daily update

On Friday night there was a fun little get-together at Fairburn. I was in my room, after work, preparing to fight the battle of my life when I got a call from Ms. Bethany herself. It turns out that she needed someone's help purchasing food items for the little b-day party she was throwing herself. She only gave me 45 minutes to do this, so I slowly hurried out the door to help a few friends out. Now the guest list had like 200 people on it easily, but they only told me to buy for 30. So I improvised and just got what I thought they would need. It may have been a little much, but oh well.

I treated myself to a glorious batch of Pancakes on Saturday morning. Right before I started plotting a computer model, and then physical model of my future Gingerbread house. Ahhh, just like school again. And all for a gingerbread house. Oh, just you wait though, Its going to be spectacular.

In the afternoon Jeff took some of us to see Alvin and the Chipmunks on the Fox Lot. It wasn't bad. It wasn't great, but entertaining. Better than I thought it would be. Then later I had to rush home, get dressed up, and meet some of my old school mates at some fancy restaurant in West Hollywood. Yes, I found out more about gay culture than I ever had wanted to. It wasn't all dudes though, I sat next to a chick I knew. She quickly reminded us how weird she sometimes is.

I woke up early on Sunday to plan out and make a foam-core model of my gingerbread house. It, like most things lately, took longer than I thought. As well, making the actual gingerbread dough. But in order to start that, I had to run over to Jeff's place to get the rest of the ingredients that I needed. Then mixing all that stuff took until 5 minutes after church started, then I got there 15 minutes late, so in other words, right on time for Elders Quorum :)

After church was over there was a very meager munch n' mingle. I found nothing there for me, so I just went home to start my gingerbread prep. While at home I realized that I didn't have the necessary bake-prep devices, so I had to do it somewhere else. At Greenfield.

The Gingerbread House Party at Greenfield was a Huge success. There were tons of people there. Too many in fact. That could have been part of the reason I left so early. But there were enough activities for all to enjoy. I was literally in the kitchen for 90% of the time working on cutting my Gingerbread shapes. There was hot Cider brewing. There was Eggnog, and a delightful assortment of cookies. There was a full table of people making gram-cracker houses being made. They were quite creative. And in the other room, if that wasn't enough, Emily had purchased a schlew of C-tree ornaments and some glitter/puffy inky stuff, that you would draw on the ornaments with. Now that was truly fascinating. I wish I would have spent more time decorating those bulbs.

Lunch was sponsored by the Corner Bakery

I'm listening to The Chronicles of Narnia- The Silver Chair right now. It was just like the last. They could have made a 10 minute story out of it and covered just as much ground. It was barley entertaining. No new concepts were revealed, and no new excitement was engaged.