GEL GONE WRONG: Someone needs a haircut.GRAFFITI ARTIST: This morning the kids were watching a show I am trying not to hate(iCarly), and on the show one of the characters had his name written graffiti style on his shirt. It doesn't take much to get Annabelle's creative juices flowing. She asked me if she could write on the pink turtleneck she was wearing.
Um, well, SURE. It's just a (rather raggedy) shirt that we, no doubt, picked up from Goodwill to begin with. If she likes it better adorned with her own artwork, why not?
I have to say, I thought her additions make it a MUCH cooler shirt.
Oh, and BTW, she wrote select letters backwards on purpose. It's a style thing. ;)THAT DAMN CAKE: Today I finally finished the *&%^$ cake (a cartoony version of Washington State University's Martin Stadium) I've been working on for the past few days. HAD to finish it today, since the event it was for was tonight at 6:30. Kennedy was here at 8 a.m. ready to go to work, and he was quite the trouper. That cake would not have been delivered on time if not for his help.
Was it perfect, no. But it was definitely custom and pretty darn good - at least according to the manager of the upscale restaurant who happened to be a Cougar alumni. He LOVED it. ;)
Hopefully the bride and groom were OK with it. ...FAST FORWARD: CJ declared today that he is going to get married as soon as he's an adult (18), so that he can have kids and they can meet his grandparents. I thought that was very sweet. :)
He also said that when he invents his time machine, he is going to travel back in time and give his great-grandparents the "immortal medicine" that he is also going to invent.
This has been a theme of his for the past couple of weeks - time machines, immortal medicine, and ancestors. Oh, and since Christian and I have explained that if no one ever died, the planet would not be able to support everyone living here forever. CJ's answer? Space colonies and artificial planets! So he's working on inventing those, too. CeeJ is a busy guy.
Bee's shirt is cool. Goodwill should feature her work. It would double their sales - or more.
ReplyDeleteHurrahs for the cake.
And tell CJ that he's not the only one working on immortality. Read a SF anthology 40 years ago that was around a dozen short stories about what it would be like if people were immortal. Very thought provoking.
I'll just add that I saw the late night email from the bride, and the very first word was "WOW!!!"
ReplyDeleteCreative group, that MPS bunch. Glad to hear that someone is finally going to solve the mortality problem--A reminder to the young genius that very old people also need to be spry. Is the decorated cake a new business?
ReplyDeleteGrandpa - I agree with you. Goodwill should give Annabelle stacks of their shirts to do her artwork on - they'd make a fortune. :
ReplyDeleteChristian's report is true - the bride to be was very happy with the cake. Yay.
@ Nonnie - the cake was for a friend of Ken's. No way I'd attempt to make a real live business of it without a commerical kitchen. The cookies and pinatas are manageable, but the 'stunt' cakes are just too big and involved.