I did it again.

There needs to be a breathalyzer test before you go into the forums....


...dammit man.

Five more hours at the bakery, then I'm off from there until NEXT Monday. My parents and my sister Digoree should be here Thursday or Friday. I'm so excited to see them! It's been a whole year!

In other news, I'm glad NN seems to have a sense of humor and didn't kick my ass for drunken forum posts. =)

Today.... was crazy. Busy as fuck at the bakery. I knew it was going to be a bitch of a day, so as soon as I got the coffee going and fed the cats at the shop, I high-tailed it over to cake world.

40 orders. Three decorators. I counted... I did 20 out of 40. Including 3 very pain in the ass cakes. A 3-D train, a two tier fondant covered cake, and a full sheet (about 3 foot by 1.5 feet) that was uber special. I busted my ass so hard, by the end of the night, my right hand was cramping so bad I had to sit down with an ice-pack on it for an hour just to finish the last 3 orders. I couldn't even HOLD an icing bag, much less squeeze it. It's still bugging me, I can't move my wrist in certain motions, or it cramps up again. >.< Still... 20 cakes in 8 hours... not bad.

Oh, what's that? You wanted to see some pics of them? Damn...and I forgot my camera....












NOT!


It's not great, but I wasn't totally displeased with how it turned out.




This was for our local chapter of Vietnam Veterans Association. I know it don't LOOK that big, but making all those roses KILLED my hands.



This is, admittedly, my best fondant work to date.

I don't brag about much, as really..well...wtf do I have to brag about?

But today...!!!! We're prepping for a huge busy weekend, I'm looking at a 3-D train cake AND a two tier fondant covered cake tomorrow.. not even including the other 31 cake/cupcake/cookie orders. So I took advantage of our friend Ruben picking Dum up at the shop, and stayed till 7pm tonight.

Get all of Friday's orders finished, the other 2 decorators leave, I make the cupcake monsters, and around 6 dozen decorated cookies.. then, with a 1/2 hour left, I look and see what we got for generics (the cakes we keep in the case for custos to pick out and we write on) and OMG...there's only TWO 1/4 sheet cakes?!?!?!

Okay, so... game on. The only two cakes we have in the freezer is a yellow dough, and a marble (yellow dough and chocolate swirled together). I pull out 2 white dough 1/4 sheets, and 2 chocolate....

Motherfuckin-BOOM-di-adada....I broke my record. Seriously.

4 1/4 sheet cakes (9"x12" pulled, cut, iced, decorated, and packaged for the freezer.. in....GET THIS..... 22 MINUTES!!!


That works out to be Five and a half minutes PER CAKE!

....Yea..... I fuckin rock. And today I know it... =)

YouTube has ruined blogs. Where people used to write, now they post songs. Which would be fantastic, if I wanted to listen to music. But I generally do my blog rounds 1st thing in the morning as I'm having my morning coffee and gearing up for the day.

So. Quasi-Blog-Strike is a go!

=P

Happy Anniversary to my best friend, my lover, my boss, and my occasional cause of migraines.

Four years ago today, I met you in the parking lot of Poggy and Mrs.Bitch's apartment, and knew after our first kiss I'd want you in my life forever.

I love you Dummy, thank you for loving me like no one ever has.

there's enough sadness and tears around today.. I might as well tell you.

I can't have children. Well..I suppose I can, but I can't carry them to term.

I have what called a deviated uterus... much like a deviated septum, but in your lady parts. I have a 4% chance of carrying a pregnancy to term....which is why I've prolly been so anti-kid. Never gonna happen..so why even dream??

I've lost two pregnancy's before I found out the truth. My first, I blogged about. My twins. This last time... I had to argue with myself about tellin Dum.. as he has been animate about not having children.... I was pregnant....then.. I wasn't. Whatever life was inside me has passed.

It must be ordained by some higher being... I love my Dum with all my heart. He's who I want for the rest of my life... so I guess the Gods payed attention..and knew he never wanted children. That's why I'm with him...

Mother or not, I still cry about my babies.... I would have liked to meet them all.....

I mean really... having dreams about NN'ers is usually pretty fun. Sexy fun, or goofy fun, but FUN!

Last night I dreamed about NN, but not any one member.. I had a fuckin MOD dream. LMFAO! I dreamed I logged on, and NN had instituted a new feature for mods. Up where It tells you about PM's and nudles, there was also flashing alerts labeled: Pic alert: 43, Fake alert: 189, Chat mod needed: 15, Panty seller: 92. They kept flashing and flashing.

O.o And NN had made it so we couldn't do ANYTHING on the site till all alerts were taken care of. It was a nightmare! I just wanted to read blogs, and every time I got all the alerts taken care of, there was 50 more waiting..

Gahhhh /me shakes her fist at NN

He posted something in GD about remembering 9-11, and I went to comment.. but my comment became a post, and well.. figured it's better here:

Funny, I came to lurk on forums to get away from all the 9-11 shows on TV. Even after 10 years I get too emotional watching them.

My ex and I were woken up that morning by our neighbor, banging on our door and telling us we were under attack. This was just after the first tower was struck. We were awake and watching the news to see the second plane hit. I immediately called my dad-doo, a career Air Force man and asked him what was going on, were we at war, were we going to get bombed... Like he had a direct link to the government and would know.

Living so close to so many major military facilities.. these are valid questions. Even if we were 1,000 miles away from NYC. He told me amazing amounts of things he only THOUGHT were true, but found out later to be totally the truth.

I didn't lose anyone in my life.. But sometimes I think the sheer immersion we had into every detail of that day and the days that followed.. can't be good. Like I said, I can't watch the videos from that day... it just brings up being scared, disgusted, afraid for my country, agonized by the loss of life, and amazed at what NYC as a city, and we as a country did during the days following.

I've never seen this country as united as it was the weeks after that day.. it would be nice if we could do so again without the sheer tragedy.

Sorry for the rant. Guess I just needed to let it out.

::::::This is where I'd ask where you were, and what you felt, on 9-11-01. But I'd prefer if you did, you also posted on Sloppy Joe's thread in General Discussion Thread.

*hugs to you all*

I have to go silent on that previous issue I blogged about. Guests and any other members can read blogs... so you never know who's watching.

*Waves to the cockpuke*

In other news... I finally got around to using the giftcard my brother sent me for X-mas last year. I was waiting for a decent sale. And BOY did I find one! Got a 10.0 MP digital camera (not the slr I want, but deffo can't afford that) AND a laptop cooler. Now it's just waiting waiting waiting for it to show up.

I guess dummy got tired of hearing me bitch about my keyboard being busted, so after speaking to one of my many tech-guru's on here, and finding out how easy it is to replace a keyboard on a laptop, dummy let me order a new one. It shipped this morning so hopefully by wednesday of next week I'll have a brand new keyboard, complete with backspace key! Woot for new stuff!