It's the little things...

Hey Friend, thanks for coming over and keeping my company while I was doing this cake. Not sure if you know it or not, but your friendship means the world to me. I love that we both do the cake thing and that we like silly, stupid, sappy movies (even when Roommate doesn't). And thank you for the little note...I had a big ole grin on my face when I found it.

Also, want to say thank you Boss for giving me all the great tips on working with fondant. I have a long way to go to get to your level (your cakes are stunningly amazing and breathtaking), but I think I did pretty well on my first real fondant attempt. I love doing the cakes, just don't really do it all that much. It also give me a chance to work with flowers for the cake. Holy hell, I love flowers and since no one ever gives me flowers...I'll just content myself with using them for decoration.



So, I guess this is a "hey, look at me and what I can do" as well as a "thank you" post. I have some of the greatest family, friends and co-workers that anyone could ask for!

Not necessarily a "Monday Mourning"

Yeah, here is it, Monday again. In general, I loathe Monday's...but not always...just usually. Today though, Monday is feeling a bit different. Nothing is really out of the ordinary, good or bad. In fact, there is snow on the ground, and that alone should have me in a horrid mood, but it doesn't. I have a bit of a headache, which is usually a bad thing too, but not so bugged by it today. Wish I could pinpoint the X factor here and clone it on every Monday. Could it be that I found a new cake decorating site (see it here)? Maybe...

Today is seeming pretty random in that fact, I'm in a oddly good mood for a Monday. Chuck is still alive (in case anyone was wondering). Although, I think he's due for a good aquarium cleaning, a very good cleaning actually.

Maybe it's optimism for spring to come sometime soon. So many things to look forward to when the weather is better...ultimate frisbee, roller blading, hiking (I will spend more time outdoors this spring/summer), etc. Yeah, maybe that's it...

Roommate and I had friends over for our weekly Sunday dinner/movie night last night. We have a very interesting and eclectic group of friends. I like that, not having a group of carbon copies doing and thinking the exact same things. I even made it through the night without killing Roommate for his need to correct everything I did in the kitchen. So when you read this Roommate...you may be the expert on frisbee, finances, computer stuff...but in the kitchen...you're not...so there! I still love your guts though...and imagine I always will.

We watched Twilight last night. I'd seen it before and think there were a few areas it could have been better, more like the book. But honestly, I did like it. As for a book to movie, it did pretty good at staying true to the story, unlike some books to movie, such as The DaVinci Code. Sorry Tom Hanks...you're just no Robert Langdon. I completely understand the need to sometimes change, add or remove elements from the book to make it into a movie format. But why change the major plot points of the book, when they would have fit into the movie beautifully...why? I'm not looking forward to Angels & Demons being made into a movie.

Movies I am looking forward to though...

1. Star Trek
2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
3. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
4. Terminator Salvation
5. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

So, take your pick...or maybe it's me that should take my pick...anyhow, for some god-only-knows-why reason...I'm having a great Monday!

Someone needs to get fired over this....

So here it is, March 26, 2009...6 days after the official start of spring. And where is spring you ask? My answer, who the hell knows?!?

The picture is the same tulips from my "Things that make me smile" list from a couple of days ago. Look at the poor little things, all covered in snow. On Sunday, the tulips were all open and star-shaped...and now, they're all back into a tight little bud, probably freezing their little tulip-y testicles and ovaries off! So...Mother Nature, Old Man Winter...please, get your shit together! And do it now...it needs to be warm (like 70 degrees last Saturday). And let's not have the usual Utah bull-shit of months of winter, a week of spring and then just jump into a ball-bustin' summer. Okay? I really don't think that's too much to ask. Let's just have a nice leisurly beautiful spring for like 3 or 4 months.

Things that make me smile...

So I'll admit it, I'm a bitter and jaded bitch at times. A lot of times according to Roommate, but he's allowed to have his opinion, even if it is always usually wrong. And yeah, it came out BIG time in my post yesterday. So, to balance it out...here are some things that make me happy as of today (in no particular order). So, onto the making me smile....

