Attempt to wake up at 7:30AM was a fail. I had my alarm set and it did go off…but, I fell back asleep and before I knew it, it was already 10:30AM. I think next time I will put my phone half way across the room so that I actually get up. (Kind of wish I would’ve thought about that last night.)
Ok, so, once I did wake up, I started X Stretch for today’s workout; it is designed to make you more flexible and thus, stretch you out. It’s slower paced and the time seems to go by slowly as well. But, it’s only about an hour long, so it’s bearable. There are some moves seen in the Yoga X video plus some others that are only seen in this particular video. All in all, this was exactly what I needed to start the day because I knew that the rest of the day was going to be hectic, stressful and crazy.
…And so it was…
But, before I get to that, like I said yesterday, we had the AC turned off and the windows open. I open the curtains at night and then shut them when I’m in the living room doing my exercises. (There’s ALWAYS someone outside walking around when I do my workouts.) I was hoping that the curtains would deter people from seeing my in the living room but I’m afraid I was probably wrong. Today, there were about 4 men doing something with one of the apartments near us and they kept walking past our windows. Being only a few feet away from them, I’m sure they could hear me and TH because I could hear them. I was doing some of the poses and stuff and got really paranoid because we were literally only separated by a half-sheer brown set of curtains. (I don’t like when people watch me work out…plus, I was in my sports bra and shorts and they kind of don’t need to see that.) Anyway, before we went into shoulder stand and plough, I decided to pull down the shades and make sure that they couldn’t see me. It eased my mind and I was able to do shoulder stand with no problem.
About ten minutes to finishing the workout, TH told us to do “Frog,” which means that you get on your hands and knees and then spread your legs to make a 90 degree angle on the floor. I was calm, cool, and collected during this move until I realized that someone was standing behind me and laughing. Today has been a day of watchful eyes.
Today has also been a day of stress, craziness and casualties. My goal for today was to flat ice the cakes, decorate them, and get them ready for tomorrow’s transportation magic act. (It truly will be magic if I pull it off because I have to drive these puppies about an hour away in a car (not a van with a flat floor, but a car, that has seats angled for comfort and not cake transportation.)) I’m half freaking out just thinking about it because if this cake goes kaboom, it’s gonna be messy!
I was able to flat ice the cake and decorate it. (For the most part.) I made some fondant flowers to put on the sides and ended up not having enough so I have to make more. I also food color sprayed them gold and put what I did have on the tiers. It looks pretty but I’m concerned with the swags, which drape off the side as well. (As I was putting the flowers on, the swags had gotten cold from the fridge and they are starting to fall off.)
But, folks, that’s not all. I ran out of icing today. I had 26 pounds of icing to start with and with the exception of maybe half a pound, all of that is on the cake. I had to make more so I figured that my Kitchen-Aid could handle 2 more 3X recipes. Nope! It died after the first one and I still need more icing for the cupcakes. To say that I am frustrated with my Kitchen-Aid croaking is a severe understatement. I’d hate to have use what profit I do make to have to replenish the kitchen accessories that died throughout the process of making this cake. (Our $20 food scale died last night because it was resting on the only burner of 4 that emitted steam from the oven. <<it was on the burner because I was being a dummy and wasn’t thinking plus like I said yesterday, we don’t have much counter space so I had to use the oven as a resting place. Never going to happen again!) So, that’s about $220 worth of damages so far; unless we can somehow resurrect the Kitchen-Aid or get a new motor or something.
To add to the casualties, I had a really close encounter with a complete production stopper and possible cake ruiner! I almost cut off the tip of my right thumb (again…this happen back when I was in baking school, cutting apples too fast with a newly sharpened knife…and what do we get…the tip of your thumb goes missing.) Thankfully, I did break the skin. The only damage that happened was that I now have a little flap of skin that I’m too much of a chicken to peel or clip off. It hurts…but not as bad as it would be if I was missing the tip of my thumb. I was cutting the support sticks for the cakes when this happened. The serrated knife slipped and came for blood. (But, HAHAHA, it didn’t get any!)
To get off of the subjects that really burns my cookies ^^, tomorrow is the event and I will not be getting much sleep, if any at all. Fumes will be my energy source until I can get some quality sleep (which won’t be until Saturday around 1PM). I’m super stressed and I haven’t been getting the necessary amount of calories so those two factors are statistically horrible for weight loss. I’ll be excited when I can get back to my normal life and not have so much on my plate.
To sum this up, tomorrow is make it or break it day. This is always the worst of all cake decorating days for me because all the time and hard work can be lost in a single slip up. I’ll be transporting this myself (I’ve always had my husband to help me in previous cake adventures) and I’m still not even sure where the location is. (Yikes!) I can tell you one thing though, people on the highway are going to HATE me because I will probably be the slowest one out there. I’ll be praying the entire way there!!
To close, the bottom tier weighs 17 pounds (Oh, by the way, I weighed all four cakes…just the cake…no icing…the other day and four tiers with four layers each only weighed 19 pounds.) So, I’m going to guess that this cake is going to weigh close to 60 pounds. That’s a little less than what I’ve already lost. So, it really puts it into perspective for me. I sure as heck would not like to put that back on because just the bottom tier was heavy!! Until tomorrow…
Signing Out,
It’s Possible!!
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