A Moment to Be Catty.

there's a woman here at work who will bitch and moan over every small mistake we (my team, production) make. sometimes it's not really a mistake, it's something we've always done or actually did right, and she just thinks it's a mistake. the REALLY annoying part is that she takes a looooong time to complain about it.


i'd have a lot more patience with it if she didn't make so many damn mistakes herself.

The carbs, the fat, the protein, the uncomfortable feeling of fullness...

Viva La Thanksgiving Pizza!

Spooky Halloween!

just over two weeks after the fact, i have the Halloween party photos! first up, scary and scared jack-o'lanterns.

with the lights on...





and with the lights off.






here's the take-home guest goodies...


the little cupcakes, both chocolate and red velvet, and the made-from-scratch Monster Fingers (soft pretzel dough) and Pumpkin rolls (just coloured dinner rolls)...



you can see sylvia eyeing my creations in the background.

here are a couple other creations (little cakes with frosting). the spikes are pocky -- or, rather, the Korean pocky equivalent i picked up at the store.


the real reason i had the party, though, was for an excuse to make these:


the cakes were chocolate and red velvet, with chocolate and vanilla icing (food colouring in the vanilla), and their legs were made of licorice. i really wanted black bendy-straws for the legs but could find none... so the licorice ended up snapping and the spiders look half-squished. i made a half-dozen or more of them. the best part was finding a plate with just legs and red velvet cake crumbs... that poor, poor spider.

These is My Coasters

they didn't turn out quite how i wanted them, but they sufficiently... er, uh... coast.

AWWWW YEAH!

less than 11.5min/mi average pace over 3.1 miles.

i may be thirty but at least i ain't that out of shape.

Well, this is it.

i'm 30.