March 24, 2009 Edition

1. Yoga (especially Thursday)

2. Battlestar Galactica (I know it was on my last list...but I've been watching the latter half of season 4...and it's making me smile again, dammit!)

3. Sunday night dinner with friends

4. Kelly Clarkson's new album



5. If You Seek Amy ~Britney Spears

6. C.J. Cregg as the new kick-ass White House Chief of Staff (thank god for the West Wing on DVD!)

7. Garfield

8. Spring (when it finally does get here)

9. Tulips (at least I think they are tulips) in my front yard



10. Eliza Dushku and Dollhouse

Monday Mournings

It's been awhile since I've let loose on a bitch fest, and since I'm in a bit of a mood tonight, I thought I'd bring it back for one more go around.

I could have just as easily called this post "why bother" but since it is Monday...I'll stick with what I've got up there.

I've recently had a few experiences with people that have left me somewhat bewildered and shaking my head. I've been single for a very, very long time. And most of the time, I'm pretty okay with it. I've got some of the most amazing friends in the world. A roommate that I could happily spend the rest of my life living with (it's like we married...the no sex part and everything). And I have a family that I love more than anything, even though they drive me pretty much bonkers at all times.

But there are times that I start to want that something more that you find in a companion of a romantic nature. So occasionally, I reach out and test the waters. For there being a lot of fish in the sea, I don't ever seem to find any that are biting. I'll admit I'm not the best when it comes to telling someone I'm not particularly intersted, but it is something I am trying to be better at when it does become necessary. But why, oh why, do people have such a hard time with it. Why do they feel the need to say "yeah, sure, I'd love to get together again" but actually have not intention of it. Is it just me, or would most people rather a quick slap in the face of "I'm just not interested in you in that way (or any way)" instead of a long slow drawn out hacking off of a limb with a butter knife?

Yeah, I told you I was in a bit of a mood. People are really just getting to me again. In the dating/relationship area in particular. Here are a couple of recent examples....

"I'm sorry, I'm just not ready to date yet" (then they are all but "married" two days later)

"You are such a sweet guy, a nice guy, but..." (I f*ing hate the "but")!

Yeah, there are more, but I think I'm looking pathetic enough as is....

I know, I'll be over this self-pity thing in a day or two, but I guess I just needed to unload a bit. Maybe some of the assholes involved in the above situations will come across this and realize that people are affected by your fuck-headedness...guess I have a bit of the ole passive-agressiveness peaking out tonight...sorry...but not really!

Oh ye of no self-control

ME: I can't stop eating these M&M's!

INEFFABLE: Maybe it's because you bought them and so you feel entitled?

ME: Why did you let them buy ME?!?

INEFFABLE: I'm pretty sure you've lost it.

Getting there, inch by inch...

"Well Princess, it's about damn time you made it to yoga!" Princess has been sick for what I would conservatively call, forever, and has been unable to make it to yoga. Something about needing to be able to breath or something. I don't know, it's not just you Princess, but lately, I think I hear like every third word just about anyone says...

"Blah blah yoga blah blah dying blah blah need to breath blah blah

Anyhow, I'm happy you're back. If you don't know, I love the time I do get to spend with you, even if it is relatively little time and it's usually when we both have our bodies twisted into what could generously be called a demented pretzle.

So yeah, been doing pretty good on making it to yoga. And holy hell! I'm seeing improvements. Mostly pretty small ones, but enough to see them. I talked about this with Thursday last week at after the class she taught. I still have shitty balance most of the time, but, if I topple over one less time every third class, I'm happy.

Went to Monday's class last night. And maybe it's because she buttered me up before class by complimenting me on my yoga mat (which I love btw...) But it was a great class last night. Maybe it's just me, but I felt like she went through a lot more poses, and yes, there was some repetition, but there was a lot more variation in it as well. And she also added my most favorite pose of all time (even though I can only sometimes do it), crow. And not only did we do it once, but she had us do it twice!!!

God, I love feeling something of a sense of accomplishment in some aspect of my usually lazy-ass life!