Happy Halloween everyone!!!!! I was with my friends all day long from morning until night....We decided to venture out in town to a restaurant that none of us had ever been to before...That was kind of a twisting time for me, cause I had no idea what I was in for, and I never like anything over here ever I don't care what it is or how pretty they make it look....Let's see!!! what was some of that nasty stuff I wrote down cause I knew that I would never remember any of it....hmmm....Tuna & Avocado, Tofu & Mushrooms, Asparagus & Bacon, Stir-Fried Octopus, Chili Mayonnaise Sauce, Deep Fried Tofu, Corn & Egg Soup, Egg Plants & Broccoli.......blah bluhhh and bllaaauuuahhhhhhhhhhhh...did I ever have a time and ended up just getting plain pizza and plain pasta...they can't mess up Italian, and that's the only thing I'm familiar with, and plain anything over here sounds pretty good to me after reading some of that stuff....who on earth would eat that??!?!?!?!!? I thought it was pretty funny, unbelievably disgusting, but wow, major gag factor....don't even try showing that to me, and don't even ever ask me to try anything like that ever....Last day of this month finally finally...wow am I ever thrilled to pieces too....I'm telling everyone individually, so if you don't know yet, come and ask me, I won't mind sharing!!!! hmm...it's raining again after being like 80 or 90 degrees today...it thrills me to death to see any kind of rain or bad weather where the sun isn't out, cause that means that it won't be deathly hot....It's supposed to be falltime in the rest of the world, leaves changing, and cooler temperatures, but we still have people going around in shorts and summer stuff...me included...I miss the seasons...all 4 of them!!! not just having 2 of them!!!! or more like one, cause it seems like it stays like summer here all year long!!!!!! not for me really!!! We had a few lame haunted houses here, nope I didn't participate cause I don't care what goes on here...I went and hung out with my friends, and we all went to the movies....we got better things to do than worry about what goes on here or seeing how many different haunted houses we can make in one night....So now we hit the holiday craze...Thanksgiving then Christmas then New Year's then my real countdown starts and how....Okay, I think I'll call it a day now...I've been going constantly before the sun was even up this morning....Now if I can just get those images of cooked wilted lettuce outta my mind from what they put all over my plate, I think I should get to sleep just fine.... take care everyone...enjoy the fun part of Halloween not the bad!!!! love and hugzzzzz xoxoxo

(sorry I couldn't resist...)

avoir une bonne semaine mes amis!!

This has to be the most funniest thing that I've heard all month long....but it never takes much for me at all...someone was walking out one of these buildings here, and another one started messing around with one of those pigeons like you see in the parks a lot... we have those things everywhere here...we had them all over in Italy too, and found a dead one on our balcony one day....Anyways..I think everyone knows what I"m talking about...whoever this was in front of me was defending this bird and blurts out to this other person...I couldn't hear the first part....something something...."that bird will eat you..."I tried to get the image of a bird like that trying to shove an entire human in their very small mouth, and couldn't...that's what made it so funny, and couldn't stop laughing...these
other people of course couldn't figure out what I found so funny...I just won't ever see birds again the same way ever after that comment....then I found this video on here, and it only added even more to this humor...I don't know if I"m the only one who finds this funny, maybe just how it was said, but I just never heard anything like that....someone is picking or teasing at a bird and someone stands up defending them saying the bird will eat them if they keep tormenting it....Usually it is the other way around with all the chicken houses we have all over the world....too funny, maybe it's just me with this weird sense of humor I have no idea but I couldn't let that go....too funny too funny too funny...I'm going to be replaying that over and over in my sleep tonight I think I got such a kick out of it...I guess I"m the only one on this entire island with a sense of humor...I've just never heard that before ever...a bird who can go around eating humans, instead of humans going around eating the bird....I'm not going to stop it with that one for the rest of the week....hope u all had a good day everyone...talk with u all soon....

http://izismile.com/2009/09/17/hungry_bird_will_eat_your_finger_if_it_can_0_3_mb.html

