There she goes, there she goes again!

Hello everyone! The past couple days have been eventful ones, which is good. I think I left off at...Day 2, which was the day we picked up Aunt Diane and went it to Taco Taco. Okay! So we're onto Day 3.

Day 3: This was our first day working in the booth at the convention. Have I mentioned it? This convention was the 75th Anniversary of AA, so we're selling merchandise from mom's store. It was a pretty good day, REALLY tiring though. My feet hurt so bad after every day we worked, along with everyone else's. The neighbor booths around us were very nice and we all had a bunch of fun getting set up. Today was just a "get used to the surroundings and set up your store" day, so that's it.

Day 4: This day...I think I stayed home. I'm forgetting a lot of the dates here, but I believe mom let me stay home this day to relax and regain my foot arches once again. They had a good day at the store, however it rained a LOT while they were there. Actually the first day, we got the merchandise out, then it started to rain! So we had to scramble to grab everything and get it to a dry place, and our station still ended up flooded by the end of Day 4.

Day 5: Day 5 was yesterday, July 2nd, I believe. I went back to work today, and since it was Friday it was reallyy busy. We were constantly taking charges and cash and our money belts were so messed up by the end of the day. It rained some today, but not as much as the day before. A little of the merchandise, including some of our shoes, were ruined by the rain, but we didn't lose too much. OH! At the beginning of the day, I was harshly insulted by a customer! She had bought some merchandise, and gave me a large bill, so I made the change best I could(I've never been very good at it), and it was wrong. She counted it by herself, and replied "You're short changing me, do you know what country you're in?" Now I had no idea how to respond, and so I just gave her the change she was asking for, hoping she would just GO AWAY. Now every time I see a woman that looks like her pass by, I cringe inside, because she was really mean! When I bent down to get her a bag, I was almost teary eyed; I wasn't expecting to be insulted! By the end of this day, I was almost sure I wasn't coming in for Day 6....

Day 6: But I did. Day 6 is today, July 3rd. Today was VERY eventful. This morning we all got up and shuffled into the car, and went to work. Once we got there people flooded in. We had so many customers, it was like all of the previous days combined. Since we were one of the booths with the most diversity, and the only ones with the spinner rings and the sobriety year pins, we stayed pretty busy throughout the day. Once everything started winding down...around 11 PM, we started to get a little punchy... Also, there were crickets EVERYWHERE! They were attacking! It scared me so bad, I couldn't even bear to sit in my chair for fear of crickets jumping on my head again. They were creeepyyyy. Anyways, around 12:15 AM we headed out to the car..which is when things started to get weird. Mom was already overtired, but I don't understand the rest of the night. First, when we were all in the car, Aunt Diane realized that she hadn't taken her money belt off yet, so she was standing outside the car untying it. She had one leg inside the car, and mom started to pull away! It was insane! We all were freaking... Mom stopped, Aunt Diane finished untying her belt, and got into the car. We paid for parking that day, and headed out onto the streets. On the way home we had some laughs talking about the many things that happened that day. Then as we got closer to home, we were on a side street, at a red light. Mom started inching forward (the light STILL red) and she just slowly...creeps through the red light. Her justification: "I got tired of waiting! It seems like we were stuck in a vortex of time, and I HAD to get out!" I told her, when I run a red light, that's going to be my excuse. We all were laughing so hard, and Aunt Diane and Mom were 'squeaking' (a traditional family noise for this side of the family). So we got back to the house, still laughing and we all get out of the car, get our stuff and make our way inside. Well, I'm trying to get out of the door, and mom presses the automatic close door button! I had to narrowly escape being crushed by the door, even though it would've just bounced back. Anyways, we all got inside, and now I'm sitting in our room with Aunt Diane and we both have our laptops, typing away!

That's all I have for you now, stay tuned for further updates!

Hugs and Cake,
Emily

I don't know good song lyrics right now...so I'm making this one up! HEY!

Sorry about the title, I know I know...it's horrible.

Good news! My aunt arrived today from California and we get to share a room! I'm excited! :D
Actually, as I am writing, I find myself in her prescence as she unpacks her clothes. She almost started to be in panic mode and just chuck everything into the closet, but she calmed down....thankfully.

Okayy...well since I wrote a blog yesterday there's not much to tell you. I'll start with last night.

Last night: Glenn fixed us a wonderful stir fry after spending what seemed like HOURS in the Whole Foods here. Then JUST as we sat down to dinner with a wonderful ambiance of rolling thunder off the prairie and airplanes down the street, the power goes out. It was wonderful. We just all started laughing....well I laughed. Mom and Glenn just sat there in annoyed silence. I'm not even going to TALK about the UPS store earlier that day...it was a mess. Anyways, we sat in the dark for a while (luckily the sun hadn't gone down yet) and we played Uno until we couldn't tell the difference between blue and green. ("We" meaning my mother) Well...after we sat in the dark some more, we decided to make a trip up to the frozen yogurt place, but for some reason we didn't end up there. We ended up in Wal-Mart looking for flashlights and batteries. We figured if we bought some, the power would be back on when we got home. It wasn't. So we watched the last episode of Big Bang Theory and went to sleep. I went back into my room for a night of solitude and reading. Unknowingly, I settled into bed for a heart attack. Just as I was nicely settled, the lights decided to flash, along with the house alarm for a couple seconds. It scared the CRAP outta me. I yelled for my mother to come in and sit with me and we ended up taking my mattress into my mom's room.

