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remember how it was my birthday last month?

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remember those food pr0n-worthy cakes?

well, they came by way of carole’s cheesecake company CCC! quick back story on that, carole is legendary. she brought carrot cake to the city, like started that, baking in her basement by hobby (her husband michael was an architect and ballin’ so she needn’t worry about work, those were the times then too right, she also had kids to home-make and the like) and then BOOM supplied all the restaurants with fresh/frozen cakes/desserts, which was unheard of. remember just desserts? yep, that’s her too. eighteen locations of them. celeb’s have come to her cafe for years. there’s pics of all them in the foyer i’ll show you in a bit. movers/shakers galore also dine here, place is people watch city. enter raymbo…

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a customer and i. she’s all ooh you’re modeling? get a load of my dopey outfit.

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total nana place, no? i got to sit at the family table. michael made sure to inform me of that.

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how much do we love this mug?

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i kept thinking this fabulous candelabra was actually lit from the light’s beam. who cares, who’s the diva ov’yonder?

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hi it’s me again. this is bringing home to mother outfit bait. the teacher has requested my hair down next sunday. oh yeppa i’m meetin’ the folks who apparently are the complete opposite of my familia haha. that’s fine i made do five years with my ex’s “better”er lot. even up to the time when i called his dad a &^$#&^ to his face one wasted off $400 bottles of whatever evening. he was a type-a and kind of respected me a little more afterward.

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back to cakes. guess what i had. i starved two days in a row prior to this. it was very marie antoinette of me to do so, cake in the afternoon in summerhill? l’chaim!

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michael does me my americano misto, such love and attention. you don’t come here if you’re in a hurry. definite day of leisure for you.

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it was another glorious sunny afternoon and the cafe was packed, we came after the rush, were late of course, so we missed carole’s son, jetting back to hollywood. no biggie. cough. four golds at cannes last year. cough cough. heh.

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oh my god lets go already move it mike. just joking, he’s a peach and everyone just stands around watching the show. he reads my blog everyday!!! he said by my photographs how they’re composed, it’s someone who knows what they’re doing. ooh luh la don’t feed the ego monster. you will love it here. soap operatic. one guy across the way had a long grey ponytail, bald, full on ballin’ could tell takes zero s–t type.

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the magic is about to happen. sometime, this, century. i, would, imagine.

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oh didja know i am in the globe and mail today talkin’ smart? it’s true watch me. you know who also said i am smart? carole. she said my skin is amazing. or was it beautiful? doesn’t matter. (so matters).

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fuh-inally.

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looks like an eclair.

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this is when they told me they were adopting me. i was going for alice in wonderland here. easter style.

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aww love it looks like a heart almost.

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haha my pleats. who is pumped for the royal wedding?

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up and over the mountain ladies. carole’s getting cozy. two queen bees buzzin’ right there son.

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there’s an awesome picture of carole’s hair in the eighties in the bathroom, she’s standing with a female politician (no bigs), forget who tho.

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colleague had pea soup because he is about as adventurous as a small town preacher’s wife. agahahah. nono i mean, his palette is as vast as an inmate’s. he did attempt to go a little outside the box and got a strawberry banana smoothie.

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which i instantly high-jacked.

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my beautiful salad nicoise avec anchovies. everything in the café is vegetarian so as to not cross-contaminate with the cakes, the number one reason for everything yes? yes.

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maybe i should get a kid friendly card?

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curious customers having birthday lunch and a cake for the road why not, personal treat she said she was going to share it with her family. lucky ducks. it’s the most moist fudgey chocolate cake they will ever eat, i mean it, i obsess over this one. it’s the same cake i had for my birthday and i cannot stop thinking about it. seriously. it’s spurned a secret sugar chocolate addiction for the teacher and i. i cannot wait til easter is over by jesus we are speed stress eating those metro chocolate eggs like mental. i’ve been stressed for days though so it’s aiding in that.

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nice to meet you deb!

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your fabulous friend too.

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sneak kitchen/factory shot.

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fancy mags to read.

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fancy candelabras to pose with.

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aww bless RIP.

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CHEESECAKE TIME! i had a field day trying to narrow down my wants. this is the chocolate brownie cheesecake to DIE for. there are 160 to choose from too. i scraped the chocolate chips and icing right off. the base of it is brownie.

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that other guy is california lemon and yes it tastes just like it looks, ten zillion times better than sara lee.

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the longer my hair gets the skinnier in the face i shall be. see how i went from headband to hat? it wasn’t a playboy shoot ok. added my braided belt as well.

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MMMM. carole is also an innovator. her cakes are bottomless, she also designed the first bottomless AND topless cakes. ooh scandal!

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teaser. you can’t have any. we came all the way to summerhill and now i am eating summerhill.

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now check the apple cake and break out the fat plants please.

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now, globe and mail readers, do you see why i have to work out with a personal trainer three times a week?

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mmm what was that? i completely forgot everything, the entire world, for a few seconds there. last night instead of getting blasticated at tv on the radio (i sent darius and lucas though) i stayed in and had a big mac and then sweet lulu and somehow i am big mac skinny again. i’m lean today! despite how these pics look (tight shirt on my huge pythons and high waisted golf nerd pants) i swear i’m lean. ok enough on that back to putting my face in cakes.

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here i am getting the history. i asked what it was like being shot into immediate success, all over the tv news, papers? in the eighties too? wicked. carole also was a teacher, one of her pupils being the creator of dufflet cakes. crazy huh?

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maybe we’ll make a cake that’s big enough to fit me inside and i’ll jump out of it like in that steven segal movie, under siege? meh.

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one universal belief of how to charm others or to make them like you is to let them talk (which is infinitesimally difficult for me all the time on most occasions) about themselves WHILE listening or actively listening and do not puncture each statement or anecdote with one-upping their experience, snuffing it out with your own or making it about you. (i know SO MANY F–ING PEOPLE WHO DO THIS I AM CALLING YOU ON IT NEXT TIME) they will come away thinking that you are charming and nice, and smart.

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get hypnotized.

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extra listening means SHOWING COMPREHENSION.

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meaningful shock and awe.

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at one point i looked carole in the eye and said MEETING OF THE MINDS. it’s true. both figureheads. heads of our class. yeah yeah. number one meeting number one. and then we chest bumped haha. she said she was told that if she wasn’t tough in the business world people would walk all over her so naturally as a woman you carry that mentality with you for years and keep a bit of a buffer, you get touted as having an edge. then your reputation precedes itself and then people are apprehensive to meet with you or nervous, shy. me, i warmed her heart. who were we talking about again, me or carole? ha.

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mirrors to check everyone out by, eye level.

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john hancock time. there you go fanatics.

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don’t worry carole just kidding.

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this was a great moment indeed. the parking lot extends right to the road, everyone slowly cruised and honked. instant fans. i waved and poured on the vanna whites.

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haha look closely now.

see ya around CCC! not if i see ya first.