Did You Know?...

Did you know that each year Americans consume enough of Brach's candy corn, that if layed end to end, could circle the earth 4.25 times? I was roaming through the Halloween section at Target and read that on the candy corn bag and not gonna lie, was about to buy a bag of the candy pumpkins, but decided against my instincts and put the bag down once I read that. I used to absolutely love this stuff - I also would often break off the white tip of candy corns, show my parents and pretend that I lost a tooth, in hopes of getting some money from the tooth fairy. Did anyone else do that...or just me?? : ) Unfortunately, my parents could not be fooled.

This week flew by! (PTL) The week was pretty uneventful, but this weekend was crazy busy, in a good way of course. Friday started off with a pumpkin spice latte, #5 of the season. My name is Tori, and I have a PSL addiction. However, I needed the energy for my morning project. What was my project you ask?...

Cookie decorating!

Friday night was my sister's bachelorette party and I wanted to make some cookies for the event, so I thought why not make a whole other batch for some Halloween cookies?! Growing up my dad always made these cookies for Christmas, at least 3 batches worth. And me and my siblings were the designated decorators. Back then, I hated decorating cookies. (shocking, right?!) I could not sit still for more than 15 minutes or have the patience to decorate cookie after cookie after cookie. Somewhere in the longrun, though, I grew to love baking and use it was a way to de-stress, use it for a creative outlet, and also have a not-so-really-but-almost-serious-ambition to start a bakery : ) (Komsthoeft's Kakes (cakes?), perhaps?) I started icing at 9 in the morning....4 hours later, 2 batches worth of cookies were decorated!

The cookies for the bachelorette party (note to self: never use the gel decorator because it does not dry)

My finished beauties

After the manyyyyy hours of decorating I finished up some homework, then got ready for my sister's bachelorette party! The party was 80's themed, and i'll tell you, it was awesome driving home dressed like this getting double takes : ) I should have been busting out to some 80s jams, sadly I didn't have my ipod on hand, so I was blaring out to some country instead. 80's goes with country right?

Story: They put us in "the pope room." There were pictures and statues of the pope covering the ENTIRE room. Including a lifelike waxed head of the pope sitting on our table. At first we thought it was a halloween decoration. No no, he sits there all year long. Crazy thing is our waiter told us that was their uglier pope because someone had stolen their better one. Who in the world has a desire to go to a restaurent, hide a class contained head of the pope under their jacket, and walk away with it??

 Saturday me and my sister Alex decided to head out to World of Fun! We had planned on doing it sometime when she got back from Alaska, and TBC was going that saturday, so I figured it would be fun to go and do our own thing and see some tbc-ers along the way. We got there at 11 and nearly did all the major rides before noon since there were no lines yet. Awesome! Alex's birthday was in July and I didn't get her a gift yet, so my gift to her turned into us doing the Ripcord! It was completely terrifying, but totally worth it. (Video to be posted on fb soon, including high-class commentary from david brown)

Sisterly love.

Alex told me she wasn't going to scream - she screamed louder and longer than I did. You sit on a throne of lies, Fishy.

This week is a shortened week, thank for fall break!! I just need to make it through 1 presentation, 1 day of practicum, and 3 classes, then it shall be a wedding weekend extravaganza! So excited for Katie and my soon to be new brother, Tyler : ) I hope you all have a fabulous day of 10/10/10, week and fall break!

Movie Challenge - "I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored."