January's Music

 Oh. My. Goodness. I found some awesome music this month.

January by  Pilot

I love a song by this band so it worked out nice that they have a January song.

This song is like my new favorite song:

Be Alright (radio edit) by  Dean Lewis

So, I listened to this song a ton, and the guy has an accent, right? So I finally I sat down to start playing it on an instrument the first time, and I'm reading the lyrics and I'm like, 

He has a pretty thick accent okay. And it could've been worse there was just the one word alright.

Anyway, I haven't entirely decided how I feel about this song, since he's talking about dealing with the feelings of betrayal 'cause his girlfriend cheated on him. His friend is encouraging him during the chorus, but at one point it says "bottoms up let's forget tonight," which is obviously referring to, cough, getting drunk. But it's a really beautiful song, so like I said I haven't decided if I'm going to keep listening to it.

My Sweet Lord by  George Harrison

 

Bruises by  Lewis Capaldi

You  Can't Hurry Love by  Phil Collins

This was originally like a 50s song.

 

Miracles Happen by  Myra

Sorry, but I watch Princess Diaries 2 or 3 times a year and this is the end credits song and it's good.

 

7 Years by  Madilyn Bailey (Cover

I absolutely love this cover of 7 years. Madilyn Bailey's stuff is pretty hit or miss in my opinion, but I LOVE THIS ONE.

Albertsons. It means a great deal.

CAAAKKKEEE (Cake Wrap Up #2)

 I know I promised I would post pictures of my cakes regularly and I. . . haven't. And you guys were probably like:

So. . . sorry.

 

The thing is, I have a little Cosmos 3 Sliding Phone. It doesn't take great pictures. Here's a stock photo of it when it's open:

 

So like I said, it doesn't take great pictures AND getting pictures OFF of it is a pain in the neck.

So I'm sorry, but I'm just going to dump like, IDK, 50 pictures of the cakes I've been doing (that's probably an exaggeration. . . or maybe not haha) (okay I counted them once I got them in, and there's like 42, so go through them fast). Also, they aren't going to be in order sorry. There's like, 5 monster cakes in there, but they're completely out of order so it's probably hard to see the progression of how I've gotten better at them.

I know the writing is off center, but she didn't want Happy Birthday on it 'cause she had a banner thing or something to put on the cake. But that meant it was really hard for me to center it. But otherwise, I and SO FREAKIN PROUD OF THIS CAKE. I love the colors to death. And those were some of my best piped roses.

I'm not kidding you, the cake above is something the customer asked for, word for word. You can't even really see the Happy Birthday edible paper on the sides. It's a pumpkin pie blizzard cake. I only

My first monster cake:)

Above is a Snickers cake I did for a party I went to. I didn't just put snickers in, I put extra chocolate chunks, peanuts, and caramel. And drenched, I mean drenched, the top with snickers and the extras. It was amazing.

Above is the only Banana Split Cake I've ever had to do and I loved every second of making it. Like I want this for my birthday. The funny thing was, the guy who usually works in Chill with me is always like, "You'd be surprised what you can flip!" (Cause we're supposed to flip blizzards when they go to customers) But I'm not kidding you, I blend this thing and it is WET (Because of the pineapple and strawberry liquid). But I hear his \ voice in my head (it's like 9:30 in the morning and like, nobody is there) and I just go for it. And I totally lost the top of the blizzard and it fell on the counter.

This story makes me laugh, literally every time. I wish I could've seen this from third-person. Oh. My. Gosh. It was so funny. I told the Chill guy when he got there later and he laughed, and he's like, "You can't flip EVERYTHING."
 

   So, I'm sorry, I have to tell you the story of the Spider-man one. So DQ does Door Dash, right? Right. So, you can Door Dash a basic cake as long as we have it out in the case. But some people try to Door Dash a custom cake, and most people have the smarts to be like, "Hmmmm, our cake decorator is here, but there's no way she could do a custom cake in five minutes." And they decline the order. Yeah. Most people.

