Am I done yet?

That question can apply to so many different things. School as a whole, particular classes, and right now this portion of my research project. I've been in lab the last seven hours and I'm still not done. Blah! It's okay. The samples look really good and it's great to get the thing done. If I had gone home I would have slacked most of the time anyway. Here I was able to get some work done and some reading for my geography class while waiting for scans to complete.

So, as some of you know I decided to make a turtle cake for my decal's final project. It's from a book we read, Small Gods, about a god that accidently turned himself into a turtle and then couldn't turn himself back. A great book for anyone interested in humorous commentaries on religion. Anyway, here's a pic of my awesome turtle cake.


Isn't it cute?? So it's a vanilla cake (from scratch!) that's actually colored green. The body I baked in an oven safe bowl, so it is actually shell shaped. The legs are cupcakes with the tops cut off and a little of the side cut off (thanks for that wonderful idea Angie!). The head is also a cupcake. The frosting is also vanilla butter cream frosting, also made from scratch! Oooo. It also has green food coloring in it. The green decorations on it are store bought icing. But that's the only thing straight from the packaging on the turtle. It was quite an endevor. But it tasted fantastic!

And in other news. I got an email from the professor I'm going to be studying under at UCSC and he said that he was going to be gone all summer and that I should enjoy myself and wait until Fall to start! Yay for that! It's exactly what I was hoping for. That's wonderfully exciting. My parents want to go to Vegas, the Grand Canyon, and the Hoover Dam. I also got as a gift a two day park hopper pass to Disneyland that I hope to use over the summer.

Now all I have to do is make it to graduation and then finish up my project, then smooth sailing! What a relief that will be. So much I want to do...