My Dorm-room Bakery

Welcome to the foolish mind, and the far-fetched project inventory of: MY BRAIN
Every year - every month really - I come up with several ideas for businesses I can start for fun, and hopefully some profit.  They have ranged from flower arranging, to pirate-day-camps - yet they all have one thing in common...
They never happen!
I know right?  What a rotten outlook on my business ventures...but sadly it's true.  Maybe one day I'll just get one of those shock-inducing-trick-gumpacks and keep zapping myself until I follow through on one of these ideas.
So the latest idea was this:
~The Dorm room Bakery~

Yeah that's right!  I MADE that crustily loaf of awesome you see before you.  From scratch, with my own bare hands, and quite a few potentially disastrous happenings along the way!

My plan was simple:

1.) make a truckload of bread dough which I will then put in freezer and thaw out for later weeks

2.) Bake crusty-on-the-outside-soft-within artisan loafs of bread every sunday morning and distribute them to hungry and appreciative college dorm residents.

3.) Reap benefits of fresh bread, paychecks, and happy customers.

Then I discovered a vital flaw in my plan:

It is against the law in Minnesota to sell homemade baked goods without a licensed kitchen/permit...

well there goes business idea No. 2983

Seriously Minnesota?  How can you deny college students the glory of fresh made bread?  I mean I always could distribute it out for free - but let's be honest: flour and yeast don't pay for themselves!

Anywho - the verdict of my three taste testers was:

"GOOD!"

"yum - tastes like Panera baguettes"

"when we live in an apartment, you need to bake bread for us all the time"

Myself personally, I though it was a little too flat, and a little too gummy.  Solution?  

More yeast and longer cooking time.  

Easily fixed since next time I won't be dealing with a fourth of a recipe! (Imagine trying to measure out .379 tbs of yeast and you'll get an idea of what I was working with...)

Also, next time we will actually reserve the kitchen, so we don't have to deal with flustered cupcake makers demanding us to hand over the oven before the bread is fully finished! 

Man do I love homemade bread...

So here's my question:

Do I give up business idea No. 2983?

Or do I limit my amount of customers and sell black-market bread?  Maybe if I don't make a big deal of it,  no one will care and I can just have fun, feed the masses and pickup a few extra dollars while I'm at it...Maybe I'll get arrested instead.

Somehow I don't think it's worthy of an arrest...maybe a warning, but that's about it.

Seriously though: what should I do?

Belated Valentines Day

I'm not a huge fan of Valentines day, but as long as it exists I figure - why not celebrate it?

Alors,

BEHOLD: the cheesy Valentines Day pictures I have created for you!

I got a lot of comment on my hair today ranging from: cute to whoville

                                          

I'm certainly not the best nail painter around, but I decided to deck them out for the occasion.  I almost died however due to a blast of toxic fumes that almost knocked me dead on the ground!

Beware the potent power of the polish!

(like that alliteration eh?) 

And of course what is Valentines Day without the classic candy hearts?

This year mine couldn't decided whether to be love or sports related...

I'm especially amused by the "MY TEAM" heart.

got an especially good valentine this year? Gimme some inspiration in the form of a comment below...

A Weekend Adventure!

It was only the second week back to school, and my head had been in a C-Clamp for three days straight.
Alright, so maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but those three days were really quite unpleasant and rather unproductive.
What I needed was a serious stress break!
Luckily...
the opportunity presented itself in the form of a:
WEEKEND ADVENTURE!

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So it was up early (for a Saturday) to catch the 9:14 bus, which bounced me and Hannah a few blocks away from our first stop -

~The May Day~

After mulling over many wonderful choices, I decided to go with apricot granola, and Jasmine green tea.  The next-in-line customer applauded my decision, claiming that the granola was 

"the best I have ever eaten in my life!"  

I've got to admit...it was probably the most tastefully fantastic granola I have ever eaten in my life!

Maybe it was just the magic of the adventure, perhaps the atmosphere of the cafe, or the European vibes radiating from the tiny pitcher in which my milk was served.

Whatever it was...it was wonderful!

Laughter, chatter, crunchings and munchings ensued until we were ready for the second part of our adventure...  

You always need a good "thin ice" sign to have an authentic lake-skating experience!
~Ice Skating on a Lake~

Not having skated in a while, we were both quite rusty.  With the help of some split-second-shots however, we looked like regular old figure skating pros!

What I actually looked like most of the time:

What I wish I looked like all the time:

We ended up staying much longer than we had planned, and just had a terrifically jovial time all around!  It was waiting for the bus back that I realized I can't had any inkling of a headache the entire morning!  My aching woes had been cured by the magic of good fun - and it felt fantastic.