Piece of Cake

As you may already know, I am on Christmas Break.  My family and I didn’t have much planned for today and so I decided to bake a cake.  It wasn’t just any cake that I planned on making, I was going to make a Gluten-Free Red Velvet Cake.  Some of my readers may be aware that “gluten-free” food often has a unique taste to it.  For some individuals “gluten-free” is synonymous with s gross or “tastes like cardboard.”  I’ll admit that many gluten-free products have an interesting flavor that requires the eater to become accustomed to it.  Despite these factors against my cake I opted to make one anyways.

A couple hours later my cake had cooled and I tried a piece of it before making the frosting.  Well, my GF cake didn’t disappoint… or maybe I should say that it did.  Apparently it is too dry  I’m not really sure what went wrong.  I followed the directions, but maybe that was the problem.  Now I’m stuck with a gluten free red velvet cake that no one will want to eat… except for me.

The moral of the story is this:  I don’t know.

I suppose that the next time I attempt to make a GF red velvet cake I should use a different recipe.

Christmas Break Begins!

I have so much to write about that I don’t really know where to begin.

My last day of work at Subway was on Thursday.  I am no longer a sandwich artist.  I am very thankful that God allowed me to work there over the past three years.  When I first got hired, I did not expect to be there that long, in fact, if you remember I quit the summer of ‘08.  At that point I had no intention of ever returning to work there.  I was sick and tired of Subway!  Well, God had a different plan.  That fall when I returned to school Subway asked me to return and work for them, after a week I told them yes.  My second year stint at Subway was a whole lot more enjoyable for me.

My last final as on Friday.  After class worked on packing my car… which by the way I am a tetris master.  To celebrate I had lunch with Kyle and Annie.  After lunch I headed to the airport to pick up Caitlin who would be driving home with me.

I decided to drive home on Saturday so that I could be coherent, consequently a safer diver.  However, by leaving later I was gambling with the weather.  I had planned to leave Costa Mesa about 8am Saturday but ended up not leaving until 20 minutes after.  It was raining so I was being extra cautions… within the first hour Caitlin and I saw 2 single car accidents.  The first accident took place in front of me in the carpool lane, it probably occurred about 2 minutes before we passed it.  Thankfully  there was a wide shoulder next to the carpool and the vehical happened to be on the shoulder.  The second accident we saw also took place maybe a minute before we passed it.  The carpool lane had just ended and I was back in the flow of traffic.  A van in lane #2  I guess spun out or something because the van was kind of faceing sideways and one of the tires wasn’t aligned with any of the other ones.

Rain was off and on the entire day and we were able to see a total of 5 rainbows, of those 4 of them were double rainbows.  It was truly amazing. I want to thank all of you who were praying for our safety and for the weather.  We were able to make it through the Grapevine without any problems.  I made it home in 7 1/2 hours!

So what have I been doing since I got home?  too much!

I have decided to make the guest bedroom my bedroom which means I have been moving around furniture, building furniture, and moving around stuff for the past 3 to 4 days.  By today I am sore and tired of moving stuff, but my room is coming together.  I haven’t decided yet if I will paint my room.  If I do decided to do it, I probably won’t attack it until the summer.

Tomorrow is SFCS High School Christmas Program.  Daniel gets home on Thursday.  I still need to do Christmas shopping… don’t know what to get my parents…. any suggestions?  I’m not sure what else to tell you.  If you of anything leave a comment.

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Okay, so this blog is going to seem a little paradoxical because  I love the rain.  When I realized it was raining on Monday I opened all the blinds so that I could watch it pour. However, the weather predicted for this weekend is rain…. lots and lots of rain.  Normally this would make me really excited, except I have to drive home this weekend.

I am picking up Caitlin from the airport on Friday afternoon and will be driving home to SF on Saturday.  It sounds like there will be lots of rain and lots of wind.   Not only this, but the Grapevine might be closed.  So maybe I’m blowing this all out of proportion, but I really am praying that the Grapevine doesn’t get closed.  I don’t want to drive PCH in all the rain, and all my other options would take me REALLY out of the way.  Anyways, so honestly I don’t care if it rains too much, I just don’t want them to close the Grapevine… at least until after I get through it.

Please keep me in your prayers as I drive home on Saturday.

My Apologies

I have great intentions of blogging but time is not my own.  I’m busy with work and school and homework and projects.   I have procrastinated all year and am making up for it now.

I had a wonderful birthday and thanksgiving.  I can’t wait to go home.

I have six days left at work and six days left of school

I’ll try to write a valuable post later.

Enjoy your day.