I HEART Starbucks

Cup #76

"The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating - in work, in play, in love. the act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. to commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life."

Anne Morris

What a lovely sentiment on a cup filled with my favorite beverage.

Ambition

Her: Hey mom, when I grow up, I'm going to make Kung Fu fighting Peeps.
Me: That's great honey.

Yay! Time to order COOKIES!! This is Cabbage Patch's first year to sell cookies! Super Girl is very excited and has set a goal of selling 250 boxes this year, last year she exceeded her goal of 200 boxes thanks to you guys! (remember the money the troop earns from the cookie sales goes to help fund activities for the troop.)

This year there are new cookies - Dulce De Leche. And of course all the old favorites. And still just $3.50 a box. Here are the varieties to choose from:

Lemon Chalet Creams - Tasty Lemon sandwich cookies
Trefoils - shortbread cookie
Do-Si-Dos - crisp oatmeal cookies with creamy peanut butter filling
Samoas - vanilla cookies, covered with caramel, rolled in toasted coconut, and striped with chocolate.
Sugar Free Chocolate Chips (NEW!))
Tagalongs (my personal favorite) Tasty cookies topped with creamy peanut butter and covered with chocolate.
Thin Mints (who doesn't love these?!?!?!)
Dulce De Leche (NEW!!!) Inspired by the classic confections of Latin America, these sweet, indulgent cookies are rich with milk caramel chips and stripes

Again this year the Girl Scouts are offering the Troop to Troop option, as in the Girl Scout Troop will send cookies to the military troops. If you'd like to do this, please let me know as payment for those orders is due right away (the cookies are shipped directly from the bakery to the military).

Let me know what you'd like to order! (feel free to pass along my info to anyone you know who would like cookies.)

Hugs!
Judy

*note - if you are one of the few people who won't order unless one of the girls calls you personally, email me back with your phone number and a good time for one of them to call and give you their schpeel.

January: Blustery Winds, Cold Rain

Kitties

Told You There Would Be Photos

Wedding Cakes.

Happy New Year

Wow, it's been a while since I posted. Life has been busy to say the least. I'll fast forward to the holidays just to save time and skip over all the depressing, boring crap (save it for a therapist).

The Tiny Terrorist Invade Disneyland.

This year my dear sister D took my offspring to California for their winter break from school. The entire break. (Yes she is somewhat crazy) Meaning the progeny spent Hanukkah and New Years Eve at Disney. They also went to the beach, saw the Walk of Fame, put their little hands and feet in prints around Mann's Chinese Theater, saw Miley Cyrus (gag) getting in/out of her limo twice, saw the Hollywood sign, got to fly first class part of the trip and just had the best damn time two kids could have for nearly two weeks and still want to come home to their mother. The Tiny Terrorists are so damn lucky to have an aunt who adores them so much. I am lucky my sister is so good to my girls and is someone I can trust with my kids.

D sent me photos just about every day of their adventures (of which there were many) and I can't wait to sit with her and look at them all.

So that freed me up to... WORK! and do lots of it! I did have time to spend a night of Hanukkah with Sarge and his boys. We made an awesome dinner, opened pressies, watched a movie and had awesome chocolate cheesecake. It was probably the best Hanukkah I've had in many years. And then I worked more! My manager took 4 days off after Christmas starting with the Saturday after Christmas, leaving me, the Assistant Bakery Manager, in charge. yikes. I managed to not burn down the bakery. But it wasn't easy! New Year's Eve was again one of the best one's I've had in years. Quiet, low key, dinner, games, movie with Sarge and his boys.

2008 has been a really weird year. The end of the year being so much better than the middle of the year. I'm hoping that the good stuff is a trend that will continue through 2009. And for you too, may 2009 be a really weird, wonderful year!

I'll post photos of cake and stuff tomorrow - promise!

Cakes

Cakes from October.

























Nothing really to write. Not happy anyway. Just cake.

Halloween Decor



The Tiny Terrorists and I just finished this. I love it!

CAKE! The Wedding Edition

I've been doing a LOT of wedding cakes recently.

I really love this cake. It's a really small cake for a small wedding.
Ah this cake. A total disaster. It looks fine, but by the time they picked it up 6 hours late, it was not so great. Heat and humidity are the enemy of wedding cakes. Many of the leaves had fallen off the cake and the icing was separating from the cake, it was horrible. I wasn't there when the cake was picked up (they were 6 hours late) but I have photos sent to me by the person who picked it up. I can't get them to upload for some reason.
Laura's cake. This wedding actually took place the Saturday that Ike hit so it was HORRIBLY humid. The cake was to be picked up on Friday before the wedding and transported a good 90 minutes away. I was so very freaked out by the wedding cake from the weekend before that I begged the person picking up to come back in the morning and get the cake when it was completely frozen. I knew that otherwise the cake would be a complete disaster when it arrived because the person picking up didn't have great air conditioning in his car. Luckily he understood.
This photo didn't come out good at all.
I thought I would hate this cake when it was ordered. Then I actually made it.
And loved it.
This cake is set up on three stands so they near each other but not on top. It is absolutely beautiful.

I have three wedding cakes for this Saturday so.... more photos to come.

Moving on...
I've taken the next steps to becoming a Crazy Cat lady. I adopted two new kittens. Actually one is mine and the other is D's.

The black and white one is mine and her name is Spot. The ragdoll is D's kitty, her name is Fideaux.

This is Sunshine on the first day she accepted the intrusion of the kittens in her life. It took a couple of weeks but she finally stopped hissing and swatting them.

Fideaux's name is actually Fearless Fideaux because she has BIG BRASS BALLS. From the moment she got here she was climbing everything and into whatever she could. Unlike Spot who spent 6 hours straight sitting in her kitty cave because she was afraid of everything. Fideaux even went so far as to pounce on Sunshine which of course pissed off Sunshine and cause her to hiss and smack. Didn't faze her a bit. Now Sunshine has accepted her role as adopted mother and will groom the kittens. Fideaux loves it but Spot is still scared of Sunshine so she cowers when it's bath time. lol!

Anyway, they are little shitheads who get into everything and climb whatever they can get their claws into. Luckily they are super sweet and amazingly cute, which means I haven't killed them yet.

The Cake Returns

I have so much to write about. So very much. Just... blah. Here's some cake for you though.