carrot_cake raze when did this become a tradition for us? i remember the first time i stood in the store where they sell the stuff. it was raining that afternoon, in the middle of a season that didn't have snow on the menu. summer probably. maybe fall. but we'd eaten it at least a few times already by then. at some point we settled on the fifth day of the week, if you count sunday as the first. sloppy joes and carrot cake. a childhood treat chased by an adult indulgence. when they don't have what we're after, we'll substitute cherry cheesecake. or pineapple upside_down cake. or two bricks cut from a brownie big enough to serve as a meal in its own right. but thursday night doesn't feel complete without cream cheese frosting, pecan fragments, and the dying dreams of dried grapes. 240802 what's it to you? who go blather from