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i'm on poop pickup-feed the animals-water the plants and get the mail duty at my sister's house afer work all week.

and i have the wii all to myself.

well, mikey's pizza cake entry didn't win. :(

but the auction was fun and they made lots of money which is for a good cause (boy scouts).

the contest was separate from the auction, and none of the winning cakes took the top auction bids. hmmmm. mikey's cake had the second highest winning bid of $43 (not his mom, she was outbid) and the highest winning bid was $60 for this cake:

here are the winners (remember, this was a kid project):

1st place (i'm sorry but it looks like someone barfed on this cake)

2nd place (cute idea)

3rd place ( boooooo)

( some of the other entries )

my 8 year old nephew mikey joined the cub scouts just recently. his first "project" was to make a cake for a cake auction. but not just aaaany cake. it's a cake designed to look like something else. it's also a contest. the only requirement is that it be edible.

so last night he and his dad got to work to make a "pizza cake".

the ingredients:

a yummy cake large round cake with the center scooped out to form the pie and crust

strawberry jam for the pizza sauce

grated white chocolate becomes mozzarella cheese

and red fruit roll-ups cut into "pepperoni rounds"

making the pizza:

spreading a light layer of cream cheese frosting so the jam won't get absorbed into the cake

adding the "pizza sauce"

sprinkling (or in mikey's case squishing) the "mozzarella cheese" on

adding the "pepperoni slices"

voila! pizza cake.

the proud scout and his creation. the auction is tonight, so i'll be sure to let you know if he won! i think he should. it was fun seeing the process go from an idea to this finished product.

edit: i forgot to add that i suggested they present it in a domino's pizza box tonight at the auction!

our stupid old cat regularly misses the litter box and pees just outside of it. i keep a layer of plastic under the litter box for easy clean-up when she can't fit her big fat ass all the way in.

and because she's old, she horks up stuff once in awhile. unfortunately, that isn't restricted to the plastic covered area around the litter box. and once, just recently, she hung that big fat ass over the side of the litter box and crapped. thank god that plastic was there.

as a result, i can frequently be heard saying "shit" or "crap" or "sonofabitch" when i have to clean up after her. but tonight was the kicker.

my sister came into the bathroom where i was trying to retrieve an earring from the drainpipe (thank you allie) and told me jasmine had left a present for me.

"FUUUCK!!! where? on the plastic at least?"

"oh yeah", my sister says.

when i finished fishing the earring out, i went to check out my gift.
( cut for the poo squeamish )
"you gotta be kidding me!! no way! is this barf or crap? it's huuuuuuuge!!"

i turn around and the whole household is standing in the doorway snickering. then my nephew comes over and PICKS IT UP.

fake poo. HAHAHA veeeeeeeeery funny. ya got me.

but there were tears from the laughing.

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/2747240/detail.html

my brother is a redondo beach cop. i just talked to my sister. he wasn't working this morning, but he's there now doing containment.

Current Mood: thankful

christmas was very nice. i hope you all had a great one as well. i only took a few pictures.

i'll post the rest behind a cut. the only bad part was that allie was disappointed that she didn't get the camcorder she asked her dad for...but hold on folks....he got her uno attack which of course, every 16 year old girl wants. oh, and a $25 gift certificate to black angus which looks like it was a leftover from one of his golf tournaments. whatever. can you say not a lot of thought put into his daughter's gifts?

anyhoo, she loved all the stuff she got from me. of course. *snicker*

allie gave me a new computer chair. yay! no more creaky old chair. i also got more perfume and the chicago dvd. allen got me a wireless optical keyboard and mouse set, a rechargeable battery charger and a 10 pack of vhs tapes for all my recording needs. oh, and my sister and brother-in-law got both allie and i a membership for la fitness, which is fantastic because i need to start working out and get back in shape.

we spent most of the day at my sister's house playing the new trivial pursuit pop culture dvd game that allie got and the scene it dvd game that my sis gave the whole family. i kicked their asses. ha!

in the afternoon allen and i wanted to see cold mountain, but turns out it wasn't starting until today. so we went to see paycheck instead. BIG MISTAKE. it's only the second movie in my life that i have walked out of. piece of crap.

today we saw cold mountain and i loved it. very good adaptation of the book.

i love that i still have the whole weekend off. we are about to start another round of the trivial pursuit game, so excuse me while i go pour a glass of wine and kick some more ass!
( more pics )
allie with my sister's kitty

allie and my sister donal

my sister's kitty playing in the presents

this is allen. YES HE ACTUALLY CAME WITH US! i know...boo, hiss, boo...

my nephew mikey on his new bike

that's it. as usual, i was behind the camera!

