Cupcakes and cakes

I haven't been doing much with my life besides baking. Here's some of what I've been baking.

Emily and I made cupcakes to celebrate San Jose's hockey team, The Sharks. My dad had bought a tube of different sea creature sprinkles and the shark sprinkles happened to be in The Sharks colors. This wasn't so much a coincidence as it was a sign. We made some with just sprinkles and then I decided to try making fins out melted chocolate. That turned out to be a fantastic decision.



They looked fantastic all set up on Emily's cupcake tree.


For Easter (or the day after Easter) I made this cake. When I saw it on a baking blog I thought "Oh my goodness! I'm going to try making a 4 layer cake!" When I finished it, I took a look at the giant tower of cake on my counter and thought "Holy crap... I just made a 4 layer cake..." I named it The Beast. Even after giving a quarter of it to the neighbors, it still left us with a LOT of cake.


It's alternating layers of white and red velvet, with strawberries, and more whipped cream than anyone should have to deal with. It turned out to be delicious.

Absent

My laptop blue screened earlier last month. I was and am still devastated. I hadn't backed up my files for about a month and a half. A MONTH AND A HALF. DO you know how many gigs of stuff I can obtain in a month and a half? A LOT. Like, serious damage. Sometimes I get ridiculously sad when I think of all the things I lost because I was too lazy to back it up. Movies, shows, albums, graphics, gifs- GIFS. I haven't looked at my external hard drive, but I might have lost all my gifs that I had spent all that time organizing.

Oh crap. I just remembered the pictures. That hadn't crossed my mind before. Oh my life...

So if you think I update pretty irregularly now, just wait. I have NO DESIRE TO UPDATE USING THE FAMILY COMPUTER. I had posts planned with the stuff on my laptop. I had files filled with pics and graphics just for the purpose of this blog. I WAS GOING TO GET BETTER AT BLOGGING. Thanks blue screen. You are a real winner.

So here are a couple pics that have made me happy. It's all you're getting for a while.

No Rhyme, No Reason, No Sweat.

I've been crafty this week.

First I made this lego necklace:


Then I made this cake:


It was delicious.

More on the amazing man later, but for now...

I've never loved my last name more than when I saw this picture.

Compromises are for lesser souls. Die Werewolf Zombie.

New Year's resolutions are a bit tricky, aren't they? For something that is supposed to help make myself better, they really bring me down. I create a list of things I want to change, which is basically just a list of things I don't like about myself. I have this list, which is probably longer than it should, and I go through it and decide which can actually be changed. Then once that is edited, I choose ones that I feel I can actually accomplish.
So I've gone from quite a long list of things I don't like about myself, to quite a short list of things I feel I am capable of accomplishing. Can you see why I am not a fan of this process?
I could just give up on the whole thing, no one is forcing me to do it. I could say say "Forget it!" but having resolutions are important, especially for that feeling of accomplishment when you cross one off the list.

I'm not going to tell you what my resolutions are. I've been told that if you tell someone your resolutions you are more likely to keep them, but I'm going to ignore that this year. I'm keeping them all to myself. I will instead tell you about my goal.
That's right! Not only do I have a list of resolutions, I have a goal. What's the difference? Probably nothing by definition, but in my head there definitely is. A resolution means a problem I want to resolve. A goal is just something a little more simple that I want to accomplish. I have my list of resolutions that sometimes makes me sad to look at, but then I have a goal to have fun with!

So my goal of 2011 is..

Learn to count to 10 in as many languages as possible!

Fun? Yes. Obtainable? Definitely.
Before starting this adventure, I started out knowing how to count to ten in 3 languages. Those are English, Spanish, and Irish Gaelic. In the six days since I decided to take on this task, I've learned American Sign Language and Welsh. Despite being one of the hardest languages to learn, learning to count to ten in Welsh was easy as it was pretty similar to Irish.
I have friends that have offered to teach me French, Italian, Albanian, Japanese, Russian, Portugese, Armenian, Tagolog, and Cebuano (which I had never even heard of before). So if I stick strictly to what my friends can teach me, I will have 14 languages in my brain bank. Then of course there is YouTube!
This is going to be a fun year.

Stupid Photobucket.

Egads! Foiled by bandwidth!

My Canvas: A Story in GIFs

I'm still pretty excited about having all my GIFs organized, and I'm definitely better with pictures than I am with words, so I've decided to tell you about something that happened using them.

I was getting out my canvases this week and noticed this:

It happened sometime when I was in Utah, and I don't want to point fingers but there were only 2 people that entered my room while I was gone. Anyways...

At first I was like


Then I was like


After the shock was over, I was a bit like


Which quickly turned into


I've calmed down a bit. Now it's mostly


and still a little bit of


But it's going to be


I've looked up canvas repair, and I'm going to fix it, because...