The weekend was easy. Like easy to the point that I was board out of my mind at times. I watched Netflix, read FanFiction, and played Sims 3. Still I felt like I had nothing to do.
I did have Fine Arts, making the figures and all, but I didn’t have a plan for two of them so just did Santa.
Did the little Design work we had: make an icon. This is my abstraction of a brain (brain cells |
Sunday came as a relief for me as we had Sunday night dinner that evening. As it had been Brenna’s 20th birthday the day before we were having what she wanted - spaghetti and meatballs. Thankfully I already had the meatballs made from earlier in the term had frozen them. So I took out the crock pot, tossed them in with the sauce and relaxed for those two hours.
Then there was dessert. Brenna wanted ice cream cake - vanilla and chocolate with Oreo crust, mini M&Ms, and Recess. She also wanted almond cake with orange vanilla icing.
The cake in her favorite color: Orange. |
The ice cream cake was easy to make as I had been making them constantly for several weeks now. For the almond cake I just made a Betty Crocker White Cake and added some almond extract and for the icing I was able to find pre-made orange colored icing being so close to Halloween and so just used that.
They all loved it.
Brenna as we sing to her. Even the candles and their flames are orange. |
That evening we also started to prep for the Winter Holidays (I would just say Christmas but one of our friends involved in this is Jewish so we say this instead out of respect for him). What we did last year was draw names for a Secret Santa and then do the gift exchange during a big party. We wanted to do the same thing this year while adding in our new ‘family’ members as well.
You’re most likely thinking that we’re crazy and it’s too soon to need to worry about that. There’s were you’re wrong.
This year has been crazy. Not necessarily for me but for my CA (computer animation) and Illustration friends (which is nearly everyone) it has been maddening just to get them out of the labs once a week for a dinner that only lasts about an hour.
So we pulled names. Our cards don’t just say who it is on it though, we fill out a sheet that asks you a few questions: name, shirt size, favorite colors, interests, things like that. This way if you pick someone who isn’t your bast friend you can actually find something.
We then makes sure everyone knows about the money limit ($25) and stress that you can also make the gift by hand (like a drawing or something). The time and date of the Holiday party was also scheduled so those who have work outside of school and adjust their shifts.
Thus my weekend ended. I bit slow but everyone needs time off once in a while. From now on I won’t really get any time off like that again so it was nice.
And the best thing about the weekend being over? It means that I have less than a week before I go to DISNEY!!!
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