    But cough, I'm not going to name any names, but let's just say this person has been mentioned on this blog a while ago, but let's just say "Bob" hit the accept button. Then he came back to my area (where I was cleaning up to LEAVE, mind you) and ask my to do a SPIDER-MAN CAKE aghhhhh. So I ask, "How long do I have?" Thinking I'll probably get like 15 mins or something. And Bob's like, "Uh, well, five minutes." So I told him it wouldn't be done five minutes, and so he asked if he should call the lady and say it was going to take longer than that, and I was like, yeah. I was pretty ticked off, and I tried to be nice, but also merciless so he understood he could NEVER do this to me again (This had happened once before but less complicated than spider-man). Basically, he kind of stood in the back while I worked on it, and acted all guilty. He had the nerve to say, "I guess next time I'll just have to be mean and say we can't do it," and I didn't even look up from my piping and said, "Yup." So I think he learned his lesson. But anyway. That's the story behind the rushed Spider-man cake that I thought actually turned out pretty decent!

The bloody one above I'm proud of because it's the cherry cone coating haha. I thought I was so brilliant!

Half and half cake. Cookie dough on the left and oreo on the right

All those years of drawing My Little Ponies finally paid off!

A teenage girl brought a picture in of this one above. I was really proud of close to the original picture.

As usual, please tell me your favorites of the cakes above because I like knowing what people like :)

(Some of these are from our website and I had to copy them. Others I improvised and some customers asked for very specifics, just so you know).

Eat More Chikin'

December's Music

Fa.

La.

La.

La.

La.

I made it! AHAHAHAHAHA. The anticipation of waiting for Christmas has killed me. The curse of being a 7. Anticipation is the best (I always want to be anticipating something), but it's also the worst (because the thing I'm anticipating is not coming, and when it does come I feel deflated because I now have nothing to anticipate).

    I listened to so, so many, December songs. Like 5 or 6. I didn't like many of them.

 

December Song by  Peter Hollens

I've got some 80s music for ya:

Breakfast In America by  Supertramp

Hold On by  Chord Overstreet

She's A Lady by  Tom Jones

One In A Million by  Bosson

Baby by  Justin Bieber

    I know exactly what you're thinking. When this song came out I was younger and I barely listened to anything other than Toby Mac and Owl City. So I'd heard all my friends being like JUSTIN BIEBER AHHHHH. But I think I only heard the song like, in the grocery store once or twice. And because it was such an overdone song, I just judged it based on the fact that everyone hated it. So what happened? I was putting together my wedding playlist (as you have seen and getting ahead of planning. . . like, so ahead that I don't even have a boyfriend ahead haha). And I was trying to find some songs that were from my era (like 2000s) and I can't remember if I saw it in another playlist or it just hit me since it was the most popular song when I was 11, but it hit me and I actually listened to the song all the way through for the first time and I was like oh. This is actually kind of good. It just got overdone so now everyone hates it. I probably go back to hating it in a year or so.

It's Still Rock And Roll To Me by  Billy Joel

I've had a bit of a Billy Joel revival in myself 'cause I've always liked his stuff his voice and style but I never really pieced it together that I, well, really like his songs. So this song is the one that's probably racked up the most listens this month due to the fact it's on the DQ playlist.

50 Ways To Say Goodbye by  Train

Every time I hear a new Train song I end up liking it. This is catchy and funny song and clean which is nice, since not all Train songs are.

Sorry I had a lot this month, peace on earth and all that holiday cheer.

ANOTHER!

 I think we're all glad for a new year. . .

 

 So! Time to talk about me:)

Movies I saw 4 the 1st time this year (I tried to go for the general order in which I watched them but it's a bit of a blur and I don't remember anything of 2020 from before covid haha):

 

Dirty Dancing was pretty awesome, with great music. But there's a fair amount of content. But it has a lot of famous lines, and Patrick Swayze:) A classic chick-flick, I wouldn't say it's my favorite movie.

