I am calling this segment "Let's talk about something here" to document the many chronologically irrelevent issues that ... well ... need to be talked about. For example, let's talk about something here ...

This is my mother-in-law's crack poppyseed cake.

Every year at Christmas she makes plates and plates and plates of proper German baking. And every Christmas I am too busy trying to make sure no one eats all the kipferl, that I don't bother with the poppyseed cake.