friday the 13th

so we celebrated friday the 13th today at work. or at least we used friday the 13th as an excuse to have a bit of a celebration. i'm all for finding an excuse to have a good time. and work seems to be one place where scheduling a good time needs to happen as often as possible. i made strawberry pretzel salad - which isn't a salad at all, i don't think - and it was pretty good. the pretzel crust was a little over-cooked, but not burnt. and i didn't have two packages of strawberry jello, so i used one strawberry and one strawberry-kiwi. HOWEVER, i did use strawberries that i picked with my mom (who's the best) last year instead of store bought ones. and the cream cheese/cool whip/sugar layer was absolutely superb. i love those layers. any dessert that contains a layer with cream cheese & coolwhip is dynamite in my book.

i volunteered to make a cake for monday. we're going to celebrate mike's birthday. i haven't made a cake for quite some time. i think i need to plan this one out... it needs to be fun & exciting. mike's just that kind of guy. perhaps i could make it a sheet cake, but shape it like trogdor... that would be quite funny. completely not understood by mike & everyone else at the office, but still it would be stinkin' hilarious. a trogdor cake. that would rock.

you know what else would rock? having a pet monkey who rode a unicycle.