Easy as Pi... or Maybe Cake

A while back I got this great idea to bake my own marble cake. Then I realized that I'd end up having a ton of cake so I put it off. Well this semester I am an administrator for the Humans Vs Zombies game here at USU, and I had this great idea to bring treats to every meeting. Well tonight is our last meeting for the semester before the game starts. And from past knowledge these meetings go really late because we still have a ton to plan. Thus I decided to make the marbled cake.

The cake part turned out great just look at that marbling. It's perfect, anyway.

 The next best part is it's filled with a chocolate icing. (Didn't want to try the gnash without practice first).


So after the epic cake comes the epic decorating. Now as I said this is for the administrators for the game of zombies so please no making fun of me, okay?

Not exactally what I was going for but it ended up good. I was intending on piping a great design on it but I put too much milk in my frosting and then didn't have enough powdered sugar to counteract it. Good thing I'm  inventive though. All that decoration was melted chocolate icing that I applied with a pastry brush.

I'm just pleased the cake didn't end up being a wreck.  Best part of all of this is, I'm semi-self taught. And I just make things up as I go... I think it could end up being a problem some day. But for the time being I'm pleased. Hopefully the people eating it will be pleased too.









Oh I forgot one thing.

My kitchen is being invaded by chocolate leaches.

School... Oh Boy!!

So school is in session...

One sec... I just found a spider in my room... Groodie

So I lost the spider... bad news bears. Now I'm not sure I'll be able to sleep tonight. But hey, the nights I do sleep are few and far between. Most of my sleeping now comes in the early to mid morning hours. Which is bad. I can't sleep mostly because I can't calm down enough to actually sleep, it's got nothing to do with any of the other usual factors (temperature, noise, games, no desire, ect all).

Any way school. At the moment it's a battle of me kicking its butt and then it kicking my butt. Not my preferred method of going through school, trust me it's exhausting. I love where I'm at in school I got just about 3 semesters left, after this one of course. It's just all my classes require an excessive amount of reading and preparing for lectures. Now I'm not going the first person to say that reading textbooks is the single most torture exque activity any one can make me do. Even my favorite text book (for my Plants and Society class) makes me wish I could stab my eyes out with a screwdriver, or maybe a spoon, I think that would hurt more.

Sorry you get to hear my ramblings, I guess that's just what happens when I get on a roll... I just can't stop.

But I have to say I have been the most proactive and organized I have ever been. My planner has stuff to do every day and I have a white board that I keep track of everything I need to do as well. It's way fun... I fill it up twice a week, and if I'm lucky it'll get emptied twice a week. Here's what it looks like today.

And not everything quite fits on there. I feel it's brilliant, I love crossing things off lists. It's one of my weird quirks. Aside from school kicking my butt, life is good. I got great roommates who are some of the most entertaining people I have met. We have great times, like we lost the remote to our TV, within 12 hours of using it. I have no clue how it happened but it did.

So I guess the long and short of it is, life is good; sleeping is hard; school is a pain; and I still have no job. I guess I've got to go work on those.

Peace faithful readers.

Ten years... that's half a life time ago for me.

People talk about 9-11-01 and remembering where you were and what you were doing. But I'd like to pose a different question.


WHAT DID YOU FORGET??


Did you kiss your spouse before you left to work?
Did you call your parents to tell them you love them?
Did you kneel with your family in prayer asking for the Lord's protection for the day?
Did you remember the neighborhood carpool?
Did you skip an important meeting to sleep in?
Did that day bring to your remembrance the things that make your life better?

I'll tell you what I forgot. I forgot my 5th grade parent teacher conference. I forgot what it was like sitting with my mom and having my teacher tell me how good of a student I was. But there was something I remembered. Her name is Florence Wright, she is my Grandmother, She was visiting that day, more like that month. She lives in Maryland, and she didn't want to go home out of fear. But I remembered something very important. That was family, I remembered the love and peace I felt when I was surrounded by them. And although the world was filled with disbelief and fear, I had love in my heart.


SO NOW WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER?

Do you remember the prayer you gave that day to bless the people of NY, DC, and PA?
Do you remember those who fought for their safety?
Do you remember the people who were running into the building while others were running out?
Do you remember how the people of our country rallied together to show ourselves that we were not going to be beaten in such a manner?
Do you remember to forgive those who wronged you for fear that they won't be there tomorrow?

Thinking now I remember I was scared. I remember my teachers parents and grandma were worried, but I was too young to understand what that fateful day meant. But now I do. Having ten years to reflect seems to have helped with how important this event was. 9-11 was the first day of a new type of war. War built on fear and intimidation, but in my eyes that was not what happened that day. Yes there was wide spread terror and an overall feeling of intimidation but there was an excessive amount of love, heroism and American pride and camaraderie that the world had never seen.

Never Forget!