Live on the scene

How long does the six/seven year old body run on a 2-inch cube of cake and a small scoop of ice cream? I'll have to get back to you on that. Right now it's after 10:00 and they're clustered around my full-length mirror, applying makeup. (One of them brought some.)

Oh, and around 9:30 I noticed that the novel new soda I got (girly pink color, pink grapefruit flavor) not only is sugarless--ie, has the dreaded Nutrasweet--but also does not say, anywhere on the bottle, "caffeine free"...