Le Sigh

October is almost over and I still haven't made my candy corn!  Perhaps I will find some time this coming week...

Here's me with some I made last year (and yes, that is a Chinese take-out bowl):

You're My Cuppycake...

You're my Honeybunch, Sugarplum,
Pumpy-umpy-umpkin, You're my Sweetie Pie.
You're my Cuppycake, Gum Drop,
Snoogums-Boogums, You're the Apple of my eye
And I love you so and I want you to know
That I'll always be right here
And I love to sing sweet songs to you
Because you are so dear




Yup, you guessed it (actually, you probably didn't)...I work at a cupcake shop now.  A "cupcakery," if you will.

I love it.  I also love that I wake up happy in the morning.  The new job may or may not be the sole reason I am happy.  But it is at least a very SIGNIFICANT reason for my happiness.

LG asked me an interesting question the other day: "When did you get so gangsta?"

Hahahahaha....wait, what?  Come on, LG.  You know I'm the whitest person you will ever know.  Like, you pretty much have to explain to me what you and Erin and Eryn are talking about almost always.

Anyways...my response to him?  "Probably when I stopped caring at work" (to clarify by "at work," I meant, at the restaurant, not the cupcakery).  "Or maybe it was when I just stopped caring what people think.  It's whatevs.  You don't like me?  I don't care."

Don't get me wrong.  I do care.  I'm just more sure of myself now than I ever have been in the past...I'm "coming into my own."  I've learned so much about myself in the past few months...who I am, who I want to be, what I want to do "when I grow up," what kinds of people I want to be friends with, what kinds of people I DON'T want to be friends with, and basically why I shouldn't sweat the small stuff.

Sometimes things happen in life that really change your perspective of everything...sort of like having an epiphany...and I may or may not have had one of those "life changing" events a month or 2 ago.

And back to cupcakes.  Mom sent me a picture of the cupcake one of her coworkers bought her for "Case Manager Appreciation Day" at the hospital she works at.  This is my brother, Ryan, and the beautiful red velvet cupcake that Mom is so graciously sharing with him.  Also, notice there are cupcakes on the napkin: