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Current Mood: Bouncy

I have too many hobbies and I’m not dedicating time wisely enough to them to get beyond mediocre. That is frustrating! The 2 hobbies I am going to focus on right now are decorating and photography. I think the best way to go about this is by every Friday post up my goals and have a finished product (fail or success) to post by the following Friday.

So here we go… For the week of August 7 – August 13 2009

DECORATING

I decorate something at least weekly but I’ve always just wing whatever I make. So, for this weeks project I am making and covering a cake with marshmallow fondant. I made fondant 2x in the past, the traditional kind, and I failed at it. I hear marshmallow fondant is easier to work with and tastes better anyways! I have 3 9″ cakes layers hanging out in the freezer so I might as well finally put those to use. I will also make some fondant cut outs for accents. Additionally I need to practice flowers (even tho I fucking hate flowers). So maybe some flowers will end up on the cake… Maybe not. BUT!… Flowers will be made regardless.

The fondant is something I need to start now to accomplish a larger goal set for the end of this month.

PHOTOGRAPHY

I’ve said 3x now that I’d go to the skate park and take pictures and I have not because I am lame. So no more lameness, next week I’m going to the skate park… and hopefully they won’t kick me out. You never know at those kinda places. It’s a 3 minute walk from where I work so there is no excuse.

My shots will focus on shutter priority because I think I use sports mode far too much.

Surfing is also a priority but I am not to the point yet where I am comfortable enough to go out to the beach by myself. So I’ll just go when B goes and if he goes somewhere that’s too tough for me to surf I’ll take pictures.

Speaking of surfing, B went last night… I took pictures since it was at Blacks but we went down a less treacherous route this time which makes me happy. I didn’t get any great shots unfortunately and I got like ocean gunk on my filter. So I learned how to clean gunk off my filter this morning. I need to go thru the batch tho because I’m sure there is at least one decent shot I can post. Love watching him surf.

Oh, and it’s FRIDAY!!! The highlight of my week. Weather says it’s suppossed to be cool this weekend which makes me sad because I want to go surfing and I’m going to freeze my ass off since I am a wuss. Whatever tho, I’ll survive. I’ve only used my new board once and am really itching to try it again!

Alright work day… time for you to end now!!!!!