Man, we are busy today at the library!  And I am so very tired from last night.  Mom and Dad came home around quarter to one (AM!) and of course we had to talk a bit. 


Moral of the story - people - stop coming in to the library so I can have some peace!

Red Velvet Yummyness

For as long as I can remember, it has been a large desire of mine to have red velvet cake at my wedding.  It is my absolutely favorite cake of all time because, well, it's RED.  And on the most wonderful day of the year, I want to have a bit of my favorite cake.  Plus, it is usually frosted with a light cream cheese frosting, and everyone who knows me knows that cream cheese is one of my great loves in life.  So now that it is time to choose my wedding cake, red velvet is a natural choice.  This choice has been debated a few times with my mother, whose valid concerns included the fact that a large number of people don't necessarily like ingesting that much food coloring.  Understandably so, it reduced my initial design of having the entire cake be red velvet, to just one tier being red velvet, to simply having my top layer-one year anniversary layer be red velvet, and after sampling many bakers wares, have now concluded that we will not be having red velvet cake at all.

Read:  No one in this area of the country knows how to make a proper red velvet cake.

I am vexed people.  Vexed.

A proper red velvet cake always contains some buttermilk.  It is not simply chocolate cake with red food coloring, and don't let anyone fool you into thinking that it is, because its not.  Ok?  Ok.

Harumph.

There are three things in life that can make even the worst problems seem just that tiniest bit better. The first is a cup of tea--loose-leaf Assam with a hint of Lapsang and poured before it gets too dark and then with a dash of milk and the smallest hint of sugar. Calming, soothing and almost without peer. The second, naturally, is a hot soaking bath. The third is Puccini. In the bath with a hot cup of tea and Puccini. Heaven.

--Jasper Fforde, Thursday Next in First Among Sequels

wedding shoes!

I bought my shoes for my wedding dress today!!  This past week I've been a little nervous that the store would be out of my size or color, so this morning I got online quick as a flash and ordered them...in the wrong size, no less.  But never fear, I called customer service and they changed the order for me.  Keep your fingers crossed that it worked!

Much love,
K