frosting

"another two hours gone by... and nothing. i'm glad i don't write movies for a living. i had a lead, started to go with it... and then it was gone... a flop.

that's okay. the idea will come... i'm just not sure when... and then when the idea does come, i'm not so sure when i can film it."

that was me at 2:30 this afternoon... and it was another good hour and a half until i got at least a decent idea i could work with. it isn't the best idea, but we'll see how it turns out. i've got until 10:30 am tomorrow (sunday) to finish the movie. oy ve.

i finally found my way out on to the tennis courts of california nice and early this morning... i'd like to say that it feels real good to play without the pressure of tryouts going on. it's good to just get out and swinging.

so i've got a great story for y'all, and it involves a yellow gel-frosting tube for decorating a cake (a "happy birthday jesus" cake to be specific). after tennis, allison and i headed to pavillions to find some yellow gel-frosting in a tube to decorate the happy birthday jesus cake we'd be making for house church. this yellow gel has been difficult to find... the decorating gel being available in all colors but yellow at other stores. so we get to the cake stuff section, and i am looking at the gels and reach out to begin to look in the back ones to see what colors they were. as i do so, a package of gel drops on to the shelf (from where, i do not know) and i grabbed it only to find that it was the very yellow gel-frosting decorating tube we were looking for. and that's not all... after looking at all the bar codes on the shelf and stuff, there were tags for the red gel, blue gel, green gel... but not a tag for any yellow gel. pretty cool? i think so... gel frosting from heaven.

some of y'all may be asking... what exactly is a "happy birthday jesus" cake? well, i'll break it down for you...

three layered cake... round cake (represent the world jesus came in to) with bottom layer of chocolate (represents sin), middle layer of red velvet (represents blood shed for us), top layer of green... yes green... we added some food dye (to represent life). here's where i begin to forget the meanings... covered in white frosting (meaning ... ?), with red hots bordering the cake (i believe to represent us as a body?), a yellow... yellow as in the yellow gel-frosting decorating tube... star of david on the top of the cake (to represent... ?) and then a big red candle in the center from which we each light a birthday candle (representing jesus' light and our job to be a light?). anyway, it was quite fun making this cake. as i worked on frosting it, i took notice of the little pieces of cake that would stick to the frosting and then get all mixed up in it, making it look kind of like the confetti frosting... you know what i am talking about? so as this happened, i thought to myself... there must be something in life that compares to cake getting stuck and mixed in to the frosting.

but i couldn't think of anything... at least anything half-decent. so that's the end of that analogy attempt. anyway, the cake came out great... and i just couldn't get over the fact that we managed to make a green cake. it's pretty cool if you ask me. maybe i'll have some pics of the wonderful cake to put up some time? :)

as if i didn't spend enough time with frosting this early afternoon, i went to jillian's house for a gingerbread house party. so much frosting all over the place... and this time i wasn't careful to keep my fingers clean, because this time i didn't mind eating a bit of frosting here and there. we used graham crackers, all sorts of candies and chocolates, and tons o frosting. mine wasn't exactly a house, but it did have a crime scene in the front and an igloo out back. and an armless unicycler. ya. it was fun to see some more people i hadn't seen yet. and pictures of all that will for sure come soon.

well, 'tis all.

i've got a big day ahead of me tomorrow.

ciao.