We were concerned that I might not enjoy Spaceballs due to the fact that it is a parody of Star Wars, oh but I enjoyed this immensely. It was sooo funny haha. I think my 2 favorite lines were:

 

This movie was so funny. Whoopi Goldberg is a singer in a casino and she witnesses a murder. In order to keep her safe until the trial Whoopi is hidden in a Convent among nuns.

I'm sorry it was a really funny movie.

I didn't enjoy Artemis Fowl:( Sorry. It was just not as good as the books. They tried to cram something from each of the books into one, and I just don't think they nailed it. I didn't like many of the actor choices, or what they did to some of the characters, but I mostly just didn't like Holly. Artemis was fine, not my favorite, but I was mostly bugged by Holly. They made her too. . . I don't know girly I guess.

Top Gun $) I loved it. It was just awesome. The movie starts with planes taking off an aircraft carrier at sunset (or rise) and ahhhh.  Like a week after I saw it I got the soundtrack on cd for my car and I was listening to it in the morning and the lighting just matched  the movie's intro and I was like dannnnnggg. It was great, a smidgen of content but there's definitely worse. And dude, Val Kilmer is in it.

 

Saw this for my birthday. . . I liked it, but it's slow. I just couldn't understand what he was saying half the time so we finally turned on subtitles for a while. My dad said we need to see III 'cause that's when things pick up a bit 'cause it was the 80s by then.

This was an epic, cool, and funny movie! It's about a guy who is used as a double for the President while the President is in a coma. And it's just awesome!

With the theaters playing old or older movies, I had the opportunity to see this on the big screen. And dang was it worth it. So amazing, but it was hard to wrap my head around. I had to double check with my friend that I had all the plot points straight.

It was okay? People told me I'd really like it, andddddd I kind of did? I LOVE the intro. It's so hilarious. I do like Star Lord's character because he's a lot like me and of course I love the 80s music and themes, but I'm just not a super huge fan of the rest of it.

 . . .

What.

The.

Heck.

What did this movie add to Marvel Universe? (Language, I know. But heck just slips out every once in a while) What did it add to ANYTHING? What did it add to LIFE ITSELF??!! It took the WEIRDEST turn halfway through, and it was just. . . ugh WEIRD. Yes, the music was nice and I like Star Lord's character, and Mantis was funny, but seriously. This was not a good movie in my opinion.

🎵Grease is the word, is the word, that you heard! It's got groove, it's got feeeeling!

Despite a fair amount of content, this was a rather fun movie. It's a musical, and whilst I don't think I'd like to listen to the soundtrack every day, I did enjoy the music, which is rare. It was funny and about highschoolers in the 60s. Super fun.
 

What do I even say about this. . . lol. I think this is one of the most BIZARRE movies I've every seen. Ironically, I saw it for a college class. It was a Life of Christ Class, so the idea was to watch a film on Jesus' life and write a paper about it. Now, I chose Jesus Christ Superstar because I thought it was the funny movie. No. This was a 70s-high-on-drugs-musical rendition of Jesus' life. When Jesus sang for the first time I can't even imagine what the look on my face was. My parents joined halfway through and they were like. . . wow. It was painful.

One of my dad's favs. It's just funny. I totally recommend it. And, sorry I have to throw this in, my great grandfather made electric guitars in the 70s called Murph guitars. Well, if you look at Bill's guitar, you'll notice it's a Murph! My mom got her hands on the action figures they made recently because it comes with a Murph guitar toy, and it's the only time one of my great grandpa's guitars was made into a toy. So that was pretty special:)

I kind of liked it? It was weird. Boring. A couple good jokes, but I didn't enjoy it. An overall disappointment to me and my dad who are huge Psych fans. 

heaheahea. This was a good movie. My Dad and I saw it when we were scrolling through Amazon Prime and watched the trailer. And we were like, yes. We watched it and sure enough it was super funny. Jack Black is a great actor and he really sold his role.

 

I.

Absolutely.

LOVED THIS MOVIE!!!!