Current Mood: ass kicken'

today is my little nephew's birthday.

i called and he answered.

me: hi mikey, is matt (his brother) there? i called to wish him happy birthday.

mikey: huh?

me: yeah, it's matt's birthday today isn't it? can you go get him and put him on the phone so i can tell him happy birthday?

mikey: it's NOT matt's birthday!

me: it isn't? well shoot, i have a present here for him....

mikey: NO! ! IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!

me: ohhhh...okay! how old are you? 4?

mikey: NO! i'm 6.

me: oh well then, i guess i could give you this present.

mikey: *silence*

hehe. i'm so mean. but it was way more fun than just calling and saying happy birthday.

Current Mood: amused

god it's been so nice having 4 days off. i wish i didn't have to go back to the grind tomorrow.

thanksgiving was nice this year. i cooked again at my sister's house. everything turned out great if i do say so myself. and my dolphins won (though it was hard to follow the game from the kitchen). i didn't have the concern i did last year about my dad and his wife being there. very casual. it was just my twin sister and her family, my little sis and her boyfriend and allie and her boyfriend. allen, as usual, declined to join us. whatever. he doesn't like family functions, so i don't force him. it was kinda weird at one point when i looked around and realized that everyone was there with their husband or boyfriend (including my daughter!), except me. *sigh*

saw love actually on saturday. such a great movie. wow. how can you see a movie like that and NOT like it? it made me laugh and cry and smile A LOT. hugh grant and colin firth in the same movie. rawr!

today we watched bend it like beckham, another great movie. i guess i was in the mood for feel-good movies this weekend.

laundry's done, bathrooms are cleaned and just made fusili pasta with creamy pesto sauce for dinner. yum. looking forward to alias tonight.

hey, that celebrity poker showdown that bravo has been previewing looks like fun. lots of west wingers on it. gotta set the vcr for that this tuesday night.

Current Mood: i want another day off

i received an email from my cousin gayle tonight.

a little background.....her mom and my mom are sisters. she and i had our daughters 6 months apart, we both went through divorces after many years of marriage and our girls are both on their high school colorguards. i wish we saw more of each other, but sadly, we only seem to get together during the holidays.

( here's the email behind a cut )

what a nice gesture! i'm absolutely flabbergasted. haven't i been hoping for something like this?!? it's a miracle i tell you!

allie was already asleep, so she doesn't know yet. i have such a cool family. :D

Current Mood: excited

l to r: my twin sis, my bro, my little sis, me and our dad

i love this pic because we're all together and i am always happy to be with my family.

last night i wrote a long post about all the stuff i did yesterday, including pictures. and then my computer froze up.

i was so pissed i didn't even turn the computer on today. the hard drive isn't the problem like we thought, so i have no idea what the fuck is wrong with it. i just know it freezes up intermittently and i have to start all over again. very frustrating.

so, in a nutshell, because i need to go watch the alias season premiere....yesterday was...

~mikey's soccer game (5 year olds playing soccer....very funny)

~a visit from grandpa (my dad) and grandma with all the booty from their 4 month motorhome trek to nova scotia and back

dad and tracey (hard to believe he's 75, he doesn't look like it to me)

~finally got to meet my sister tracey's new boyfriend eric

tracey and eric (and my nephew matt who must get into every picture)

~fun family bbq and games at my other sister's house.

okay time for alias!

it's hard to keep up with you people when i take a short little vacation!

i have been reading lj entries from last monday until today on and off and between laundry and grocery shopping since i got back this weekend. sheesh! i just now got caught up.

had a nice, relaxing trip. the weather was beautiful as usual up there.

we had another bear scare this year. the dumbasses in the camp site next to us "forgot" to put away some cokes and some string cheese. ARGHHHH...here comes mister bear right through our campsite at 1 am to get to their food! we could hear him tearing the cans apart! it sounded like someone was crushing cans. i've never seen my sister move sooooo fast!! BEAR, BEAR, BEAR as she came screaming out of her tent!
( couple more pics behind the cut )