I pretty much spent the day with friends today and it was awesome. Jacob was there too, and it was still nice. Its nice to spend time with friends, its something I havent done nearly enough these days!

We went to the Zoo with my friend melissa. The Zoo is probably one of my all time favorite places EVER!  I could spend ALL day there, no lie. I dont think I could ever get sick of that place. 

Melissa is probably one of my oldest friends. We met in 7th grade and were friends throughout most of high school. We lost touch and hadnt seen eachother in nearly ten years until recently at her baby shower (we kept in touh via facebook), but it was pretty much like it always had been in the past. We're very different people with very different views and opinions on many things but it still works.  

Then I went to dinner with another one of my oldest friends, but in age. She's older than me, but we've never really talked about age- I;m sure I should know, but its never really been a concern.  We met while teaching at Spratley- my 2nd year teaching, her first.  Our classes were right next door to eachother and we had those rooms that shared a storage room and sink area so we became close quickly.   We've only taught together that year- its been about 2 years, and we've kept in touch and still meet yp for dinner and she came to Jake's baptism and first birthday party and stuff, so yeah....

Anyways, its been a while since Ive had friend time so it was awesome to finally have it.    I def need to do it more often.   YAY for friends!

This may not be that big of a deal, but its currently bugging the crap out of me.    I'll start out with a bit of a back story...

My uncle was getting the bathroom remodeled to be handicap accessible for my grandma; he decided to stick with the plans and this is the 3rd week that theyve been working on it.  He gave the workers a house key (though I didnt know this until a few days ago) but he asked that I be at the house when theyre there to keep an eye on them I spose and to be there for his dogs.  Since I'm not working right now, I agreed to take Jacob over there with me and hang out at his house M-F from 8-330ish (sometimes later).

My uncle's got a HUGE tv and more channels than me so the first few days wasnt too shabby.  But it was starting to get boring and he doesnt have wireless so I had even less to do, besides draw, color, and do crosswords.  So I did what any normal person would do and snoop. But its not like I was being totally sketchy and snooping- I just looked through his living room at his movies and through the kitchen cabinets, I found a whole lot of cake pans that my grandma had (I didnt even know she baked any!) and I found a couple of recipe boxes so I looked through my grandmas recipes a few times..  alright alright you got me, I also looked at some of my grandma's jewelery cuz she had some real cool costume jewelery growing up- but I didnt take it and left everything the way I found it.  

I quickly learned that my uncle freezes EVERYTHING! bread, butter, soups, everything. Which led me to be concerned- stuff can only be freezedd for so long, right? But thats a WHOLE different story.

Now to get back to the point.   I opened a cabinet a day or so ago to get a pack of peanut btter nabs out for Jacob and noticed that the medicine bottle on the shelf looked kind old. Naturally, I took a closer look- it expired in 1999. A couple other bottles expired in 2001. Expiration dates for medicines are usually 3-4 years after the sold date, so that got me concerned. It meant that these medicines were older than my cousin! He's 14 and in the 9th grade....I'd take something that expired a few years ago, but for it to be closer to 14 years old? Yeah, that would TOTALLY sketch me out.  

I saw it as a safety issue and since my uncle seems to have a problem with throwing things out (He got a set of Emeril Pans for christmas this past year and was still using his ancient pans until I switched them old last week) I thought I'd be helpful and doing him a favor if I through them out.  I couldnt have been more wrong!He called my mother all bent out of shape over it.  

Yes, hindsight tells me that it wasnt my place to throw it out since its not my house, but to get all bent out over the loss of 15 year old medicine?!   After seeing how long he keeps everything, I really felt like I was helping him out............   

Really got me upset.  Bah.........

Do things really happen in threes?

Do things really happen in threes or is it just some sort of big coincidence?

This hasnt been the best summer for my family (we'll count today as summer still).     My grandma died less than two months ago, then my uncle found out that his cancer has mestacized (sp?  I dont feel like looking it up right now) and its not stage 4 cancer- not related to his prostate cancer but scaumous cell (?) cancer that he had a few years ago, that doctors thought they had taken out (it was in his nose back then, but theyve found it in his lung and bones).  And the third event?     My aunt go into a bad car accident. She blacked out while driving, had to be cut out of the car, and then airlifted to the hospital.   She broke her back in two difference places.  

All that in the span of 2 months...

I think its safe to say that no one is allowed to get sick or injured for the next ten years or so.  With that being said, I've got my hands full if I'mm going to keep jacob out of trouble!

At first I wasnt happy with my friend's baby shower cake, but once I was done I was please. For it being one of my first decorated cakes ever I think I did a bang job. And she seemed very pleased with it, so even better!!!   I cantwait til I take decorating classes, I'll def have some bamf cakes then!


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I accidentaly came across a confirmation email today... Josh got me a set of pearl earrings! But Shh.....    Real excited about it! Will def beat wearing my target plastic ones!   =P

Instead of spending his day off with his son, my husband went to the bar and was drunk before 9pm.  He passed out in the car once we made it to the driveway; instead of waking him, like I normally would, I left him in the car and locked him out of the house.  I wonder how long he'll stay asleep out there.....

I gots me a paying cake gig!

This past weekend I made my mom a BEAUTIFUL redvelvet cake for her birthday. I got ballsy and attempted to ice it with roses. It looked and tasted AMAZING!

 

 

One of my old friends saw it and she asked me to make her cake for her baby shower this weekend. I wasnt so sure at first since I had never iced a cake smoothly before or worked ith gumpaste, I was mainly concerned over the icing. So I did a practice run with a box cake and I managed to ice it well!!  I messed up on the gum paste, i bought mix because it was cheaper and it said to let it sit for 24 hours- I didnt even wait 4 hours...  so after I made a turte out of it, it became a big ol blue and green blob.  May just hafta suck it up and get the premade stuff

 

I am VERY excited about making this cake.

 

These are the cakes that Melissa liked and sent me for inspiration.

 

     

 

She wants it black forest, 1 tier, nursery colors (blue, green, brown), with a mama turtle and baby turtle, and her sons name on it.  She;s given me reign to play with the design, which is good since I've never done this before. 

 

EXCITED!!!!!!!!!