Adventures in Plans

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Thank you Costume Queen (my original follower) and Corbyjane (new follower).


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In lou of # 3 (Lose 15 pounds) I have decided to give the Special K Challenge a try. The Special K Challenge is "lose 1 inch from your waist in 2 weeks" another challenge is "lose 6 pounds in 2 weeks." So we will figure out which is which, who knows maybe it is both. The website is www.specialk.com which can be very helpful.

It has 4 different options for a Design Your Plan. (click the image for a better view)


Each plan helps you break down your week on what you will eat for the time of day it is. The example below is for the Classic Plan. You can change them, it just gives you a basic idea.



I am simply going to do the replace 2 meals with Special K cereal. I know one of the reasons it helps is being you aren't eating junk for all 3 meals, just 1.

So tomorrow morning I will weight myself (I am not posting my weight), and then in 2 weeks I will weight myself again and see what if any I have lost. Also I am going to measure my waist (again not something I will post) and again I will post the difference for the final out come

#48 Design costumes to send to Dancing with the Stars Design a Dance

The dance is a Tango, the song "Rock and Roll all Night."

The dancers are Melissa Rycroft


and Joey Fatone.



Below is the design I sent in.


Melissa's Costume
Black leather corset. Buckles on front, silver studs along the bottom of the corset, and in more rows along the top. The leather straps cross in the back. The skirt is black lace with sparkles and underneath is a shiny silver material seen through the lace, ruffled edge is just lace. Lace ruffle sleeves. Fingerless lace gloves.

Joey's Costume
Black leather jacket, stud design of guitar on back. Collar and cuffs are shiny silver. Studs on outside edge of pants and jacket.

#59 Watch the series finale of Inuyasha

So I have agreed to to the 101 things in 1001 days. The hardest part was figuring out the 101 things.

Here is my list

1. buy a house
2. make an apple
3. lose at least 15 pounds
4. get a job
5. make a new friend
6. host a party
7. get a pet
8. be a bridesmaid
9. get married
10. go water skiing
11. write a short story
12. paint a room
13. have a sleep over
14. visit a zoo
15. plan a wedding
16. think of 101 things to do in 1001 days
17. do 101 things in 101 days
18. set my wedding date
19. register for wedding/ bridal gifts
20. get my wedding band attached to my engagement ring
21. keep my hair long at least until after the wedding
22. finish a wedding keepsake book
23. pick out a wedding dress
24. pick out and edit bridesmaid dresses
25. figure out what song I want to be sung during my wedding ceremony
26. sell video games I don't want to play anymore
27. rent apartment/ house
28. make dinner for my parents
29. make dinner for adams parents
30. get an interview
31. have more than 1 person read my blog
32. make 10 things out of a cook book
33. make 5 things out of a Food Network magazine
34. learn how to cook a turkey
35. have a recipe index box
36. make an edible batch a cookies
37. eat at Red Lobster
38. get some of my paintings/ drawings framed
39. get my knee back to full strength
40. finish knitting a scarf
41. visit to-be family near Detroit
42. Show my dad how to email a resume
43. go bowling with friends
44. visit a different state
45. see a friend in 3 different shows
46. learn how to make broccoli cheese and rice casserole
47. bring a flower to a friend in a show
48. design costumes to send to Dancing with the Stars Design a Dance
49. get to level 50 on Happy Pets
50. play 10 games of euchre
51. give a friend 5 back massages
52. do a friends hair 5 times
53. cut someones hair 5 times
54. try something different at Olive Garden
55. go to 4 weddings
56. have a Harry Potter movie marathon before I see the last movie in Theaters
57. read 10 Dean Koontz books
58. read 10 "smut" aka Romance Novels
59. watch the final season of Inuyasha
60. Own Sherlock Homles
61. Own How to Train your Dragon
62. have 5 new post for my blog in 1 month
63. catch a turtle
64. avoid fast food for a week
65. don't drink pop for a week
66. sell a trumpet
67. paint a new painting
68. do another sand/shell sculpture
69. watch 15 movies I've never seen
70. do something different each day with my hair for a week
71. pet sit
72. babysit a niece/ nephew for free
73. win a game of h-o-r-s-e or p-i-g
74. get all the monsters in Tales of Symphonia
75. read a chapter for class by wednesday
76. pass the final exam
77. beat the obstacle course on wii fit plus 5 times
78. go on a ride (carnival or theme park)
79. learn to play a duet on the piano
80. draw 5 anime comics
81. canoe around the lake
82. make a speech at a wedding
83. get rid of clothes I don't wear anymore
84. make a blanket
85. find the disc for Inuyasha: movie 2
86. visit moms parents
87. visit dads parents
88. visit Adams grandma
89. start taking meds at the same time everyday for a week
90. lower level by .3
91. picture book a story
92. co-write a story
93. picture the co-written story
94. ride a bike for 12 miles in 1 day
95. see the same play/ musical twice
96. see a movie with a friend
97. go to a sports event
98. be prepared for final exam
99. make a salsa that doesn't burn your mouth
100. watch the series finale of LOST
101. watch the series finale

and here is the link to follow
http://dayzeroproject.com/user/creativelyodd/todo

I figure flowered cakes are as good as any to start with. They can be real flowers, silk/plastic flowers, or flowers made from fondant. Fondant is "A sweet creamy sugar paste used in candies and icings." It is a smoother way to cover a cake, the cakes above are all done with fondant as the icing. Personally as nice as it looks, I am not 'fond' of the taste of it (sorry for the pun).

Some wedding cakes (as seen above) are done by piping frosting into a design.