I saw it once and said, "Yup, this is my new almost favorite movie." ('cause we all know Star Wars is my favorite). I'm not going to tell you anything 'cause it's just that good. IT WAS AWESOME!

A funny comedy about a couple with a broken marriage that gets put in the witness protection program. The funniest parts come from the fact that they're city people but are sent to the country. Despite checking a guide before hand, there was more content than I expected. But a good movie overall.

K, I liked this movie. A hitman (Ashton Kutcher) leaves the business so he can live a normal life and be married. He doesn't tell the girl, but after a while "they" come after him. It's super funny, but a parental guide is recommended. (You must know that when I was rereading through the post to check for typos, I couldn't help but laugh as some of the scenes from the movie popped into my head)

I don't recommend this one, it wasn't great. And good amount of content. We were like, a cool 80s movie, and my dad said he'd seen it. So we went for it, and it was meh. A couple funny jokes, but a LOT of swearing and a couple skipped scenes.

HE'S THE MAN!!! Haahahahaha. My Aunt didn't have really anything on her tv for a while so it was just whatever was on the couple channels broadcasted to everyone. Now, I was babysitting and it's nice to have something on in the background. So I started poking around and found the old game show channel, and then a little later I found Cozi Tv, which plays the 6 million $ man everyday at 9 am. So I've been watching it over the past year. It's older, slow, and just awesome. It started with 3 pilot movies, did 6 seasons, a season of a sister show, and 3 reunion movies. So I saw the first 3 movies. I really enjoy it. Premise: Astronaut Colonel Steve Austin crashes an experimental shuttle and is rebuilt with bionics by the government to become like a super human. They have him go on dangerous missions and stuff and yeah:)

A funny movie about Lucy (Sandra Bullock) who saves the life of a man that is almost run over by a train-subway-thing. He ends up in a coma, and things fall out of control in that she pretends to be his fiancé.

A funny movie about a man in his 40s who's 8 year old self suddenly appears in his life. It's funny and comes highly recommended and I don't remember hearing one swear word.

Yeah, I'd never seen Elf. It was. . . really funny at points and pretty dumb at others. So I guess I can see why some people enjoy it, and I can see why it's not the best.

 

This was funny:) Good acting, funny plot points, and pain. I do have trouble with movies where everything goes wrong and they manage to fix everything, but I think this one was fine.

 

I was pleasantly surprised by Candace Against The Universe, I was concerned it wasn't going to be very good by the looks of the trailer. But classic Phineas and Ferb jokes and good characters made it awesome. Not to say the plot was my favorite, but it was still good.

I watched this today, but I'm counting it:)

My Favorite Songs right now are:

Heaven by  Bryan Adams

Apologize by  One Republic

 

Somebody That I Used To Know by  Gotye

7 Years by  Lukas Graham

Hey Soul Sister by  Train

Someone You Loved by  Lewis Capaldi

Hold On by  Chord Overstreet

Some numbers:

-I have 12,787 pins on Pinterest (My Pinterest)

-I read 15 3/4 Books-not including comics-to the best of my recollection (Artemis Fowl 2-8, Reckoners 1-3, Star Wars: X-wing 1-4 (almost 5!), Star Wars: Shield Of Lies)

-I watched 54 1/2 movies to the best of my recollection (Included but not limited to: All the movies listed above, all of Harry Potter (Minus the 2nd half of Deathly Hallows pt. 2), A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Rise Of Skywalker, Princess Diaries 1 & 2, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Father Of The Bride, Miss Congenialty, Home Alone 1-3, Back To The Future) (I sewed and painted quite a bit this year and that caused me to turn movies on to watch while I did said activities)

-I took 2 Vay-Ks.

-I published 47 blog posts (counting this one).

Some Accomplishments:

-I got a job as a Cake Decorator 4 DQ.

-I beat Minecraft and Ocarina Of Time (as much as you can beat Minecraft haha).

-I sewed a dress, a rag doll, and started a 2nd dress from the same pattern as the first.

-I painted 2 canvases (almost, the 2nd one is almost done).

