I actually did it. Self-published through Amazon for the kindle. My short story is out there for all the world to see. The only thing is that, even with 6 sales, I don't have a review yet. The thought did occur to me that people may be reluctant to review a BDSM story on their amazon account. Ah well, these things happen ( Read more... )

I have been so busy lately that I haven't really stopped to talk about all the stuff I've been doing. It's kind of a mixed bag, that. I mentioned the auditions, so let's go into some of the standard make & bake type things in a quick overview.

I skipped the fourth of July cake this year. The drought shut down all local fireworks, even those over ( Read more... )

The cake is done and delivered, baby! The adrenaline is finally starting to go down. The funny thing is that now I have time to relax and get back on my P90x schedule. =)


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We're one step closer to the final product. Now, I don't want to jinx it, but... damn, I'm good. This little baby is 100% butter cream icing:


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Oh what a fool. I haven't had a laptop since 1994. Now I have an awesome Duo. It converts from laptop to tablet. And now I can't sleep for all the installations and cookies and general things to update ( Read more... )

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At the hubby's demand, I have finally completed my registration for this year's That Takes the Cake competition. Last year I didn't place at all out of only 6 cakes or so in my division and style. But I know now what they are looking for: perfection ( Read more... )

Another interesting side effect from the holidays: Life Decluttering. I'm a huge fan of Flylady.net (even though I find even 15 minutes a day hard to practice on occasion). The holidays? Right, so, I went over my Amazon Wish List repeatedly, adding this, dropping that, tweaking those. And I realized that almost half my list items were organizers of ( Read more... )

Well, this is actually kind of disturbing. Thanks to a minimum of 48 oz of water daily, and breast feeding, of course, I am now at my pre-pregnancy(2) weight. In 2 weeks. That can't be right. Ok, so there is actually hope for total pre-pregnancy weight by the end of FMLAJust imagine if I hadn't made 3 batches of cookies or a lemon chocolate cake! ( Read more... )