Football Season- sigh

I have learned in the last few months that I have a boyfriend that likes Football. I suppose his growing up in Texas and playing football himself might have something to do with that. At the moment we are into the playoff games of 2013 (or is it still the 2012 season? I really have no concept of how they label seasons of sports) The current game is Green Bay Packers vs. Minnesota Vikings- Greenbay is winning by 19 points so far. Since learning of this football "enjoyment" lets call it, I have been learning many things about the game. I will take this time to list them out since the game is playing and talking isnt encouraged.

1. The Running Back runs with the ball- makes sense right? I guessed that one all on my own
2. The Quarter Back does not give out quarters like the name implies, instead he throws the ball. Seems like they should call him the Toss back or the Throw back but I suppose that doesnt sound as cool or something. Actually it should be the Toss Forward or Throw Forward since thats the direction the ball goes.
3. Apparently while watching a game one should not yell out "Run little man, Run!" This is apparently not proper football watching etiquette.
4. Also saying "aww, the little man fell down" is considered not ok language. This strikes me as interesting since there isnt a single offensive word in that statement and some of the language people use while watching a game is nothing but offensive. (Bf is not one of the foul mouth ones just to clarify)
5.Never try to talk to a male when the game is on. Period
6. It amazes me the people that are chosen to play football. Almost all of them have HORRIBLE balance and sense of direction. I mean they run back and forth on a field and constantly trip over and into one another creating large piles on the field then they have to line up and start it all over again.
7. A game consists of 4 quarters, each quarter is 15 minutes long. This equals a 1 hour game. WRONG! The current game has been going for 2.25 hours so far and there is still 16 minutes left on the clock. Figure 45 minutes per quarter so far that means the total game will be 3 hours long. Need I say more?
 8. If team A throws the ball and team B knocks the ball out of team A's hand while team A's hand is going forward it is called an incomplete pass and the play starts over, still team A's ball. If the ball is knocked out of team A's hand while it is not in motion and is then grabbed by team B, it is called a fumble and is then team B's ball. See I actually learned something not amusing. Not quite sure how I feel about that....

I think thats all I have learned from the current game. Not to bad, 8 things in 2.33 hours when Im not even really paying attention

Here's your sign

Ok so on Facebook I mentioned that I have a very "special" co worker. For sake of ease and protecting her identity I shall call her D. I believe I have mentioned her before in my writings. The latest amusements have been all the "Here's Your Sign" stuff that comes out of her mouth. Some of the stuff honestly makes you stop and look at her and see if shes actually serious. Sadly on her part... she usually is dead serious. I really dont know what makes a person so totally clueless about so much stuff but hey I suppose we need to be entertained by someone.
 On to the here's your sign stuff.
First one I really noticed was about a week ago now. I was standing over in the cake decorating area with a bowl of frosting in one hand and a spatula in the other. I was using the latter to stir color into the former. D looked at the frosting, looked at me and said "What are you doing?" I really wish I had thought a little bit faster and come up with a snappy here's your sign come back but as it was all I did was stare at her and say "mixing........ frosting......." she looked slightly puzzled for a minute then said "ok" and walked off. I dont understand her most of the time lol.
The first one of today was a pretty amusing one really and for a change I was thinking fast enough to not just tell her what I was actually doing. I had just grabbed a 6 wheeler (used for hauling boxes) and some gloves and was heading to the freezer. I hollared to D that I was goin to the freezer and she said "are you going to bring our stuff back with you?" Huzzah to me that I was thinkin on my feet and I replied "No, I was planning on standing in there til I was cold and coming back with nothing" She didnt say a word.
And the final one to date. D was apparently expecting an important phone call for something so she had her phone downstairs where its not supposed to be. She hid it and then aparently forgot where she put it. Upon realization of its absence she started freaking out and asked me to call her phone so she could find it. I being the helpful person that I am said sure and got my phone and called hers. After finding her phone she looked at it and said "OH!! They called and I missed it!! I have to go in the back room and call them back right now!" I said ok go for it. She trots off to the back and about 30 seconds later my phone starts vibrating in my pocket. She saw the missed call from when I called it for her and for some reason assumed it was them. I cracked up when she got back. She had a rather sheepish look on her face it was amusing to say the least.

Ok thats all for now. I will try to keep updated on the Here's your sign as they come up.
P.S. I just found this pic that seems perfect for this post

Ok thats all now

Bein Better At this... for the moment

Well since I have the time and a few pictures I figured why not post again. After a few months away maybe I'll pretend that I will stick to posting more. Realistically I wont but hey.

I have for your viewing pleasure a few pictures of some of the cakes I made today. Today was totally INSANE! I have been working by myself for the last 5 days and have an additional 2 before my coworker comes back. Every friday Safeway has a $5 sale. Something from every department is on a really good sale for Friday only. This week I had not just 1 item but 2 on sale and since I was alone that means that some of my other stuff got neglected. Soooo needless to say when I got in to work today I was out of EVERYTHING and since Saturday is one of the busiest days for special cake orders ya know it bein the weekend and all. I started out with 8 cake orders but got calls for 2 more during the day. Normally thats not a huge deal but when the store manager is getting mad at you for having empty shelves it adds a liiiiitle bit to the stress factor. Luckily the bakery manager had my back and told the store manager to back off I was doing my best and then she rolled up her sleeves and helped me get product out.

