May Update- Countdown til Vacation

8 days left!

although i am in the middle of a 6-day vacation from work as it is. i had a couple extra days, so i am making an extended weekend out of them.

it's been a while!

been working a lot, for the most part, got an upgraded phone, which is part of the reason i haven't made it on here- had to re-set up my authenticator app- and just getting ready for vacation stuff. i am playing the waiting game at this point, and by waiting i mean making sure i have everything i can do done before we leave, since i have one more 5 day stretch before it's here.

got a little pre-beach feel when we went to new jersey to visit broad street dough co- aka we drove 5 hours for donuts. super awesome, by the way. they were only a couple miles from asbury park, so we hit up the boardwalk for lunch and such. it was pretty nice, and we lucked out with a 70-ish degree day (while it rained all day at home). there is about to be a tea lounge here, too, which will be another day trip- it is a CAT tea lounge! like those crazy japanese places you pet cats and drink tea? yep. so donuts and tea for another day. imma have to rent a damn bus to fit all of us next time though. we rented a car and 5 of us went down for the day.

i haven't really had much time for baking, which kind of sucks. i mean, immediately after we got back i had a cake to make, which was awesome on it's own, because FINAL FANTASY 7 AND CHOCOBO!!

i still can't get over my goddamn chocobo. i love them so much. but in my defense, i am a crazy bird lady so it's only natural. i wish i was able to spend just a little more time on him, but thats what i get for agreeing to stuff and then forgetting. i legitimately forgot until the day before we left for jersey, so i had to speed bake, i made chocobo in the car on the way down (sculpted him, baked him the next morning and painted him at work), and finished the cake at work. i am a mess.

on my first day off wednesday, i made some more zuppa toscana and some baked donuts, which were delicious, but not the prettiest things ever, so no pictures. i am going to try to do a cake either today or tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes. it has been so rainy and cold. it is may, right?

 a couple weekends ago, i brought this idiot to work with me. dad was being mean to him the night before (aka sprayed him and covered him up super early), so i stuffed him in my coat and brought him to work for the day. i abducted him from his home immediately upon waking him, lol. he whistled and barked at the cars and rain, and then just sat on my shoulder pretty much all day. i was very surprised he did just that, seeing as lots of people usually makes him upset and he chomps my neck or whatever he can reach.

just this past sunday, i brought nubs with me to work. he was kind of the opposite, and preferred to be away from everyone and the excitement. he stayed in the back room for the most part, i hadn't thought about it until i left, but he hasn't really been for any car rides or out of the house, so this was completely new for him. i'll probably bring him out again somewhere else, but in the mean time, he is just being a poop. i haven't been home much lately, so this was kind of fun to bring them and have their company for the morning. not to mention being home the last few days, punk ass hasn't left my shoulder if he could help it. i fell asleep with him earlier and his little feeties imprinted into my arm! ☺♥ ohhh i love them.

in other news, i finally installed my short shifter i got for christmas! it didn't really take too long, i got to pull out half of my center console and use a dremel. it took me about 2 hours, but that is in part because i struggled with this little washer that the directions said you could remove with a screwdriver, my neighbor found me and i asked if he had a dremel, went to hardware store with car in disarray and bought the bits, and dremelled the shit out of the washer. yay!

i went to do my brakes on wednesday and THAT turned into another adventure, since a couple bolts were rusted on and i couldn't remove them. ended up having to wait for ron to get home to help, broke these little rubber boots for the pins that go into the caliper, and went to get more of them. i am nervous to do the rear brakes, because the way my luck has been, something is either gonna break, or my car is gonna fall on me. i mandolined my thumb on wednesday also making that soup....stupid thing is still cracking open and bleeding occasionally. wednesday was not a good day lol. i still have 3 more days to make up for things. rear brakes, oil change, and a couple other loose ends and i should be good.

anyway, since i don't have any treats today, i guess i will leave it at my adventures here, and see about getting stuff done with the rest of my free time. have a good weekend, all, thanks for reading!