Welcome Back from NC!

oh my goodness it has been too long since i've added any new posts lately. more-so than ever, i feel like the month of june was just non stop the entire time. between rally weekend, rons birthday (and other events) work, and more, i have felt like i've been surrounded by chaos. counting down to vacation didn't help! :o

so let's see, where to start? i have a couple cakes i can share, i haven't shared watkins glen state park, and now i'm on vacation....

LET'S START HERE. ^_^

we went strawberry picking a few weeks into june, and i found a strawberry that had quite literally grown a set. i did not pick it. i decided to let it be and continue to grow because everyone needs a nice set now and then. :p

....vacation is already making me more pleasant. especially after finally sleeping after two nights! #vacationdoingitsjob

you know what else is doing it's job? this.

I'M FUCKIN' BACK! ☺☺☺☺☺

i did it. june 30th, i became a real person again. how many people quite literally screech with delight when applying pink dye to their bleached hair? this guy did. i missed it. people at work (customers who have known me for a while, that is) missed it. friends missed it. do you know how many people told me "it's the real you!" or "you're back!"? it is amazing. even more amazing is the fact that people notice how hard i work, and when i told many of them (mostly customers) that i was going away, their first response was "but you can't leave! this place needs you/won't be the same!" followed by "oh vacation? if anyone deserves it, it's you. go enjoy yourself." it's almost a little overwhelming to know that people pay attention to these things. i just do what i gotta do, and never think twice about what people think of me, but it makes me happy to know that people see me that way, and if i can bring some kind of joy to them, then my job is done. so to anyone out there reading this, thank you for your appreciation! ♥♥♥

okay. got the hair. let's go with a june catch up, and then tomorrow i will post about vacation. i got up at 6:15am, so i am thinking this week imma do a week long post of things to make up for not posting in like two months. ☺

i went with a somewhat normal cake for ron's birthday this year, but i think it is one of my new favorite cakes. it is another from my "all cakes considered" book: aunt di's bittersweet chocolate cake. it is a yellow whipped cream cake with a dark fudgy chocolate frosting. i'll have to use a little less milk next time, i had to add an excessive amount of powdered sugar, but it was fucking delicious. when i say this is my new favorite cake, i seriously mean it. the frosting made it.

we went to green lakes for the day and grilled, then came back and had cake and played cards against humanity for the night. that saturday, we went bowling because people couldn't make it on tuesday, and because he loves to bowl.

i had a second cake i worked on that weekend as well.

it is always hard to tell in pictures, but it is a mint green with black music notes and designs. there are black roses on top. this was for heather's niece. these kids and their birthdays and stuff.

i made muffins with some of the strawberries we picked, too! that was breakfast for the week. i made strawberry syrup another day for some pancakes, and that was a great day. because strawberries and pancakes are win.

the last week i have been stressing over getting ready for vacation. it was quite literally a rollercoaster of emotions all week long. the last few days were more depressing than anything. i have been feeling depressed for a little while now, but it almost maxed out in those last 48 hours for some reason. i guess just having a lot on your mind can do that to you.

BUT. vacation is now. that is all that matters.

note this fancy graph i made explaining the relationship between the amount of time until vacation versus the number of fucks given. (notice also that the number of fucks given starts at zero, and goes into the negative, since there are no fucks to be given to begin with.)

alright! well that i think is most of june in a nutshell. i will do watkins glen another day, since i have a bunch of pictures from that on it's own. we are about to go get donuts, though, from one of my favorite places in the area: duck donuts! that is one more thing that i have been waiting for though the last week. because donuts.

beach should be in the works for today! hooray for vacation!! check back soon. thanks for reading! :)