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So first off, I would like to apologize for my lack of writing.  This whole "big girl job" thing is sucking the life out of me and I'm not even 2 full weeks into it.  Oh well.  Sooooo.......where to start???  Hmmm.....I guess we'll go alllllll the way back to Thursday, July 9th, as that's where I left off.

Lilly's class hosted a luau at St. Joseph School.  It was fantastic.  For the event, we had to sign up to bring treats for the kiddos, so naturally I made cake.  Duh.  I made a pineapple cake (looked like - not tasted like) and lei cupcakes.  The cupcakes I was proud of.....the pineapple melted a little so I gave it a C+.  It still looked amazing and I was happy with it.  Here are some pictures of the day:

My melting pineapple...notice the elephant skin.

The Cake prior to adding the stamens on the flowers.  LOL - just sounds dirty.

A finished hibiscus

One of the luau dances.

Another luau dance.

Mrs. Pisarz and her niece who REALLY didn't want to dance...

Friends and family, handpicked by the students, to also dance

St. Joseph's second grade class 2011

Let's see.....hmmmm....boring details....blah blah blah.....BEACH PARTY!  Friday night Lilly's friend Kyle and his amazing family hosted an end of school beach party for the 2nd and Kindergartners.  Of course, I once again made cupcakes.  This time, they were beach cakes. 

Beach cupcake cake.

Second graders and Kindergarten - class of 2011

Clearly, she didn't have any fun.......

Hmmm....Oh and Friday was also Cam's 13th birthday so I made him this baseball cake.  Yum.

That Saturday we went to Lissa and Michael's house for their annual birthday, summer, pick-a-reason picnic.  Can you believe I DIDN'T make cupcakes????  WHAT????  Nope.  Instead I made deviled eggs.  Deviled eggs?  That's boring.  Silly reader, I didn't just make deviled eggs - I made basil, garlic, and bacon deviled eggs.  I hate deviled eggs but these, these I ate.  A lot of them too.

So the next exciting thing that happened was that I finally got a start day for the new gig - rue21.  I am the Full Time Assistant Store Manager.  Who?  I'm #2 in command when shit hits the fan.  Basically.  If you're not familiar with the store, its a teen based retail shop that is steadily growing.  Low prices, high fashions.  That's the deal.  THEN, to make it even better, I agreed to help my friend Crissa and her shop POSH in a new adventure.  Every Friday night from 7-9pm the shops on Cottrell St in Mystic hold a Friday Night Social....special deals in the shops and tasty treats for the customers - supplied by ME!!  This past Friday I supplied Crissa at POSH with lemonade cookies, Shades of Mystic with vanilla pound cake cupcakes with strawberry buttercream frosting, and the Riverside Outdoor Shop with Mediterranean Herb cheese straws.  I have no photos.....the process was stressful because I waited too long to produce it.....reference my FB page.

In any event, Then I started my job.....work, clothes, boring.....I have no good details other than MY shop opens June 30th at the Crystal Mall, Waterford.  COME VISIT ME!!

How I Spent My Saturday Night

So most of you have caught the Facebook status updates but, in case you didn't, I'm going to tell you all about my weekend in Cougar Town.  LOL....okay, it definitely sounds better to me because I was there, but man, the stories are just too funny not to share.

Saturday evening was a dinner fundraiser for Cam's baseball team, the CT Capitals.  It was held in Glastonbury at the Irish American hall...kind of like the Polish club but, well, Irish.  In any event, we discovered last minute (thank God we found it out too) that it was a "casual" event.  Well, apparently a few in attendance missed that memo.  Some of the outfits these women were wearing were incredible.  Picture this dress:

On any one of these bodies:

Okay, so maybe not that bad......  That's who was dining and dancing with us Saturday night.  You see, SOME of the guests were parents of the players.  The MAJORITY were people who bought tickets at $50 a hit to attend.  There were at least 60 people there who didn't even have kids much less ever watched a 12U baseball game....ever.  Oh, and did I mention there was open bar....all night?????  EXCELLENT!  Let's get these cougars DRUNK!  The average age of the women in attendance was about 45.  More makeup, hair product, and plastic was there than woman.  They were throwing drinks back like they were water, hardly eating (gotta keep up the girlish figure), and then...the band started.  Man oh man.  The band was Major Motion and the lead singer made it look as though he wanted to.......well.....ya know....every broad in the room.  And trust me, every broad in the room was eating this up.  Well, in between sets the DJ played Latin music.  Why? I don't know.  But the cougars LOVED this.  They were out there swaying their fat asses like it was their job.....thank HEAVENS it wasn't.  {{insert vomit sound here}}  It was horrible.  At the end of the night, there was one women, who came alone, and nobody claimed to know....dancing all by herself on the dance floor.  Now, in order to appreciate this I need to do a visual....{the comments I post next are not intended to judge, make fun of, or disrespect people with special needs in anyway and therefore, I apologize ahead of time if it does}  Picture if you will, a heavyset 40 something, hair in a 1980's banana clip - most of which has fallen out of the clip, stained pants from a spilled drink, and black Sketchers Shape Ups....   Now, give this woman CP (I know...I'm sorry....truly, truly sorry) aaannnnddddd cue the music.  It looked like she was having a friggin seizure.  And because no one knew her, or claimed to know her, no one stopped her...allllllll night.  So Frankenstein-the-woman proceeded to dance her heart out.  Finally, at the end of the night, someone saw her home. God bless her.  We left after the raffle....thoroughly entertained.  Well worth the $50.  Well worth it.