TGIF!

So today was a Day.  Leeeeet me tell you about it!

First of all, it started with a massive tangle in my hair because I forgot that Jesse talked me into braiding a teeny tiny braid in my hair and then tried to brush through it.  Nice.
Last night (around the time that I was braiding my hair), Jason texted Jesse and asked if I could make a minecraft cake for Ashley's birthday party on Saturday (tomorrow), and of course I said "challenge accepted!!"  So this morning at 7:30 I was sitting on the couch pinteresting minecraft cupcakes and googling recipes for chocolate cakes, buttercream frosting, and fondant.  I learned many things about fondant today, the most important of which being...well, two most importants.  1: if you refrigerate it until you're ready to use it, it's much less sticky.  2: tiny amounts of water make different little pieces stick together quite nicely.  Anyway, 7:30 a.m. I almost called my mother, and then realized that 7:30 is not a nice time to call someone, and 5:30 is even worse.  Instead, I texted my friend Sarai and asked her if she knows anything about fondant.  She doesn't, but she asked if I wanted to go give blood with her around 9.
"Uhhh....sure, why not?"

By 9 I had eaten a second breakfast (wouldn't want to pass out), found all my recipes, and written my shopping list.  Sarai came and picked me up, and we went to the blood donation bus.  Well, even though they were supposed to open at 9:00 and it was 9:05, they weren't ready, so we went to Nutri-Box (where Sarai works) to see her coworker Yuri.  We sat around and talked for almost 45 minutes...that's another story in itself that I will have to tell you sometime.  Finally at 10:30 we made it inside the bus and started the process of giving blood.  And I have now donated blood for the first time!  I had never been stuck with a needle before, except at the dentist and when I got stitches in my ankle, and that's not really the same thing.  Yay me!!  The lady wouldn't let me look at it.  They had to double tourniquet it to make my vein get-at-able.  My hand kinda turned blue and got really tired, but it was all good.
So then Sarai and I went shopping, and got everything I needed to make some fantastic cupcakes.
Aaaaannnnddd...the rest four hours or so we spent up to my eyeballs in powdered sugar.  I had no idea a single project could use that much powdered sugar!  Oh. My. Lanta.  Just mixing up 13 different colors of fondant took up the entire length of my kitchen.  I know it's small, but it didn't leave me much room for...anything.

Now, I don't know what you know about minecraft, but basically you mine for different metals, and chop down trees, and butcher pigs and cows and chickens and sheep, and build awesome houses to keep you safe from the zombies and the other monsters that come out at night.  Also, everything is square.  It's like everything is super pixelated, so it's all squares.  Everything.  So I decided to follow in the footsteps of many others and make square fondant faces to put on top of cupcakes.  Simple, right?  Actually, it wasn't too bad, just very time consuming.  My little squares of grass definitely don't look quite right, mostly due to my lack of symmetry, and I have a couple pick axes and a sword that I made after taking this picture that I think are pretty cool.

After a few hours I got really tired of fondant (and it was getting late), so I mixed up the buttercream frosting and the cake batter, and started on my spinach and homemade sausage quiche for dinner.  Jesse complained and said that quiche is gross and eggs are gross and spinach is green, which means it's gross, but he ate it anyway and then went out to Charlie's to shoot.  I assume he'll be back soon...it's rather dark and he's still not home....oh well.
After dinner I went to work to finish training the new up front-in charge person at party planet.  I am actually taking the weekend off, which means she'll have to handle it alone tomorrow, and I kind of felt like I was handing over my baby to a stranger, so Leslie said I could come in for an hour or two and make sure she got everything going smoothly, knows the alarm codes, all that jazz.  I also left her a note with reminders of everything I usually forget, ending with my phone number and "if you need anything, I'm literally a mile away."  How did I become this possessive of a business that isn't even mine?  I think a weekend off was definitely due.
Of course, I took it off because James was hoping to be able to visit, but the air force owns his soul and they denied him leave, but that leaves us free to go to the birthday party and eat cupcakes, so....sorry James, you won't be missed that much.
And that was my day.  Oh, except that I came home after work and baked cupcakes and in a little bit I'm going to go frost them...or maybe I'll leave that till morning.  I haven't decided.  How to Train Your Dragon is on TV, so I might not be moving from the couch for a while....