I know that after tonight, you don't have to look up at the stars...

I started a Dave Diet yesterday: Listening to ridiculous amounts of Dave Matthews until I am well versed or sick of it. It's only a partial diet though because I am currently infatuated with a burned cd I came across full of The Classic Crime and Cinematic Sunrise on it and I can't seem to spend a day without sampling it a little. So far though I am loving Dave and I'm not quite sure how I ever lived without all of these killer tunes... I decided the same thing about netflix today as well!

This weekend was kind of a bust... I freaked out this week because I am flat broke and I was starving and bored and had no money for the bus and so my mom put some money into the bank for me (even though I told her not to because I truly did not want her money) and I am now fed and have a bus pass. 

I went over to Ashley's  last night and stopped for a pumpkin spice latte at starbucks on the way. It was delicious! We decided we wanted to make cupcakes so we found a recipe and a few extra ingredients... tequila and key lime... Ashley was out of flour so we went to walgreens to pick some up and stopped back at starbucks to try the pumpkin spice frappucino. EVEN BETTER!!!  I love Fall and Halloween time because of all things pumpkiny:

Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin Lattes and Frapps at Starbucks

Pumpkin Bread at Caribou Coffee

Pumpkin Doughnuts at Uncle John's

Pumpkin Delights from the lovely Little Debbie

Pumpkin Carving

Pumpkin seeds

Pumpkin patches

Pumpkin "candy corn"

and finally

Pumpkin candies half chocolate half crunchy peanut butter wrapped in foil with pumpkin faces on top that have been discontinued for like 2 flipping years!!!! Whoever made that decision should be stuffed into a meat grinder alive!

Back to the cupcakes... I got to sift the flour and dump it into the mixer and that is where my cooking ended. I decided I wanted to make decorations for the cupcakes so I got out the gumpaste (wikipedia definition at the bottom Gordon) and started creating. Naturally my love for the holidays had me making a jack-o-lantern and from there I decided to make a cupcake for all 6 of the major holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, and the 4th of July. The pictures are on facebook duh!

This week... work as usual and a few extra hours and money in my pocket! I have a quiz tomorrow AM in my math class and my first homework assignment in oceanography on Wednesday so this will be the beginning of: Krista Marie Genius: The Road to a 4.0

Gumpaste: Edible clay-like dough made by combining glycerin, gum Arabic and icing sugar and used to mold edible flowers and figures. Gum paste can also be rolled extremely thin and used to make intricate ribbons and lacework as well as delicate flower petals.