Buy or Bake a Birthday Cake?

[corarose]

Everyone knows I am as poor as hell but I don't feel like even eating a Birthday Cake this year.
My Sister tells me that is why I am in Culinary College for and I should bake my own cake but I haven't had any cake decorating classes. I can bake one but I can't decorate it and I don't care about the decorations at all.

I don't feel like making one and I don't feel like eating one either but my Mom always told me that everyone has to have a Birthday Cake or you will have bad luck until your next Birthday.

Of course my Mom (God rest her soul) told my Sister and I that cookies came from France and they had to be special ordered and that's why she didn't bake them.

My Mom loved her sweets even tho she was a diabetic and she would tell my Dad when he went to the grocery store for her (She went blind) to get the girls (we were adults) some sweets but they would be for her.

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. bake it

It's always best when it comes from your heart, as my mommy always used to say.*


(* - except on Christmas, when she fully expects you to buy her something nice) :D

[corarose]

22. My Mom always had to have special cakes and candy

On Christmas.

[GOPisEvil]

Treat yourself nice. Bake yourself a cake.

Who cares if it isn't decorated? You're just going to eat it anyway.

[corarose]

2. If you were a Waitress and your family was having a Dinner Party

For your Birthday would you have to wait on all of the guests?

Probably LOL!

If I could round up anyone to come to the dinner party.

[GOPisEvil]

5. Interesting way of looking at it. LOL

I've had to plan my own parties before. I guilted my friends into buying a cake though - I really didn't want one, but they thought they should buy one. Yummy, too! :9

[omshanti]

3. get your sister to bake/ buy one for you.

You shouldn't have to provide your own birthday cake!

[corarose]

16. If she bought it I would be paying for it

She is a BUM.

[wryter2000]

4. OK, I checked the nyquil

It's your birthday. Do what you want.

[VelmaD]

6. Wish you lived closer...

I'd bake one for you. I love baking cakes and I love birthdays. There's just something wrong though with having to bake your own birthday cake.

My thought - it's totally up to you. If you want a cake then have one. If you want to bake it then do and if you don't then go buy one. Heck, most grocery store bakeries now have it where you can buy a single humongous slice of cake so you wouldn't even have to have leftovers if you didn't want 'em.

[corarose]

15. Thanks

I would buy a cupcake but it can't hold a shit load of candles.

[ironflange]

7. My family doesn't care if it's not fancy

Just as happy getting a sheet cake with icing out of a tub and dinosaur (or whatever) sprinkles. The only time we buy a cake is when we want an ice cream one, then it's off to Safeway or DQ.

Edit: Upon reflection, why not just bakt the NyQuil right into the cake?

[supernova]

8. Don't do it

Don't buy a cake; don't make a cake. Why engage in enforced jolity you don't feel? Who says you have to have a birthday cake? No use participating in a ritual if it's meaningless to you on a given year. It will mean more on the years that you do want to indulge.

Think of something else special you would like to do/have on your birthday. A book? A visit to a museum. Time spent with someone special (no doesn't have to be romantic)?

[kimchi]

9. Why do you have to get your own birthday cake?

If your sister or mom are so concerned, they can surpise you with one. No one should have to bake their own cake on their birthday.

BTW: Happy birthday, Corarose!

[corarose]

17. It's been that way since my Mom went blind & then she died

They could never find the time to pick my cake up and my Mom couldn't do it on her own.

[corarose]

18. Guess who buys my Sister and Dad's cakes?

LOL!

I have to.

[phishhead]

10. I don't like cake.

I think I may be the only person alive who doesn't like cake.

[kayell]

11. Bake yourself a birthday pie

or a birthday belgian waffle, or a crepe suzzette. Or even a giant birthday cookie. Do something a little different, it will be fun.

[Rainbowreflect]

12. Make what ever you are hungry for.

It's your day.

[SOteric]

13. Not because you need the cake, not because you're superstitious

Not because it makes a wild-ass difference to you, but out of respect and rememberance for your mother, have a little cake. Even if you just scrape some change out of the sofa cushions and purchase a hostess cupcake.

[corarose]

14. You guys want to hear a funny story?

Two years ago when I had my Car and I went to pick up my cake at Gladstones Bakery in Chicago we had slush out on the street that was up to you waist.
I parked my car in front of the bakery which was lucky because it's hard to find a space on Milwaukee Ave and I had my window down because I couldn't see out the window because it was steamed up on the inside and snow was accumulating on the outside.
As I am sitting there getting my coat back on with the window down a CTA bus went by and let me tell you I freaked out after what happened next.
The bus slung slush in my face, hair and all over me and the inside of my car. It was so cold and dirty that It took my breath away for a few minutes and I had to compose my self because I started laughing from freaking out. Here I was with a nice outfit on and it was ruined.
I wash soaked in slush and my glasses were so dirty that it took days to get that crap out of the cracks of my glasses.
Wouldn't you know it I didn't have any paper towel in the car either.
When I got out of the car and went into Gladstones the girls put their hands in front of their mouths and asked me what happened. They helped me dry off and they had to laugh at what happened. They threw in a couple of candles and I was on my way home in and I had cloth seats and they were soaked.

When I got home I was bitched out because my Sister had bought me a sweater (She borrowed the cash off of me) and it was totally ruined because it was a cream colored sweater.

[Lefta Dissenter]

19. uhhhh.....

too bad that wasn't brandy slush!

I'm with the bake yourself a cake crowd. Put on some good music and have fun baking. Even the smell can be therapeutic.

[corarose]

21. In Chicago the Slush is

Mixed with Dogie Poo, rocks, and whatever is on the road at the time that it is snowing.

[corarose]

20. My Dog & Cat had a Birthday in November and

For years my Birthday cake had their names on it as well as my name.

(Oh, I knew their birthdays because they were pure bred and they came with papers)

[nuxvomica]

23. So is your birthday today, tomorrow, when?

:shrug:

[corarose]

24. Soon

I am the last day of Scorpio.

[nuxvomica]

25. The 21st then, hmmm

Mine's tomorrow and I thought it'd be cool if we had the same birthday. I will save my happy birthday wishes till Friday then. Take care. :hi:

[corarose]

26. My Friend Peggy (Democrat Also)

Her B-Day was the same as yours and we use to Celebrate it together when I lived out in NY.

[Rhiannon12866]

27. If you really want to have a birthday cake, Corarose, you should

probably bake it yourself, since anything you would come up with would be far superior than a commercial bakery, even if you use a mix. No one made me a cake for my birthday last month. Is that the reason I have been having such horrible luck?:shrug:

p.s. your mom sounds like a real peach.:-)

[corarose]

28. One of the Chefs at College

Baked me a cake so that issue is settled.

[Rhiannon12866]

29. Good for him/her!!! What kind? I cook but don't bake

I was in my 20s when I made my first cake and it was from a mix. It was for my mother's birthday. I am not big on sweets, but know that most people are.:shrug: