Taking care of business

I got lots of little things off my to do list today.

I finalized the program for the Money Sense badge workshop I stumbled into doing this summer. I sent it all to Council for their review. I expect there will be changes.

I sent in our request for seats for next year's school day theater performances. We're only going to 5 shows next year. We've been to 9 shows each of the last 2 years. There wasn't as much on the list that we wanted to see next year.

I cleaned the bathrooms.

I washed my dress that I wore to the adult volunteer dinner. It is supposed to be dry clean only. I had planned to hand wash it. I decided the heck with it today and tossed it in the washing machine. It seems to have survived. My mom always says you shouldn't coddle your dry clean only clothes. They'll get needy and expect it all the time. We both wear a lot of cotton.

I got some answers for work and passed them along to people. That's the bad thing about being a "healthcare research specialist," people actually expect you to find answers for them.

I cleaned the angel food cake pan to use in lieu of a Bundt cake pan on Friday. I want the Pillsbury Tunnel of Fudge cake for Mother's Day. We're going to give it a try. If you happen to know that it will fail miserably if we use any other kind of tube pan instead of a Bundt pan, please don't tell me. I've torn the basement apart searching for the Bundt pan. I can't find it.

We have a growing list of missing items. I think we must have had a break in. We are missing: one yellow Bundt cake pan, a 35 year old paperback copy of "Charlotte's Web," the recipe for a s'more cake (although Mother Mayhem did provide a substitute for that one), a Littlest Pet Shop sticker (which we may or may not actually own, don't you love searches like that?), and the red post-it flags I use to indicate Girl Scout registrations paid by credit card in my volunteer position as registrar.

Any theories on who our robber was? A culinary bibliophile with a love of sticky things?