This morning I decided to work on my birthday cake for my family party tomorrow. My decorations are kind of elaborate so I was just going to make a box cake. For me this isn't so difficult, I am a pretty good cook (or so I've been told) and I can make crepes from memory, so make a box cake doesn't seem that hard. Well it is for me. I mess up every time. Nothing to huge but I make a mistake. Every. Single. Time. Today as I was taking the cake out of the oven my grip on the pan slipped. The cake thankfully stayed in the pan but my giant oven mitted hand decided this wasn't going to go smoothly. In attempt to not have cake all over the floor my hand went into the cake, it looks like I punched it. This wouldn't be such a problem if I didn't have to place decorations that I so carefully made on top of this uneven cake. As I said before my decorations are kind of elaborate and they took me a long time to make. I made all of them out of fondant, the best way to describe fondant is sort of like edible play dough. I made the signature Harry potter glasses, a Gryfinndor scarf, and the Deathly Hallows symbol. I also made a snitch, I put this edible gold dust that we had to make it look golden. Last I made a book by layering three saltine crackers and covering three sides with a binding of fondant to represent a book. Laina also made a snake. She's such a hypocrite, she laughs at the idea but then wants to help me. The only reason I let her was because with the edition of the snake I had seven objects, the same number as the number of Harry Potter books. I hope this cake turns out good, its not perfectly made, obviously, and my scale is no where near accurate (the glasses are three times bigger than the book) but I'm really excited. Once I finish I will post a picture so you can all see! : )
As some of you saw my last post was about IMEA, sadly I didn't make it, but its in the past and I'm so happy because my next few weeks are filled with exciting days. The exciting day that comes first in my month of awesomeness is going to D.C. I've been to D.C. but we only stayed for a couple days and my grandma had shingles so we had to find a doctor and we didn't get to do everything we wanted to. I'm also really excited because not only do we see just about everything in D.C. but we also go to Baltimore, which means I can sing 'Good Morning Baltimore' from Hairspray and actually be in Baltimore.
Also in about two weeks its my birthday which includes my birthday party. All my family comes over and we have so much fun. This year I'm going to make a Harry Potter cake, once I make it I'll post a picture so you can all see it. Laina was telling me that its something a seven year old boy would do, but I don't see what her problem with it is because she's getting her own cake. Less than a week after my birthday comes the release of Taylor Swift's new album 'Red'. I'm ecstatic, I am a huge Taylor Swift fan and can't wait for the album to come out so I can learn all her new songs. As everyone knows Halloween is coming up and usually I'm not to crazy about Halloween ( I know most people find that insane) but this year I can't wait because I love my costume idea. My friend came up with it but I changed it a little bit. My friend said "Let's be Thing 1,2 and 3". ( My other friend is involved in this) But I said that I have already been Thing 1 and 2 with my sister so I didn't want to do that again, so I decided to be the Cat in the Hat. It sounds so simple but I thought it was a pretty good idea. I can't wait, in my head I was excited out all this stuff but reading it makes me so excited I can badly contain myself! : ) Yesterday me and my dad drove an hour to Round Lake for my IMEA audition. I'm going to guess that just about nobody knows what I'm talking about, basically IMEA is an all star band. You get the music in May, you audition in September and if you are picked to come back in November and get to play with everyone else that was chosen. For the audition I needed to know a page a scales and four songs (ten pages). All of the songs are really challenging and in the audition you don't play the whole song but you need to learn all of it. One of the songs I worked on for such a long time and I only played the first two lines. Now I realize you might not care or that you might be completely lost but I worked hard all summer and this was very important to me. Now you might be thinking "Well if you worked so hard in the summer, why were the songs so challenging?" but if you think about it working hard in the summer isn't that easy. I don't have much else to say other than I'm so happy its over, now I don't have to practice like a maniac and I very happy because I did much better than I did last year. (Last year I played about two notes right. Yep that bad.) To everyone who finished this blog that most people don't care about, thank you and keep your fingers crossed that I get in!
The other day we went to Baker square for some pie. I had this chocolate peanut butter one, it was so good. What didn't look so good though was this new pie called the salty hog. The pie is pretty much pie crust, roasted almonds,and the French silk filling topped with bacon. I don't like bacon but it still doesn't even sound a little bit good. when we asked the waiter if people had tried it, he told us that people say they like it with out the bacon. Why would you order a pie topped with bacon if you aren't going to eat the bacon? It just doesn't make sense.