Here are a few of the orders from today- all the large ones

Lightening McQueen anyone? This is a very popular cake for some reason. Ive done three in the last couple of weeks. This type of cake is called a funtastic cake and is at least 2 full layers of cake (4 if you count each layer as bein split in half and filled)

The Sponge who lives in a Pineapple... under water. Does anyone else see the problems with that? I mean really wouldnt a sponge soak up the water and be unable to move? And how does all the food they eat not get soggy. Cant say as I would really want to eat a hamburger or bun that had been submerged down on the ocean floor. I must say that this is the best Sponge Bob Funtastic cake I have ever made (I will now fail to mention that it is also the first one that I have made) I actually thought it turned out pretty good. Nice and simple unlike this next one...

Talk about your pain in the butt cake. Looking at the picture I like it even less now. I think it needs more color to it. Maybe some pink and yellow or something to brighten it up... and thats coming from a person who LOVES dark colors on a cake. It might have been more fun to make if I wasnt racing the clock to get it done before I had to leave, overtime is not condoned at Safeway. Not the worst cake ever but not my favorite either.

Final cake for the day- I didnt make this one, I just needed a picture of it cause I have to make it later and I didnt want to have to look it up in the gi-normous book that holds all the cake stuff. 

I think its rather cute. Not overly xmas-y which is good since I am a self proclaimed Scrooge when it comes to a lot of things xmas related. The whole season sorta annoys me. I did decide however that there is something worse than listening to xmas music all day at work. Sitting on hold listening to scratchy elevator type xmas music is FAR worse. Who ever knew they would invent a torture that could be sent through the phone lines and have people willingly submit themselves to it in a desperate attempt to talk to a human.
Anywho thats all for today. Maybe more tomorrow, probably not but who knows. Maybe I'll get crazy and post again tonight... but I doubt it :-)

Safeway Wisdom

Safeway wisdom seems kinda like an oxy moron to me, kinda like sophomore means wise fool. I'm going to attempt to add photos to this to better illustrate the wiseness, lets see how this works.

Ok so this is a knife... a large knife... with handles on both ends. Said knife is rather sharp and very handy to have when cutting lots of large items.

This is a cutting glove, made of some kind of metal mesh stuff designed to keep idio- erm, people- from cutting themselves. Now looking at the aforementioned knife one would assume that to properly use said knife one would use both hands.

Today my boss yelled at me for not having a (singular) glove on. Now I must ask.. what good is 1 glove going to do me. Especially considering that both hands are on the knife at all times when it is in use, it rather seems to me that I would be in more danger of cutting off a leg than a hand and I am pretty sure a glove isn't going to help my leg. Maybe I should suggest a full Kevlar suit when I am cutting a 4 inch cake. Things can get real scary when you do big jobs like that and I wouldn't want to lose a foot or something. Course I could collect disability pay and not have to work for the rest of my life... hmm I might have something here...

On the other hand check out the awesome cake I made last week. My inspiration was LMFAO ( the music group) and tie dye. I think it turned out pretty stinkin awesome.

My evil.. err I mean wonderful co worker started to do this cake but I told her I would finish because she couldn't figure out what tie dye was. She read the order and said oh they want the stuff  that soldiers wear. I said um yaaa no. They want tie dye. She kept insisting that that's soldiers wear. I am very glad that I insisted on doing this cake, after it was done she said Ohhhhh thats what it meant, I would never have guessed that lol. Oh the joys of working.

On my way down to Oregon a couple weeks ago, my wonderful car rolled over 100,000 Miles. Lucky for me I was at a stop light when I noticed it was rolled over.

Of course now it has a few hundred more miles and another trip to Salem and back on it but I am glad I have a picture to commemorate the monumentis occasion.

Well the final parting thought for the blog
Outside of a dog mans best friend is a book. Inside a dog its too dark to read anyways.

