Yes, I'm Back.

Ummmm had a really fun weekend with Christy in town and going to Disneyland on Friday. Also had fun going shopping at Ontario Mills yesterday and watching some movies/tv today. Hopefully next weekend Chris and I will be going to the San Diego Zoo and possibly doing some really cool things at the animal kingdom and THEN we will be coming to MO to visit! Yeeeeeessss the upcoming weeks are filled with some fun things. Fun is good.

OH for all the MO peeps, (hehehe) I am planning on trying to plan a party for SATURDAY, JULY 26TH!!!! So be there or be square. Details to come. (It was originally planned for Sunday the 20th but Erika suggested that Saturday might be better for all the people who have to work on Mondays ...)

And ... I ordered my FIRST EVER digital camera today. In fact, it's not only my first "digital" camera, it's my first camera PERIOD. Yes, for the past 24 years I've been using disposables. :P

Yipee.

Work sucked today ... and ... that is all I have to say about that.

The Hike of Death

Anna's visit was fun. Tuesday night after she got into town, we went out for Jamba Juice and just hung out, which was lovely. Wednesday Anna, Chris and I went for a 7 mile hike in the mountains which was a lot of fun. I've been wanting to go hiking for SUCH A LONG TIME! lol. The scenery was beautiful (you can see pictures on my facebook and myspace,) and no one died. :P Although, Chris and Anna nearly died at the end because of a HUGE uber steep and long hill that you have to walk back up at the end. (I didn't almost die ... hmmm must be the Billy Blanks.) :P After we returned home and all took showers, we went "dessert hopping." Actually, we went to In'N'Out for burgers first because we hadn't eaten much all day and were in need of some major refueling. Then we went to Chilis and ordered both the chocolate molten lava cake and the "white" chocolate molten lava cake. Delicious! Afterwards we were planning on hopping to a few more restaurants for dessert, but our hopping was cut short due to fullness. :P Instead we came home and all talked for several hours until I finally forced myself to go to bed at 12:30am because I had to get up at 6am for work. And now ... I'm tired. Very, very tired. :::zonk:::

Let the Good Times Roll

Chris graduated from the master's program. Woo woo!

My old college roomie Anna is coming to see me tonight, double woo woo! In fact, Chris is about to go pick her up from the airport right now! (I can't because I have my cake class at 6pm.) Thanks Chris! :)

I just bought an awsome book off of Amazon called 'Cakes to Dream On.' I'm soooo excited! :D I can't wait to start building big works of cake art. :P

Fun Times.

Attempt #1

This is a picture of my first attempt at working with fondant! :D It didn't turn out as horrible as I thought it would, but of course it's not as good as I would like it either. BUT for a first attempt it's okay. It's actually a chocolate cake with chocolate pudding filling, iced with buttercream and covered in vanilla fondant. I really like working with fondant, it's super fun and it's almost like ... clay ... lol ... only ... tasty. And I'm also working on learning how to work with gumpaste and how to make fancy flowers. Weeee!

Back to the 80's

Guess what I'm eating/chewing right now? Razzles! You see, in the movie '13 Going on Thirty' the two main characters grew up in the early 80's and had this major thing for Razzles. And they are talking about them in the movie and how they can't find them anymore and well ... I frankly had never seen them before and didn't even know if they existed. (Besides in the movie of course.) Well the other day while waiting in line to checkout at Michael's I spied a single pack of Razzles on top of a shelf. There weren't any others ... and I didn't even see a space where they were supposed to be. It was ... fate. "First it's a candy ... then it's gum!"

Oooooh Tush.

Today, I thought I was going to go blind in my right eye. This morning I went running before work, as usual, and about 8 minutes into the run a bug flew directly into my right eye. Now, normally when something gets into your eye, it stings a bit and gets a wee bit irritated. This however, felt more like a needle poking into my eyeball. Not only that, but the pain was so bad that I had to stop running. My vision in that eye was blurred for about 2 hours, it watered for about 2 and 1/2 hours, and my entire eyeball was sore. (Not to mention UBER bloodshot.) This whole eye deal made my nose run for the tire day. In fact, my nose is STILL running and my eye is STILL a bit sore. Blasted bugs!!!!

I've made more cakes this week then I've made in several years combined. lol. And I'm still trying to figure out the mystery that is learning how much batter to put in and how long to bake two 10" round cake pans. (I'm currently on my second attempt of the evening.) :P

Oh BTW Missouri folk, I might try and plan a small B-day party (aka as an excuse to get a bunch of friends together) while I'm home. I'm thinking on a Sunday ... perhaps ... July 20th? Hmmm ...

In Other News ...

Just got back from the theatre where Chris and I saw 'Iron Man.' Good movie. And also 'Kung Fu Panda.' Good movie. It made me want a bowl of noodles.

So I finally started my at home course work to work my way towards becoming a certified professional bridal consultant. Woo woo!!! The current course I am working on is etiquette. (There's 5 different courses with 5 different tests, and then I have to take a final exam and also do a final project.) After that, I have to complete a certain amount of hours of training before I get certified. But I'm excited!

Also, I added another cake class, so now I have TWO cake classes that I'm taking per week! The second is 'fondant and gum paste.' So far I love it and I'm so excited to be learning how to make fancy cakes! For our final project in that class we have to do a 3-tiered cake, which will be cool. I would love to be able to make some wedding cakes here and there as part of my wedding business. Although, taking both classes at once will be a bit crazy and time-consuming. Let's just say that I have to make several cakes a week! :P

The new mint mocha chip frap from Starbucks is sooooo good. YUM.