TEN YEARS?!
May 21, 2018 Hellooooooooooooo Minions!
Jen here.
Hi.
Big News: Today marks the 10th - TENTH! - anniversary of this blog. You've just sucked ten years of my life away, with your wedding disasters and your overly literal snafoos and your unintentional buttercream dingalings, and I hope you're proud of yourselves.
;)
Of course ten years is a MASSIVE milestone to reach online, and darn near unheard of in the vanishing world of blogging. Cake Wrecks is like a dinosaur you find frolicking through your lawn sprinklers one morning: you're not sure how it survived this long, or just what it thinks it's doing, but while it's there you may as well share pics on Facebook and have a laugh.
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#IWokeUpToThis
Now, I could regale you with sentimental anecdotes, maybe talk about how this site changed my life, or the time John nearly died on our first book tour, or, the true highlight, the time Brent Spiner put on a Carrot Jockey necklace.
But all that sounds way too final, and frankly, I'm not done with you people yet. Or Cake Wrecks.
So rather than bowing out gracefully on the perfect end date for a career well... er... careered? Is that a word? - Rather than all that, John and I've decided to pick up the reins and keep on beating this particular dead horse:
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We never liked this guy.
Or, to put it in a way that's less likely to get us hate mail, we plan to ride this rocket allll the way down to glory, until you guys stop reading.
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("We get the fancy ketchups? OH HAPPY DAY")
Now, as I think maybe three of you have noticed, we've spent the last 364 days re-running some of my favorite posts. Going forward I'll actually be writing some new stuff again, including all new Sweets. As the cool kids say, it's gonna be LIT. Mostly from birthday candles, but you get the idea.
So I hope you'll stick around, minions, and say nice things about us to your friends, because I need a lot of validation. (So, so much.) Also, send me your wrecks! Let's keep this party going!
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Reader Comments (108)
Jen and John,
I've been showing your blog (not the dingaling posts, obvi) to my high-school English students for years now. It's the thing they tend to remember about my classes - not the dynamic way I taught Shakespeare and Austen, nor the fun presentations and projects, nor how we beat those pesky comma splices into submission. No. They remember when I showed them CakeWrecks in class. I could complain, but how could I? It's the most painless way possible to teach about the importance of good communication, punctuation, spelling, and grammar...and why cupcake cakes are evil...and why mistakes are sometimes not only okay, they are downright wonderful.
So when I first saw your post today, while the students were filing in, I nearly burst into tears, thinking you were finally moving on. I am SO glad to have been wrong. You don't know how many times your blog has saved this teacher's sanity, as well as brightened many a student's day.
THANK YOU for not quitting yet! I will renew my bakery trolling, and encourage my students to do the same! We love you!
Well, it said 99 comments, so I am just here to make it an even 100.
Thanks for the last 10 years of hilarity, mocking and oh so very many puns!
Keep up the wreckiness! CW rocks.
This is so exciting! I don't care if blogs go the way of MySpace, you'll always have a loyal following. Thanks for 10 years of making us smile--and encouraging us to surreptitiously take pictures of bakery wreckage! Here's to 10 more!
Happy birthday with sprinkles! Under neat that, here’s to many more!
Repeats or not--- I still laugh every day! Cake Wrecks is a great way to end the day with a smile! Thank you for sharing the joy with us!
Ah, the memories... *wipes away sentimental tear* Here’s to 10 more years of laughing at other peoples’ misfortunes!
TEN years! They have just flown by! I drove from Maine to Boston in a snowstorm to see you! I then I geeked out at John's family! I love you guys. Keep on giving us smiles, and chuckles, and belly laughs. :)
“Happy Anvesry” I have enjoyed holding in my laughter, while my hubby sleeps soundly, for many years!!