Fabricated Friday's- Cake!

The 'Cake Boss' Predicts Third Season Will Be 'Crazier'

I love watching cake boss! If you've never seen it you should check it out. The creativity and artistic ability is awesome. Makes me want to go decorate something. The family can be hilarious too. Find some time to check it out.

Confessions of a Chocoholic

For as long as I can remember, I've had this unparalleled hankering for chocolate. Generally when I'm in the presence of it, I've just gotta have it! Morning, Noon, or Night-chocolate's always out of sight. I simply can not explain my matchless cravings for chocolaty goodness. Hershey's or Godiva; Milk or Dark; liquid or solid. It really doesn't matter. When it comes to chocolate, I do not discriminate.

Now, my coworkers understand that I have this little issue... ok, BIG issue, surrounding chocolate. But instead of helping me, they tend to compile the problem.

Here's how they do it.

The Tin of Temptation

Although it's presence has increased my prayer life, (Please Lord, help me see my way around the sugary sweetness today!) I must continuously shirk the centrifugal force of these tantalizing treats. Talk about discipline.

Who am I kidding? Most of the time, this brown sugar wins me over.

I just don't understand why they repeatedly fill this tin to the brim. I have never even contributed to this sweet supply. It simply doesn't make much sense to finance my own enticement. Time after time I've begged them to stop this surplus of saccharine, but to my dismay, I return to these delightful delicacies day after day.

Marting Lawrence explains what happens to candy whenever he is around in the movie Blue Streak. It also explains what happens to chocolate whenever I'm around. Pray for me ya'll!

Apple Pickin'

Excerpt of Apple Tree by Erykah Badu

You see, I picks my friends like I pick my fruit.

My Ganny taught me that when I was only a youth.

I don't walk around tryna be what I'm not.

I don't waste my time tryna get what you got.

I work at pleasin me cause I can't please you.

And that's why I do what I do.

My soul flies free like a willow tree.

doo wee doo wee doo weeeeee...

These days, how many of us really know how to pick fruit? What do you know about ripeness? Firmness? Color? Texture? How many days to leave the crop on the vine?

With no apple pickin’ frame of reference, you will continue to tend to your garden of friends, “associates,” mates and every other aspect of your life with a fast food mentality; only concerned about the speed and resourcefulness that the drive thru has to offer, instead of the quality of the harvest.

Ever wonder why people turn their nose up when you come around or why you’re physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually drained senseless? Ever wonder why you don’t feel loved or appreciated, maybe even stepped on or beat up? Ever wonder why you have aches and pains, sadness and sorrow? Ever wonder why people only tell you their distraught sob stories full of anguish or deceit? Ever wonder why you feel weighed down, listless, endlessly searching for a better day? Stop! and ask yourself if you’ve been selecting spoiled, rotten, stinky, worm filled fruit. The kind with bumps and bruises, moldy membranes, fading vibrancy, lacking any prospect of generating seeds (which indicates the inability to produce new life, you know.)

Stop feeding yourself, your life, and your time thoughtlessly. Replace those prickly vines with flourishing vegetation. New life should be sprouting all around you. So go to the garden and do a thump test. If the quality of the produce in your life is hollow and flavorless, maybe you have some pruning to do.

Frankly, you need to ask yourself a few more questions. Are you a producer or are you the smelly, gnat attracting fruit in the room? Do you infuse energy and light in every situation or do you turn stomachs after one look or conversation? Do you overindulge at the vending machine of eye candy or do you have a discerning, meticulous, and distinguishing palate?

Make sure you bring something to the table of life. Reaping a high quality yield should be your goal. –Hosea 10:12. Don’t just leave the crop of your life to chance. Tend to it. Nurture it. Learn to be selective. Take inventory of all that you’ve gathered, then apply the lessons of Apple Pickin’.