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Posted by maggyvaneijk on August 13, 2011 - 14:52
from the ABC set waanzin of wijsheid?

I cycled home in my pajamas which wasn’t very classy but I just spent a lot of money on some really nice shower gel so why would I have a shower at my boyfriend’s who has lots of bottles of axe and one bottle of something that looks like runny pooh and tries to smell of chocolate. Last night was awesome because I made a cake but I was very worried you see, I couldn’t be bothered to make icing from scratch and that meant I needed to buy a tub of icing, the American kind, and it’s so good honestly it’s amazing but what happens is I tell myself to have one sneaky dip and then I end up eating the whole tub. Last time I did that was about three years ago and it was my friend’s birthday and I was in charge of getting the right icing so this other girl could add it to the cake she had spent days slaving over. It was my one job and a pretty simple one so I thought cool I’ll do that, I bought the icing from the American shop because Holland isn’t really known for its cakes in fact I skip the cake at most Dutch birthdays because what they do is bake a normal sponge cake (doesn’t sound too bad so far) but THEN they stuff bits of pineapple into it and other nasty fruit and then they top this hideous excuse for a cake with whipped cream. So anyway, I bought the tub of icing for the girl, put it in the fridge but decided hey, I spent a lot of money on this thing I might as well taste a bit and then a bit became a lot and I shrunk onto my kitchen floor with a stomach full of sugar. That was embarrassing because at the time I had a lot of typical teenage girl issues about feeling fat and finishing a whole tub of icing really wasn’t going to help that situation and wow, I just realized I’ve spent my time talking about past things and this is supposed to be about my day now and also in Kerouac style who wrote about cool things, about being free and doing drugs and having sex and here I am talking about icing. Lame. Well after baking a cake I did go to party type thing at a hippie surf camp which is a pretty big deal because I don’t really go out that much because I hate crowds and mobs and mosh pits and I get really anxious and the sky starts spinning and I start to see black dots and I feel like everyone wants to crush me but I’ve got medication for that and a general better feeling about my life so I can handle it all and yesterday I didn’t feel like anyone wanted to crush me. And today, I’m in a very uncrushable place, my dad’s living room and I’m watching movies and editing bits and bobs and reading my screenwriting book which is becoming a pain because it keeps mentioning films I haven’t seen so I’ve made a list of all the films I need to see and I can’t even begin to describe how long that list is, maybe I’ll have finished it by the time I’m fifty but maybe not because I keep adding to it and now I’ll stop writing because this has become a long chunk of text a bit like my list of movies but not quite because that list is REALLY long.

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Comments

Highhat | August 13, 2011 - 16:08

Very funny Maggie- glad you couldn't resist the temptation because this gave me the laugh I needed for today. Thanks
;)Pia

ps did you really cycle home in your pyjamas? Brave girl-

maggyvaneijk | August 13, 2011 - 16:09

hahaha I really did but luckily they're not too crazy looking

hudsonmoon | August 13, 2011 - 16:28

I love the image of you biking in your pajamas. If you're ever in America we'll bake you a cake. Extra icing on side. Delightful and funny story, Maggy.

maggyvaneijk | August 13, 2011 - 16:32

thanks, I spent last summer in New York and I had an unhealthy obsession with Crumbs cupcakes and really any sort of cake you guys make...yum yum

skinner_jennifer | August 13, 2011 - 17:48

Brilliant read maggy, you have such an eventful
life, it makes my life quite boring.

Thankyou for the insight.

