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. :-)