CAFFEINNNNNNNNNE.... YEAAAAAAAAH!...WHOAAAA!

LEMME TELL YA WHAT... ALOT OF STUFF JUST KINDA BLURRRRRRRZZZZ BY WHEN YOU HAVE ALOTTTTTTTTTTT OF CAFFEINNNNNEE AT WORKKKKKKKKK!

WHOAAAAAAAAA!!! YEAHHHHH... GOTTA LOVE IT!!! ZZZZZZIPPPITYYY DOOO DAAAAH.... ZZIPPP ZIPPP ZIPPPPP!!! (I originally posted this part in orange.... but decided it needed to be Mountain Dew Green!)

Ok... I am better now! Let's just say I was moooooooovin' right along today at work. Got lots of stuff done... pretty productive day. I am not moving quite as fast physically as I was... but my brain is sure still whizzin'!

I am gonna say something really gross... but I feel like it is something that might be of some interest to people. Well... maybe not... but I found it fascinating the first time I realized it... and it still fascinates me to this day. (in a second or two... I have to tell ya some other stuff first)

My friend, Thelma, would understand and knows EXACTLY what I am talking about! Thelma and I became friends when I started working at a grocery store here in town years ago. She was the best cake decorator in town... and in my opinion... still is and always will be!

My mom and Aunt Dorcille used to decorate cakes and wedding cakes as I grew up... and I used to love to watch them. I loved to play with the left over bags of icing. My mom used to teach me how to do "squiggleys" and "drop flowers" on waxed paper. She used to let me play with them until I was really sticky... then enough was enough.

Well... when I worked at the bakery with Thelma... I used to watch her when I had spare time. We would visit while she worked and she would show me how she did stuff. I absorbed everything she did... and I knew in my heart that if I practiced... I could do it.

Graduation weekend one year... I got my chance. Thelma needed help and we were very very busy with lots of cake orders. I didn't know enough at first to help her "decorate" the cakes... so she showed me how to "set up" a cake for her to decorate.

((I will get to the fascinating thing after a bit!))

I would take the orders... and put together the cakes by cutting them out to the correct size... filling them with the appropriate fillings... and icing them smooth and plain so that Thelma could decorate them. I just kind of got thrown in to it that weekend and I think I did pretty good. Thelma and I were at the store a couple of nights until the bakers came in the next morning!! *bakers start their days at 2:00a.m.* (and we had been there the whole day before)

We had more fun decorating than anything else. We would talk about our lives... and our feelings and relationships with God... and our families... and cakes... and just stuff. We became the best of friends... and I love Thelma with all my heart! God planned for us to be friends... and I am glad he made us realize that!!

I learned some good wordages from Thelma.

Wordages means... made up words that really do mean something.
Here are some of my favorites:
Squidgey: a blur of icing that doesn't really look like anything in particular... but can MAKE itself fit into whatever you are decorating.
Bloop: a glob of icing that doesn't really look like anything in particular... but can MAKE itself fit into whatever you are decorating.
Foink: what your hair does when it keeps falling down into your eyes while you are decorating.

You can have "bloop flowers" and "squidgey flowers" and a "foink" can also mean that your icing kinda foinked in the wrong direction.

Ploop: is what happens when your icing tip explodes out of the end of your icing bag and lands in the middle of your cake... for example... "OH MAN! MY ICING JUST PLOOPED OUT ON MY CAKE!" (it is also very similar to the sound it makes when it happens).

There are other words... but I usually remember them when the thing they describe happens. Every time they happen... I just kind of giggle to myself while I am decorating... sometimes I think people look at me funny... but I am usually too busy to notice.

It is a known fact that really funny songs about overflowing bubbles in a very large industrial sized sink can be created at 1:30 in the morning while laughing with your best friend!! (remember that one Thelma? I have it written down somewhere!)

Today at work...(I work at a Wal*Mart Supercenter bakery)... I had alot of fun! I think the caffeine had some effect on that. I was using the airbrush on several of the things I was decorating today. An airbrush gun has a little "ink" well kind of thing and a long tube attached to an air pump. In the little well you put liquid airbrush food coloring. ((here comes the fascinating thing I wanted to tell you))... when you airbrush... the particles of food coloring kind of invisibly float through the air... and not knowing it... you breathe it in... through your nose. The first time I ever blew my nose after I had decorated something I was SOOOOOO shocked!! My boogies were multi-colored!!

NO KIDDING! When I told Thelma about that... she stopped what she was doing and laughed so hard and all she said was... "Oh yeah... I should have told ya about that!" We got a really good belly laugh out of that one. Why am I telling you about this? Well... it is something that people should know! This is a truly fascinating occurence in the life of a cake decorator! Today I was brushin' all kinds of colors... and when I got out to the car at the end of my day... I had a virtual rainbow on my kleenex!! I know, I know... "ewwww... that's gross!" But I think of it like this... even movie stars have boogies... but they don't have RAINBOW BOOGIES!! hehehehehehehe!

((I just read this to my daughter... Hannah... and she said... "You are soooooo retarded." and she giggled. She has seen what I speak of... and is also fascinated. hehehehehe)) EEEWWWWWW!