Update! Duh, isn't that what a blog is?

Ok soooo...

First off, I had my first night of grad school last week. The class was 4 hours long, and all about APA. Shoot me. Thankfully I wasn't the only one whose eyes were crossing and brain exploding, so that was encouraging. Also, we meet once a month, and just have a lot of hw in between, which I can handle (once that particular book is delivered to me!). I have an online class that "meets" every Tuesday night, and since I haven't yet looked at the assignment due for this week, I can tell this class will challenge my discipline. "What discipline?" you may say. Yeah...my thoughts exactly. I have been so good at skating through school; I honestly never had to try very hard to earn great grades. Needless to say, I'm scared. My schedule is not in a certain pattern either, which makes me extremely nervous that I'll forget a Thursday night class and miss 4 hours of information, not to mention knock myself down a grade point. Oh, and I can't get below a B-, or I'm out of the masters program. I have only earned that grade once in my life however, and it was probably for some stupid science or math class somewhere between 7th and 11th grade, but just knowing this pyschs me out. And I'm afraid that I'll procrastinate in a terrible way, and yet still have to so much hw to do that I'll have to leave my bible study and never see the outside world. Oy!

I am currently, at this moment, baking a practice wedding cake. Ok actually right now I am waiting for them to cool, and then I will be re-baking one layer of my 8" round, since the first one I did turned into a bundt cake after I took it out and let it cool. (Still raw in the middle...I think I used either too much sour cream or too much raspberry in that one...) I'm excited though, it's going to taste great. I have my chocolate ganache cooling right next to me, waiting to be spread on and then frozen until tomorrow, when I practice decorating it. Also, I'm very excited about my new love: Wilton's Cake Release. It pretty much makes your cakes slide out of the pan, no tapping, cutting, or pulling necessary. Voila!

Sidenote: have I wrote yet about how much I hate the phrase "nom nom"? Because I do. Truly and passionately. I just need to say that. If everyone on facebook cut that phrase out of their lives, I think the world would be a better place, just sayin...

Also, Matt and I got into an... argument? disagreement? hurtful words fest? yesterday. I think that last one was the closest description. I'm pretty sure it's the first one we've ever had. It ended with him driving me home, and then me driving around for an hour or so talking to God and just blindly navigating myself around my surrounding cities. I am proud to report that I managed sometime between 1-2am to figure out how to get through 4 different towns using only back roads. Beat that! And then I came home and slept. Today is better. God and I are still figuring stuff out. I think I'm learning how to be "still"? Or patient, probably. Who knows at this point. Ha!