I would like to start off by thanking everyone for their comments on my last post. It was nice to have more than two, although I thought that some of the responses could have been a little more understanding of my lack of posts. We have all established by now that I don't have much of a life outside of work so this won't be a very exciting blog. In fact, I put that out there in my very first post: "Clearly my life isn't anywhere as exciting as moving to NYC and spotting random celebrities or seeing life through a set of two year old eyes again." There you go. I admited it early, I'm not in denial.

Moving on. Today is Tuesday. Tomorrow is Wednesday. I know that you're all, "No sh*#, Sherlock" but maybe you don't know that tonight, Mom and I are starting the drive to Virginia. Then on Wednesday, we're finishing it and get to see Michelle and the AJ! Then of course comes Thursday and Turkey Day and Sydney flying in! So I'm kind of super excited. The only thing putting a damper on my mood is that I've been at work since before 7:45 this morning and I won't be leaving until after 7 tonight. Like I already told my coworker, Siena (pronounced seen-uh), I don't want to talk about it. So yeah.

We're pretty much ready to go. Mom and I packed all of the random stuff that has to go with us (Syd's Christmas decorations, some random hand-me-down toys from the neighbor for AJ, and a ton of Christmas presents that we won't have to ship now) and a bunch of grocery items for Thursday's meal. I threw my bag in as I left for work this morning so all that's left is Mom's stuff and the cooler. The plan is to get to Ohio and get about 4 hours of driving in before we stop tonight. Then we'll (hopefully) get on the road early enough tomorrow morning that we can have a few quality hours of AJ time once we get to VA.

Oh, one last thing. More of a forewarning than a thing. Anyone who will see and be in a car with a cd player with me over the next few days will be subjected, almost constantly, to Sara Bareilles' cd, Little Voice. Best. CD. EVER! Just prepare yourself.

That is all, Happy Early Turkey Day everyone!

A Tale of Two Comments...

So here's the thing. I seem to recall a lot of people making comments on here a couple of weeks ago about how I hadn't posted in forever and I needed to update and blah blah blah. So I update, complete with a bunch of pictures, and only two people respond (thank you Claire and Sydney, this message does not apply to you. Although it did take you awhile Syd, and I even told you that I had posted.)! Anyway, being the bigger person, I am choosing to put the lack of comments to my latest post after a barrage of comments telling me to update behind me and moving on with my life, such as it is.

I didn't feel so hot yesterday, I called in sick to work and spent the day with the dogs at home and at the Mezydlo's because I'm dog sitting again. I wasn't great company, but the dogs didn't seem to mind. When I came home from hanging out with the girls, I went to let O'Malley and Maggie out. It was spitting ice, it looked like tiny balls of hail! O wanted nothing to do with it, but Maggie was in doggie heaven! I sat with O'Malley in front of the back door and watched Maggie run through the leaves and ice on the deck, then down in the yard. She ran inside, jumped in my lap to lick my face, then she ran back outside with the whole back half of her body wagging like crazy! O'Malley finally went out but I had to go, too. Those 10 minutes pretty much made Maggie's day! It was pretty cool to watch how excited she was...until the ground got really wet later in the day and it started getting muddy...not so much fun!

Anyway, there's another update so no more comments from the peanut gallery, unless they have something nice to say!

Fondant is Fun-dant!

So ignore the stupid title, I wasn't feeling extremely creative tonight. I did, however, import a couple month's worth of photos onto my computer so I thought that I would post and do a massive, Reader's Digest version of an update on my life.

Sydney came for a visit for the last couple of weeks in September during her off-time between a couple of shows. It was nice to have her around for a couple of weeks. We even got to celebrate our friend Samantha's birthday while Sydney was here. Here's the obligatory photo op in the car:

While Sydney was visiting, Michelle and AJ flew out and we drove down to Southern IN for a couple of days to visit with the clan down there. Since we were visiting with Grandma, swimming was a must and AJ thoroughly enjoyed himself:We got back from visiting the family and Dad took us to the Purdue v Notre Dame game in South Bend. So here's touchdown Jesus:

And Sydney and I getting bored with losing and taking a photo op break:
But alas, Sydney, Michelle, and AJ left me. So I had to go back to the normal life of work and no one to entertain me when I wasn't at work. Cue sad face. Anyway, I have been taking a cake decorating class since the beginning of September. The only down side is that it's on Thursday nights so I don't get to watch my Ugly Betty and Grey's until Friday or sometime on the weekend. That's what they invented DVR for! We've worked a lot with buttercream. I've gotten much better at torting cakes and they're pretty level when I finish filling and stacking them now. We made homemade fondant and chocolate ganache. There's been a lot of baking, piping, spreading, rolling, cutting, chilling, and decorating going on the last couple of months. I have a couple of pictures of the two fondant cakes I've done. I'll post pictures of the other cakes I've done when I have those photos uploaded. For now, here's the two fondant cakes:

That's basically been my life the last couple of months. Last night I went out with a bunch of work people. One of them is a friend Sydney and I have from high school who just got engaged. She asked Sydney to be her maid of honor and last night she asked me to be one of her other bridesmaids! Yay for weddings and for having three years to plan showers and bachlorette parties! Congrats to Mike and Sam, we love you guys!

So there you go. Family, friends, football, and fondant...fun, fun, fun!