08.08.08
The most amazing thing in the whole world just happened. This is the kind of thing you get in email forward and you think - that really happened?

The company I work for, Cre8tive Group, is having a big party tonight to celebrate 08/08/08. Thanks to our name, the 8 is pretty important around here. With this momentous date falling on a Friday, in the middle of the summer, and with the Olympics starting tonight, a party was pretty much in order. It's going to be chinese-themed (thank you China for your food, no thanks for Communism), we're broadcasting the opening ceremonies on a big screen outside, having Olympic-themed games, etc. It's gonna be great.

Well, Amy, my boss's wife, just called me.

Amy: You have to get over here, right away.
Me: Is anything wrong? You need me right now?
Amy: Just come over right now.

I hang up and brainstorm the whole way over there, trying to imagine what it could possibly be. As I walked into the house, I remembered that I had ordered the cake for the party tonight two days ago and Amy's dad was going to pick it up today. I ordered a FULL sheet cake (that's a big cake, people) with the Olympic rings prominently displayed in the middle. I thought my instructions were pretty clear.

Everyone smirking, they ushered me over to the cake, where I see in large red writing down the middle:

("Olympics Rings")

Yes, the parentheses and quotation marks are also ON THE CAKE. I laughed and laughed, while Chad snapped picture after picture - of the cake, of Amy being mad about the cake, of Amy on the phone with the bakery looking really mad about the cake. Needless to say, they are making us a whole new cake. But, never fear, the original will still be there, for everyone's immense enjoyment.



Fantastic blog, and not just because our cake made it on there: Cake Wrecks.