Quick Post..And Cupcakes!

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so i finished those cupcakes tonight. went with the white frosting, and pink sparkles. who doesn't like sparkles?

redundant question. everybody likes sparkles. if you don't...then i probably don't know you and we can't be friends.

something like that.

on another note, i will be staying at the restaurant rather than this new job. it's not the people, i love them all, they're really cool. especially this one girl who i am passing along some miyazaki torrents to, but that's not the issue.

when, at the interview, i say that i want to keep another job as my main job, and you agree to work with me to schedule around that job, that does not mean that you turn around two weeks later and tell me i have to give up said job to keep getting hours. then hang up on me. then act like nothing is wrong. then the job overall is completely lacking any kind of challenge. grrr.

it was fun while it lasted, at least to talk to and meet some new people, if anything. i wish it could have worked out. at least everyone at the restaurant is glad i am staying.

it is also ball shrinking cold out. like, nasty wind, snow, the whole nine yards. it was just 40-something like 5 days ago. thanks, new york! people complain that people complain about the weather too much, but when it has multiple personality disorder, i'm gonna complain. make up yo damn mind! assholes...

i feel like i had some other clever and witty comment to put on here, but i guess now is not the time. i am tired. as if you didn't see that one coming.

oh well. at least i won't have three jobs in a day or so. then i can relax a little again, aside from cleaning and packing my apartment. april 1st we move! oh, there is so much to do. oh, monday and the following monday i get to take the assholes and fridge kitty to the vet. that will be exciting. guarantee there will be pee all over the place. maybe i will have to laminate my car with trash bags before inserting felines. we will see how lazy i am feeling. speaking of lazy, i still have to sort through three bags of bottles....

oh well. i'll have some time around work to think about that, and all of the other assortments of things that constantly flood my mind. i am going to bed now. one more long ass day. maybe i will finish my book.....well, i know i will finish it. later! ☺

So Tired....Oh, But There Are Cookies!

yay! so let's start out with something delicious.

these pink lemonade cookies are sure to do the trick.

these (along with some cupcakes, which are posted below, and also unfinished at this point) are for kristen's pure romance party this weekend. i am working all day long, so i won't be there. such is my life.

i have made these a few times before, and they are super-duper awesome. they are also pretty easy to make too. soft, chewy, melt in your mouth delightful. plus, they're pink. anything pink is usually delicious anyway.

i wasn't sure i would have time to make them considering all of the work going on, but it was so dead, i got kicked out of work early. never thought i would see that happen in retail, but whatever. when it's slow enough that i can read a few chapters of a book, that's probably a sign of some sort. i'm not sure what kind of sign though. too many people working? slow day? maybe both? i don't know. either way, i'm pretty sure i won't make it there much longer.

i have already asked to keep my job at the restaurant, we are talking about that tomorrow. with any luck it won't be a big deal. but this other place? they basically want me to give up my other job to get "full time." i told them to begin with that i wanted to stay at the one because i get paid a lot more. i will take hours there first over anywhere else. if i want to keep them, i will get bumped to part time, namely 15 hours or so, which is basically what i had to begin with at the restaurant. overall, not worth my time for the extra 50 cents, the extra 20 minute commute (so 30 total), nor the completely boring and non-challenging environment. i'll go beg for my job back at party city if i want to be a useless cashier.

i love the people there to death, but this is stupid.

CUPCAKES!! ☺

they are supposed to be pink and "white," i guess the picture kind of looks like it. haven't decided if i am going to do just plain white frosting with pink sprinkles or luster, or a pink and white twist. i'll get to that tomorrow, though, i suppose.

maybe i'll get sent home early tomorrow, too....it would be nice. i can't say i'm looking forward to the beginning of the day. i should be going to bed, i am exhausted, and have a 3 day triple shift again this week.

i think the new apartment is somewhat official as well, at least in the fact we said we would take it. it will probably be ours the end of march, unless otherwise specified. now i have to hurry up and continue packing. you know, if anyone wants to help, you can. just saying.

and then there's this, just for fun.

so, aside from wanting me to quit my main job, i had to make this 40-50 minute back-and-forth commute on monday just to get my schedule. just to read a piece of paper that took me 30 seconds.

i got double scheduled on accident, when i was told "i most likely wouldn't be needed" that morning (confirmed by exhibits a and b, tuesday and wednesday mornings: not a single customer before 1 pm), but was scheduled anyway. turned out my email was entered wrong (not my fault), and i got hung up on over the phone before i could ask for said schedule. cool? yeah, no.

