Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake: We're Moving! Soon!

Things are happening really quickly around here all of a sudden. We found out we are moving next weekend - that's a surprise. Usually when our landlord gives us a time frame, you should tack on an additional 3 weeks to it and you'll be in the ballpark of when something will actually happen. In this case, she's cracking the whip on the dude across the hall and she's essentially forcing him out by the 1st of April. That means the girl upstairs will be moving down into his apartment the first weekend in April.

We assumed that, since we have already paid rent for the entire month, it really wouldn't matter when we move. The first weekend in April is kind of busy for us and I'd rather not move until the second weekend. But I got a call from my landlord yesterday and, for whatever reason, she's insisting we all play Musical Apartments on the same weekend. This means the girl upstairs needs to be completely moved out on April 2nd, and we have to jam all of our moving into Sunday, April 3rd. What an un-fun day that'll be. Not to mention, we still don't have any furniture (save a bed, tv, and two computer desks). I didn't want to go furniture shopping until we were up there, to see how much space we really have to fill, but now that we're moving on a Sunday and I work during the week, we'll be going an entire week without furniture! Hope the cats like running around in the big empty space that'll be our living room. I have come to terms with the fact I won't be winning the Value City contest (up until now I was actually hopeful I'd win myself 10 grand) so I am starting to examine my savings account to see how much I can dip into without screwing myself when grad school rolls around. I hate being so cheap with my money yet just wishing I had more of it so I could buy all the expensive stuff I really want.

Anyway, last week Nick's mom turned 50 and we had a party for her over the weekend. We got together at his grandma's house and it was supposed to be a surprise party - except no one took into account the fact that his mom always shows up an hour early for everything. So she was there before we even showed up. But it didn't matter much because his sister still made her look surprised so she could snap a picture. And I made these adorable little thingies:

They were chocolate devil's food with pink buttercream icing and, if I may be modest here, they were awesome. The cake has coarse salt in it and it's so exciting when you bite into a piece of it because the salty chocolate combination is outrageous. My buttercream isn't very sweet and it more resembled a whipped cream than a buttercream consistency and people love it. My dad hates it, which is made obvious by the birthday cake he insisted I may him, but his sweet tooth is outrageous so I don't count him when I say "people love it." So my little cupcakes were a big hit, and considering there were only about 10 people at the party and there were 2 dozen cupcakes, everyone got to take some home. And I suppose I should include photos of real people at the party, since there was more to this get-together than my confections. Here are some other shots from the day: