Lifelong Learner

My husband has told me more than once the past few weeks that I need to find a new hobby or to take up an old one...just something to keep me busy and away from spending my day watching Cake Boss or John and Kate Plus 8 while applying for jobs. So I've decided I want to start doing a research project. I know this might sound kind of crazy but I really do miss the higher education world and the days and weeks spent in the library working on papers and looking at journals and studies. So I've been thinking about something to research or study and I think I might have found it! One of my graduate school professors posted this link today on facebook and I found it extremely interesting. I'm not sure where I'm going to go with it but I'm always looking for ways to connect my bachelors degree and masters degree and this topic might be something worth pursuing. The title of the article is The Case for Early Marriage: Amid our purity pledges and attempts to make chastity hip, we forgot to teach young Christians how to tie the knot. I'll let you read it for yourself and let me know what you think but I found the article to be very interesting so if you're bored tonight grab a cup of coffee and dig in...I promise it will make you think! The link for the article is: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/august/16.22.html

Wedding Quilt!!

So my Aunt Connie in California made Tyler and I a beautiful quilt for our wedding and it came in the mail this week. I love it so much and it even has our name stitched in it on one of the hearts :) Thank you Aunt Connie for our beautiful quilt and all of your hard work, it's very much appreciated!!

Fresh Veggies Anyone?!?

So Tyler decided to take a second internship at another studio in town to keep him busy and learning even more things. The new studio is called Sound Barn and a really nice guy owns it and it's in a small house behind his main house in Nashville. The guy records 100% analog meaning he records on tape instead of through Pro Tools (at least that's what I understand lol) which is a computer software program (I think). Up until the 90's everthing was recorded on tape but now for convenience and efficiency and other reasons most studios record digitally and very few record on tape. A reel of tape is like $400 and only holds like 3 songs so it's also cheaper to not use tape. But tape produces a unique sound so some engineers and artists prefer it over the new way. (Tyler if you're reading this and I got some of this wrong, I apologize. But I think I got most of it right lol) Anyway, Tyler was over there yesterday helping him record and when he left he gave him some fresh veggies from his garden, YUM!! He said the tomatoes are great for homemade salsa so now I'm on the hunt for a salsa recipe :)

A Little Change!

We rearranged our living room and Tyler's man cave! We have a farely large living room for an apartment and we originally had put both of our couches in when we moved in. But we thought it might be nice for Tyler to have some sitting room in his man cave so we decided to move the smaller couch in there and leave some room for a chair or something in the living room. So we moved everything around and here's what it looks like!

And yes that is a Coleman camping chair in the living room. Once I'm employed we hope to replace it with a real living room chair :)

Tyler's newest addition to the man cave...a comfy couch!!

Sound Stage Day 2!!

We went back to the studio on Saturday to add some vocal's to Jared's stuff. Here's some pics from the day!!

Tyler doing his thing

Say cheese...Tyler didn't want to :(
I don't think Jared was expecting me to come in lol

I decided I wanted a little bit of the action too!

I even got to sing! or just put the headphones on lol

Tyler and his beard

That's all she wrote :)

Sound Stage!!

So I got to go with Tyler to the studio tonight to watch him record his first live session at Sound Stage! He got to record a friend named Jared for a publishing company :) Here's a few pics from the night. They only tracked the instruments tonight and then they'll record vocals tomorrow but here's some pics so far!!

Outside the studio

The 900 Room

Inside the vocal booth

Jared's guitar ( I thought it was pretty)

The board...doesn't it look so simple?!?

Tyler recording and doing other stuff I don't understand

Talking and getting the guitar all tuned up

Chillin on the couch and catching up on my soaps :)

Gotta get the tempo right!

I'll post more pics tomorrow after they're done recording vocals!!

CakeSammy anyone?!?

Okay so here's the deal. It's no surprise to anyone that I want to open my own cupcake shop....BUT ... here's what I've been thinking. What about selling cupcake sandwiches? :) You know how everyone loves the top of a cupcake, well I'm thinking I just need to design a mold that makes just the tops of cupcakes. I could flip the top half so they are flat on the bottom and the top and call it a cakesammy lol Rachel Ray always calls sandwiches "sammies" so maybe it could work lol Anyway you could choose what flavor of frosting you want in the middle and even on top and even choose two different flavors of cake if you want to for the top and bottom.

My original design of "Cake N a Cup" is designed like a Coldstone where you choose your size and fixings so I'm kind of going off of that idea just with "cakesammies." LOL Choose your size, flavor, and frosting. Also, I've heard from tons of friends that some like a ton of frosting or maybe just a little, this way you can be in charge. You could add fresh strawberries in the middle or maybe some M&Ms! Or maybe you want your initials on the top or a smiley face :) Whatever makes you happy!

I'm still working on the idea but I really want to make it happen so we'll see where it goes! I've googled cupcake sandwiches and the idea is already out there but they aren't being sold yet so I guess I should hurry before someone steals my thunder LOL

Here's a pic of the basic idea..