anyway, this was a result, some delicious teavanna tea, and the escalator reflection picture. this escalator had conveniently turned into stairs, so we took a picture in the one above us. teavanna had some new flavors, too. i got the marshmallow macaron. deeeelish.

well, hoping everything goes well tomorrow and i can keep my job at the restaurant. i know they all like me there, at least. i am going to go to bed for real now. thanks for reading! ♥

LONG Weekends, and More Crazy Bird Lady Talk

it has been such a long time since i have worked long hours. i know i am a workaholic and live for this kind of thing, but with my recent hour cuts i have been getting lazy. so when i got hired for a third (temporarily) job and worked three 13 hour days in a row on top of that not sleeping thing. considering i wake up at about 7:30am and go to bed between 11:30 and midnight, that's a pretty long day. feet hurt, back hurts, eyes won't stay open.....

i got to sleep in today, at least. i mean, i made it until 8:30, that's pretty good, right? then i sat around on the internet for an hour. resting! ohh yeahh. i really missed my main job today, though. i was happy to be back.

okay, so this picture was earlier in the week, what, wednesday night? but come on. video games, standees that are as big as your friend...what's not to love? well, there's that whole customer thing occasionally, but sometimes that is half the fun, whether they are cool or mildly "handicapped."

new shirts lol

i am still trying to figure out the new place though. it seems cool, the people are cool....i am not sure how i feel i fit in there yet though. during the interview they seemed impressed that i have supervisory/managerial experience, yet somehow i ended up as a cashier. not what i had in mind. two of the three long days, i got a chance to do other things too which was kind of nice, but i don't know. i really don't want to be a cashier. it is the worst possible thing ever, the most boring job, EVER. the last place that did this to me wouldn't even let me leave the counter, and i got in trouble for not answering the phone when i was helping customers who were in front of me that very second. completely frustrating.

i am also nervous of the whole small children factor....yeah. kids and i don't mix very well. there haven't been too many just yet, but apparently at their other location they get them by the bus full. insert me crying in the corner, rocking back and forth....that is the only outcome, other than picking up and leaving. i suppose for now i will wait it out and see, hopefully i won't get stuck as a cashier. otherwise, maybe i will go back to the restaurant.

speaking of the restaurant, i'm pretty sure i am making a lot of people sad. i am sad. they are like my other family. it has been 5 years since i've started. one of my waitresses almost cried when she found out. i totally did. i will probably hang out friday and saturday nights after work at the bar, kind of like my last hurrah. so any readers who are not working on friday or saturday nights, feb 28 and mar 1, i will be at my work, after work, around 9:15-9:30 if you would like to join me. ♥

needless to say, the past week has been pretty tiring. i am still hoping things will work out for the best, although the best for me is usually not the greatest, since i think people tend to take advantage of me sometimes. i work hard, ask for next to nothing, and usually get no thanks. meh.

if i have the time, i would like to bake a little something this week too, i was thinking some more cupcakes with a caramel theme. you can't really go wrong with caramel. it's delicious, it's multi-purpose, it can even be healthy if you eat it on fruit, did i mention it's yummy? see? can't go wrong. the end.

let's see....i have introduced fat baby, sora, and my son....so how about kairi today? (yes, my cockatiels names are sora and kairi, kingdom hearts reference for anyone who catches it out there, but yes, the boy is kairi, and the girl is sora).

dat face....

but look at the bottom one. i just took that picture. sora likes to have her head rubbed or scratched by anyone. when she is next to kairi, she will lean over to see if he will preen her, but he has no idea what to do, so he just copies her. i am pretty sure kairi would be the definition of dumb blonde if he were a real person. he is kind of special. he gets kind of crusty sometimes too, since he drools a lot, so his food will make little crusties on the sides of his beak. luckily these pictures don't show that, and show more of his (almost) sensitive side.

on that note, it is time for some pizza, buffalo tenders, and how i met your mother. thanks for reading, and wish me luck for the rest of the week!

that is, if i get my schedule....

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I am not dead lol

Just a quick post between works. I did not die, the mystical, magical land of the internet did not steal me away. Being between three jobs is very tiring. Also, remember that staying up late thing i mentioned? Yep. It caught up. Though i may feel dead, i am not. I will post more later. Its only for another week....!!!

