Gordon and Yvonne: July 2007

Saturday, July 14, 2007

cake #1

[y] for a few months now, i've been watching the martha stewart show and it has inspired me to make all sorts of things...cards, sweet potatos fries, cupcakes, turkey burgers, and cakes! through my many trips to michaels and hobby lobby to buy card-making things, i stumbled upon the cake-making aisle and saw a posting for wilton cake decorating classes. i think i'm going to try to take the september class, but until then, i thought i'd give it a shot without any formal training. well below is the finished result (2-tiered caramel flavored cake with vanilla buttercream icing)...

yeah, it didn't turn out very well. i was too embarrassed about the finished result that i didn't bring it to the birthday party the next day...so gordon and i will end up eating it all. i think my icing was too soft so none of the stars held their shape. my friend, sandy, bought me a set of wilton icing tips off of my wedding registry so i had some fun experimenting with the tips...

anyways, hopefully i'll improve and maybe go into the cake-making business after having kids =)

Friday, July 13, 2007

arg. . .

So lately I've been suffering with bouts of insomnia. Does anyone have any cures without taking Ambien? And does that stuff really work? Those Lunesta commercials are popular as well. Not sure what the problem is, but all my problems usually boil down to stress.

Just this week, I had a sty in my eyelid. Stupid me, I didn't know what it was and I think I irritated it yesterday and I woke up with a swollen eye. Now, all this morning I've been leaning my head so the sty won't rub against my eye and really irritate it. Which I think will lead to a sore neck. So now, I've taped it shut. I wanted to take a picture of it, but alas, I can't use my eye. Stress is bad.

I haven't updated in awhile cause frankly, I've been caught up in writing papers and reading. I decided yesterday with Yvonne's gentle rebuke that I need to limit my television watching. So, for the rest of the summer, I'll just limit it to Kyle XY, So You Think You Can Dance, and Big Brother. I've also been keeping up with Pirate Master, but I don't think it's been worth it. Game play has been sorely lacking.

Sorry to all of my flickr contacts. Yahoo Photos is closing and I decided to go with Flickr. It took a full week for them to finish transferring everything over. But they're all, and I mean ALL there. I upload everything, and not only my best shots. I use it as my storage.

Let's also take some time for some congratulations since I uploaded my pics:

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