What also doesn't make sense is the saying 'As easy as pie'. I have made several pies before and most take like two hours even if other people are helping you. also when I make a pie something always goes wrong. One time Laina kept dropping the apples in the garbage as she was peeling them. Another time I was taking the pie out of the pan and my crust fell apart letting all the pie filling fall on the counter. I wouldn't consider any of those times 'easy' proving the saying completely wrong. Even if the saying is talking about pi, its wrong. Most people (like me) only know 3.14 which is still hard to work with in math if you aren't using a calculator, and the real pi is so hard no one can use the whole number in their calculations without a calculator. Well I just proved my title wrong, maybe I'll change it to as hard as pie... On Wednesday I was over at my family friends' house and after we finished our homework we didn't really feel like doing anything so we turned on the TV. My friend was flipping through channels when my friend goes "Jumanji, Jumanji put Jumanji on". Now she says some pretty strange things but I was like what are you talking about but then her sister goes "Oh I love that movie, let's watch Jumanji!" I had never seen it or even heard of it but we watched it anyway. Basically its this board game that's alive, people find it because they go looking for the something that's making a weird noise, what they are hearing is the game's heartbeat. It starts with this boy who finds the game and then plays it with his friend Sarah. The boy, Alan, goes first he roles the dice and the piece moves by itself. There's a crystal ball like thing in the middle that gives a riddle that tells him he has to go to the jungle. Sarah goes and again the piece moves on its own and tells her something about bats. Alan gets sucked it this tornado and Sarah runs out of the house because there's a swarm of bats chasing her. Then the movie goes 26 years later and two kids move into Alan's old house and find the game and that's when the movie really starts. Over all it's a really interesting movie and even though the graphics are terrible it's really intense. I suggest this movie to everyone, especially if you like Robin Williams or Bonnie Hunt because they both play main characters. Two summers ago my mom found this show, Barrel of Monkeys, it is just about the funniest thing I have ever seen. In order to create the show a group of actors goes to a Chicago Public School to teach a workshop, the kids write stories and they perform them. It may not sound that funny but when they turn a story that doesn't make any sense and make it a song you can't help but laugh. What also makes it funny is the big guys will play little girls or women while the girls play little boys or men. Their costume are also something to laugh at because it looks like my dress up box from when I was about five. Some of the stories may not seem funny at first, but sometimes you have to think "A third grader wrote this? How in the world did they come up with that?" What I think makes Barrel of Monkeys unique is that at the end of every show you get a piece of paper with all of the stories and you circle your favorites and cross out the ones you liked the least. The tally all of the responses up and the two that were not liked the most are out of the show and two new stories are added in so every time you go its a different show. The only problem is that its on Monday nights so its sometimes hard to get to a show with homework and after school activities but its always well worth it. I don't know how to connect a link but the website is barrelofmonkeys.org
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Last weekend I went to my uncle's wedding. Well he's more like my half-uncle, he's my mom's half brother. Anyway it was really fun. My mom, my uncle, Laina and my cousins were all in the wedding. My mom was a bridesmaid and my uncle was a groomsman. Me, Laina, Danielle, Michelle and John (my cousins) all read at the ceremony. We all had such a great night, taking pictures, dancing and going in the photo booth. The best part about the photo booth was you don't just take pictures at the end you can leave a video message. With my cousins we pretended we were on a roller coaster. My youngest cousin Mark was the ring bearer and everyone in the wedding party was obsessed with him. Mark is really smart for a seven year old and he says the funniest things not knowing they will make people laugh. He told the best man, who he had only known for a couple of hours, that he looked like one of the Three Stooges. He was talking to two other groomsman about his 'girlfriend', and he wore fake mustaches with another. What made everyone love Mark, whether they had met him or not was his dancing. He danced with everyone to every song…for two hours, then he took a nap. The wedding was amazing, all the decorations were purple, my favorite color, and all the tables were numbered with Chicago athletes from the Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks and Cubs. My family sat at the Jonathan Toews table. We were right by the table for the wedding party so we had front row seats to all the speeches that made everyone cry, including my uncle whom I had never seen cry ever. It didn't last long though because Thriller came on and he knows the whole dance, so in five minutes he was on the dance floor. To top the night of I had a once in a lifetime experience, I saw a man in a kilt do the Cupid Shuffle. |
MarisaHi, i'm Marisa. I like to dance play the flute and I have a slight Harry Potter obsession. I also love country music and Taylor swift. Archives
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