Day 73: Blaming it on deployment

*I fell asleep again, while writing this blog, so it is a day late*

Today was a day that we spent around the house. We had to do a little cleaning just because last week I was so busy and exhausted. I also had a cake to make. It was another Spider-Man cake. I had the same general idea as the last one but changed the top tier. So, I baked the cakes, cooled them, filled & stacked them, and then dirty iced them. After that was done, The kids and I sat down for a little while and just hung out.

I didn't think it through when I made my meal plan for the next two weeks. I realized that instead of guaranteeing that tonight was a "order out pizza" kind of night, I put down that I was supposed to do baked chicken! Yeah, that takes about an hour to do, plus I had already been baking all day, so I really didn't want to do it. Instead I used the recipe I was supposed to have on Monday which requires no baking and can be done in 30 min. Still, I wish I would have just put it in the food budget to order pizza, because I did not need to clean up after baking and then again after cooking dinner, then a third time after decorating.

I got done with my cake around 12:30am and got everything cleaned up by 1am. I went upstairs and turned on Yahoo! Instant Messenger, just hoping I would get lucky and catch Ian online. He wasn't online at first, but about 5 minutes later, right before I was about to give in and go to bed, Ian came online. He wrote me as soon as he saw I was on with "Hey Beautiful." I don't know if he realizes how that simple greeting makes my heart flutter. How it makes me smile from ear to ear and makes me feel so special. Those two simple words make me feel like a newlywed again. Anyways, so by that time, I had already written him an email telling him about my cake and telling him that I had messed it up and had to fix it... which was my fault. He read my email and then asked me over IM what I meant by that. I told him that basically, I wasn't happy with the border, so I decided to try and scrape it off and do a different one. Then the different one didn't work, so I had to take that one off too. I was very close to ruining it past the point of no return, and ended up putting back on the original border. I then told Ian that I was blaming that on the deployment. He asked how in the world I was going to manage that one. I then explained that had he been here, I would have asked for his opinion, he would have told me it looked great the way it is, and I would never have tried to "fix" it. He wrote back with a big LOL and that it had made him smile. I think it was the fact that I was ranting just a little bit and the fact that I told him how much I miss having him here with me. I then told him that I can find a way to blame just about anything on the deployment! He just laughed at me. And the funny part is, even though we weren't on video or even "talking" I could still hear his laugh, know exactly how he smiled, and even pictured him shaking his head. Ah, true love.

I made it through another day! Yeay, me! I have to be honest that today is a day that I am proud of myself for the day I have had.