8:15pm: We arrive home, and I preheat the oven, get the ingredients together, put the cakes in and set the timer. Then Hubby pours me a drink and we watch Psych. We're wild party animals, I tell you!
8:50(ish): The cakes come out of the oven, and just in time! I'm about to start my third drink. I wrap up the cakes and set them in the fridge.
The rest of the evening is filled with more Mango Rum and Louis C.K. standup comedy. I was in stitches the rest of the night. Midnight comes, we kiss, I flick the porch light on and off a few times, then the gunshots start and we scramble into our house as we hear a ricochet. *Two more years until we buy a house!* I tell myself! Up to bed!
6:00am: Stinkie is up. It's Hubby's day to wake up with him, so I lay in bed for a few minutes... then realize I have to go to the Walmartz for frosting ingredients!
7:30-8:00am: Getting hit on by a weird guy in the Walmart parking lot...before AND after buying the things I need.
8:15am: Make the fondant bow and the gumpaste curly ribbons so they have time to dry a little. Make the cake board, mix the frosting, color the frosting, make frosting plugs, fill and stack layers, base coat the cake.
10:00am: Try to figure out how to do the quilted look and have it come out straight lines. I marked 1" intervals around the bottom of the cake, then used a straight edge to copy the intervals on the top ridge. After trial and error (this is my first quilted cake) I used a straight cake scraper to make the quilted lines, then painstakingly put in pearl non-pariels at each meeting point. The bottom border went in about here. Then I made the nameplate. Side note...I love the name Lauren.
11:30ish: I make the "1" on the top, fill, and outline. Pipe the top border, then place the ribbon and the nameplate.
12:15pm: I want to put my child down for a nap and he insists on Daddy. I haven't seen the little guy all day and I MISS HIM! Hubby has been entertaining and loving on him all day so much he hasn't hardly bothered with me. I'm relieved...but a little sad too :( He's getting so big now! Daddy takes off afterward and...I realize I don't have tape to make the cake box. I look everywhere. All I have is blue and red electrical tape. All my tape got eaten up with the Christmas wrapping. EEK! Since I don't have a car to use, that awesome client I mentioned earlier agrees to pick one up on the way over. She is awesome. I think I said that though!
1pm: The kitchen is mostly cleaned and the cake is pretty much done. All I have to do is take pictures. I do that and wait for the pickup time (2pm-ish). Then I rest for a few minutes. My head is swimming and I realize I have the worst hangover I've ever had. We have no Tylenol here and I'm stuck here!
The rest of the day is a blur. We went to Outback and I got sick. Hubby drove me home and took care of Stinkie. What a great guy! I took a bath and went to bed at 7:45. Slept ALL night, and I feel much better now!
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