Strawberry Shortcake Revelations

Not a food blogger, but I had to share!
Made a special trip to Sam's Club last week for Strawberry Shortcake supplies.Yes, I eat enough of it to justify Warehouse quantities. BUT I'VE BEEN DOING IT WRONG! As I checked out the over eager, nearly over talkative cashier expounded about how she thought Strawberry Shortcake was too dry and she added a bit of milk to her's. "I don't drown it or anything."
Nearly 29* years of making this meal. (Yes, I use it as Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and occasionally dessert) And never had I thought to add a bit of milk to the bowl. So, after her very exuberant explanation of her process and reasoning I thought I'd give it a try. Over the past week I've tried a few different combinations.
AND NOW I HAVE THE PERFECT STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE!
1. Slice four to five standard strawberries. Into the bottom of the bowl.
2. Sprinkle with a teaspoon of sugar or Splenda. (I do this first so they have time to get a little juicy.)
3. Slice off a tenth of an angel food cake. (if you make your own and want to get fancy add a package of lemon jello mix before you bake it.) (I'll use any excuse to incorporate lemon.)
4. Place angel food cake into bowl and spoon the strawberries over top.
5. Add 1/4 cup milk (I like vanilla soy milk)
6. Top with whatever you consider to be an exorbitant amount of whipped cream.
TADA!
7. Share with those you love.
8.They say, "Thank you."
6.5 days.

30 years minus seven days.

One week until my 29*th birthday.  So far I'm coping well.  (Not an entirely true statement.)

This looming event brought up a recent discussion of Adult "Developmental Milestones."  Everyone has their own set of things they had planned to accomplish by their thirtieth birthday.  It's different for everyone in a few aspects, but most people give a variation of the same top four.

1. Be married.

2. Have a career.

3. Have children.

4. Buy a home.

Not necessarily in that order, but a general consensus is that people would like to have accomplished at least two of these....if not all, and most do.

Personally, I'm a bit below the standard deviation for these amongst my peers.  I'm not saying I'm not a successful person.  I'm well on my way to a career, but there is still some uncertainty.  And...well.. that concludes my steps through the adult milestones.  It's silly to judge oneself based on their peers, but frankly what the heck am I going to judge myself on otherwise?

I've also recently been informed that the dreaded big 30 is a bit cultural and this birthday isn't as frightening in other countries. Who knows what makes this a big deal for me, but I'm offered no solace by this "cultural" definition. Maybe it was Sex in the City that ruined my outlook on the beginning of the fourth decade of my life. Maybe it was growing up in a town where most people have "been there done that" by the time they are thirty. Maybe it's the estrogenous ticking time bomb of knowing that my eggs are frying and mutating at an exponential rate. Or it could be that little noise people make when they say "Oh, you're turning thirty." (You know something comparable to that sigh of sadness when you give condolences after a pet dies.)

My conclusion..I shall turn 29* gracefully next week and put off the big 30 until I hit the 50th percentile of my peer group for developmental milestones....Think of it like holding back a child a grade level because they need more time to learn their multiplication tables.

11 days until I ship my favorite Eur/asian back to a land where 30th birthdays don't come with life evaluation and little old ladies asking if you are barren (obviously the only reason you wouldn't have kids at this point.)

More Random On Call Thoughts for Teddi

1. Person A,"Why after a month of having a symptom do you come into the emergency department on a Saturday night?"
Person B,"I don't know, slow night at the strip club?"
Person A,"It's an elderly man."
Person B,"His favorite stripper had a night off?"
Person A,"Sounds plausable."
Half hour later.
Person A,"What's our assumption on this one, symptoms for three months, young female?"
Person B,"We found our stripper!"
Person A," I think your answers say a lot about what you do when you have a Saturday night off."
Person B,"Someone has to put those girls through Med School."
2. Why do people feel the urge to point out that I am pleasant on the phone...are they insinuating I am unpleasant in person?
3. Only time I've between psyched about "Spring Forward". I lose an hour of CALL, hopefully not that hour of sleep I might have gotten though.
4. It's amazing that people can not see the reasoning behind my slight jealousy of the "stay at home mom".
5. DOGS ARE PEOPLE TOO! (lmao, from a passing by patient in the hallway)
6. Patience is a virtue, patients are not. (quote from a referring doc.....I have no idea what it means)
7. Where the heck do people get all these pallets on pinterest?
8. I just wrote the word "the" and had to stare at it to see if it was spelled correctly. (and people call me Dr.)
9. I could be perfectly happy being a photographer, home flipper, home stager, interior designer, personal chef, or florist.....or chipmunk trainer.
10. I do not understand the current sock monkey obsession. (just a random fact)