So I’m a week late, but here I am, apolitical Washwords, blogging, as promised, about cupcakes.<\/p>\n
(See, I can be sweet!)<\/p>\n
I have a regularly scheduled appointment every Wednesday (it lasts 50 minutes) at a place near the fabbbulous newly opened Hello Cupcake<\/a>. They sell… you guessed it: cupcakes! Yes, they’re pricey; yes, they are the kind of thing I might blog about as being the worst kind of emperor’s-new-clothes pretentious (ohh I HAVE to have that $3.00 cupcake! in the brown box tied up with string!)<\/p>\n But<\/p>\n I DO have to have it. Hello Cupcake’s cakes are pretty. They have pretty names (Peanut Butter Blossom, Peppermint Penny, De Lime and De Coconut); they have pretty colors (Easter egg pinks and greens and buttercreamy white and tan); and yes, they come in pretty brown boxes with pink stickers.<\/p>\n And<\/p>\n they’re delicious.<\/p>\n So… I’ve started a new tradition. Every Wednesday when I go to my Regularly Scheduled Appointment, I bring back cupcakes (sometimes 4, sometimes 6) to deserving fellow workerbee pals. Because let’s face it, someone could ALWAYS use a cupcake.<\/p>\n Response has been amazing. In the last few weeks I’ve given cupcakes to:<\/p>\n * Pals finishing hellatious, hellatious jobs that have literally taken years and are finally finishing up<\/p>\n * Teary pals, struggling to balance work and life and work and life and work and…<\/p>\n * Unappreciated pals, quietly going “above and beyond” without fanfare or applause<\/p>\n * Pals who’ve gone to bat for others (sometimes for me) when they didn’t have to, when it would have been easier not to<\/p>\n * Pals who care about what’s right and do it, even when it comes at a cost<\/p>\n * Pals who are having a rainy blue day<\/p>\n *Pals who deserve to be celebrated.<\/p>\n *Pals who had their car stolen. Again. And then returned right before the insurance money came. Again.<\/p>\n Sometimes the cupcake-getter fits all these cupcake-worthy categories, sometimes just one, and sometimes I just see them in the hall and think: you!<\/p>\n It is the best feeling, being the cupcake fairy. So I’ve decided to repeat the favor online. Virtual cupcakes may not be as delicious but they come from the heart, so the intent and good feelings are the same, and today’s go to:<\/p>\n 3 Amys, of varying degrees of known-ness to me:<\/p>\n Cheers, see you next week for more cupcakes, lovely people. Happy cupcakes till then! Feel free to tell me who you’d like to send a real or virtual cupcake to, meanwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I’m a week late, but here I am, apolitical Washwords, blogging, as promised, about cupcakes. (See, I can be sweet!) I have a regularly scheduled appointment every Wednesday (it lasts 50 minutes) at a place near the fabbbulous newly opened Hello Cupcake. They sell… you guessed it: cupcakes! Yes, they’re pricey; yes, they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,622],"tags":[68,932,928,165,193,13,688,931,933,50,930,929,1247],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wash","category-words","tag-amy","tag-cheering-up","tag-cupcakes","tag-dc","tag-dupont","tag-friend","tag-good","tag-good-deeds","tag-hello-cupcake","tag-love","tag-surprise","tag-treats","tag-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n