Hey there my dear friends, I hope everyone has enjoyed another weekend to their fullest...We've had absolutely nothing here but typhoons constantly, so all we had was wind and rain for about 3 days...It's finally stopped but wow I was so happy to see even such a hint of cold weather and rain...I couldn't have been happier after being around nearly what felt like 200 degree temperatures all summer long...I never want to go through this again ever...throwing myself down in the snow again, and staying there for more than just a few minutes, has never sounded better...Anyways, I did a project part of last week that I had never done before ever..It was slightly uncomfortable, but once I got started with it, I had so much fun, I can't wait to do it again... An email was going around here for making "Get Well" cards for those who were in the very last stages of cancer...I have never been through that of course, but I know what it's like to be sick, even just a little bit...Yes, I find it hard just like anyone else does to find the right words to say to anyone who is in that situation. I'm worried that I would say the wrong thing, or what I think to be something nice, they are somehow offended by it...I'd never done this ever, not even whenever I lived back in the states. It just was something that wasn't talked about very much...But I decided to participate in this anyways, since it was an excuse for me to do some sort of artwork...I made a huge card, and decorated it some, and that one was filled up within min...so I decided to make another one, and put in more detail to this one....I cut out flowers and spelled out the words "Get Well" at the top and bottom, and cut ou
t a bunny holding flowers and put him in the middle...on the inside I did in glitter "You are my Sunshine" and cut out a smiling sunshine and put hearts all around it.... I thought how nice it would be if it were me getting something like that...I have no idea if the one who is dying is ever actually going to see this, but I thought it was worth a shot... I remembered how it was being 16 years old and in the hospital, waiting to have that disgusting gall-bladder surgery...(never again!!!! I'm done with all that!!!!!!) I had the doctors come in and ask me if I had ever considered signing something called a "Living Will." Of course, at that age, I had absolutely no idea what on earth that was, I was into my friends and latest happenings, not into whatever it was they were talking about....I was told
that was something that you signed while you were still alive, incase you didn't make it through surgery. umm okay...yikes....I never ever thought about that stuff...I was pretty much speechless, and didn't know what to say to something like this....I'm glad nothing went wrong, and I came out okay from that, but that was really a huge shock having to hear something like that...I didn't like being faced with a life or death situation, when I never thought about death related issues anyways....who does unless you're a manic depressant??? It really got me to thinking when faced with people in their last stages of cancer, how they would feel knowing they were going to die any minute of any given day coming up, and others who were perfectly well, didn't even take so much as a few mintues to sign their name on a simple get well card... Yeah, I couldn't stomach something like that... I don't treat people that way, whether I know them or not....So I made 2 altogether, and took pictures of each one I made, just so I could remember them and how they looked...I loved how my work turned out, and hoped that whoever this was for, that it would help brighten their day, and they wouldn't feel completely forgotten in the world...I took one last look at it for admiration, and then I finally signed my name....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiF6AqWAeWE-old before I die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's rainy season here now....That means everyone is miserable, all it has been doing is raining constantly, and we're yet again expecting some typhoon to hit sometime over the weekend...that is the rumor I heard anyway and that's all I believe it to be now is just that...a rumor...because absolutely NOTHINGGGGGGGGGG ever happens here... When it does actually finally stop raining for a bit, we hit temperatures around 94 degrees here in the middle of October...uggghhhh I never asked to come live here....Anyways...I'm ready to give a good swift kick to the year 2009 and get it outta my life forever....I wish it was already the end of 2010 cause that means that I would be getting ready to leave, I would know where I would be going next, and I wouldn't have to be here ever again and I would have another stamp in my passports (yes I have 2 of them to be able to live over here =)Wow, it still seems like it's a million years away though...how I can't wait for that day to come....I'm going to announce it all over the world whenever I finally find out...believe me...hmmm Halloween is next week....I loved this holiday growing up...I had an absolute blast with it....I liked the "fun" part of it, anything else like the gross or satanic stuff, no way, but everything else was fine I thought...Of course they don't recognize Halloween here in Japan, that's an American thing, and they have nothing to do with anything Americans usually do...If you went up to someone Japanese here, and asked them to start belting out a few lines from "fr ere Jacques" they would have no idea what you are talking about, but Americans can somehow stumble over it whether it's right or not...We can't even get decent Mexican food here, cause they don't know any better and make it like Japanese people would have it...wow I miss back home.... I never had to put up with any of this ever....I think we are having a few fall festivals here, we've already had one, which I avoided since it was like close to about 10,000 people and I didn't' want to deal with that....one little celebration thing and they act like they've never been to something like that in their lifetime...I believe we have a few more, one not much different from the other....I can't help wondering what is going on back home...I'm not able to pick up my radio station at all over here any more...something to do with licensing or something like that overseas...how maddening and heartbreaking is that???? I was in shock for about a week until I finally was able to find something else out of Nashville, Tennessee...somewhat better without any annoying commercials whatsoever...so yippppeee I don't have to hear about kids wanting to enroll in college or different kinds of male enhancement products....when did they start advertising that on the radio?!?!?! they never used to do that whenever I lived there in the states.....wow how things have changed...just anything that doesn't have anything to do with where I'm living, I get r
eally fed up with having to listen to this same ole talk all the time about what's going on around here....(honestly, no one else cares either, they just act like they do so they will fit in) also not important to me...So just about 8 more weeks and this year is history....I've been at this all year, now I'm just getting annoyed and beyond anxious.....It's an experience getting to live in such a whacked up country/island, but I would never tell anyone to come here as well...visit maybe, but not to live..I am too sarcastic for them anyways here, they don't know what to do with me....have a good night everyone...talk with u soon....xoxoxo

