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CAKE : Thanks for your thoughts, encouragement, ideas, stories & emails with fun photos. A bunch of you mentioned cupcakes. I am right there with you. My mom and I tasted a few cupcakes at a local shop last weekend but between you and me, internet, we were not as impressed as we had hoped to be. So it's on the short list of things to consider but sadly not a knight in shining armor idea. What I did love most about your combined comments is the gentle reminder that anything goes, it's our cake and we'll make it work for us. Sweet.

PHONE : Early yesterday morning, in a feat that I wish had been captured on video, my sleeping self knocked my cell phone/blackberry off my bed and into a waiting cup of water. It was really a one in a million shot but of course it happened. The splash from it woke me up and I acted quickly to shove my phone into a bowl of dry rice to absorb moisture. Apparently though, I failed, and my blackberry seems to have short circuited. So NOW, I am making calls from a duct taped together flip phone that the rest of the family had deemed inoperative and traded up from. Temporary, but frustrating. And also email-less. Turns out having email at your fingertips really is an addiction that takes a few days to recover from.

PHONE UPDATE : I tried the phone again a few hours after writing this post and turns out a night with the rice was all it needed. Working great. SO GLAD!! Now I really should buy the big digital SLR before I break anything else.

DANCING WITH THE STARS : Anyone else hooked yet? Man, I LOVE fall television.

TRIPS : I am off tomorrow to LA for a great visit with a few of my girlfriends from college. I can't wait to see them. On Sunday, Paul is driving up from San Diego to get me and then we'll spend a week together there before flying up to Oakland for the USC v. CAL game that Saturday. Quick & fun journey, it will be fantastic. I will be blogging all next week with albums on the road, plenty of photos and the save the date reveal. I hear on good authority that my decorated envelopes are making their way to homes everywhere. I realize now, I should have sent one to Paul who really never saw it. HA!

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12 responses to “what’s happening here?”

  1. Rossie Hutchinson Avatar
    Rossie Hutchinson

    I did something similar with my Palm. The rice thing didn’t work. A friend dissembled it and rinsed it with rubbing alcohol. Still didn’t work. I was really busy, so I let it sit with the battery out for a week, planning to take it in to the store (to see if it was a replaceable part that was busted). After all that and sitting out for a week, when I put the battery back in it started working again! Has been working perfectl for 3 months since! So, be patient, and look up the rubbing alcohol thing.

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  2. Marianne Avatar
    Marianne

    Ahh, super jealous that you guys are going to the USC vs. CAL game. Can’t wait to read your blog on it, though! :]

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  3. akbuilt Avatar
    akbuilt

    Saw this and thought of your cake dilemma:
    http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/09/french-in-a-flash-carrot-muffins-with-sweet-chevre-icing-recipe.html
    carrot cake with chevre-cream cheese icing. With a recipe – might be worth a kitchen trial and, if its good, a visit to a baker willing to use that recipe? Just a thought.

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  4. veronica Avatar
    veronica

    i didn’t know you were going to USC/ cal game! whoooa sister. i’ll see you there too!

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  5. Brie Avatar
    Brie

    Oftentimes, I hope not this time, the cell phones dry out and begin working again and then rust over and re-break in a matter of days/a week. If you don’t have your info/contacts backed-up, you should do so just in case.

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  6. Melissa Mann Avatar
    Melissa Mann

    so glad you were able to to get your phone working again…and YES! Totally excited to have DWTS back!!!!!

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  7. Brianna Avatar
    Brianna

    Glad you got your phone working. Have fun with Paul!

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  8. thursday Avatar
    thursday

    So many have done the phone-in-water thing, but in a cup? I’m impressed! Last time I drenched my phone I turned it off and yanked the battery out to let everything dry. Didn’t think of the rice thing. ‘Course I’d have been even more freaked out if it were a blackberry. Mine was just an ol’ motorola.

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  9. Jen Avatar
    Jen

    Too funny! Sending a Save the Date to your far-away fiancee might be a first- but ironically NOT a bad idea! Guys are notoriously terrible with dates.. and if he hung on to it long enough it might help remind him next year when your anniversary is and keep him out of the dog house (just generalities of course, not knowing your hubby myself). But it is actually a sorta cute idea!
    Love your blog! Can’t wait to see the Save the Date!

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  10. Sara Avatar
    Sara

    i got miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiineeeee! all the way over here. and it is awesome. blogland: get excited.

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  11. Thinkie Avatar
    Thinkie

    big digital SLR’s can be broken too, trust me, I know from experience :-/ I dropped itof for repair last friday, fortunately i happened on acation and the travelinsurance pays for most of the repaircosts.

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  12. JLS Avatar
    JLS

    My friend did the same thing with her phone, only she was sleeping and didn’t notice for over 12 hours. Haha. It still worked. She brought it into work (we do science in a lab) and put it in a desiccator.

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