Almost Lucid Dreaming

So I've been hearing a lot about lucid dreaming recently, and I guess I've been thinking about it, though I certainly haven't been training or anything.

Well, last night I thought I was having a lucid dream. I was definitely aware that I was dreaming and I was even like, "Hey, this must be a lucid dream." But in the dream, the actual sleeper wasn't me; it was some guy in Buenos Aires. So I think it was just a regular dream about having a lucid dream.

Grown-Up Cakes

Haven't been making any children's party cakes recently.

This was a pretty sweet orange poppy seed tea-cake:

I used the lemon tea-cake recipe from Miette, then substituted oranges (actually, clementines) for the lemons, added poppy seeds to the batter, then sprinkled poppy seeds over the glaze. It was pretty well received.

Made this gingerbread cake (also from Miette) with dinner this evening:

It looks awful in the photo, but it was really great. I used more molasses and less sugar than the recipe called for, which gave it a darker, more sophisticated flavor.  We had it with vanilla ice-cream.  Yeah!