We Interrupt This Broadcast.

I know I've been kind of MIA lately. Or at least that's how I feel. I've been here...I've just been distracted.

I talked a bit before about posting some fitness DVD reviews and I like to do book reviews as well. Well...I decided that I didn't like how cluttered this blog was becoming. I have so many interests and so many ideas and I like that this is a cooking/food blog. So, to keep the integrity of this blog while being able to explore my other thoughts and talk about things going on in my life, I created another blog! If you are interested in things like fitness and books and well...me...then head over there and give it a look. If not, you can hang out here and know that I'm still going to be sharing my love of food and different recipes with you all.

Okay. Now that that's out of the way. Let's talk about an awesome blog (Life is Still Sweet) I discovered a while back. The author of this blog, Sarah, is a pretty awesome chica who enjoys things like fresh foods, foodbuzz gadgets, and food magazine subscriptions! Each month she hosts a magazine subscription justification and she's looking for people to play along. So if you have made any meals from a food magazine lately, jump over to her blog and play along!!

And finally...I wanted to share that I finished the Wilton Cake Decorating Course 2!! They recently (this month actually) changed the courses and course 2 is no longer the same. But here's the cake I made in my last class. I'm pretty thrilled with it.

I know that's a lot of pictures but I wanted to show every angle. I'm really happy with it and am so glad I took the class! Now I want to do all the new classes as well!

Okay. Thanks for listening and now we can go back to our regularly scheduled program!

I'm sitting here at Wendy's house and I feel incredibly bored and lonely. But I also feel very....zoney??? Focusing on anything is not really an option right now so I'm not going to get any of my new book read. Oh well. I guess I'll write some, mostly random, stuff.

Today was a gorgeous day out!

Lily woke up WAY too early.

Tried to do the P90x yoga DVD today and it was a major FAIL! Pretty much got through 15 minutes and was done. My shoulder started hurting and they were in this intense sequence and most of the "rest" poses are the downward dog. Oh well. I'll work up to it for sure.

I'm feeling rather dejected these last few hours. I'm ready to move. I'm ready to have a home. I'm tired of waiting.

I'm excited about heading to NY on Tuesday though. I can't wait to see O! I think I miss him more right now than I did at any point during the deployment. Lily and I went over the calendar the other day and I showed her where her birthday is and put a big star on it. I told her that's the day daddy will be back and we are crossing off days every evening so she can have something visual to show the passing of days. What does 'next month' mean to a 2 year old?? Well, I guess I should say 3 year old since she'll be 3 in about a month and a half. Crazy.

After my failed workout, Lily and I headed to the East side to get my MIL. We had a dance party in the car on the way over. Lily kept asking "what's that song" and even started singing to Technologic by Daft Punk. She's a pretty awesome kid. When we grabbed grandma we went to Michael's where I spent WAY too much on cake stuff. My MIL had bought me a $100 gift card to Michael's for xmas and I still had $36 on it. I also had a 50% off coupon so I got my $65 cake tool caddy for free! I'm so excited!! I did have to buy some more stuff because I'm making an Up themed cake for the Oscar party on Sunday. I have a vision in my head of how it's going to look and I found the stuff to (hopefully) make that happen. The only question now is what type of cake am I going to make??? And, do I want to make a cake from scratch or work with the boxed stuff? I want to start making cakes from scratch, but is this the time? If it turns out okay (I guess even if it doesn't) I'll post pix.

Speaking of pix...later I went to Best Buy and started looking at cameras. I found and awesome little 14.1 megapixel Nikon that has a 10x zoom. It was $300 though. A bit more than I was hoping to spend. :-( Maybe I'll look on Amazon.

I also started thinking about Lily's birthday cake I'm going to make. I think I'm going to do Tinkerbell. She loves Tinkerbell. I have a vision...again. I just hope I can make it happen. I'll probably do a test run first to make sure it turns out okay. I'll just have to find someone to give the cake to. Maybe my in-laws church or something. We'll see. Let's see how Sunday's cake goes.

I tried my first lentil soup today and it was amazing! My MIL made it and I totally need the recipe. I had two helpings with a few corn tortillas and it was pretty much heaven. Although, I need dessert! I'm obsessed with pineapple sherbet with apricot/mango/orange fruit preserves on top. Yum...okay. Need that now.