Jenny.

maggyvaneijk | August 13, 2011 - 17:49

Thanks Jenny, it's not eventful at all, my mind is just a little hyper active :)

insertponceyfre... | August 13, 2011 - 20:26

...... And breathe. Fascinating! I am really enjoying reading the results of this IP! I loved this maggy, and that's one fantastic opening line!

maggyvaneijk | August 13, 2011 - 20:27

Thanks Julie for your comment, I'll check out Brideshead and yes, I'm most definitely a sweet tooth :)

maggyvaneijk | August 13, 2011 - 20:28

Thanks insert, it's funny you say that because I was very very breathless after writing that haha, thanks for your comment!

seashore | August 13, 2011 - 21:06

I love stream-of-consciousness stuff and loved this. Tiring having an over-active mind isn't it? To quote myself - I should know!

maggyvaneijk | August 13, 2011 - 21:07

Thanks for your comment Coral, it sure is :) x

Cavalcaderl | August 13, 2011 - 22:03

Maggyvaneijk
H! Maggy, I sent a comment,
but it's gone. Anway I'll try
and remember it. Good story,
made me laugh! too. Was it night time
when you rode in your pyjamas. Bit draughty.
Full of character.
So you have a very sweet tooth then I know
some cream delicacies can be roughly £5 here,chocolate pudding drooled fresh cream.
lashings cream on. Um! Banoffee pie too superb. This is full of interesting things, straight from the mind
things. Hope medication works. You mention watching films, Jeremy Irons from Brideshead Visted, taking part of pope Alexander to-night from Borgias century,on Alanta sky at 9pm haven't got, so can't watch. Read they had poison rings in that century, which made me do poem My beautiful ring=poison ring.
Weather is truning cold morning and evening.
Screen books sound interesting, I have a couple 2nd hand ones market. Great look back.
Have a good week-end no cakes. Mine loves cakes and all but he is 16 stone, no good saying No to him.
PS. Has a stent in heart saw mp Tony Blair had it done, in paper yuk! Oh! and "The Mission" got LP. Wanted see it to-night can't, hope dvd or film may be. Got ring's on finger's as pope, look bit like mine? wrong colour and it was like rhinestoned round and opened flap as said. Used love bars of fry's cream, when working and I had baby on my own, nip next to shops and buy. OOh! well deserved cherry!
Our daughter has an over active mind, usually clever
minded children people. Both not well now, holiday abroad mosquitoe bites, caused within year, each other. What is your favourite films and songs!
julie xx

Overthetop1 | August 14, 2011 - 03:17

I have also gone home from a night out with just a pyjama jacket of my Dads. I can slso completely identify with the tuo of Icing sugar. I liked this tremendously and laughed our loud. Yes I am up at this time due to an over active brain. Wish it would slow down!

Silver Spun Sand | August 14, 2011 - 18:32

Sorry I'm so late getting to this one, maggy, but have had 'one of those' days;-)

Just loved this maggy, and I too was out of breath by the time I'd finished reading it.

The opening line is a real 'corker'. Were they winceyette - one wonders;-) I think not, or maybe I'm wrong.

Thanks for a great read.

Tina

seashore | August 15, 2011 - 07:20

Just came back for another read - the cake icing saga is an absolute classic. How many of us have been there - just one more square of chocolate - and another and so on and then feeling sick....no need to go on.

That and the pyjamas....what a vision.

RachelPatricia | August 16, 2011 - 11:36

Fantastic take on the IP, Maggy - lovely to step into your world for a little while, too :)

If I had a bike I would cycle to places in my pjamas as often as I could, though my children would probably disown me! ;)

Just brilliant. Has made me want to eat a big, sticky cake, though, but that isn't such a bad thing!

Thanks for a great read, as always :)

Rachel xx

jlb | August 18, 2011 - 19:43

Very good - even your off-the cuff prose is great :) Excellent stuff.

oldpesky | August 20, 2011 - 12:53

As usual, I'm at least a week behind everyone else, must be an age thing. What stood out for me, apart from the excellently frantic pace of the prose, was you having an uncrushable day. Reminded me a bit of the big chief in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, when he said he was big as a mountain. Great moment.

Now then, after questioning me about writing in bed, I find out you are cycling around the streets in pyjamas. Maybe we're all a bit cuckoo.