"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality!!!!"

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I think that I've been laughing at this one for over an hour now.... why do I find this so funny as all get out?? I think most of the people who do this are immigrants in American businesses and don't know English at all, or very little of it, or American customs whatsoever...I had a Cinderella cake with the prince when I was about 5 I think...I had a different one every single year....not once did that happen to me...if it did now, I would be all too happy and put it all over I would be so proud....Whoever thought of mixing Disney characters and Star Wars characters together with Cinderella with a light saber thing fighting Darth Vador??!?! I'm not even into Star Wars at all, but I couldn't believe someone would do that....(maybe they liked the idea of princesses teaming up against someone who was the complete opposite of them?!?! I have no idea why I find this sort of thing so funny, the spelling is one thing, but the other stuff too I just know they have to be immigrants...I'd like to shake their hand and thank them for making me laugh so hard over stuff like this...I think I would need a translator of course....

this was just toooo funny to pass up!!! my name made it on this website!!! I can't believe this is still going around after about a year or so!!!! the other ones are really funny too!!! maybe it's just me, but wow, it doesn't take much for me at all to get a laugh outta anything!!! ( I LAVE YOU) what accent in the world would that be whenever they try and speak English???? I can't figure it out because I've been in Japan for so long...they really don't pronouce the "L" sound or the "R" sound. I never knew this was a problem ever, and I had birthday cakes made every year for my birthday whenever I was growing up, and this never not even once happened to me...(are people getting dumber or what??!?!?!?) I had no idea this was even an issue but wow I think it's the funniest thing ever...of course, leave it to me to make a joke outta anything...



Icing on the Cake Spells Disaster

SOMEONE who decorates cakes for a living should possess certain skills. Spelling is an important one. For example, success is not quite as sweet when the inscription reads, “Contralulation’s Ronan.” An eye for color helps, too. Piped dark brown swirls are never a good idea on a cake dotted with plastic farm animals. Finally, a few words about customer service: When someone requests that nothing be written on the cake, “NOTHING” should not be written on the cake.


For those working outside these margins, there is Cake Wrecks, Jen Yates’s popular blog and new book of the same name (Andrews McMeel, $12.99), celebrating the folly of professional confections gone horribly, horribly wrong. Think of them as epic fails, with frosting. There are Hello Kitty cakes that look more like gerbils with glandular problems, fondant ribbons gnarled into hideous nests, and squishy inscriptions that read, “Happy 3th Birthday, Evan.” As Ms. Yates, 31, defines it, a Cake Wreck is “any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate — you name it.”

“I can’t get my brain around what’s happening in bakeries out there, but something very wonky is going on,” Ms. Yates said by telephone recently. “Wonky” is a favorite term on her site, as in the wonky Curious George cake that looks more like Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy. Sometimes, the wonkiness lies in the sentiment being expressed, as in the cake inscribed, “Sorry for all those things we said.”

