Perfectly Imperfect

A while back I said that I wanted to make Avenger themed cookies.

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1. I'm so tired. I love my job, but nearly nine hours where I only sit down once is kind of exhausting. On the plus side, bosslady said that once they've trained me more on baking, she might start having me come in on Mondays--we're closed Sunday and Monday--to do some of the baking stuff for the next day. Rachel--who does 95% of the baking--and I are both super okay with this plan.

2. I made gluten free banana muffins from scratch. They are delicious, but a good example of why you shouldn't let your bananas get too ripe when you're baking with them, because there's the slightest bitter aftertaste to them. Sadness.

3. I got my hair cut. Walked in and told my hair person I didn't care what she did, I just wanted it different. That was apparently a good decision. I'm probably going to go in and splurge to get my hair professionally colored (which I've never done before) now that I have my first paycheck and I'm probably going to give Meredith free range on that too.

4. I'm never going to stop thinking that there needs to be a mandatory size for cupcakes on Cupcake Wars, because it always feels like cheating when they have people on there who make the mini cupcakes. How is that fair? They don't have to make as much batter or frosting, so they automatically have an advantage. Boo on that.

5. rispacooper, dlasta, and I need someone to write us a Cougar/Jensen/Garcia Criminal Minds/Losers fic. I'm tempted to try to write it myself, but I can barely work up any energy to work on the fics I'm already committed to writing. Who wants to be my hero?

I got home from Nashville about midday on Saturday, ended up getting a call from a woman I know through church about a locally owned bakery/deli that was looking for help, spoke with the owner and put in an application that afternoon, got a call back earlier today, and I start at 9am tomorrow! :D

I've spent the last couple days catching up on sleep from my trip to Nashville--LOVED it, especially when we stumbled into the east side, found a great little pub that gave us tips on where to go, and got to take a tour of a local artisan chocolateer place that said they'd sell me cocoa beans and cocoa butter at cost if I ever decide to try making my own chocolate so that I wouldn't have to spend the money to buy in bulk--and falling in love with the show Teen Wolf, but regular LJing, including answering all those comments I'm backlogged on and Daily Drabbles, will resume tomorrow afternoon after I get home from my first day of training at MY NEW JOB!

I'M SO EXCITED!!! :D

I spent my Valentine's Day baking and drinking wine, because I'm single and that's how I roll. Let's break it down, shall we?


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1. Mom fell off a horse on Sunday and while we thought she was okay, after a second trip to the doctor's it turns out she has four broken ribs and fluids pooling where they're not supposed to be. She's on meds now and we've finally managed to convince her to stay off the elliptical--she walked for about an hour yesterday and I wanted to shake her, except that probably would have hurt her more--so as long she stops doing stupid things and lets herself rest, she should be fine. Dad's been out of town, so I've been doing pretty much everything around the house while simultaneously trying to force her to relax.

2. I was commissioned to make a couple cakes. One was a cheesecake, which I was paid for, and the other was a chocolate cake with maple frosting, which I was mostly not. (They didn't technically pay for the cake itself, but the people I made it for were choir kids and I have a donation jar that I put out when I feed them--which is 2-3 times a week--and they pretty much pay for most of my baking experiments at this point.)


( First time doing a basketweave. Weeeeeeeee! )

3. I was distracted by Michael Fassbender's thighs and Tom Hardy's...well, pretty much his everything.

 

1. I put in for a baking job this afternoon at a bakery cafe place. I can't even tell you guys how much I want this job. I'd be willing to take a cashier position at the place and spend my off time helping out in the kitchen for free. Maybe I should have put that on the application. Fuck, I really want this job.

2. I'm doing the wedding cakes for one of my best/oldest friends this spring. Unfortunately, her fiance isn't a big cake person and wants a cheesecake for his groom's cake. I can't stand cheesecake most of the time, so I don't even really know where to start. He wants something super plain and not too sweet, so please let me know if anyone has any suggestions.

3. topetine had an idea for a Stargate Atlantis AU where John Sheppard is pretty much the wild man of the Pegasus galaxy and Rodney stumbles across his planet by accident and falls in instant lust/love/knee-weakening-man-crush with him. There's a chance I might try to write it Harlequin romance novel style. (She gave her blessing. Although she doesn't know about my Harlequin designs on it yet.) 


Side note? I really like this icon and should use it more often.

Guess who got a super nice KitchenAid mixer complete with paddle, whisk, and dough hook thingy today for $45?

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME, Y'ALL.

(Okay, so it's leaking grease a little bit, BUT the internet says that's a common problem that's easily fixed and youtube has a video that walks you through the entire thing. I still win.)