I'm So Happy Right Now!

As many of you know, I'm a full-time college student. This semester, one of the classes I'm taking is the Literary Magazine class. Basically, I'm now part of the staff of the ONLY creative content published for my school (thanks to budget cuts, our school's paper was cut). I'm really in love with the class, and my classmates and teacher are all really fun to work with.

Anyways, we got seriously stiffed in our budget this year. Instead of the customary $5,000 that the class used to get, we only got $3,400. This is a serious problem for my class, as we rely on every cent we get to create a great publication and have a great release party. So, to try and get some more money, my teacher is playing college politics with other staffers at the school for more money, and we the students held a bake sale.

For the bake sale, I did my part by baking about 10 dozen cookies. Half of those cookies are Chocolate Chunk, and the other half are Chocolate Chocolate Chunk. (Scarily enough, that makes about 27 dozen cookies so far in the past three weeks! Sue me, I've been a baking fiend!) Of the most recent 10 dozen, I took about half (2 dozen chocolate chunk and 3 dozen chocolate chocolate chunk) with me to school for the bake sale. Others brought soda, water, bakalava, muffins, more cookies, and even cotton candy (prepackaged to make our lives easier). We sold everything from between $.25 to $1.00, and we also had live music.

It was a great sale. We did a great job in profit considering how much we sold everything for. And we also got to hear some great live local music!

Now for the really great news... We made $175.55 in profit from the sale. Then we REALLY lucked out! One woman, another student of my teacher's, gave us a $100 donation. Then she returned later with another check, this one from her mother. That check was for $500! We made almost $800!

Then, to top that off, our teacher was able to get us $3,000! That means our budget for this year's literary magazine is higher than ever! We have over $7,000 in our budget for the first time ever!

What I've Completed Today...

Today was yet another busy day in my life. I discovered that a beloved elementary school teacher has moved from CA to TN (near Nashville, I'm told), to continue to raise the dogs he rescues, I made 5 dozen chocolate chip cookies for my class for tomorrow's potluck, I finally took pics of my Akri Erin's awesome finished scarf (technically finished yesterday night, just before midnight), and finished Akri's wife's scarf as well (it also looks awesome!). Plus, there was also the Stupor Bowl... Yes, I watched, groaned at the commercials, and tried to ignore my mother's squees during Bruce Springsteen's half-time performance. Either way, in all honesty, it was kind of boring, since I'm not a sports fan, and I just don't get the point of American Football.

However, I did catch a few mins. of my fav. ghost-hunting shows, 'Ghost Hunters' and 'Ghost Hunters International,' which both showed some spooky findings... Oh so cool! Other than that, I've discovered the secret to perfect (well, in my opinion anyway) Chocolate Chip Cookies. However, I'm not sharing that information, because I want to be able to sell them and have people wonder at what I do to make them so yummy!

Here's pics of the outcome of my cookie making:





As for scarves #9 & #10, those are now going to be packed up and mailed out to their owners....

This one is for Akri Erin (colors used are Caron Simply Soft® Emerald, Navy Blue, and Red):




And for Akri's wife, who I'd love to meet some day... (colors used are Caron Simply Soft® Black and Purple, with Lion Brand Micro-Spun Yarn® in Blue):