Since I Have Free Time...

Figured I would go into more detail about myself...
It's nearly impossible to describe all my interests and stuff in the boxes they gave me for my profile, so I'll talk about it here:

Music is a huge part of my life...I just got a new iPod Classic for Christmas.
Some of my favorite bands include:

System of a Down
Dethklok
Linkin Park
Gorillaz
Foo Fighters
Flyleaf
The Used
Blur
Red Hot Chili Peppers
.....etc.

And like I said in the About Me section, I want to become a professional pastry chef...
I'm actually trying to decide what I want to do specifically.
I've taken a lot of interest in the show Ace of Cakes...I wonder if I want to specifically make cakes and decorate them or make all sorts of pastries.
I mean, I think it would be really fun to do cakes for a living, but variety is also good.
I made my boyfriend a cake for Christmas, partly because I have no actual money to buy him anything, and partly because it's what he asked for.
I made him a sponge cake with whipped cream and strawberries.
It was the first cake I had ever made, and it was a lot of fun...but when I tried it I could immediately tell that it wasn't a high quality cake...
I know I shouldn't really worry about it since it was my first one, but I wanted it to be absolutely perfect....kind of a perfectionist, I guess.
But anyway...cake decorating is pretty amazing, and I do have a somewhat artistic hand.
I'll just have to wait and see.

I live with my dad again. For most of my life it was moving back and forth between him and my mother because they have shared custody, but next August I'll be 18 and don't have to live with either of them should I so choose.
But I love my dad...I sometimes wish I could be young forever just so I could stay with him...
I have two sisters...they're twins, and they're 20. Apparently they favored mom more. They live in Virginia with her. I miss them so much...
I live mostly by myself. Dad goes to work at 2 pm and doesn't come home til 11 pm.
My boyfriend keeps me company at home, though, and sometimes I'll even go to his house.
I have a dog and a cat.
I prefer cats...I don't really like Asta, my dog.
Especially not after what she did last week.
It was funny in a sense, because of my stupidity...

Last week, Daddy asked me to make some sugar cookies and frost them with this cinnamon/cream cheese frosting he'd made.
So I did exactly that...I spent maybe 3 1/2 hours making those cookies: rolling out the dough over and over, baking them, cooling them, making more, frosting them, putting sprinkles on them, cleaning the sprinkles out of the sink, cleaning the flour and bits of cookie dough that fell on the floor...I even had to throw some of the dough away because I simply couldn't turn it into dough.
I'm beginning to wonder if 3 cups of flour was really necessary for the recipe.
But anyway, I piled all the cookies on a plate and set the plate on the table for Dad to immediately take one when he got home.
...Then, when Brandon came over, he wanted to go to Walmart...we went to Walmart...came back...cookies? Gone.
My first thought was that Dad was home and had put all the cookies in a bag to keep them from going stale, but it didn't take long for me to realize that Asta ate them all...
I beat her really hard...and cried for 10 minutes...
I got over it eventually, and after Dad came home I told him what happened and he decided that Asta will no longer receive people food or be allowed to beg for anything we have.
I was glad about that but...gosh...

I'll be sure to tell more about my Christmas, but I do have some cleaning to do...
I was just procrastinating for a bit.