Early morning appointment

Yesterday I had an appointment scheduled for an EMG in Erie. My appointment was at 8:00 a.m. and they wanted me to be there 20 minutes early. I got on the road extra early just in case traffic was bad.

That's almost a funny statement looking at the lack of traffic on Interstate 90. As I was driving down the highway my low tire pressure light came on. Just great. Now I needed to get off the highway and make a stop somewhere for air. It's a good thing I did leave early.

I arrived at my destination with about 10 minutes to spare.

The nice thing about early appointments is there isn't much wait time. I was only sitting in the waiting room for about 5 minutes.

If you've never had an EMG, it consists of being shocked and they record the reaction. There were two different people that performed the test. The first one was a technician I think and the second was a doctor.

I couldn't help wondering to myself what kind of evil mind would come up with such a test. Then I almost laughed out loud when the doctor came in wearing a bow tie and I thought it made him look like a psycho serial killer. Lucky for me, he was very nice and my life was not threatened at all. 

I was all done by 8:30 so I made a few stops before going back home. I was in need of more blog material so more on that tomorrow.

A cake with a story

I love when people draw me pictures of what they want their cake to look like. This one came with a printed picture along with their hand drawn instructions.

 Cakes don't get much easier than this.

I later found out the story behind this one. This is for a guy named Lee and it is purposely misspelled on the cake. Apparently his favorite show is The Office. This cake is from an episode on that show where they forgot to get someone a birthday cake, then spelled her name wrong, and it was decorated with a single Chiclet in the middle of the cake. When asked what they were going to put in the middle of this cake their answer was a chiclet. I didn't even know they still made that gum

The barker

 Just a short little video of Gibbs barking and pretty much nothing. Sorry about the leg lift in the beginning. 

Just a pretty birthday cake

I've had a bit of a run on cakes lately at work. But at least it's giving you a break from all the cards that I was making. Here's a recent birthday cake I did.

The order asked for dark purple and dark yellow or gold. I called the customer to explain that it's very difficult to get a dark purple. The frosting that we use doesn't get very dark and the darker you go the more bitter tasting the frosting is. She said that was fine as long as it wasn't violet. I went as dark as I could on this one. Not sure if she was satisfied with it or not but I thought it looked pretty good.