Cupcake overload!
Aug. 26th, 2007 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapeofthingsSometimes I take a good idea and really over-do it. Last week was one of those occasions, when I made these cupcakes for a work friend's birthday.
Half of the haul.
Going overboard, that pretty much sums up my life at the moment. It's a madcap adventure, just staying afloat. Work, well, it's owning my arse. Stress has raised up its hydra head, with insomnia on the left, and digestive upsets on the right. I can't eat wheat at the moment, which is a pain, but hopefully that will settle down again over the next week or two.
Chocolate and caramel cupcakes with caramel chips.
This week sees the last travel for a little while, thankfully. I'm off to Mackay and Rockhampton. Last week I madly flitted between Townsville, Cairns and Atherton before landing with a thump and a cold. Next week I have to write a report that should have been given three weeks to do. It was reduced down to one today at a meeting with my boss. On a Sunday. Blech!
I made the birthday card into a cupcake menu.
On a brighter, yet soggier note, it's been raining. It rained for the best part of a week, and the dam levels have risen a little; a short respite from leve 6 water restrictions. The garden is happy, but so are the weeds with no time to remove them. And the possums are stealing our strawberries, little buggers!
These were my favourites: rich dark chocolate cake filled with raspberry cream and topped with ganache.
So yes, life continues apace. I haven't much time for anything at the moment, and it'll be that way for the next month at least. I'm hanging out for the end of September!
The other half of the haul! And there were more left over. Yum!
Half of the haul.
Going overboard, that pretty much sums up my life at the moment. It's a madcap adventure, just staying afloat. Work, well, it's owning my arse. Stress has raised up its hydra head, with insomnia on the left, and digestive upsets on the right. I can't eat wheat at the moment, which is a pain, but hopefully that will settle down again over the next week or two.
Chocolate and caramel cupcakes with caramel chips.
This week sees the last travel for a little while, thankfully. I'm off to Mackay and Rockhampton. Last week I madly flitted between Townsville, Cairns and Atherton before landing with a thump and a cold. Next week I have to write a report that should have been given three weeks to do. It was reduced down to one today at a meeting with my boss. On a Sunday. Blech!
I made the birthday card into a cupcake menu.
On a brighter, yet soggier note, it's been raining. It rained for the best part of a week, and the dam levels have risen a little; a short respite from leve 6 water restrictions. The garden is happy, but so are the weeds with no time to remove them. And the possums are stealing our strawberries, little buggers!
These were my favourites: rich dark chocolate cake filled with raspberry cream and topped with ganache.
So yes, life continues apace. I haven't much time for anything at the moment, and it'll be that way for the next month at least. I'm hanging out for the end of September!
The other half of the haul! And there were more left over. Yum!
