A day in the life of Duct Tape Man!

I, Duct Tape Man am a world renowned super-hero. Known for my innovative use of duct tape to resolve all dilemmas. I occasionaly find exceptional uses for super glue as well. Anyways, I thought I might inform the world...I had a dilemma today. And duct tape could not be the solution! I am quite mortified that any problem could even exist! In any case, I felt the need to share it with you so you could feel my pain...or mock it. One of hte two :)

Anyways, the story. Today at work (My alias Tasha works at Magleby's Oyster Bar and Grill as a busser) we needed a cake piped (meaning written on) and I, being a super hero, naturally had the best cake writing skills (definitely not true.....) And I was given a cake the size of about half of a regular brownie pan, to write "Happy 42nd Birthday Suzanne!" on. Simple enough for a super hero, right? WRONG! I wrote on the cake (and it took forever, I might add....writing small with frosting is not an easy task...) and it all seemed perfect...or close enough to. Until I realized this....take a look and see if you can spot my blunder...

Ok...I know...we're ignoring the fact that all the letters are different sizes....and it's horribly not centered...and the S looks like a demented snake about to eat the U....and there's a chunk falling off the E...and everything is lopsided and funny looking. Look past all of that. Yeah....go ahead and use your super vision to look at those two Zs... Now imagine the cake without one of them. Looks better, right? That's because one of them shouldn't be there.

Fixable with duct tape? Unfortunately not. Redoable? Thankfully, yes. Now some of you may think this was a mistake. But I never make mistakes. It was a slow day today and a rather long one at Mags....so really, I was just saving the day once more by providing some entertainment for my coworkers and all of hte fortunate Magleby's customers. And the prep chef that got to take the screw up cake home :). What would the world be without super heroes like the great Duct Tape Man? I shudder to think......

First Blog - Blessings

I finally figured this thing out. Took long enough. So I just want to say how amazing life is. I get so frustrated and caught up in the bad things going on that I forget how wonderful things are as a whole. It's sad that it takes seeing other people's trials before I realize how easy my life is. I don't have a perfect life. But I'm so blessed! I have a job. I have a family that loves me. And friends that love me...or at least they pretend ;). I have a great ward with a great bishopric that's easy to talk to and everyone seems so loving and ready to help when I need it. And our ward has some awesome activities that I get to make a fool of myself at :) I get to go to school! Granted it's math...and I'm not a huge fan of math. But after I finish this class, I don't have to take any more math for my bachelors! I have an amazing institute class that I learn something new in every week. I always feel the spirit when I go. My health has been doing great! I don't have nearly the health issues that I've had in the past. It's been great. And I actually have a social life! I haven't in the past. I spent a lot of time by myself in high school and a lot of time not doing anything. But I have stuff to do almost every night! Sometimes it's work, but I'm having fun with people! I'm going out and doing things. I even instigate activities sometimes! It's just funny how much good I can see in my life when I'm not looking for the bad. I'm always trying to solve problems and find a solution. So much that I forget that sometimes the solution is that there is no solution and you just have to let things happen. I'm glad I finally had someone pound that into my head. Anyways, I'll probably need to remind myself of this in the near future. But I am blessed beyond anything I could possibly deserve. I hope I can live a life to make me worthy of half the blessings I've already recieved.