Cake #3

Okay Cake #3 came out okay. The first go around the fondant wasn’t big enough so I had to start over then the second time the fondant tore but I think I managed to cover the boo-boo. What do you think?

Sorry I took the pictures with my phone…

A good start…

November was an awful month for me, really awful. I am hoping that December is a little easier on me and my family. I was checking web cams this morning and found this:

German Christmas! Froelich Weihnachten!

Where am I gonna live, when I get home

So I saw this on another’s blog and thought it was fun. Here is the list of the top 100 places I should live as found by Find your Spot.

Go ahead find yours! If you know mw, can you see me living in any of these places? Maybe I should tack this up on the fridge so for ideas when I relocate…

 

 

Bremerton, Washington
Walla Walla, Washington
St. George, Utah
Moab, Utah (been there, I can’t see this working)
Paris, Tennessee
Morganton, North Carolina
Whidbey Island/Oak Harbor/Coupeville, Washington
Mount Vernon, Washington
Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Guntersville, Alabama
Grand Junction, Colorado (I just don’t think so)
Hickory, North Carolina
Port Townsend, Washington
Sequim, Washington
Ketchikan, Alaska (have you met me???)
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Clarksville, Tennessee
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Tacoma, Washington
Wenatchee, Washington
Oxford, Mississippi
Alexander City, Alabama
Clarksdale, Mississippi
Fredericksburg, Texas

 

is it funny that so many were in Washington State, and none were in the states in which I have already lived?

Thanks-GIVING

So today is thanksgiving,(okay not really I am pre-writing so today is tuesday) and I am going to sit around a table with one of my favorite girls in the whole world (she really is a woman, but to me we will always be girls) . As we enjoy our meal we will laugh and talk about all of the goofy things we did as kids, things we have laughed at a million times. Our stomach will be full of food and rolling with laughter and I will not be able to escape the thought that I am so thankful for the friends and family that I have. In the past six months I have had to do things I never, ever thought that I would have to do, things I never thought I would have the strength to do.

So this year like every year I am thankful for my friends and family, with out you not only would my step have faltered but I never would have found the strength to not only stand back up but also to take that next step. My dear friends and family you have listened to my every word, every angry word, every tearful word, every doubt or fear that came my way was heard. While solutions could not be given, solace always was. So this thanksgiving I thank each and every one of you and hope that I can be as wonderful for you as you have been for me.

 

Tell me the news not the weather…

… oh no reverse that… I need the weather. As most of you read this post I’ll be on the road again traveling north to my little sisters! I have been checking the weather like a stalker for the past 2 weeks, okay maybe 2 and a half weeks, okay so maybe I hunted up the farm3rs almanac (blame my grandfather) a month ago to make sure that my trek across the rockies would be snow free. Thanks to the ultimate weather man, my trip today will be sunny and warm (I may have to roll down a window and crank the tunes of course!). But all this weather and a turkey in my forecast remind me of a post I read on another’s blog last year. I don’t remember who’s or where they got it but I just have to share it with you…

• Thanksgiving Forecast
• Turkeys will thaw in the morning, then warm in the oven to an afternoon high near 190F. The kitchen will turn hot and humid, and if you bother the cook, be ready for a severe squall or cold shoulder.
• During the late afternoon and evening, the cold front of a knife will slice through the turkey, causing an accumulation of one to two inches on plates. Mashed potatoes will drift across one side while cranberry sauce creates slippery spots on the other. Please pass the gravy.
• A weight watch and indigestion warning have been issued for the entire area, with increased stuffiness around the beltway. During the evening, the turkey will diminish and taper off to leftovers, dropping to a low of 34F in the refrigerator.
• Looking ahead to Friday and Saturday, high pressure to eat sandwiches will be established. Flurries of leftovers can be expected both days with a 50 percent chance of scattered soup late in the day. We expect a warming trend where soup develops. By early next week, eating pressure will be low as the only wish left will be the bone.

I’m so excited…

… first of all I have just over 5 hours before I am free for 5 whole days!

Secondly… Does anyone else get excited when they pass out a test or a quiz and realizes that they have no extras, meaning no make up exams must be given? That just happened in one class, it probably won’t happen in the remaining three classes for today but I’ll take what I can get.

BTW, LBB if you still read my blog, you are so helping grade these tests this week! I’ll cook and you can grade papers!

Magic Toilets…

Be prepared people I have shocking news!

While in a budget crisis our school has found the money to install “Magic toilets!” In the last week I have had several students ask to use the restroom and have had them return with an assortment of drinks, Orange Juice, Water, Flavored Water, and Sports drinks must be falling from the bowl as they flush. It further goes to prove how I am an unlucky person, my flushes in the past few weeks have not awarded me with a refreshing drink. I have asked about these magic toilets and not one student can seem to tell me how it is that they asked to use the restroom and have come back with a bottle of one thing or another.

It is starting to peeve me right off. The world of restroom use as these kids know it is quickly coming to an end, come January they will be lucky if they get to leave the room at all!

A little reason…

So often people in my life ask me how it is that I never ever get caught up on grading. I never have what seems like a good reason. So Tuesday as I finished grading all of Mondays work, I decided to snap a picture of how much work is turned into me in one single day.

then on Wednesday we too a test, and I decided that I was going to snap a picture of each days papers so I could show just how much I do. Well I got busy, doing what I’ll never know but here are a few pics from today.

the colored post it notes are dividing the days from each other.

yes folks that is almost 5 inches of graded papers, and only three classes tested this week, imagine when all 5 test!

Like I needed another one…

a hobby, a project. 

For some time I have been addicted to the F00d Network. My favorite shows being the challenges where they make cakes and of course they make it look so easy. They have six hours to crank out a cake for some special occasion. I have thought, that looks like fun, I should do that! So here is my cake story.

 

It all started with a Jell0 cake at Christmas, followed by a Jell0 cake at Easter. (Jesus must love him some Jell0)

 

Then some one asked me to make a birthday cake for a little guy, and of course no sheet cake was going to be good enough so I created this:

I certainly couldn’t stop there so this fall, for a very special little girls 11th birthday came this:

I thought for my very first fondant cake I did pretty well. I bought the fondant and it tasted awful. There was only one soul brave enough to eat all of his fondant, I still hope that there are no long term side effects.

After the beauty of her first birthday cake the birthday girl requested another cake for her sleep over party but she surely didn’t want the icky tasting fondant. So I decided to make my own fondant and six hours later, this is what I got:

so they wouldn’t win a f00d network challenge but I am pretty proud of them. So stay tuned to see if the third time is a charm or a total and utter disaster. (It might be a while before I have another day to devote entirely to baking).

Could there be a llama revolt?

I find myself confused, perplexed and befuddled today. I understand that 2 of my classes took a test today and that I have had quite a few students gone but why are the llamas so quite today?

According to the wetter-channel (that’s what we call it) it currently feels like 72 degrees outside, the sun is shinning and the students are quiet. And HELLO, it is friday! My llamas have been super quiet today, I noticed it after lunch when the bell rang for students to return to class and most of the kids were quiet as they walked to class. Then I noticed that my 5th hour which is my largest and loudest group of llamas was pretty tame. Now 3 hours later, the last class of the day and the loudest noise all hour was the horn we just heard honk.

This is abnormal, we have lest than 10 minutes of the school day left, everyone is working and I haven’t heard hardly a peep about anyones weekend activities. Why are high school students, on a friday, so very very quiet? 

 

Just a side note, I am not complaining about the quiet. Most days I would be going batty with the lack of noise but today it soothes me, maybe it soothes the herd too?