Tickle Me Elmo

Got up really early this morning because I had an 8:00 AM appointment at Gogel Tire to have the tire that Tom told me was losing air checked out.  Not only is that tire shot, but my other rear tire is also on its last legs.  However, they didn't have the tires in stock -- they have to order them and I have to return on Monday to have the tires replaced.  Meanwhile, the people at Gogel thought that my tire was so bad that they replaced it with the spare which should get me through to Monday.  Good thing Tom noticed that the tire was bad - I am oblivious to that sort if thing.

Once I got home from Gogel I had a lot of time to kill until I had to leave at 2:00 PM to pick up Natalie at school by 2:35.  So I decided to work on the cake topper for Jacob's birthday.  Lauren and Josh agreed to go with Elmo popping out of a dummy cake.  Jacob LOVES Elmo!  I am doing a dummy rather than a real cake because Lauren prefers to get an ice cream cake.  This is fine because I prefer decorating to baking -- and this way we both get what we want. 

I picked up Natalie, brought her home, and allowed her to watch a DVD while I finished the topper.  If I have to say so myself,  it turned out fantastic!  I may, however, decide to replace the fondant eyes with ones made of gumpaste.  The fondant balls are wrinkling and cracking a bit.  I'll have to see if the eyes wrinkle any further.  I should have known better -- oh well!  I still love it!

Caroline got out from work a lot earlier than she originally expected so we actually were able to have dinner together.  She asked me to pick up vegetarian Indian food from Chand's Palace and sent me a list of the food she and Dan wanted.  I went online to find what I wanted for myself and found that I could order dinner online and actually get a discount for doing so.  And the food was ready at the exact time I asked them to have it ready.  Way too easy!

Dinner was good but quick and I left soon after dinner because I have been so tired this past week.  All in all -- a good day even though I didn't expect it.