Some cakes are very unquie, bear in mind basicially all wedding cakes are unquie in some way or another. The 1st on the left is a cake made from snacks, like swiss cake rolls. The 2nd from the left is a space ship, who ever said your wedding cake had to look like a wedding cake. The middle cake, the outside is covered in m&ms. The 2nd on the right, is a beach themed cake, the "sand" is brown sugar. Who said that you can only have flowers on a cake, the 1st on the right has fruit instead.

Another fun way to do wedding cakes is to have wedding cupcakes. You can do some very interesting ways of displaying it, as seen above. You don't have to pay for someone to cut the cake to pass out.


If I was a princessy type of girl this would be my wedding cake. But I am not a princessy type of girl (but that is a very cool cake), Adam and I will be eating something very different. We will either do cupcakes or costco cakes for the guests, but Adam and I will be eating pie.


Yes that is correct pie, to be specific my aunts apple pie (no one makes a pie like she does). Adam doesn't like cake, he likes red velvet but I like the idea of wedding pie instead of wedding cake. We could always add a whip cream pattern on top to make it seem like it might be a wedding cake.

Oh and an update on wedding 'cake' toppers. Adam didn't like any of my cake topper top picks. He likes the basic, bride next to groom.

Another update the colors are royal blue and forest green (instead of teal). Adam will have a forest green vest and tie, with a white rose as a boutonniere with both colors in it as well.

I know I said a cake one would be next but I decided to type about the Bridal Show I went to on February 19, I am specific on the date because most likely this is posted on a different date. Originally I was against going to a Bridal Show, I knew where I wanted to get my dress, what I was going to eat, and where I was going to eat it. But things change and my original idea won't work because I will be doing it on short notice, if I get the date that I want. But I decided what they hey, I'll go to one. So naturally I dragged Anna along to carry everything :D

It was alot smaller than what I was expecting. It cost $6 but Anna rocks and found $1 off coupons online. Parking was $7 (even though we would have been better off just getting the stub to pay for the time we used, I will explain further). But first we pulled into a parking building that said "Event Parking 7.50," the show started at 5 but the guy in the booth told us we couldn't park there until after 6 (that the time the bank closes that is near by), so why put the event sign out if you can't park there yet, I'm not the only one that make that mistake. So we parked at the one next door. It was a little farther than I hoped.

At this point I should probably mention that I am on crutches. I had knee surgery in January and still have to wear an immobilizer but I am able to put pressure on it. I know, I know, what the heck am I thinking going to a Bridal Show where you have to walk around when you are on crutches. I had been getting around with 1 crutch but because I knew we would be doing a bit of walking I used 2. So as we are crossing the street there it said to stop for pedestrians, Anna starts making me laugh, I don't remember why but I couldn't stop laughing, and I was trying not to fall. Below is the path to get to the bridal show, starting at the bottom of the picture, near the road. The regular blue is the first floor and the light blue is the second floor. After we got out tickets we took the evelator to the upstairs (the escalator seemed like not the brightest of ideas). We had to go to the 2nd floor to get to the bridal show because part of the boat show was in the grand gallery area. I was annoyed that they didn't just block off a path to take over there, but then again I wouldn't have been as annoyed if I wasn't on crutches. So then we had to take the elevator back down to the 1st floor to get to the show (pink dot).



The inside set up for getting to the room with the Bridal Show was even farther than what I wanted, the distance it took to get there was more than doing a lap around the booths. There was also a boat show going on. Below is what the set up kind of looked like, it isn't exact, especially when it comes to the number of booths but it gives you a general idea.

There was a spa booth for Beauticontrol. They were very nice. We got a free hand treatment with sea salt and oils that we rubbed on our hands, they pours water to rinse it off then gave us lotion to seal it in. It felt so good. They actually would come to your house to for in home spa treatments.

There were only 3 places that were offering samples. I was disappointed with the options of cake, but I did get some very good red pepper humus with a pita chip. I won't go too much into catering now, I'll save that for a different place. I will mention 1 though, Reflections Catering, www.reflectionscateringbyalex.com. He is very nice, and told me that even if it wasn't on the menu he would make whatever I wanted and take it to where ever I wanted, he has been all over the state for catering.


There were a few different DJ's there, we stopped at 2 of them. The first one was really cool, his name was Bill and he was from Sound Productions, www.soundproductions.com. He was funny and friendly and is a top pick for my DJ. Sound Productions also offer a party bus, hidden camera (of the dance floor), bubbles, keepsake portrait video, confetti, photo booth, LED lights, and a fog machine. The second one was a pain. I would avoid him as a DJ, he is from Complete Music Dis Jockey Service. I didn't really feel like a long story, all I wanted was a booklet, so I get a booklet thanked him, and turned to go and he stopped me to push me to put a deposit down, even though I don't have a set date (and he knows that) we say we aren't going to so we thank him again turn to leave, he stops us yet again to try to get us to make an appointment. I get that he is trying to get us to have him as my DJ but it was the pushy annoying sale. When you are selling stuff if you shouldn't push to annoyance, and if you do you should have the common sense to back off. He obviously didn't. If he didn't push and be annoying I would have suggested him for my sister. I am going to tell her about the first one he was awesome. He and the cute younger guy helping him (who said he would dance with Anna) invited us to go to the BOB after the bridal show. Sadly we declined, if I wasn't on crutches I might have dragged Anna there, but probably not, the only time we hang out in bars is after a show to watch fellow cast members make fools of themselves with karaoke.


We were there for about an hour. (there I explained) so we didn't stay for the fashion show, we would have had to wait around for over an hour to do so. But there was some "models" I say it like that because they were actually real people wearing dresses and tuxes, from Men's Warehouse, Davids Bridal and there was a stand that had about 8 dresses on mannequins to view. It probably would have been cheaper to pay for the time used in parking building oh well. It was still a fun experience but honestly I think I would have had more fun at the boat show. I did get some good stuff out of it.