Paintings

Painting has become one of my favorite hobbies over the past few weeks. Here's a few of the projects I've completed.

Cake Decorating Course 1

Here's my first cake (it was lesson 2).  I really like how it turned out, and would probably be willing to do something similar for a little boy's birthday or something.  It's really easy to do a cake like that with any sort of shapes (balloons, hearts, polka dots, etc.)

 and any colors.

This is from lesson 3.  We were doing drop flowers.  I don't really like this one very much. I wasn't planning on it being neon-pink, but I got impatient with the color, and added too much at once.  I hate the way the green stems and stuff turned out.  Our green icing was too thin, and I was in a rush to get to work.  So, this is my least favorite of the cakes I've done.

This is my cake from today's class. The cake is iced in light purple, and i used light yellow to make my roses (this should be a familiar color scheme for anyone who has been in my room).  I'm really excited to eat this one too, cause it's a yellow cake with a chocolate fudge filling.  YUMM!!!!

Here's a close-up of the roses I made.  These were tricky to get the hang of, especially because my icing was too thin, so they kept leaning all over the place and sometimes collapsing.  I'm looking forward to trying again sometime with the right icing consistency.  I think I could be pretty good at it.  So, if anyone needs a cake for anything and wants roses on it (and it's not for some huge-deal event), let me know!

Here are pictures of the cakes my mom did!  The rose cake has 4 layers of cake and 3 layers of filling!! Want to come over for dessert?

I appreciate knowing that people read my blog even when I abandon it for long periods of time.  Keep checking up and maybe I'll talk about something amazing and/or worthwhile =)

This is what Toby looks like these days:

Life is currently really awesome.  I'm having a lot of fun, and I feel like I have a whole world of opportunity in front of me.  I graduated college with my degree in Human Development.  I'm working a lot to save up money, preparing to take the GRE, re-learning the Spanish language, doing lots of paintings, making jewelry, and reading lots of books.  Life is just fine.  I love it. =)

Oh, and I had a lot of fun tonight.  I have a really good family.  I'm glad that now, as adults, I can be good friends with my siblings, and I really appreciate them in my life. ::End Mushy Display of Emotion::

Recent Creations

Tonight was very difficult.

Tonight, I had a conversation during which I found out many things I hoped for in my future are no longer possibilities.  I learned that things I still wanted dearly to happen, I have been wishing for alone.

It made me realize how horrible it feels to lose the hope and possibility for a certain dream to come true. The one bit of my future that I felt like I still had a bit of a grasp on is now just as blank as every other part.

I don't really know what to do from here.  I miss him terribly.  My heart hurts knowing that, this time, missing him isn't going to end in having him again, but will only end when the empty spot in my heart he used to fill is no longer there, no longer waiting for him to return to it.

This pretty much hurts worse than anything I've ever felt before, and I don't really know how to handle it.

It's funny because it's ...

Dear Tech support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5 and then installed undesirable programs such as NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf Clubs 4.1. Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. I’ve tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.

What can I do?

Signed,
Desperate.

**************

DEAR DESPERATE,

First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system. Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme.html and try to download Tears 6.2 and don’t forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

But remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1. Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Snoring Loudly Beta.

Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.) Also do not attempt to reinstall Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Cooking 3.0 and Hot Lingerie 7.7.

Good Luck,
Tech Support

Source: Amy

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Final Finals.

This week marks my last time taking finals in my undergraduate education.  I'm pretty sure I'm not taking any classes next quarter besides my internships, so it seems like I won't have to take any more finals!  This excites me more than can be contained by this blog.  =)

I've taken two finals so far.  In my Philosophy of Scientific Reasoning, I finished the final in roughly 13 minutes, and I feel pretty good about it.  In my Social and Personality Development class, I finished in about 25 minutes, and I've already found out that I got an A.  We'll see how that makes my final course grade turn out, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for an A.  I think I got one point below an A on my midterm, and did pretty well on a paper.  That teacher looks at everyone's total scores before scaling grades, so I can't really be sure how that will turn out.

I only have one final to go, and I'm not too concerned about it.  It's in my Public Speech class.  I'll study some today and a little tomorrow before I go take the test tomorrow evening.

Yay!! So done with this stuff.  I'm excited for my internships, and I'm also excited to start my new job tomorrow morning!!