Cooking by the Book (?)

So it's my mom's birthday, and my little sister, Jessie, was tasked with baking her a cake while my mom was out at the casino for most of today, as Jessie is the one around my house typically does the baking. Well, I guess she decided she had plans of her own today, and left the job to my other sister, Andrea, who has never baked anything in her life. This left Jessie feeling the need to completely idiot proof every step of the process, including labeling "eggs" and "water", you know, in case she didn't know what those were. The above image is what I found when I awoke today and wandered into the kitchen (as always, click for a larger view.)


So last night I ventured out into San Diego with Brett, Sarah, and Christina, who are some of my performing arts buddies. It was Christina's 21st birthday, and we met up with some of her other friends at the Shout House, which is a dueling piano club in the Gaslamp. Music came from all genres, ranging from classic rock to rap, country, contemporary, and everything in between. The strangest moment had to be the transition between them playing Baby Got Back, and then someone paying them $20 to play Nintendo songs, which included every song from Mario Bros 1 through 3, the themes from Zelda, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, and a few other obscurities.

After some random wanderings and adventurings, we ended up in some random dance club type place in North Park for about half an hour before they closed up. I'm not even sure where North Park is, to tell the truth, but it was kind of shady and made for a good adventure, I think. Then I somehow ended up in some strangers house for a while before Brett and I decided we were both tired and it was time to head out. On the way out we were told of a burrito stand up the street, which we somehow thought was in proper walking distance, but ended up being a bit farther than we thought, so we ended up on an hour long round-trip burrito adventure through North Park at 2 am. The upshot was that I was treated with easily the largest breakfast burrito I'd ever seen in my life. And now I can't eat for the next 3 days.


You know, getting back to my sister's cake situation, I'm now thinking that, if she really needs that much help trying to figure out how to bake a cake, maybe I should just do it for her. Yeah... I think I'm going to go do that before the kitchen is destroyed.