Cupcakes!

Today we made cupcakes.  But these were no ordinary cupcakes.  Well, the cake part was normal.  But the decorating part was not.  My friend and I used this excellent cupcake-decorating book, and made cupcakes that look like fishbowls.  They have light blue frosting with Nerds candy at the bottom (like the fish rocks in the bottom of the bowl).  We used Fruit Roll-Ups to make plants to put in the fishbowls, and then we put graham cracker goldfish in as well.  We took lots of pictures, but unfortunately the USB cable I need to upload them is in Massachusetts.  So as soon as I have that, I'm planning on putting them here, because the cupcakes turned out really well!  

I also watched Julie and Julia for the fourth time today, after baking cupcakes and perusing two excellent cookbooks.  I am totally convinced that once I have these cookbooks in my possession...which might take a while...I should start cooking real food on a regular basis.  I think I will start with curried chicken, which is one of my favorite meals ever, and then I will move on to other things, like bouf bourguignon or lobster thermidore.  Actually, probably not the latter of those two, because I really don't like seafood.  I'm thinking that cooking like this would be a bit labor-intensive, but I think the taste of it all in the end might be sufficient to make the effort worthwhile.  In any case, all of this is speculation, because I still need to buy the cookbooks, let alone the actual materials needed to cook it all!