May 14, 2007

• Randomness...
  

  * First of all - Happy Mothers Day to all of you mothers - and more specifically MINE.   Don't have any recent pictures of just the two of us, and quite honestly am too lazy to go find and scan in an old one - so this one of 'the girls' taken at Easter will have to suffice...[gee it's a shame we don't look alike or anything...]
  I love you mom.

  

  * In addition to adding to her willow tree figurine collection this year, I decided to go all out on a cake for her - had it all planned out in my head...
  It was to be a lovely three tiered concoction of chocolate and white cake, with pink frosting and brown dots piped on it for decoration.
  Let's just say that it didn't turn out quite as I had planned...
  My first mistake was that I used too much of the pink food coloring in the icing, so instead of the pretty pastel-ey pink that I had planned, it was more like NEON pink.  Ugh.
  Not having enough time to make more icing, I decided to go ahead with the neon pink and just cover it up with more brown dots than I had originally planned.    Improvisation at it's finest really. 
  I proceeded to put my three layers together and to ice them with the florescent pink - and ran into another snag since I kept getting those awful chocolate crumbs mixed all in with it - totally messing with my nice pink look.
  I finally got that under control, and proceeded to the brown polka dots.  After the first few dots were on, I realized that my brown wasn't dark enough to offset the pink AND I may not have enough icing to do the dots as closely together as I started.
  At this point I am almost crying I was laughing so hard at myself. 
  I'm not kidding folks - this was going to potentially be the ugliest cake I have ever made.
  I persevered however, and finished with the dots - barely squeezing the last few out, since I had cut it so close with the amount of brown tinted icing...
  The end result was not nearly as bad as I had thought - but it was still pretty bad.  This picture really doesn't do the ugliness justice.

  
  
  * Enough of that - here is a random picture of me and my friend Susie from work - I was getting ready to leave work yesterday and knew that I wasn't going to be seeing her for a while - so I pulled out the camera and made her take a picture with me...she wasn't too thrilled at the idea, but I think it turned out pretty good...I love my Susie.  She makes work a better place for me to be.

  

  * T- minus 9 hours and counting until my surgery.  I am off to get some laundry done and to get some rest.
  I'm scared....

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