christmas is always just an excuse to get drunk

in my fam i am the "baker" so at our get-togethers i usually make something delicious.

this year i opted for egg-nog cupcakes with spiced rum butter cream. an experiment that turned into a delicious surprise!

baby love

i made these for my bestest's baby shower last summer and they got lots of compliments :)

they are simple vanilla and chocolate cupcakes with yellow vanilla frosting. 

for the top of my cupcakes i used a fondant template and cutter to create the onesies and bibs. to jazz them up i used food color marker pens, which are brilliant!

re-vamped!

i've decided to try to stick to the blogging thing, but instead of displaying my witty-ness (is that even a word?) i am going to post the tastee and delicious things that i create :)

i hate boys.

i wish i could sing

in September on ONTD's recommendation, I downloaded Lungs by Florence+the machine. i listened to it and liked it but never really listened to it. that changed 2 weeks ago and lately it's the only album I'm listening too. her voice is full of win but she always sings in the same tone/range and I'm hoping on their second album she'll steer away from it. regardless though she is amazing and i wish i could see them April 10th when they come to T.O. but alas it was just not meant to be! :(

Today Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" comes out. all of my friends are super excited about it; and I'll admit when i first heard about it i too was excited, but not anymore. this is mainly because i am starting to really despise all things that fall under Tim Burton's ~vision~. when he first started out, he was amazing! Edward Scissorhands is totally original and just all around awesome, but lately he just plain sucks. i think he's just lazy. he had the potential to be really groundbreaking? but he has definitely dropped the ball.

when i heard he was going to remake charlie and the chocolate factory i was excited! it is fucked up enough that his warped sense of directing would be good...... boy was i wrong! it was a complete train wreck! i love Johnny Depp but even he could not make this movie worth watching. and so i thought the same thing about Alice in Wonderland. my opinion was that out of all the movies that could be made by him, Alice in Wonderland was one of the few that actually seemed to fit his style. i waited diligently and excitedly to see who'd be cast and for the first pictures to surface, and they were enough to keep me excited. then he released the trailer and i was shocked. while the scenes looked amazing visually, it just looked boring. there's no other word for it. it looked as my mom would say "deadly dull". this saddens me because this was one of my favourite books growing up.

i am however going to wait until i see it, and then i can say with absolute certainly that Burton has lost his touch...... but i think I'll wait until it comes out on DVD.

today i found out that my cousin has leukemia. she found out last night and now has to spend the next few weeks at Princess Margaret Hospital getting poked and prodded further. they don't know what stage it is, or if they've caught it early, for now she has to dwell on those 3 words "you have cancer". I'm still in shock. i don't really know how to feel. we aren't really close but she is after all family.

no words

this morning i turned on the news and the first thing to greet me was a story about a woman who had drowned her to two small children in the bathtub.

HOW THE FUCK COULD SOMEONE DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!?????

i mean how can you sit or kneel or whatever and stare at your children and watch the life leave their eyes? it.... i can't.... i just can't believe that this is something that a human being could think is an O.K. solution! and she didn't do it because she was depressed or schizophrenic, she didn't have a mental disease, although i guess now that could be debated. she did it because she wanted to go back to Australia with her children. but because her and her husband were in a custody battle, i guess she figured if she can't have them then no one can?! normally i do not condone the death penalty (and I'm happy that Canada doesn't) but in her case I'd inject the potassium chloride myself! there are few things that make me so angry i literally could punch babies and this is one of them.

i've come up with the conclusion that i am a bad friend.

Canada FTW!

it's been a while (so much for once a week) since my last post so what perfect topic to discuss than the Olympics!?

Usually I'm not that into sports except for hockey and the occasional football and curling game. yes i like curling, it's awesome! what is not to like? it's like bowling on ice! but when the Olympics come on i can't help but get excited. it must come from some inherent need to watch Canadians beat everyone at everything if only to show how incredibly awesome we are!! i only look forward to the winter Olympics though, i don't really get excited about the summer Olympics except for the equestrian sports.

anyways, so I've been watching it when I'm not working and so far we're doing OK. i know that realistically we can't win all of the gold medals but it'd be nice if we could at least come into the top 10. last night though i was excited to see the men's half pipe final for snowboarding and wow was it good! Shaun White did not disappoint. i know that he is from the U.S of A, but man o man i wish i could do some of the tricks he can, boy has got some serious skills!

I'm excited about tonight's hockey game, hopefully it will be good. Really the only medal that counts when it comes to the Olympic winter games is hockey, it is after all our sport. last time in Turin it was just embarrassing. this year we better at least win bronze or else i think the players might actually be disowned by the country. my mom doesn't think we will win, she believes that the Russians are going to take gold (she's a traitor and i have exiled her accordingly). I've been watching the women's hockey team too but i can't sit through an entire game. we've just dominated the other teams we've played, killing then on the scoreboard. it's not very entertaining, mostly because i feel sorry for the other team.

one think I'd like to mention before i stop blabbing; why the hell is figure skating considered a sport?!?!? i mean it is essentially dancing on ice. i know that triple and quadruple axles are hard as well as other technical things that i don't know names for but seriously? i think that if figure skating is considered a winter Olympics sport then shouldn't dancing be considered for the summer Olympics? So You Think You Can Dance is amazing and they train their butts off to really bring it when they perform on stage, how is that any different than figure skating?

*waves Canadian flag dramatically*