Many things have happened since the last time we talked, way back in September. Huge things. Life-overhauling things (for me anyway...I tend to be a bit dramatic :-P) I'll list a few of those things now for my satisfaction, and I'm sure all who's reading this have their curiosity at least somewhat peaked by now.

• In October, my sister and I traveled all the way to Morro Bay, CA and back on one tank of gas. YES!
• In November, the Mad Baker Women (my sister and I) took part in our third show selling our baked goodies. Not that much capitol success, I think we broke even. But we got A LOT of great promotion done and added many to our fan base (thanks fans :-D)
• In December, we took part in our fourth show selling our goods (again-I think we broke even, but spread our ever-growing fan base!)
• In January, I turned 20 and applied for a position at Hume Lake camp here in California-a summer job, and I began my...let's see...*counts on fingers* fourth semester at college! Sometimes, when I'm laying in bed at night all by myself and thinking about life, I wonder-Why is it that I'm in a two year program and not graduated yet?! Then I remember that I love being in school and could probably be one of the only students to extend a two-year business degree program to five or six years (not quite there yet, but I'm working on it ;-) )
  
• In February, I...well...nothing much happened in February :| (Yes, I did sit here at the bulleted "February" and tried to think of something significant I could tell you about, but it was fruitless. Thus, the above sentence.)
  
• In March, I got in a massive car wreck with my sister (the extent of our injuries were severe whiplash for me, mild for her. The car? Completely totaled), went through (and still am) a major overhaul of my heart (that I won't share much more, I don't even know you guys!) and decided to make some changes.

Oh, and I found out last week I did not get the job at Hume for the summer. MAJOR bummer. I so wanted to get out of here for the summer. But, I've decided to make it good. For instance, I will write here at LEAST twice a week...probably more. I'm going kinda polar-opposite from what I was last Thursday when I found out I didn't get the job. Now I'm actually looking forward to the summer so much that I wish it was here now. Part of me wants to totally rebel and be angry that I can't leave, but I won't. Why waste my time?

In addition, I've kinda gone all-out and written my own syllabus for the summer, if you will. I was checking out the summer courses at my school, and they all kinda suck. There's not really ANYTHING I want to take, and nothing that will help me get my degree faster. So I'm putting myself into school. I'm in the process of writing out very specific guidelines for things I want to achieve this summer. The major part of my syllabus is related to cooking/baking and food photography, therefore I can promise you now I WILL be here much more often! And I'll be following all of ya'lls blogs more religiously. Day and night. I will be watching you.

Just kidding. That's just creepy!

Oh, I bought a camera-something I'm TOTALLY stoked about. It's an Olympus FE-5020. I've read some crappy reviews on it, and I've read some great reviews on it. It was right in my price range, so I figured I'd give it a go. Two days after the car accident, I was sitting on my couch at home watching The Perfect Man (don't laugh at me!) and the mailman came to the door with my beloved packaged-up camera. I was so giddy to open it, it made me forget about the pain from the whiplash spreading across my shoulders and up my neck. I love it! It's got some awesome macro settings on it and some cool effects and awesome quality of photos. I can get 12 megapixel shots if I so desire.

Okay, enough bragging.

To please your eyes, here's some Dr. Seuss inspired sugar cookies Laurel and I made for a friend's baby shower recently:



They were already a few days old when I took this picture (the shower was a day before the car wreck, I forced myself to set the photo up and get some shots while I was in quite a lot of pain. See how dedicated I am?). Any trained eye can tell these are a bit old already, but I wanted to get some shots anyway.


I think that's all for now. I'm on Easter vacation all this week, so I will do my very best effort to photograph all my baking and cooking endeavors and share it here. I don't know if I'll get the chance though, I'll be pretty busy relaxing and not doing anything for a change. I'll try to fit it in my schedule!