Anniversary Bash

It’s our second wedding anniversary! Hooray!

I’m just amazed at all that has happened in the last two years. We’ve had a good run so far and I’m looking forward to 80+ more anniversaries.(duh! :P) I couldn’t think of a better person to be married to. I’m one lucky gal, and in celebration of two awesome years of marriage to such an amazing person I wanted to share just how freaking in love I am so I thought now might be a good time for yet another CAKE!! I was feeling all gooey and mushy as our anniversary approached, which very well reflected in the cake I made for him…

A better than sex cake !!!! Well now, many of my friends asked: "So, is it?" (You know, better than sex?) Given that my husband reads this blog, I'm just going to say: A lady would never tell….

In any event, this starts-with-a-box-mix cake is a cinch to whip up, but between you, me and the pants that may never fit again, it's a once a year endeavor. (Did I not mention chocolate, caramel, whipped cream AND toffee, right?) If you can, make it a day ahead so that the caramel sauce has time to sink into the cake and get happy…

Here’s the recipe… 

ingredients:

Vanilla Cake (use measurements for the small cake)
1 (14 oz) can of sweetened condensed milk
8 oz of caramel
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 Heath bars (or 12 mini Heath bars), chopped

directions:

Bake your Vanilla Cake in a round cake pan. When it comes out of the oven, poke it all over (I used both a chopstick and a fork). First pour the whole can of condensed milk over the cake. Pour next the caramel over the cake. Let the cake cool to room temperature. Cover it in plastic wrap and let it chill for at least 24 hours, even longer is better as it gives the cake more time to absorb the condensed milk and caramel.The frosting is made of icing sugar and Whipping Cream.The chopped health bars are spread in between for a crunch.

notes from the hamster wheel...

Sometimes I think that he never has any food, and I start freaking out. So, like any good mommy, I give him more food. I then sit, enraptured, as he stuffs as much seed into his cheek pouches as possible. This nearly doubles his weight, and increases his volume to an amusing level. Is one trip enough? No! He goes back and forth for maybe half an hour, running between the food bowl and his many, many corners where he hides food and everything else I give him. All that's left after his frantic running and hoarding of the food are the pellets, which he hates. Sometimes if I'm lucky, he'll put the food in a corner, at the bottom, where I can see him push the food out of his pouches. It's the most amusing and unnatural thing I've ever seen. He runs like, all the time. My favorite time is when he stops suddenly, and the wheel lurches a little bit while he's still on it.

Its hilarious after about ten minutes of playing with him, as he becomes over confident in where he's going, assuming that my hands are still there. So " play" time turns into "catch the leaping " time which turns into "stop the from running off the bed" time, which finally turns into "maybe I should put the hamster back in his cage" time.

My new ride :)

It was one of those relished thursdays- only day of the week i could afford a luxury-an afternoon nap as its half day at work! My husband snuck out while I was still asleep, told me hez got an urgent work ..Later in the evening, he comes and takes me to the garage and hands over a key!!!... YES! he got me a caaaarrrrr !!!!!!!!! It was a total surprise as he dint even leave a single clue!! Despite the fact that he had been doing all his little late night research works on "best ladies car" in MY mobile...n tactfully deleting the history ... I was sooooo happy...

And I decided to bake a Thankyou Cake for him. I had the cake pictured in my mind...whats better than a cake cake.?! It was my first novelty cake which hence had the legitimate potential to be a disaster! There where hitches during the process but i did manage to conculde with somethin that looks like a toy car!! :) The most funny part was..wen my mom asked me over fone as she saw the pic "I loved your new car ,interesting shape ..but why have u parked it on a plate kind of a thing !!!"

Im in love !!!

Im in love !!!

Quite a lame start, i know !! Its been ages since i blogged..Life has changed a lott...rather a huge change.. Im no more a spinster ..Married and took me an year to settle! Having removed the newly wed tag , guess i can rightfully say im in the reality phase of my marriage...for quite sometime now :)

Yeah!! Im in LOVE with my husband...because he loves me too.. Sounds like a cheesy rhyme from a fairytale!! :P "I love you..you love me...we are a happy family!!" This reminds me of a poem he had written to me back in school..Well that can possibly be my next post!

Anyhow, knowing that one is loved makes all the difference in the world.Its indeed the foundation to build security of relationship ,an anchor of stability through life storms.Life is hard and relationships hardwork:why bother at all ,if there isnt love?!


Having to know and getting to interfere someone so much into your life is not just an easy task . Knowing that "Men are from another planet" and speak a whole different language when it comes to sex and romance, you just need to pick up and ta da !!

I get to know he loves me as he declares in myriad of ways. The beautiful little surprises he planz proves his love for me..The personal window into his vulnerability that no other person has, indeed a privilage to see the inner child so plainly of someone soo dear.His everlasting patience,considering he had been short tempered for loong. All those wonderful little things he does to make me adore him more and more as time goes by.

YES!! I married my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love....

I hold his hand....

It’s been a while since i last posted a blog…i’m hoping i could find more time to write and express my thoughts and ideas…now, as i write, i realize that life is still wonderful. despite the ups and downs, twists and turns and even the highs and lows…life is wonderful. it’s only a matter of how you look at it, how you perceive things and how you react to situations.

at this particular point in my life, something came to an end. it was somehow abrupt and unexpected. but i guess, i saw it coming. and now, i realize that some things have to end to make way for a new beginning. we have to empty ourselves so God could fill us up again with His blessings. old things have to go, so new things could have space. things have to end to make way for more wonderful things to happen.

that’s how life is. you face it head on with a faith in God that He will never bring us down. this may be a low point or a tough time, but time passes and so do these events in once life. sooner or later, the storm will pass and the sun will shine brightly again. things will end and more beautiful things will unfold. i may not be certain as to where all this is leading me, but one thing is for sure, i have faith that it will all be for the best. im holding His hand...

my love...

I’m sleepy… These days, I want to sleep a lot. Sleep is my only escape.

When I sleep, I don’t ever want to wake up. When I’m awake, I never want to stop working and sleep. Somehow, sleep is like a single drop of death. You drown into something very, very deep…and there, you are taken away from the crazy world…and you go somewhere far. Somewhere far from all the hurts and craziness in this world. Somewhere safe…

In my sleep, I forget. I forgive. Serenity fills my whole being…and I don’t get hurt. Sleep is a moment of bliss for me that I will continue to cherish… even for a moment ...my love of the moment :)

the routine -boredom!

I'm completely exhausted and was practically falling asleep at the espresso machine( don giv the kettle in my room ne rst!!) tonight . Getting up at 5:30 am., going to extra classes, and then RUSHING straight to college for a streched 8 hours isn't exactly what i call a fun day. Especially when after that i have yet to come home and start on my loads of submissions, diaries, writing, talking to the one I love, taking a shower, and saying hi to my parents.. if they're even still up by the time I settle. I don't talk to them much during the week...

I'm completely slipping away from reality. I sat in all my classes today, trying SOOOO HARD to pay attention, learn something, and feel like a student that I am... but before I knew it , class was over, and I had been zoned out the entire 45 minutes... hell, who knows if a teacher even called me??! Which is even worse, I wasn't even thinking about anything while I zoned out for every class period. It was like...not me. I have no idea what is going on.

I can only wear super flat shoes because I get so dizzy and sway these days. I hold literally onto railings, people, everything. I can hardly make it from one class to the next without falling flat on my face .

Even in my most tired states I can't fall asleep. It's like I never learned how...I just can't do it. My pulse just races, and my eyes droop, but I am completely alert and awake, just listening to the wind outside …