Topsy TURVY cake

Next I went to Amanda's house to work on my cake. which has turned out beatifully! Here's a picture. The cake was an adventure. We made the perfect shade of blue for the top layer. then we worked on finding the shade of purple to match... it worked well. As I as admiring my work, I noticed that the top layer of the blue was sliding causing the cake to tilt and about to fall over. So we stuck a wooden dowell in it, but then didn't know what to do, so we put the blue layer on top of the purple and pushed the dowel through. Then we worked on the green. Amanda only had "leaf green" food coloring, so we tried it, but it was way too pastel for the bold colors we already had. So we ran...ok we drove, to Alberstons and found Green food coloring. Finally at about 10:50, we had the cake all frosted and put together-with the wood cut down, and were planning the decorations we will put on tomorrow.

At about midnight, Once I got home and I was in bed, I received a text message from Amanda asking if I was still up. I said yes, and she told me that the cake was falling over and she didn't know what to do... So she called me and she told me that she kept on trying to save it but she didn't know how. She ended up sticking 11 wooden dowels in the cake to get it to stop moving... Later she sent me pictures... It's frightening... I have spent about 10 hours on this cake... I guess I shouldn't have forgotten to put the supports in the cake before we put it together. Amanda "the cake master" didn't think of it either... we just had to make sure that top layer was going to stick it together...
It's so sad... now I don't know what I'm going to do for my party. I'm really sad, I don't think it's salvagable...
Well, I'm going to bed, extremely tired. I have a busy day tomorrow.
Have a good night. Love ya'll!

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I woke up this morning and called Amanda to check how the cake was and she said, it's gone. i went over there, and it was all over the table. She said that when she woke up, the top two layers had fallen off. she tried to pick them up and save it, but it had just fallen apart. So when I walked into the kitchen this is what I saw. Her dad just said, "The Party Never Ends!". she has two extra cake mixes, and we have extra frosting and filling so we are going to try and do a bottom layer and then the rest with styrofoam. hopefully it'll all work.

My day today was a lot better than yesterday. Let me explain. Yesterday was a hard day for me. No real significant event that happened, it just started out rough. I woke up and wanted to roll back over and fall asleep. You see, when I'm asleep, I don't think as much. Lately, once I'm asleep I'm really out, I think it's because there were about 5 days where I maybe got 10 hours of sleep total, and my body is just trying to catch up from that and all the hard work it's doing. ANYWAYS, from the moment I woke up, I just felt like it was going to be hard. I missed someone, and as much as some people just want me to get up and go on with my life, it's hard. I'm trying to do the best I can, but when that person was so much a part of your life-even when not in the same city, it's hard to pick up where you left off two months ago. It's also hard when some many people didn't see what I saw, and I guess that was my fault because I didn't let that person come and visit the people who I care most about. Anyways, yesterday I was tired. I was tired of not talking to him. I was tired of not seeing him for a whole week. I should say now, before any one jumps to conclusions, no I didn't see him. But I did text message him. Actually, I got a message from him, and it was just about when I was going to message him. It wasn't huge, just a simple text message conversation to see how the first week of school started. Anyways, it was really nice to have a light friendly text conversation with an old friend. It brought a smile to my face to escape the stresses of reality for a split second.

Anyways, yesterday wasn't too bad, it's just I was really anoyed by things, work, people at work, and then randome things. it was strange. But it was ok.

TODAY was and adventure. I showed up at work at about 9ish, but the person I was working with didn't show up until 10:15ish, so i had an hour of nothing... good thing I brought Harry Potter with me...

well, we finished up the closset, and then shoved everything into the shed. all I have to do (hopefully) at the arc is organizing the arts and crafts, unless Donna calls me in on monday and asks me to do something...which I hope not because that's my birthday, course it does give me more money for college, or maybe to splurge on something small for my birthday...

When I arrived at home, I had to parrallel park my car... in front of my own house... heheh, i thought that was comical. Carrie, Tallia, Christina, my mom, and Diane Jacks were out in the back yard talking so I was able to to and spend time with them for like 4 hours. which was lots of fun because I haven't been able to do that yet. I also was able to hold Eliza for a long time, which I haven't done in about a week or so. She is such a pretty baby. I have been an aunt for so long, that I look forward to the day when I can hold a child in my arms and have the feeling of, "they're mine". It'll be such a nice feeling to know that everything turned out right and I have a family- for eternity.

The next part of the day was about my cake, so if you want to read about the cake aventure, go to the next blog...

cars, computers, cakes

Today was a very eventful day- exactly what I needed. I needed to keep busy so I could keep my mind off some things.
It started with my Dad asking if I wanted to work on my car with him. Over breakfast, we planned out our day. We started on our list by giving my car a tune up. Dad taught me some "auto theory" as he called it, and then I learned (and got to do it) how to change the air filter, the spark plugs, rotor, and distributer cap. that was fun! When we went to Shucks for some parts, I saw Sarah Ballard who had a flat tire on her way home from work. She told me her story of going to Les Shwab because one of her lug nuts was stripped, who said they wouldn't cut it off. so she took it someplace else and got it taken care of. It was fun to visit with her for a couple of minutes and she showed me that she was still peeling and some of her 3rd degree burns from our adventure down the river. That'll teach ya not to wear sun block! poor girl :-(
Afterwards, we went on a quick ride on the motorcycle. Then we took my computer into Best buy to see what we needed to do to get it fixed. After learning that we would have to send it in for a couple of weeks, we decided that we should go home and back everything up on an external hard drive.
Next came the luau with Carrie's in law's ward. Amanda came along to that and it was fun to spend some time with her and my family. while i was there I got a text message from Kevin Kenedy who asked me if he could come to church with me tomorrow, which I thought was pretty cool. I just wish some guy he knew was in town so he could have a friend in elders quorum, but oh well, maybe next week.
Next amanda and I decided we should make a cake and try our newest idea to make it lopsided- which we actually got from a friend, and later my mom suggested the same thing. This idea was to put something under the pan while it was in the oven that the cake actually cooked lopsided. Well... we tried it, and it overflowed. we thought maybe that if we didn't fill it so much that it would work, but after close examination we decided it wasn't good to have the thinner side of the cake over done, and the thicker side barely just right.
We decorated the cake while watching the movie The Holiday which we really liked because we could relate to a lot of the relationships that were displayed there. We wished it wouldn't have such tedious parts in it though. maybe it's a one time deal.
After the movie we looked on the internet to find ideas to decorate my birthday caked, and after a couple of searches and thought changes on searches we found how to make a lopsided cake! It was awesome! We were so excited that we found the actual way of doing it that I think we might have woke up mom and dad downstairs... oops... sorry... :-S but to all those who were wondering, here's the website... check it out!
http://members.nuvox.net/~zt.proicer/message/saved/TILTEDCAKES.htm

and that concluded my night. Amanda went home, and now I am going to go to bed after I read a little of Harry Potter... g'night. :-)