When you:

• Feel a little ground down from life
• Are questioning whether you are a big hypocrite
• Just want to curl up in your bed, under the covers, and never leave
• Count down the days until the weekend, starting Monday morning
• Are frustrated with some of your co-workers and wonder if the workplace isn’t actually just the setting of a passive aggressive war in which there are many weapons and tactics at your disposal
• Hate the slavish bi-partisanship of your Supreme Court and the batshit, corrupt, the malevolent insanity of your Congress, and the crushing disappointment of your president
• Have a sore tastebud on the tip of your tongue, making everything you eat torturous
• Are totally running out of healthy meal-like food but don’t have time or the energy to make a grocery store run (so you totally just eat peanut butter frosting instead)
• Find the charm of cakes to lie in their presentation, not their taste
• (Okay, maybe you also like their taste too)

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