worse then when I made emily's cake cry

everyone has those relationships in their lives that just aren't good. there is nothing positive that comes of them, but yet they keep trying and hold on just a little longer. for some it is with a friend who just takes and never seems to give in return. for others its with a boy who treats you like crap, but who its easier to stick with then to move on from.

for me, it is with butter cream icing. once I made emily a lion cupcake. it was too humid, my icing didnt hold up and emily's cake was crying by the time she cut into it.
oh and it tasted like a big giant stick of butter. no more martha stewart recipes.

I managed to keep my distance for over two years, but alas butter cream icing got the better of me and I gave it another chance.

this time, not as buttery...but lacking a substantial amount of sugar....and I didnt want to run to the store to get more (this is why you should always use the recipe you check when you are making sure you have enough ingredients) and thus a runny mess. work on cupcakes, put in fridge, work for 10 min, fridge for 15.

at least they turned out cute (until they turned into a melted mess)

o! i'd rather be a pumpkin face...

...then be in a pumpkin pie!

our little pumpkin has turned into a scary crazy-eyed jack-o-lantern.

nick cut the top off

I got the insides out

I cut some...

nick cut some...


finished!
for a complete pumpkin experience please visit here!

happy moment of the night

yea! to At&t and ESPN360 for letting me watch the big ND despite them playing the 0-6 Washington and having it aired on ESPN2 which greatly exceeds our tv watching abilities.

all of which led to perhaps my favorite moments of the game.
1st while talking about ty and how ND let him go after only three years Bob Davie "that was unprecedented. I had 5 years at ND"

and then as we manage to get a field goal "Walker is like a new man. Accurate" granted he was later replaced by the kicker for Siegfried hall's innerhall team. mod quad represent!


oh and apparently I went to school in disneyland.

ACT, I dominated you then, I hate you now

Dear Mr ACT
I kicked your butt when I was in high school. so now apparently you think it's ok to screw me over.

This morning I woke at 6 am (actually 5 since I can never sleep when I HAVE to wake up for something, and apparently it's more stress inducing for me to watch 25 people take a test then for me to teach all day) so I could administer you to 25 unwilling individuals.

I made it to school in record time since no one was out on the road at 6:30 am on a Saturday morning. including the 56 students who didn't show at our school, an unheard of number except when my being paid for my early morning and drive depended on those individuals.

Mr. ACT I fully realize that it was not your fault that these individuals did not show. it is however your fault that I got screwed. Thank you for your $25 which barely covers gas and wear on my car as I drove the 20 miles to and from school. Add to that the hour I spent in "training" and the hour I spent reading your 150 page long instructor manual.

I find it ridiculous that now you have less work and more money. those 56 students who never showed have already paid their money to you. AND you now have 56 less tests to grade. I however was counting on my $114 and sacrificed my day to you for a measly $25.

Thank you for deeming the two hours I spent before today as well as the hour in my car and the hour I spent this morning worth a whole $25.

I'll see you in the People's Court,

Amy

the learning never stops

top 10 things I learned during my day off school:

1. engagement rings = conditional gifts which means you have to give them back if you dont fulfill your side of the contract
2. my grandma's suing my mom for child support. (well the kid's grandma was actually suing his mom for babysitting money)
3. parking people are stupid and want me to never be able to park in the wintertime
4. Garmin uses Kansas City intersections in its ads.
5. Two of the three major types of rock are indigenous and hard (and by indigenous and hard I actually mean igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary)
6. new life goal = be a rabbit lady (aka have tons of rabbits in my home, have them taken by the government, find them, steal the rabbits back)
7. when opening a REALLY old bottle of wine, one might use hot tongs to cut the glass if the cork has gone bad and can no longer withstand the corkscrew
8. defamation requires a third party (note to self....do kittens count???...this I must figure out before preparing for my counter suing on the people's court)
9. vlog sounds a lot like flog. coincidence...you decide
10. no matter how determined to be productive you are...some days you just have to play pirate poppers
    

monkey much?

this is what happens when I stay home. and reason number 1 why I shouldn't have more days off school. even piccolo got in on the action

and of course nick pretended to be a monkey just for the camera.

Mrs. Brita

I tried to fight it for years...though I have secretly enjoyed the crisp fresh taste that is brita water. I first got hooked in high school where lindsey's brita pitcher and lack of caffeine drinking broke me of that habit.

through college I mooched off my roommate's and their brita, enjoying every last drop of freshly filtered water chilled to perfection.

my little sis finally convinced my mom to invest at home and I enjoyed drinking water like I never had before.

grad school brought the filter on the tap. similar yet different, though not necessarily better or worse....sink filter water lacks the coolness from the fridge, but comes in mass quantity rather than just pitchered-size.

then in Chicago...claires hooked me up. I secretly thought of the days that I would get to drink from the brita as I convinced her that brita was soo much better then always buying bottled water way back in may.

then claires moved. and we dealt with white floaties in our water for a month in a half. till walgreens had them on sale. save $7 AND have floaty-free water. done and done.