Tomorrow is my sister's sister-in-law's daughter's first birthday party. (My niece-in-law?) Anyway, her mom asked me to make a cake, and I'd been looking for an excuse to make a topsy turvy cake for a while. I made the cake layers and stuck them in the freezer last week, made the fondant last night, and cleared my schedule today to assemble the ( Read more... )

Lots to say about my trip to Italy after I've gotten some sleep, but first ( Read more... )

I'm en route to Kentucky for work. Apparently there was some kind of gigantic winter storm. Or a tsunami. Or the second coming. I don't know exactly. This is what I get for not paying attention to the non-salacious portions of the news. (However, I can tell you exactly how Lindsey Lohan's dad feels about her relationship with Samantha Ronson. Go ( Read more... )

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I just wanted to save this screenshot of the Fox News homepage for all time:


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CNN and Fox both have called it for Obama, so I'm going to bed -- well, I might stay up a few minutes to wait for his speech.  FINALLY, AMERICA, YAY!

P.S. Georgia, you disappoint me, but I don't care at the moment!

Obama on the McCain camp's increasingly desperate name-calling:

"I don't know what's next. By the end of the week, he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich," Obama said.

Just saw on CNN that the Dow dropped another 679 points to close around 8500.  Sad Guys on Trading Floors has never been more timely.

I cannot, CANNOT believe McCain called Obama "that one." Just put the damn Klan hood on, McCain, if you're not even going to be subtle about encouraging the racist vote.

Edited for awesome icon, stolen from copelanda on Flickr, via worldforawhile (won't let me link to users, for some reason) .

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