Baking with Love....

I did some more cupcakes, this time for Valentine's Day. I made them to bring to work since I am still sans a Valentine. These were just my idea for design I didn't have a book I was following this time. I liked melting the chocolate to make the hearts on top and will definitely be using this again to do other desserts and such in the future.

Dane Cook at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena

Went to Dane Cook tonight with Josh S. and his friends Heather and Alexandria. It was fun. We had floor seats. They also had large screens located above each section. The stage was set in the center of the arena so the comedians walked around in a circle. There were three opening acts. Chris Army, Ben Glieb from Chelsey Lately, and Al (something). The show was funny. Unfortunately Spokane had some rude patrons who tried to charge the stage. One guy made it onstage and the other was actually stopped. Dane was none too happy with the Arena's security. Hopefully he will still want to come back to the city some other time. I didn't sneak in a camera, but my friend's little sister did so I have copied her pics from Facebook so I could have some memories for here. (Thanks, Emily M.) After went and had some food at The Max in Spokane Valley before heading home.

Thanksgiving cupcake

So I was overly ambitious this Thanksgiving and thought I could make 24 of these cupcakes. I made only the one. They were very complicated and had too many steps. I was just too busy with school, work, and being sick. Maybe next year if I feel like buying all the supplies over again.

Eye See with my one Eye......

So I had Lasik surgery on Monday, November 8th by Pacific Cataract and Laser Institute. I wasn't scared or nervous mostly excited. The experience in itself was not bad though not pleasant. I felt like I was rushed into the surgical room. They barely let me lay down and rearrange a blanket that I was using before they started working on my eyes. They started with the left eye. The part I was most nervous about was them placing the contraption that holds your eyelids open. That part wasn't too bad. It was when they were placing the microkeratome that cuts the flap on my eye that was very uncomfortable. He kept placing it and moving it and had to try a few times. The sound of the thing cutting my eye was also louder than I expected. They then placed the cutter on my right eye and cut it. This time it took less placement. After the right eye was cut the surgeon commented on the hinge and the two doctors said something I couldn't hear. They then used the laser to do the right eye after flipping back the flap. It was quick. Then they went back and flipped back the flap on the left eye and did the laser. When this was done they placed protective contacts in my eyes. I asked the surgeon "What about my hinge?". He said that nothing was wrong with it and that it was perfect. I was then basically rushed out of the surgery room since they had more people to do. My mom drove me home and from there it was drops, drops, and more eye drops on a schedule. My mom was there to make sure I got all my drops in as I was tired since I had done the surgery after having worked the night before.

The next day was the post-op. So here is the bad news. The left eye is great, but the right eye has an astigmatism due to the hinge on the flap and some epithelial cells that are sitting there. My eye is blurry. I can't see close or far with it. Very frustrating and upsetting. I just paid them $2800 for one good eye. So we scheduled another appointment for the Thursday.

A few days later on Thursday I went back in. After taking the various pictures of my eyes with some pretty interesting machines I was told that the cells were going away and that it was getting better. This was good. Make another appointment for Monday.

Monday came and I went yesterday for another appointment. More cells were gone and I was very slightly better. The good news is they can give me a contact as a crutch while the right eye heals and we wait to see if it corrects itself or we will have to do something else to fix it. The bad news is that it will take at the very least 2 months. Not the time frame I was looking forward to, but hopefully with this contact it will be easier to read and do homework again since having one good and one bad eye makes them fight each other. In fact I am typing this post with it looking blurry.

Finally today I had an appointment with my optometrist, Dr. Gruver. My fourth eye appointment in a week. He ordered me a contact with more strength. Of course, he also looked at my eyes. He dyed one yellow too. I looked like I got in a fight with a highlighter and it won. So at this point I am waiting on my contact to come in and waiting on my eye to hurry and heal. Hopefully it will heal into good vision and I won't have to do anything else. Just gonna have to wait and see.


It was real fun having everyone look at me funny when I went to Les Schwab to get some snow tires.

Halloween Cupcakes

I made the cutest Halloween cupcakes. They are little monsters. I love this cupcake book I have it has the cutest ideas in it. These are little green one-eyed monsters and spiky orange monsters. Way easy to make. I am taking them to work tonight.

Got Chips?

I can't think of the year I started, but I now make salsa once a year. Why only once a year? Becuase it is always in a very large amount and I chop all the tomatoes by hand. No pureeing. My salsa is chunky. I also have never measured the amount, but this year I paid attention. I made 2 gallons! It took me three days to make. I got started late the first night and quit when my hand got tired. I finished everything the second day and realized I had forgotten to buy the cilantro, and on the third day the cilantro was added and it was placed in jars.




Good thing I have people waiting every year to eat it cause I like salsa, but would be sick after eating all this.

1 Semester Down 3 to Go

So I finished my first semester at WSU online last night. I actually didn't have to finish at midnight, more like 10pm. This gives me about a week till I have to start again. Guess I better get packing to move. I will still have work at Riverview, but this next week I will be starting my actual shift of 10pm-6:30am. Guess we'll see if I can do those weird hours. Apartment pictures to come if I can get my keys on Monday and get started.