So. J proposed on 03/19. He told me the week before that it'd probably happen within the next 2 years. He knew my hopes were up high for the 19th (2 year anniversary), so was trying to throw me off.

Now we're looking for a house - we were pre-approved for the USDA loan, so now we're just trying to find something. Have a few in mind, but sadly its already overwhelming and stressful.

If things work out accordingly, we should have a house either sometime this year or early next year and married sometime next year. Which means we can hopefully start ttc shortly after.

So J gets called out on a job for work (when he first started), he was putting his work uniform on and said "Man! I feel like a Ghostbuster!" *cue my laughs* When he got home and changed out of his uniform, he still felt in the Ghostbuster spirit and put on his Ghostbuster shirt.

So that evening inspired a Ghostbuster theme for J's birthday at Mom's. So his cake had to match:














Red Velvet cake, buttercream for the filling. Green piping gel for the slime.


As J's family hadn't had an opportunity to celebrate his birthday due to his sister getting married the following day, we celebrated it a couple weeks later which gave me an opportunity to try out more new recipes.

Nightmare Before Christmas is a film he watches at every Halloween and likes to quote randomly throughout the year, so I decorated accordingly:














Mr. Jack Skellington

But I couldn't leave the whole cake to Jack. I had to include Jack's best friend, Zero:














I had many issues with the cake while trying to decorate, but it still tasted delicious.

Chocolate Almond cake with French buttercream filling.

And then it brings me to yesterday which was the sad and exciting event of the release of the last Harry Potter film. In my sleep deprived and HP-obsessive state, I felt like I had to do a Harry Potter tribute cake (which by the end I totally crashed after 3 1/2 hours of sleep). But by the time I was done, I was too tired to put anything else on it, so it's rather blank:














Not great quality picture, but those are Gryffindor colors for the boarder.

And a close up of Harry:














Yes, I still need work on my frozen buttercream transfers, but this turned out a little better than the last. White Almond cake with raspberry filling.


And now I'm looking forward to my next project coming up 07/23. J's parent's 30th anniversary. J and the siblings and aunt/uncle/cousins decided to have a small party for them. Looking very much forward to doing this as I have some good ideas going.

Okay, so I am going to be getting transferred to the Ytown office. It's just more of a matter of when at this point. The manager came to the corporate office to meet with me and to discuss the position. I will be doing the same job, but it will just be in a different system. They were ready for me two weeks ago and are trying to get me there asap. My lease is up Sept 30, so I have to packed, moved and apartment cleaned so I can turn in the keys on the 30th.

Then Friday I took the day off to view some apartments. Out of the three I had in mind, I only looked at two. The second one I'm really liking especially as it includes all utilities and I can control my own heat which is a huge plus. Plus it's a little nicer. So I'll probably stay with J and his parents for a couple of months so I can save up money and then probably beginning of December move into one of the apartments.

The third apartment I was going to look at I skipped because they had been pretty much with almost ever conversation I had with them on the phone. I called each place in advance to make sure I could stop by and this place said to just call about 15 minutes before showing up. I call about 1:20 and they had said they were closing at 2 (why they couldn't have told me this when I called to set up a time originally), but I asked if I could still view an apartment if I was there by 1:45. They were just like "fine" and hung up on me. So I said fuck it, I'm not bothering with them because if they are this rude with prospective tenants, what the hell are they like to their residents? So I just headed off to the Ytown office so the manager could show me around.

It was nice because I got more of a feel for what to expect once I get there.

The Ytown office is actually a jeans office, so I'm pretty stoked about that, but I needed to get more jeans because I only have three pairs which do not fit too well. Two pairs of 12's and one 10. But amazingly enough during jeans shopping, I tried on some 8's and they were a little loose and was actually able to fit into 6's which fit perfectly. Though since my weight can go up a bit and/or fluctuate, I figure I was safer to get two pairs of both sizes. Soooo.... yeah. Besides, they were $7.20 each, so since they were pretty inexpensive, why not? My weight this morning was 125. I've never been this weight before. I still have plenty go (at least it feels like it), but not too much. But I don't know, I was just pretty stoked about the 6's.