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I had a great post all written in my head last night right before I fell asleep. I told my tired self that I would remember the great post topic in the morning. Morning came very early due to hubby working at home. The post topic was just a splash of an idea now as sleep had washed some of it away.

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Checking the card catalog in my head I added a paperclip to the card filed under post ideas. I would look at this idea again in a few hours when I was more awake. Wakefulness came and went along with the subject card and blue paperclip holding my idea in place. Was the idea a *"Help save the World"* kind of a post that is now lost in the depths of grey matter? I think it was, yet I could be wrong. I am not sure. Yet. Let me do some basic fundamentals of living and get back to you. Sometimes doing the most mind-numbing things brings your true brain back to life.

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# Let's test this theory out, shall we? # 3.....2.....1....

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Alarm! Set my phone alarm for 1:30 PM and tell Hubby to set his too in case I do not wake up to my alarm. I have an appointment with someone on Skype at 2 PM. https://i.imgur.com/pprrwei.png?1 hmmm... All I did was fill the dishwasher and that tidbit came out. Let's see if there is anything else I will remember as I finish my mundane chores. Lunch dates on the internet! I remembered what I wanted to write about!! Yeah! I will just jot the idea down here while I go finish the rest of the stuff I need to get done. I will be back soon.

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# Three hours later.

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My kitchen is finally all clean. I want to know how having one more person home all day and night can add seven gazillion more dishes each day! Really! I am not eating more. How do you fill two sinks full of dishes before noon? We haven't even gotten to Dinner where you use the most dishes of any meal. It's a mystery to me.

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https://i.imgur.com/CkJpTLK.png?1 Looking at my clean kitchen I thought back to last night and how much I wanted cake. Okay, I lied. I wanted cream cheese frosting with a little bit of carrot cake under it. Well, that is kind of a lie too. I really, wanted a treat because I have not been feeling well. My favorite treat to get when I am not feeling well is **Qudobia's 3 Cheese Nachos** with the chips on the side. Qudobias is closed until May? What is the next best thing besides 3 cheese nachos? Cake of course! To Google 'easy chocolate cake' I went.

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# Yes, I know...but

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I don't have carrots because @EnchantedSpirit made me eat all my carrots today. I didn't have cream cheese either. I had some powdered pure cocoa in the cabinet because it is not sweet so hubby will not eat it. Chocolate for a cake was all I had to work with. Life is hard. Sometimes you just have to settle for chocolate cake.

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Google was playing nice tonight. The first recipe Google showed me was called **[One Bowl Chocolate Cake III](https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/17981/one-bowl-chocolate-cake-iii/)**. I looked at the ingredient list and knew I had everything to make this cake. It was now 1:00 AM.

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Did I really want to make a chocolate cake at 1 am? No. Did I really want a treat? Yes. Could I have made it tomorrow before 1 am? Like when I wake up and the sun is out? Not really because then my kitchen will be a mess again. Plus I will be tired and not want to clean in order to bake a cake.

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https://i.imgur.com/6CS3lvR.jpg?1 I will say the cake is as easy as the 2,000 reviews say it is. I did add 1 cup of cocoa powder as everyone suggested. I put it in a bunt pan...because...I had one that I do not think I have ever used. One drawback of reading the review comments in recipes. The cake, after cooling **in the pan** for 20 minutes, slid right out. No sticking at all. I was happy. Kind of. I now had to **wait** for the cake to cool to frost it. I opened the kitchen window to let in the cold air to help cool the cake faster. Should I have waited until tomorrow to frost the cake? No. See the above kitchen issues for the reason why. Soooooo about every 3 minutes, I touched the cake to see if it was cool enough to frost. It never was. I frosted it anyway. It now has a nice thin chocolate glaze on it that happened to pool on the bottom of the glass plate. Don't judge. I just wanted my treat!

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https://i.imgur.com/tG3JkbS.jpg?1 I realized I was going to be eating a ton of chocolate very late at night and then have to go to sleep. Yeah, I am not the least bit tired right now. Opposite in fact. I am kind of jonesing from all the chocolate and sleeping will prove interesting.

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Moral of the story? **There are times you have to frost a cake before it's ready because sometimes YOU need to come first.** **or** **It is okay to have cake and eat it too! Just not every night!!**

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