’re adding two items to the menu:

Rainbows and Pride 2005 Rainbow Heart Layer Cake - Vanilla cake with vanilla bean frosting and rainbow coloured brownie filling. Rainbow Cupcakes - Confetti cupcake with cake batter frosting.

[Warded to Lavender] -- These night shifts of yours are killing me. I feel very neglected. I'm a very needy, attention-seeking man, didn't you know?

[Warded to Melinda] -- Neighbor, can I order a late night sweets basket to be sent to the hit wizards? Lavender's been on overnight shifts so I thought it might be nice. Anything you think to put in is fine, though probably nothing that requires too much forethought (like, the more handheld the better?) as I don't know what they're up to in the office.

[Warded to Melinda] -- you're a genius, as always. The stand mixer is gorgeous even if I know nothing about all the little doohickeys that can be attached to it. I think she really liked it. I think I might need to learn more about such things, if I'm going to be buying kitchenware for birthday gifts from now on.

[Warded to Lavender] -- I've got a booth at the Championship match tomorrow, if you're working Security and want to stop by? If not, it'll be a very long weekend without your face in it.

[Public] -- MacLaggen's Sports will have a booth at the Championship! Be sure to stop by (we'll be not far and to the right from the Main Entrance to the pitch). We'll have team merchandise (all official, of course!), toys, jerseys, and of course all your broom needs met. Good luck to Tutshill and the Magpies tomorrow!

A little girl and her mother came into the shop today. While I was packing up their order, the little girl noticed two tubs labelled 'Sorbet' and wanted to know what that was. Our little talk of different sorts of frozen treats lead to her talking about all the ice lollies she was going to eat when summer came, and we could easily agree that the orange ice lollies by far are the best.

Afterwards I got to wondering; I know I have tastes that I associate with summer, like strawberry and elderflower, but what about you?

[Warded to Melinda] -- Melinda, Tuesday is Lav's birthday, do you think you can put together a basket of romantic favorites? You know what she usually orders, right? Also, I'm picking up her gift tomorrow... The first time we ever went out, she confessed to me that she likes baking. Might you have a suggestion for a fancy baking type of thing that I would have no clue about?

You're the best, as always.

[warded to Mel]

Forgive me for not owling like a proper gentleman, but the owl is currently out running errands.

I was hoping I might ask for the pleasure of your company for dinner sometime in the near future? It would please me greatly to get to know you better. If you have a preference for where you might like to go, do let me know.

Tsveta sends her thanks for those cupcakes you sent the other day. Misha would, but he's covered in dirt and that's where I'm headed next...

[Warded to Mari & Melinda]

Girls, I want to have a dinner party on the roof now that the weather isn't so wretched. What do you think? When? What theme? Oh, I shouldn't get ahead of myself.

Also, I'd love for you officially meet Fin, now that he's introduced me to his friends. I wasn't sure if I should do that, but it seems to be going well, so what do you think?

xoxo, Cho

Happy St. Patrick's Day to everybody observing and/or celebrating!

St. Patrick's Day Specialties Green Velvet Cupcake - With mint cream cheese frosting. Stout Chocolate Cupcake - With whiskey ganache and Irish cream topping. Cream Puffs - With vanilla bean cream filling.

Lesson learned today:

No matter how natural the green may be and how important it is for children to eat their vegetables, banana/spinach cupcakes simply isn't the way to go.

I do love a Monday morning these days. No work. Plenty of sleeping time. Warm cat-shaped companion for company and no responsibility all day.

Feel free to hex me now, but remember I work late hours and weekends so I get Mondays free.

[Warded to Melinda]: I had the strangest dream, lovely. You were teaching me Swedish and we were off on an adventure with Harry. So odd, no? I think it was trying to tell me it's been too long since we put the journals and the work down and just had a good old fashioned girls night.

Question for my fellow business owners! How do you deal with customers who don't follow the rules of your establishment?

I ask only because I had yet another patron wander in drunk today, and then get belligerently upset when I asked him to come back when he was sober, even though that rule is clearly posted on the front door and all over the place inside.

Any thoughts would be appreciated! Otherwise I'm going to ask Zacharias to put up wards against drunks on the entrance to the parlor.

[Private to friends]
This Read in the Bathtub Day... whoever came up with it is a genius. Nothing less.

[Private to Bryn]
Saturday: There will be tequila, right? Lots of tequila preferably.