Then there was the wonky miscommunication that started it all. In May 2008, a friend e-mailed Ms. Yates a photo of a sheet cake that looked like a prop from “The Office.” It was not. Amid marzipan flowers, the cursive inscription was a profound reminder of the perils of ordering supermarket cakes by phone. It read:

Best Wishes Suzanne

Under Neat that

We will Miss you

One giant LOL and several Google image searches later, Ms. Yates was in the business of chronicling pro baking train wrecks. “People had been posting pictures of ugly cakes for years, so I just started collecting them,” she said. What began as an amusing distraction from her job as a faux finisher for the specialty painting company she runs with her husband, John, in Orlando, Fla., has snowballed into a genuine Internet phenomenon — or at least a serious time waster.

By last fall, around 100,000 visitors a day were gawking at Cake Wrecks. More than a million people subscribe to Ms. Yates’s Cake Wrecks updates on Twitter.

“Everyone in the baking business follows Cake Wrecks almost daily, if only to make sure our cakes aren’t ending up on there,” said Mary Alice Yeskey, who works at Charm City Cakes in Baltimore and appears on the Food Network show “Ace of Cakes.” David Lebovitz, a former pastry chef at Chez Panisse who now writes about desserts from Paris, is also a fan.

“As someone on the professional side, you can see how these disasters happen, which only makes them funnier,” he said by telephone. “

You take an order, leave it to one of your assistants to handle, and walk in the next morning and say, ‘Um, O.K. I think we have a problem.’”

Fortunately for Ms. Yates, an enormous number of those problems go unnoticed. She said she receives 50 to 60 Cake Wrecks submissions a day via e-mail, and usually posts between one and five photos each weekday morning. She posts only professionally made cakes (“It’s too easy and mean to go after your Aunt Sally’s cake wreck,” she said) and nothing excessively gory or obscene.

Much of the joy in following Cake Wrecks comes from Ms. Yates’s wry assessment of every plopped-out flower and bug-eyed snowman. She is particularly savage about punctuation mishaps, like when a baker omitted an exclamation point after the inscription, “Way To Go Bob.” Ms. Yates wrote, “Just try to read this cake without sounding sarcastic. Yeah. Exactly.” Beneath a Father’s Day cake that starkly announced “1 Dad,” the caption read, “Of all the Dads out there, you are one of them.”

At Ms. Yates’s bookstore appearances this fall, Cake Wrecks fans competed in cupcake contests to recreate the blog’s most popular wrecks. Some of the classics are tacky, like the chocolate cake festooned with Bud Light bottle caps. Others are silly, like the cake topped by naked mohawk-wearing babies riding plastic carrots.

A few are unfathomable. When a customer brought in a USB flash drive and asked a bakery to print out a digital picture from it to use on a cake for an office party, the baker instead made an edible version of the flash drive itself. A picture of the resulting cake, accurately frosted in silver and black, is probably the most forwarded image on the blog.

“We’ve all seen a cake at a supermarket or someone’s party and thought, ‘What were they thinking when they made that?’ ” said Heidi Mattson, a fan of Cake Wrecks who drove over an hour with her three children from St. Cloud, Fla., to attend a reading by Ms. Yates in Winter Park, Fla., last month.

Ms. Mattson brought along a cupcake replica she made of her favorite cake mistake on the blog. It is known as the Olympics Rings cake.

“The person had probably called up and said, ‘Can you put Olympic rings on my cake?’ ” Ms. Mattson explained. Instead, the edible red letters read as follows, parenthesis and quotation marks included: (“Olympics Rings”)

Ms. Yates said her intention is not to embarrass anyone, though she has received some hate mail from unhappy bakers, she said. Her point is to “find the funny,” she said, in the simple mistakes that are so easy to make at work.

“There are good excuses, I’m sure, for all these wrecks,” she said. “The person who took the order didn’t speak English very well. Someone was at the end of a very long day. We all slip up. But when you do it in the bakery department, it just so happens it’s a little more obvious.”