Cakes Galore! There have been two Birthday's this month, and I made cakes for both, they're complete opposites from eachother, but I was pretty happy with the results! The Zombie Cake is chocolate fudge with peanut butter chips and chocolate chips topped with peanut butter cream cheese frosting. The Sweet Pea Cake is lemon cake with raspberry filling and Vanilla Buttercream
I want a cute little house with lots of gardens and pretty trees. i do i do i do. we looked at houses yesterday, but i dont think we'll be buying one any time soon :(
valentines day was amazing. by far the best i've ever had. . i love my life. . that being said, i'm working 50 hours this week, only one day off which is NOT with rick. ughhhh. i was getting used to having three days off a week haha. damn. this is how the summer is going to be, i better get used to it now. :( money is good though. . i got employee of the month :) i get presents from chef for it today. . i joined a livejournal book club, i want us to start the new book, like now. though i'd actually like to finish The Great and Secret Show first, and i did just buy the next book of that series......
i'm currently (and obsessively) reading The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker. Techincally he's a scifi/horror writer, which generally isn't my deal, but this book is great. it was suggested by a character from my past, but a character who none the less has always been right in suggesting amazing reading material. there are two points i want to make here, and my mind is splitting them both into rants, i'll try and keep them coherent and seperate. #1. Do amazing writers get agrivated when much less skilled persons review (and even more so if it's a negative review) their books?? i read two negative revies of The Great and Secret Show both by people who merely didnt understand it and didnt have the ability to follow it. i dont view the writing style as complicated, but i tend to choose books that are a litterary challenge. if i was a writer i think this would drive me crazy. or maybe people like Barker are aware that they are far suppirior to their critics and thus dont let it bother them..... #2. it's odd to think back on the people you've known, especially the people who have made an impact on your life, who you are no longer in contact with. many i veiw as merely characters in a an ongoing story. i've known so many excentric people, it seems their lives should live in stories; among those stories, mine.
in other news, rick and i are heading to portland in the morning. we're staying at a nice hotel and having dinner at a really nice japanese restaraunt. we've both been craving japanese these past few weeks, so it seemed an obvious choice. i'm really excited :) i'm surprised we both managed to get a holiday off, that's unheard of at the samo. i'm sure we'll make the best of it and have a romantic time enjoying eachother. i never thought things could be perfect, i always thought that any relationship needed to be worked on and an effort (on both parts) needed to be put forth; thus that nothing perfect exsisted, especially in love. i was wrong, very very wrong.
my mom is attempting to cotact me. i have mixed feelings about this.