Adult Sea Turtles

Now that I have you rapt attention with that ever so catchy title, I must post a disclaimer and say that the following post has nothing to do with sea turtles at all. As my dear mother and sister learned at lunch today, most subjects in my head are connected by a 20 foot leap and a hand spring or two while other subjects arent connected at all and they just pop into my head like little kernels of popcorn.
Speaking of popcorn- did you see the storm that was rolling over Bozeman last night? I was driving into it and I could see all the lightening streaking across the sky in full sheets as well as the jagged stuff.
Bozeman- I am back in Montana for the summer, I have been here for about 6 weeks ish now I think working for cousin Lance Wickum (he married Brenda Benjamin) and I will be here for another 2 months or so before I head back to Seattle to start my 3rd quarter of school. 3rd Quarter means bread station which has Dad sorta excited and me not really caring :p
I am actually working north of Shelby not Bozeman but I came down to see Ma this weekend before harvest starts and theres no such thing as time off then. I have found it rather amusing that my very first M-F 8-5 job has been working for a farmer... dont get me wrong, I love it I just find it a bit ironic. Come harvest that will most definately change but I am enjoying it for now.
Brenda's kids have been keeping me rather busy with all the "help" so lovingly given. I do believe I get much more done when they stop helping but its a lot of fun having them be so eager to help. I could probably write a lot of stories about spending time with them but that would take away from the sea turtles.
Lance attempted to teach me to drive a semi the other day. Im not sure who was more nervous about it, him or the truck. (That was a trick question, everyone knows Lance doesnt get nervous) Needless to say__. (See what I did there? It was clearly needless to say so I didnt say it and if you dont know what was gonna be said then you clearly are not very good at reading my mind so shame on you)
I didnt realize how much I missed having a cat around til just now when one hopped up in my lap and decided I wasnt supposed to type anymore. I wonder if I could smuggle a cat into my trailer at Lances and then smuggle it home to Rick and Julias...
I would say my book was calling to me now but its common knowledge that while a book may have a spine it doesnt have a tongue and therefore cannot call me. A shoe on the other hand... is a rather silly place to have a shoe, they belong on feet.

2nd quarter almost done

Well the 2nd quarter of my college career is drawing closer to an end. I have exactly 10 days of class left- not that im counting- and then I will be heading to montana to work for Lance this summer doing whatever.

Since May I believe I have done quite a bit. The last post that talked about school I was just getting ready to switch to Cake station from Pies/ Tarts and just this week I switched off of Cake station and am now on Mousses/Creams, laminated doughs, and pate a choux (the stuff eclairs and cream puffs are made out of).

Cake station was ok, I did learn a few different flavors and kinds of cakes but I was really hoping to learn some more decorating skills to broaden what I already know but sadly they didnt really teach me anything I havent done already as far as that goes. I got rather bored and frustrated on that station because I felt like it was a bit of a waste of time and the teacher wasnt much help when I asked if I could try some more advanced cakes and such. Alas my wondrous skills were not to be overly tested this quarter :p

Plain white cake with buttercream

 Chocolate Cream cake

 White cake with lemon swirl

 White cake with coconut pudding in the middle with buttercream

 Drizzle cake- choc cake with butter cream

This last week I started on the Mousses and Cream station and got to make a Charlotte Bavarian- see pic below- yes I made it all. It was a lot of fun to do. This charlotte is a raspberry roulade (jelly roll) with an orange bavarian cream in the middle, coated with a glace and the border is whipped cream

This next picture is a white chocolate mousse pyramid with raspberry filling, poured with chocolate and the lines are white chocolate. Ganache rosette on top with some chocolate filigree

Showing the inside- this one has a bit much of the raspberry filling according to the teacher but it tasted amazing let me tell you!

So thats the up to date on that. I will try to add photos as I remember to take them and as we make cool stuff :)

Moving in to the new house

Hmm, there seems to be a trend with my not posting very often. Quite a bit has happened in the last month. Rick and Julia got the house and we spent most of the month of May fixing it up to make it liveable.
We tore out all the carpets and found beautiful hardwood floors underneath that look like they've never been walked on so one of the tasks was to refinish those so they were nice and shiney again.

The house is a older model and a little funky in its construction due to an add on or two. My room is upstairs and to the left- a step above the rest of the house. (literally) I have the largest room in the house kinda be default because the stairs going up are rather steep and they didnt want to have to traverse them with pregnant belly and later on with baby. I took up the carpet in my room- it wasnt actually tacked down it was just a really old scrap that you could see through. I sadly do not have nice hardwood floors underneath. I just have the ever so lovely underlayment, so I did what any self respecting person would do... I left it with the underlayment showing its glory to the world. Well I did go and get a couple pieces of carpet to go around my bed so my feets dont get cold in the morning but the rest is in its natural state.
  The walls of my room were a rather lovely cream painted wallpaper, on 2 walls that is. The other 2 walls were the most gorgeous wood paneling the likes you may never see again- so I promptly slapped some mud on it and primed the heck out of it so I could paint it blue. (as if any other color would do).
There isnt a ton of wall space since there is a built in desk between two built in closets on one wall, one wall has the window in the middle, one wall has some built in book shelves (insert happy dance) and the last wall has the main door and my secret passageway door (dont tell anyone about it, its a secret). So in order to have enough space for my sudden plethora of photograpic wonders that I seem to have aquired I decided to do the logical thing. I suppose since its the most logical thing I dont need to waste any space telling where I put them.

The main part of the house is looking really nice. Rick went in and scraped the bubble ceiling off (the stuff with asbestos in it) then textured the living room, kitchen, hallway, and master bedroom. A coat of primer and paint later and it looks like a whole new place. The kitchen now has two walls that are a nice cheerful yellow and the cupboards were painted a bright white. Its amazing how much a new coat of paint brightens up the place.

We fully moved in a week ago today and are getting things unpacked at a fairly good pace. My room is fully put away- yes you may be shocked- and I leave for montana in just 2 weeks time for the whole summer. Im pretty excited about that.

I am going to end this post here. I will post another one on the goings on at school and such to avoid making this one even more lengthy than it already is