-I got all my Christmas shopping done with 2 weeks to spare (it would've been more but I decided that I wanted to get one more thing like a week after I was finally done). But then Secret Santa tried to kill me two days before Christmas. Long story.

-I survived a crazy hard 3-hour intensive typically senior level college class that was crammed into half a semester. I still haven't recovered even though it was over in October. Everyday was like:

A Summary Of My Interests & Favs.

-Star Wars is still my favorite-st ever.

-Mara Jade is still my favorite character.

-I enjoy Art (Including but not limited to: Painting, Drawing, Sewing, Crafting, Baking, Beading, Stamp Making, Crochet, and my new thing is Masquerade Masks).

-I greatly enjoy music and had quite the year of listening to new stuff. I've played guitar lately but hit up the piano fairly regularly too.

-I enjoy reading and writing, did a lot of the former and some of the later this year.

-And costume/cosplay of course! I had the opportunity to attend a 20s party and nailed, I mean NAILED, my costume. I was Star Lord for a dress up night at my church's children's group (which I volunteer in) and one of the kids in my group came as Groot. It was perfect. I am looking forward to making a Jay (from Ninjago) costume for ninja night.

For Christmas I got:

-The Footloose soundtrack on CD and Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack (deluxe) and Labyrinth soundtrack on Vinyl.

-A Baby Yoda snow globe/music box and some Star Wars Books.

-Chocolate

-Star Wars V Luke Skywalker themed Messenger bag (link to it on Amazon) (so you can see it)

-Portable Airbrush for Cake Decorating (link to this on Amazon) (again so you can seet it)

-Old Navy Gift Cards

-Color Your Own Darth Vader Comic Book (liiiinnnnnkkkkk) (I think you get the picture of why I keep putting links)

-Lego Battle Droid earrings, pineapple cage neckalce (to hold pearls that we got to get from oysters my mom ordered), and a small, metal, and rectangle necklace that has my name in engraved in Aurebesh on it.

-A Star Wars scarf from my secret santa at work.

-A new Alarm Clock 'cause I've had the same one since I was like 8 (so this thing is like 11 1/2 years old and still runs) but my mom wanted to give me one with a more pleasant alarm (I'm never going to part with my old one though, it's going in a keepsake box. And before you judge me, just think we might not have alarm clocks in 20 years and my kids will be like, "WHOAH MOM that things is ANCIENT.").

For Christams I gave:

-My mom a Sweater, paint palette, and nail polish.

-My dad a Top Gun shirt and a retro guitar shirt (the guitars were retro not the shirt haha).

-My bro a Castle In The Sky t-shirt and a casual gamer magazine (I thought it was like for RPGs and stuff but I found it it's for like, card and board games, but yeah).

-My really good friend leather gloves, a magnifying glass necklace, and chocolate per our:

 

-Jazz got a tank heater earlier in this winter because he was too cold (we could tell 'cause he was laying around all day and not eating and the internet said that could be because he was too cold and sure enough), so that's his present.

-I did a Secret Santa thing at work (total nightmare), but the person I got put down: Gag gift, Anime (Naruto and One Piece), and cash. So I got him the 1st 3 volumes of the One Piece Manga and a Naruto key chain and lanyard and wrapped it in baby shower wrapping paper (you know, gag).

Some movies I'd like to see next year:

-Big (Tom Hanks)

-Ferris Bueller's Day Off

-Adventures In Babysitting

-Napoleon Dynamite

-Star Trek Movies

-Citizen Kane

-American Graffiti

-Hamilton (for the sake of seeing it)

Some books I'd like to read next year:

-The last 4 and 1/4s of the X-wing series

-The Star Wars Droids comic I got at Half Price Books

-The Hunt For Red October (I started it and didn't even finish a chapter)

-The Dragon Keeper Chronicles and One Realm Beyond (by the same author)

-The Fowl Twins, since I enjoyed Artemis Fowl so much

-And as many Star Wars Books I can get my hands on haha

So. . . good luck surviving next year!