Cake = Happiness

Even though I'm strapped for time these days, it makes me so happy to be able to make a cake for someone because I can take my mind completely off of school for a while. That probably isn't a good thing, because I have so much to do, but it's so nice, I just need a break to do something fun every now and then. So today was a baby shower for my old boss at Colby Jack Cafe & Bakery and I got to make her cake. It was so fun and she loved it so much! Everyone at the party loved it! It was lemon cake with lemon cream filling and a light lemon icing and marshmallow fondant. Here's a close-up of the cupcakes


Here's my cake and the cupcakes on the gift table.


Here's me and Natalie, my old boss, she was thrilled when she saw this cake.


I don't know why but I love making these pregnant cakes! They are my favorite and if I could choose to only make one type of cake the rest of my life it would be these, not sure why, but they're so much fun!
Here are a couple from the past:




The green one was for my neighbor's daughter Stacy (February 2009), and the purple polka dot one was for my best friend Hayley (November 2008). The design has slowly started to improve...

Who Knew?

So it's been a very crazy couple of weeks. Just non-stop assignments and meetings and more assignments and drama drama DRAMA! But this next week should be pretty good. I'm hoping to actually accomplish something other than the bare minimum in class, I'd like to actually get some assignments finished then be able to get ahead with some other assignments...we'll see if that happens. So part of my extra crazy week involved the fact that we had a community meeting in Arroyo Grande tonight and no matter how hard we tried our class just could not convince our professor how we should conduct this meeting. It turned out much better than I ever would have thought, however, it was not very useful for us since we did not receive much/any feedback from the community. So, maybe someday our professor will actually listen to our ideas and we might actually gain some insight from the community and we might actually get to use the skills we've learned in other classes. Okay bitterness vented, I'm done. More on topic, I taught my first college level course today. What a thrill! Who knew I would be teaching college courses someday...well, I certainly didn't! And I know a lot of other people probably feel the same way, especially my family. I usually hate talking in front of people, but it was so much fun to teach today! It's mainly because of the topic, I'm teaching a computer software to undergrads for the next week and a half. It's a nice break from the usual life I lead. For the first time in my life I actually would consider being a teacher (I absolutely never would have EVER thought I would want or even consider being a teacher). I think it must be because the students are college students, not children or high schoolers. But to become a professor would require a PhD, and I know Brad doesn't want me doing any more school. Oh well, I guess I will stick to my two weeks of teaching. Maybe I can be a community college teacher, do they need PhDs? More options to look into in case the economy continues to suck for planners. But for now I will just go to bed and try to sleep through the annoying chirping coming from one of 4 smoke detectors...which have all been disconnected from batteries and the wall...yet they're still chirping. I have since put one in my car, one back on the ceiling and two are laying on the counter. Hopefully out place doesn't burn down tonight.

November Already!

So October just FLEW by! I can't believe it's already November. I have been going crazy with school and I hardly have time to talk to anyone anymore, but only a few more weeks then I get a break to NYC for a few days for Thanksgiving, then two weeks after that and I get 3 weeks of Christmas break, during which time I hope to get a large portion of my thesis finished.

I thought since I haven't posted in a while I would post our Halloween pictures. Brad's work had a halloween party on Friday and I was invited to come, I was basically Brad's prop for his costume. I made both of our costumes, we dressed as Popeye and Olive Oyl. We ended up winning the "Best Overall" category for the costume contest. So I won a new apron, super cute, it's green and has a spider that says "bite me" I love it!





Then last night we had a few friends over for games and snacks. So there are a couple pictures of decorations I made and the food. I didn't take any pictures during our game playing, but it was fun!