I recently did a new swap for swap-bot - a “Wes Anderson” swap. I liked the idea of the swap but the execution I had a little trouble with. But, I ended up making some cool postcards from Rushmore. I had an idea to make postcards of all of the clubs Max is in, but some of my screenshots turned out to be less than ideal. Oh, and there were 16! So, I only made 6. I might make the rest into postcards just to amuse myself though. I also made a CD from this San Diego band Alyssa told me about called “Kite Flying Society”, again, a Rushmore inspired name. I also found an Indian market really close to my house and found some Indian treats and tea to send along with the package.

I’ve had many people tell me over the years that I would probably like Battlestar Galactica based on the other sci-fi shows I’ve loved and watched over the years. I just wanted you all to know that you were right. It’s not that I didn’t doubt you, it’s just that I never had the real inclination to sit down and watch it until my boyfriend decided he was going to rent it. I watched the miniseries at his house and yesterday rented 2 discs from the first season. Yeah. Already totally into it.

whoa. how’d it get to be april?

i did some things lately. i went to new hampshire. i saw my good friends sarah (currently in chicago) and georgy (currently in boston). jacob and i celebrated our one year anniversary. i got some new glasses. today i had some organic chocolate from the uk. sometimes it’s the little things that really count. but big things are also good, too.

i have some pictures to post and some food reviews to write but i’ve been all over the place lately and haven’t really had time. i plan to take a breather this weekend and veg out and get done with all of that. i also have a super cool “wes anderson” swap i’ve been meaning to finish up and send out, which i will show off later. maybe, this post is just to post. i didn’t really have anything cool to say other then “hey, look at me, i’ve been doing stuff”.

I’ve been posting all of my “adventures in food” posts over on our plain jane food blog if you are so interested in seeing what I’ve been eating. Or maybe you just like pictures of food? Or you want some ideas of where to grab a bite to eat? You know. All that stuff. You can do it over there.

It’s been cloudy all day and I haven’t been doing too much so far. I went to the laundermat today. It was pretty unexciting, but the drums I heard from in front of the new Yogurt World and the dancing dragons made the ho-hum day a little less dreary.

I’m planning on watching “The Darjeeling Limited” this afternoon. My boyfriend had no interest in watching it last night, so I will watch it by myself and I’m sure I will enjoy it. I love weekends.

I created a web gallery of the cakes I saw last weekend at the San Diego Cake Club’s cake show. I think the best part was the “Junior” category to see what the kids came up with. A few of them I thought were obviously helped by mom (a cake by a 5 year old probably won’t look that perfect!) but I was really impressed with a lot of them. I tried to get a picture of the age as well on the Junior related cakes.

Here’s one of the cakes in the teenage category:

The gallery’s not in any kind of order, but all of the cakes are super cute and just makes me want to bake more. It also makes me wonder if I could possibly submit something in the future. In any case, it makes me want to learn a bit more and take some cake decorating classes. I’m going to start with just doing some cupcakes. Since Easter is coming up soon, I was thinking of making bunny cupcakes. I don’t know what this means yet, but I’m formulating some ideas in my head as we speak!

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I finally finished organizing my desk! I removed all the cardboard boxes today and organized my filing cabinet. There’s still one folder to go, but hey, I think I can give myself some slack. I filed away everything that had been sitting in a box and put everything else away. My in/out boxes are being used properly (in the picture you can see I already have some “in” items). The only thing I have to left to do from my list is put my old phone on eBay (which doesn’t really have to do with the organization of my desk, but I had put it on my list) and to donate the stuff I don’t want anymore. It looks so nice and clean now! I have been making a very good effort lately to not let additional things pile up so I hope I can keep up with it. Yay!

In other news, yesterday I went to a cake show in La Jolla. The San Diego Cake Club holds an annual cake show. The show benefits the Muscular Dystrophy Association. They had a raffle and a cupcake corner where you could decorate your own cupcakes. They also had demos for different cake techniques. I took a bunch of pictures of cakes which I’ll stick up here later. They were some amazing cakes! It made me want to make some cupcakes last night, but alas, I didn’t have enough eggs and not enough will to go out and get eggs. But soon! Cupcakes. Mmmm.

Here’s a photo of one of my favorite cakes from the show. I just like how whimsical it is. Plus, I just little edible frying pans with eggs and bacon. It’s cute!