High Tea, Anyone?

it is decided. this will be my next gathering theme.

i love tea. i have a whole cabinet dedicated to different kinds of teas that i have collected. it is stupid how much tea i have, most people would find it completely unnecessary to have as much. i could be my own teavanna.

alright, maybe not that much, but still more than any other normal person would keep at any given time.

caffeine and i don't get along too well, and coffee smells good, but i don't think there is enough sugar in the world to make it taste any better, but that's just me. there are so many different teas, with different amounts of caffeine and whatnot. all the flavors....♥ it is all kinds of happy for me all over the place, and my heart doesn't even have to explode to achieve it.

on to this high tea thing...i was thinking last night about doing another little party so i can see my friends more than once a year. i've done a dessert party, a fall themed dessert party, and a mini party. i wanted to do something spring next, and was thinking "spring cleaning," eat something healthy to clean up after your holiday binge-eating. awesome idea, i know. i'm full of them. but then i thought tea parties can be light and mostly healthy, i have been meaning to do a real tea party at some point. spring is a great time for something like that!

i found this "Time for Tea" article/image on pinterest (of course), and that's what settled it. it's almost like mini party, take two, but fancy. that and my friend who wants to do a healthy party as well, pinned a recipe for crumpets. crumpets are english, english leads to tea, which leads to tea party! i don't know if there will be crumpets, but there will be scones, petit fours, finger sandwiches, and tea! ☺ (if someone wants to make crumpets, have at it! i've never had one.)

did anyone check out the link? afternoon tea and high tea are almost like meal substitutes, instead of dinner or lunch. it even tells you how to not get thrown out of tea time. how fun is that? i would say i want to throw someone out for not having proper tea etiquette, but i don't ever see anyone so that won't happen. i am completely improper. most likely my tea will be a mash up of both afternoon and evening, or something like that. i like sammiches.

i will probably do this in mid april, on a weekend. probably a sunday, as usual, since it seems to be the easiest time for anyone to visit me and not have to work.

i also will be switching apartments somewhere in march. super fun, i know. moving stuff in the snow, best day ever! (not really, but hopefully there won't be as much snow as there is now when it comes time. hell, it's raining today, maybe it will stay away. forever).

hopefully this new job will not only provide more pay, but more hours, unless the main one wants to give me more hours, because i get paid a lot more there. i should have money before i plan these things out, that always helps. where's the fun in that though, huh?

alright, well my cup of tea is cold, so i am going to heat that up, sort through some bottles and return them, and then go to work for the night. i am working doubles for the next three days (thur, fri and sat), hopefully during early next week i can get some packing and cleaning done to get things ready. if anyone wants to help, text me, message me, i would say just show up, but who knows if anyone will be here at any given time.

I wish, I wish, I was in OBX

i should be asleep now. i am pretty tired.

i am not even sure why i am awake still. confound this blasted internet!!

i ended up being bad and logging into facebook for a few minutes, and ended up looking at all of my old pictures. i am a creeper. not because of the pictures, but because i have no reason to go on there other than to creep at others and whatnot, but even that doesn't entertain me as much as it used to.

on to these pictures....does anyone know where this is? not that i have anyone who responds to me.... :P

jockey's ridge state park, nestled in the little town of kitty hawk, north carolina. also known as: the outer banks.

i am sad. i really want to go back again this year. a lot. i want to go back every year. money is stupid and completely non existent, however, so i am not sure that it will happen. it's like my home away from home. if i had the chance, i would move there, or as close to there as possible. i have even looked around for jobs, but there is nothing that would pay me as close to what i am making now, even though it sucks and isn't enough to make ends meet. a girl can dream.

this weather makes me want to go back even more. even though they still get a bit of snow time to time, it only takes like 2 inches to shut down the entire state, and i would totally be that guy and drive like a boss since i'm so pro at winter driving. i would most likely be yelling at a lot of people though, much like i do now, since the winter makes people extra stupid when on the road. i'm pretty sure my near misses and near accidents quadruple to the eighth power for the 3 months of nasty snow weather we get. look at these cute little flowers!

i bet i will end up scouring the internet for a cheap place to make an attempt to visit there again. even if i can't go. i will need a lot of beach days to make up for it. maybe i'll even get up early to go before work or something. i miss out on so much because of work, and multiple jobs. why can't everything be easier? even just for a little while? i keep hoping this will be my year, and i have said that every year for the past 3 years. something worse has always come along. there has to be a good one around here sometime soon!

more pretty pictures time!

i can almost smell the sun, the sand, and the ocean. except that i am surrounded by birds and cats. not the same at all.

i am just making it worse by going through all of these pictures, but i can't help it. now i am venting to the internet, when the internet is (kind of) what started this in the first place. i mean, i am a firm believer that the internet has the answer to everything, and therefore can solve most problems. not this time. i need to go to bed. thanks, internet.