Ya know what?! Lemonade from Simply Lemonade...is a PAIN IN MY SOLARPLEXUS. I went to go get a drink of it, after buying a huge bottle, only to discover pulp! I ended up having to strain each and every cup of that lemonade through a hotel cup with toothpick punctures in the bottom. 5 glasses and a bad attitude later, I know have a pulp free bottle of lemonade and it's pleasant again.

Today we went to Taco Taco, which apparently has the BEST TACO IN AMERICA, according to the Food Network. Believe me, it lived up to it's name. We went there for lunch after picking up Aunt Diane from the airport and got lunch. It was SO good.....

Well. My AutoSave is failing right now..so I better do something before I lose this post. It was written June 29th, but won't be posted until June 30th most likely. Just so ya'll know.

OH! I got me a cowboy hat! It's exciting!

That's all I have for ya right now,

Hugs and Cake,
Emily

P-P-P-Poker Face

Hey Guys! I have a bunch to tell you for once!

I'm working on importing new pictures and the YouTube account so I'll have that set up for the summer! I can't wait until school is over and not for the usual reasons. I just don't want to deal with all the stupid people in my school anymore, haha. I've also remembered that I have this really cool software to import DVDs onto my iPod so that's also working at the moment. I'm pretty much a catcher-upper today; I'm working of course on the Hugs and Cake blog, and then the website which I'm redoing, and then updating my own facebook, as well as the Emma Bug's Custom Cakes pages and the Miss Nancy's Fancy Bakery ones. WHEW! It's a lot of work to run all of these things, but luckily, being the teenager that I am, I can stay up until the wee hours of the morning to work on this! Plus it's fun so that's a positive side. This week so far has been super boring, but I decided to give a little paragraph on important people in my life and in my school so that you people can keep tabs haha.

Me! I basically have been chilling a lot. Since the AP tests are over, I don't have to freak out so much and I don't have HALF as much homework during the week. I LOVE my B days now haha. Finals are coming up, but I don't really mind. We have half days during that time, so it's pretty easy. The only thing that reallyyyy sucks is that the LAST day of school I have to take my pre-calculus AND honors chemistry exams. I'm so not looking forward to that. Today was reallyyy exciting! I got to go on two wedding cake deliveries for work today and it was really fun being involved in all the wedding proceedings. Also, yesterday(Friday) a friend of mine named Kelly and I welcomed troops home at BWI. It was really emotional, but VERY powerful and I certainly hope to be going back and helping the people at Operation:Welcome Home again! That's pretty much whatever's been going on with me!

Mom: Mom's been pretty busy and SUPER stressed about this conference we have coming up in late June in Texas which I'm super excited for. She also decided to drop her crazy diets haha and finally listened to what I've been saying all along. Work has been going pretty well at the store and as always Mom's the happiest person around, most of the time. Mom and I are alone for this week while Glenn is in Wisconsin(more on that later) and tomorrow I think we're going to a flea market at the Naval Stadium and then a bluegrass concert downtown tomorrow night. It should be pretty fun, especially since I have Monday off.

Glenn: As I had said before, Glenn is in Wisconsin visiting his mommy and helping her move out of her house and packing for her new place in Texas I believe. He's also bringing me back a Sonic burger and a Bucky Badger shirt which is going to become my new favorite t-shirt. The uke business is going well and Glenn is working on a ukulele specially for me! It says Emily on it and it's super pretty! It's going to be amazingly shiny and I can't wait for it to be finished!

Friends: All my friends are basically the same as me. Exams are coming up and everyone is just totally ready for it to be summer.

*I would've made a paragraph about my Dad, but alas...the man is SO boring! Plus he never reads this so what really is the point?!

My personal cake business has been going pretty slow, but I'm hoping it will pick up more as summer comes for all my friends birthdays and such. It's going to be super fun. At work we're constantly busy; this being wedding season and all. We're donating some cookies to my school's Movie Night that raises funds for my sophomore/almost junior class. I'm not personally going, but I'll probably just deliver the cookies.

Last thing, new t.v. shows. Some of the old ones were canceled and some just came to an end. Most notably, LOST ended...it was sad and you know what?! NONE of my questions were answered, so Dear writers of LOST: poo on you. Love, Emily.
The family and I started watching Criminal Minds again and we started watching Big Bang Theory, and they're both REALLYYYYY good. I LOVE Big Bang Theory, it's so funny! People have been telling me to watch it before, but I just never remembered.

Anyways, I think that's all I have for you guys! Aren't you excited that this is a longer post than usual?! Leave a comment or contact me on Facebook if you have any ideas for weekly segments or things that you love to hear me talk about. Well...technically you're not hearing me talk about it, but you know what I mean.

Hugs and Cake,

Emily