Jerica and Lizzie Now Taking Orders

Witty? no? okay.

Well, some of you may know that I do not make cakes by myself. My best friend Lizzie and I make them together.

We made a cake for my dads 50th birthday. First of all my mom threw him a surprise party. My brother from Minnesota and his girlfriend came home, my dad's brother his wife and my dad's parents and were at the bar waiting for my dad to show up. They were also a surprise. He walked in and was completely amazed.

Exhibit A.

He loved the cake and it's probably one that I have spent the most time on. For that Minnie Mouse cake in August being my first cake with fondant I would say that I'm doing pretty well. :)

I painted this by hand.

I see flaws but for my 3rd fondant cake and someone who is learning on their own, I would say it turned out really nice.

We don't have any plans for another cake as of now. I do believe we need to start charging for our cakes though. This was one was definitely time consuming and expensive.

Well, I do believe that is all for today.

Any questions?

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

I feel like there are times in a persons life where they just want to raise the white flag and say "I'm done." For some people I suppose it can happen multiple times in a month, week or even in a day.

I'm to the point where I just want to scream it. Now, this isn't about any one thing either. Its a general thing. To be completely honest it has nothing to do with my boyfriend. It has nothing to do with my best friend. I has nothing to do with my family. For once, this is ALL me. I just want to give up on hope.

I read a quote today that gave me some hope.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.

I feel like...
Man I'm 22 and I have no idea what I'm going to do or what I want to do with my life. I feel like I should have had it figured out by now. I feel like I was expected to have this figured out with I was 18...or 19 in my case (high school graduation essentially).

What was the check list, growing up, of what I wanted to be? I can remember wanting to be a Doctor, then even further a craniofacial doctor, to help out babies that were like me. Speech therapist, to help kids who had a speech impediment like me. I wanted to sing professionally but I've never been confident enough in myself, I also know its an insanely small chance I would've been famous. I wanted to act....for a long long time....see "singer" excuse. I wanted to be a chef....and then I wanted to be a professional baker. Cakes to be exact. For those of you who know me personally or actually read this, you know I actually make cakes. but my schooling for that was a joke. I intended on completing school for baking and pastry, but that didn't go as planned. Everything I know about cakes or most of what I do, I figured out or I learned from my friend who got to complete school. I LOVE cooking and making cakes....but its not something I want to do professionally for the rest of my life.

I really really.....don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

Input?