who knows. maybe some things will turn around, and maybe i will get something good out of 2014. a big fat raise would be nice. one steady job would be nice. less bills? a dream, but would be nice. dreaming of all of this forever, and it will always be just out of my grasp.

hey, internet? now would be a good time for an answer. no? just stay awake longer? you're crazy!

how about this: i will introduce my son to my blog. he's 16 going on 17, his favorite foods are bacon and dried mango, he likes to scream at everyone, and gets very protective of me.

satchamo joe from kokomo. or just satch. my fat boy. he is so happy. especially when he is attached to me somehow (they are all like that sometimes, though, its weird, and funny).

he is a blue crown conure, he had the equivalent of a stroke in 2006, he is extremely spoiled because of this. bestest boy ever. ♥♥♥

the others? oh yes, they get jealous. they also get treats too, so they all get whatever they want, so satch isn't necessarily the most spoiled of them all. no, yes he is.

he can always make me smile. he gets all puffy and goes into snuggle mode, wedges himself against my neck, in my face, wherever he finds most comfortable. i was sick about a month ago laying on my couch, he walked up to my face and settled right down until he almost fell asleep. he's a special one, alright.

see here? crazy bird lady talk at it's finest. i'm pretty sure i need to go to bed. maybe i'll have some dreams of a nice day at the beach, about 600 miles south of here, where i will have a nice life waiting for me. ♥

thanks for reading my rant. i'll get back to posting good stuff, like food and whatnot, later! ☺

Red Velvet Cinnamon Rolls, Etc

just to set this straight, if there's anyone out there who thinks red velvet is NOT sexy, just shut up and let me stop you right there. just...just stop....step back....and walk away. do you hear me? GTFO.

for those of you still with me....on top of the red velvetiness....throw some nutella in the mix. yes, insanity, i know. THEN....add some delightfully creamy cream cheese icing.....it's a sensory overload, i know, but it's totally worth it. every little bit.

i found these little gems on pinterest (of course) from yammie's noshery. don't let them fool you, they are super easy to make even for cinnamon rolls. i used two bowls (to mix everything, of course i needed one to let the dough rise and one for the frosting, but that's not important right now). wet ingredients in one, dry in the other. add the dry slowly, knead for a few minutes, then let it rise. when that's done, roll out, rub it down with some of that tasty nutella stuff, slice, roll, bake. i was totally late to work on sunday morning, but i shared with my co workers and that made up for it. never mind the part that i am a hard worker, that is not nearly as important as community food time.

if it was not completely inappropriate to put my face into this plate, i would have done it. also, if i wasn't late for work when i was taking this picture.☺ these were my (late) valentines gift to the husband. i am way too poor to buy anything, but i bake with love! that counts, right? ♥

we didn't really have an official "day" per say, but little stuff over the weekend. i had to work friday, so between training and other work, we got lunch. saturday between training and work, went to the auto expo to see all of the new cars (not that we need one, but it's fun to look at them all). finally, sunday, i worked again, but i made these, and some baked ziti after work for dinner, and had a "how i met your mother" marathon. almost caught up on season 9!

                

new corolla

subaru brz

    

challenger, stingray, beetle, camaro!

yes, i am obsessed with corolla, just because i have one, owned two. the second is an xrs, which means she's awesome and raises the response "mine's better" every time i drive past another corolla (i will probably elaborate on that another time). the subaru was just really fun, cute, and if i had $30k to drop on one i would probably have it. i just like pretty cars, muscle, exotics, classics. im such a dude. as for the beetle...have you seen the newer ones? they're kind of bad ass and more manly than the early 2000 models. i loved the hood stripes on this one, it kind of made me think of an evil herbie the love bug. #notshowingmyrealage

on another note, been hoping works will sort themselves out. it figures i get another job and suddenly my main job wants me to work. if i had the hours initially, i wouldn't be juggling three jobs! 

derp. i am pretty sure i lost a day this week thanks to that. maybe i can use that day to pack. i am supposed to look at the new apartment in about 10 minutes.

or apparently tomorrow. it is way too cold out. the sun isn't too bad, though. i wish it was spring or summer, although we are supposed to get rain later this week? i'm pretty sure i live in the only place in the world that can experience all four seasons in a week. thanks, new york! ☼

 so, as far as i can tell, tuesday if anyone is around, i'll be at home trying to pack my things. hopefully going to look at the apartment. i have no idea what's going on. i guess i will leave it at that for now. thanks for reading!