I hate travelling but …

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Somehow I’ve cheerfully agreed to go to Los Angeles for four days … ah, I know, it’s a tough life.
Well, it IS a bit of a logistical nightmare because I leave on Federal Election day and Husband will be working until VERY late that night.
So I’ve organised a flight that allows me to vote, throw the kids at my sister – bless her – then jump on a plane with an enormous, empty suitcase.
The flight times are against me body clock-wise – I fly out at 1.30pm for 13 hours, arriving in Los Angeles several hours before I left. Not entirely conducive to sleeping even if I wasn’t suffering one of the worst insomnia bouts of my life.
But I’ve remaining positive that I will find the energy reserves to hit the ground running and so have booked a hotel equally distant between two major shopping centres.
Leaving Saturday means I’m bailing on the school fete’s cake stall. So it’s been suggested by the organisers that I freeze something. Cue anxious panting. I’ve baked a test run of cupcakes that I really should have test-iced last night but I couldn’t be arsed. I am KNACKERED. Bloody insominia.

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I’m thinking I’ll test the pandas and the apples from my 5 cake stall ideas (that will walk off the table) tonight after my yearly skin-cancer check-up this arvo – the horrors of which I documented in You Want A Piece of Me. Let’s hope there are no scalpels involved this time.

Hmmm … somehow I’m not looking forward to today terribly much …

Waving my credit card around in GAP over the weekend on the other hand …

Are you doing any Election baking or sausage sizzling on Saturday?

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    1. I did a test run of the pandas and they actually need big choc bits I think – the normal sized ones were way too tiny, they would look fab on mini-cupcakes. I am now going for the tiny teddies on the beach …

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  3. Hi Alanna, Thanks to you for your post about cake-stall baking, because I was inspired to have a go at the panda cupcakes for our Election Day cake stall and they turned out OK – not as pretty as the ones from Bakerella because I improvised a bit, but not too bad. I’ve posted pics on my blog and have linked back to yours.

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      1. Hi Alana,

        Yes, thank you, your comment came through but I didn’t see it at first because the email notification went into my spam folder for some reason – I know what you mean, I find it’s hit and miss with the technology. No problem re the link! Thanks for the inspiration in the first place!

      2. I’ll have to do another cupcake post sometime. Apparently that’s how Google assesses your popularity – by how many times you write about a subject. Not that I’m doing things for any reason other than love ….

      3. Yes please, I love your cupcake posts. I was going to do little Abbott and Rudd cupcakes – “Politicakes” – for Election Day – but didn’t fancy working with grey fondant icing (Rudd’s hair). All too hard!

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