Due to my new found Etsy surfing addiction (thank you Mireio) I’ve found some rather cool cake websites. Don’t ask me why…I’m like a kid with ADD at a psycadelic circus when it comes to the ‘net – I’m all over the place.

In our house a “cake” is defined as something flat and rectangular or round-ish that I attempt to smear frosting on, make a piss poor attempt to write a heartfelt message of love and affection then throw sprinkles on the damn thing load it down with candles and torch the s.o.b. It’s a very Git-R-Done process that produces some of the ugliest cakes on the planet….so I thought.

Until I discovered Cake Wrecks.

Tacky frosting jobs, hilarious misspellings, freaky subject matter, and snarky commentary, uh, puts the icing on the cake (sorry I couldn’t help myself).

Seriously hang out over there for a bit and read the archives, the writer is HILARIOUS!

I now feel better about my lack of skillz with confections because even with my shitty cake making techniques I have to admit even I couldn’t produce the piles of crap some people are passing as professional cakes.

Once you’re done L’ing-your-FAO and whatnot check out Mike’s Amazing Cakes to see some really fuckin’ amazing cake-work

Here’s just a hypothetical *cough*true story*cough* situation…

Say I meet you for the first time and let’s just say you tell me you’re a “hacker”.

And so in JEST I snarkily (it’s a word! No? Ok.) reply

“Oh, so you uh, like, know how to hack Gibsons?”

And you say “Yes.”

And you’re actually serious.

It kinda tips me off that you’re NOT a “hacker”.

And it’s a pretty good bet the conversation is going to halt right there.

And I’m going to pee my pants from laughing so hard.
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It boggles my mind that people still watch that damn movie and BELIEVE it.

I’ve been making some pretty cool discoveries since I’ve been back running a’muck online. For instance, one of my favorite bloggers has opened a shop named Mireio and I’m head over heels in love with all of her creations! Her handmade housewares are incredibly beautiful and a certain nostalgia for a simple southern summer comes over me just looking at them.

Her work has been featured on Modish (a nifty and very popular crafting blog). I suggest you take a peek and admire (and then acquire) something from her selection of gorgeous goods…I know I’m going shopping as soon as my next deposit hits PayPal

Being away from the blog world for awhile means I’ve kinda missed out on a few things here and there. It struck me this morning as I sat down to review my work from last night that I didn’t recall hearing a peep about Blogathon ’08 over the last few months. I knew it should have already happened at some point this summer but I usually receive emails from certain bloggers looking for sponsorship and I hadn’t heard from any of them.

I went to check the Blogathon website and was kinda bummed to find that it didn’t happen this year. Granted, putting on the ‘thon is a HUGE production and tough work to boot so I understand their wanting to take a year off to rest a bit. I really do hope though that it comes back in 2009 because it’s one helluva great idea and I totally need my fix *chuckle* I <3 my Blogathon!

Figured I’d take a break from cleaning for a few minutes to start doing all the updates to my various blogs…

Figured I’d start with this one…

Didn’t figure I would make my whole fucking blog disappear!

I don’t know what happened or why but after the update everything was just blank. Somehow managed to fix it (don’t ask me how, there was some fiddling and many swear words involved) but I just about lost my mind because silly me didn’t back up! Methinks I’m ready for a beer now…jeez lousie…

P.S. 2.6.2 looks pretty damn nifty back here…I suppose after I finish my others I can sit down and play with it! wh00t!