Moar Cakes!

Seeing as how I never actually gave an accurate description of what I wanted in a cake, or perhaps my preferences changed since I started talking about it, here's a general idea of what I'd like. H. had the brilliant idea of having me draw it and putting it up on the interwebs. He really is a technical wizard.

I'm super excited about the bottom and top layers, but I'm unsure as what to do for the middle layer. I'll number the options so that we can keep track of them.

1. Vertical Dot Stripes - I spent half an hour on The Knot's cake gallery website, and couldn't find a picture of these anywhere. I know that cake-making people don't like to do horizontal lines (imagine trying to put something completely level around a circular object), but I thought for sure someone would have done vertical stripes using icing dots. Apparently not. The closest image I could get was this one below.

Vertical Stripe | The Knot

It actually resembles my drawing pretty well. Especially the bottom and top layers. Try to delete from your mind's image all of the flowers in between the layers. What do you think? I imagine that two columns of icing dots would be about the width I want. I don't really want thick vertical stripes on my cake.

2. Quilter's Diamonds - I realized that if we have two very textured layers on top and bottom, we might need something less textured in the middle for the viewer's eye to rest on (I've been watching waaaay too much Nate Berkus). This would be a good place to put a little blossom, don'tcha think? I'm also kind of in love with the color of these flowers in the next picture.

Quilter's Diamonds | The Knot

Love love love the simplicity of this cake. And the little flowers don't look overpowered by the design or anything. As far as flowers are concerned, that's another post. I need to know what the price point would be for the bouquets I finalized in a previous post. If we wanted to do our own flowers, I think we could do it, but it would be a lot of work and stress the day before. We might be able to do them two days before, but three is probably pushing it. But anywho.

3. Banner Drapery - Yeah, I just came up with that name. I have no idea what these things are actually called. This is the last option for the middle tier, and it looks kind of bridal-y. The more I write about it, the more I don't like it, but now you're curious as to what it is, so here it is.

Banner Drapery | The Knot

We're looking at the second to bottom tier, the one with the least number of things on it. The little curtain, drapery banner thingies. My initial idea on this was that if we put flowers on the middle tier, the little banners wouldn't get covered them up by the flowers. But now I think I'll just edit out this entire idea from your choices. Bridezilla to the rescue!

So your three two options are (1) Vertical Dot Stripes, or (2) Quilter's Diamonds. Better number one? Or better number two? (Optometrist humor.)

In the vein of things that are not related whatsoever to the wedding, we thought that someone was moving into the apartment below us, because there was a moving truck outside and loud men yelling things at each other as they carried boxes to and from the truck. Turns out, our neighbors that live diagonal downstairs from us are moving out. Which means that now we have no military protection (downstairs diagonal + downstairs neighbors + neighbors across the top from us = all Army people). Now we have to deal with what will probably be college kids being super loud all the time, or old people that will rock our socks with their degree of quietness. I'm hoping for the latter. I will also take a middle-aged person living by themselves. That's basically like living next to an old person, right?

Went to Costco yesterday. As you may remember, Costco has samples of their products on some of the aisles where people gather and carts collide in a huge tasty traffic jam. Well. Yesterday H. and I had some of the tastiest samples: meatballs featuring this delicious teriyaki sauce that they were selling. We decided to buy the sauce, since it really was the best we'd tasted, and proceeded to make our way around the store. Our list of samples included the meatballs, chicken salad on bread (H. didn't try this), flax seed mixed into yogurt (H. didn't try this either, so uncultured), orange chicken, and cheddar broccoli soup (super tasty, also super cholesterol-y). As we were deciding which line to aim for while we walked to the front of the store, we decided that as long as the meatball lady was still there, we would have seconds (a testament to how awesome the sauce was). We downed the meatballs, then a scary realization crept into our brains at the exact same moment.

It's a Friday. During Lent. It's a no-meat Friday during Lent. Crap.

We had both completely forgotten somehow, and were now feeling guilty about what we had eaten. We promptly bought our things and drove to the nearest Wendy's for a fish fillet lunch as a means of making up for what just went down.

Couple of hours later, I'm on good ol' Stalkerbook, and H.'s younger brother commented on someone's post to thank Momma Mary for letting us eat meat. Scratching my head, I asked Google if this was true, and it was! If a holy day falls on a Friday in Lent, we are allowed to eat meat instead of abstaining. There was a huge sigh of relief in our apartment, lemme tell ya. So yup, there's your happy feeling of the day.

Now it's time to see which team will go through to the final eight or the sweet eight or whatever it's called in NCAA basketball. Side note: I always get N-C-double-A mixed up with N-double-A-C-P. It's like how I get Tom Hanks and Bill Murray mixed up. But back to basketball! I would like both UConn and Arizona to move onto the next round. Seeing as how their playing each other in five minutes, I don't think that will happen. But this also means I will like either outcome. :D