SUCCESS part 2!

Ah, yes. The best victory of all is the fact that today is Friday! It's humid and pretty warm, but it's still a very nice day out. At least my new plant thinks so! He sits on my windowsill at the corner of my room. He's a beautiful coral kalanchoe... See his view? He looks out upon Mayfield and Haus Mitt. Watch out Haus Mitt, Plant is watching... [YAYYY I FIGURED OUT HOW TO PUT IN PICTURES!]

He still needs a name. He could follow in the footsteps of Clement the Christmas rosemary (who is alive and well in my backyard at home) as Clement II. What a regal name! He could also be a good KeffJeff replacement, but I think that would bring back bad memories about poor KeffJeff's untimely demise due to my horrible parenting. Word to the wise: don't leave your children in the car for 4 days straight.

Today was basically the last day of training! I am fully prepared as a House Manager to open your door in case of a lockout, file a fix-it, host a party, put out a fire, and check, call and care in a lot of different scenarios involving life-threatening emergencies. I am Red Cross First Aid/CPR with AED certified for the next 3 years! I think that's pretty cool, but it's also a bit of a responsibility...

Another success: I have my own lab desk!! It overlooks the courtyard between Herrin and Gilbert and it has drawers and a chair! I went in to the lab today to slice brains, and I come out with a bunch of finished slides/brains AND my own desk. Victory.

And yet ANOTHER success?? Is it possible?? As my very sad post said from a couple of days ago, my computer's charger cable decided to melt, thus inactivating the charger. All this happened a day after my AppleCare warranty expired. I went into the Apple store, totally ready to burst into tears if need be, but they were very nice about it and gave me a brand new, free charger. Glory be.

And the final success: Sprinkles' dark chocolate almond cupcake.... by far one of the best cupcakes I have ever had. Go get it while you can, because they won't offer it after the 14th (SAD). The cupcake itself is an almond cake, with little slivers of almond and plenty of almond extract. I don't know if you happen to know me and my recent obsession with things that are almond flavored, but I LOVE them. Almond croissants, for example, are my favorite of life. So, this cake was really good; it had enough little almond chunk to let you know that this is what actual almonds taste like, and it had a very fragrant almond cake. Nice and light and airy... Substantial enough to stand against the dark chocolate ganache-like frosting. For some reason though, Sprinkles' frostings always make my teeth hurt when I bite into them. It could have used a litttttle bit less frosting, but it was still an excellent complement to the almond cupcake. It was bitter enough that the sweetness of the cake still stood out, but it was sweet enough to appeal to any chocolate lover: white, milk, or dark. Obviously, I think the darker the better, but it was still very good. Makes me want to go look up a recipe for almond cupcakes... and I'll put my own pure chocolate icing on it, yum.

Dinner with the staffies... I haven't eaten much today, after eating a huuuuge breakfast, so I'm SO excited for this. So excited, in fact, that I may write about it later, hah!

Oh, and this is our house's theme (since I realized I never wrote it out):

L'AMAZON FRANÇAISE

No words. So incredible.

So many successes today, I love it.