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Today is my hubby’s birthday! Unfortunately he doesn’t have the day…ah–he has to work on his birthday…I have always take my birthday off. It’s a tradition.

Well, here is his birthday cake. It took 2 days, 2 boxes of confectioner’s sugar, 2/3 cup of Crisco, 1/2 cup of water, 2 tsps of vanilla, a strawberry cake mix, oreos, and lots of patience.

I hate to work with black icing. So I decided in my infinite wisdom to find an alternative–crushed oreos. Apprently crushed oreos have a mind of their own. I had oreos everywhere. But it worked for the checkered flag and tires of the cake. Of course last night after finishing the cake, I realized I could have used one side of the oreo as the tires instead of the crushed version. By the way icing doesn’t stick very well to crushed oreos.

Some of the little details I wasn’t able to put in due to the fact that I was tired and was sick of icing. But all in all I think I did a pretty good job.

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I really wanted to put a little more detail into the car like the stickers, etc, but when it is 10:30 at night and you have worked a full day at the J-O-B, you want to go to bed and get some sleep, but next time I will do the little details, but here are the ones I am most proud of. If you notice the Triple A logo—all free hand! and the same goes for the “6” I found it a little easier than doing a transfer.

I have to say this was the most detailed cake I have done to date. Most of this was done from a picture off of Mark Martin’s website.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLES!!!!

Dale Jr will have a new paint scheme for his car on Sunday at Talladega. He will be driving the #8 with a #3 feel. Saturday would have been Dale Sr’s 55th birthday.

From NASCAR.com
MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his two DEI teammates will sport his father’s classic black paint scheme in this weekend’s Busch and Nextel Cup races at Talladega Superspeedway.
Dale Earnhardt Day is Saturday, on what would have been the seven-time NASCAR champion’s 55th birthday. The primary sponsors of the two DEI Cup cars — the No. 8 Budweiser with driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., and the No. 1 Bass Pro Shops/Tracker with driver Martin Truex Jr. — and two Busch cars — Truex Jr.’s No. 8 Bass Pro Shops/Tracker and the No. 11 Menards/Turtle Wax with Paul Menard — are paying tribute to Earnhardt this weekend.
“I think this is a great tribute to Dale on such a special weekend,” said Teresa Earnhardt, President and CEO of Dale Earnhardt Inc. “To have all of our sponsors come together with this tribute and want to be a part of it says a lot about the respect they have for Dale’s accomplishments.”
Earnhardt won 10 times at Talladega, including his final Cup victory on Oct. 15, 2000. He will be inducted posthumously into the speedway’s International Motorsports Hall of Fame on Thursday, with the induction ceremony to be shown at a later date on SPEED.

Congratulations to Kevin Harvick for the sweep at Phoenix.

BUSCH Race on Friday Night

CUP Race on Saturday Night

Tony finished 2nd! Here’s Tony giving Kevin his congratulatory shower!

Mark had the car to beat, but a mishap in the pits I felt cost him the victory. After running out of gas at the end, including several other cars, he finished 11th.

Several others were knocked out of contention early due to other drivers’ messes, including Elliott Sadler. Of course, I am not one to do the happy dance when someone gets in a wreck, but I felt some glee when Newman and little Shrub wrecked. Oh darn!

Next for the boys–TALLADEGA! Seems they are requiring the cars to have a softer front bumper. This is supposed to slow down the bump drafting thing majority of the drivers have been “voicing their concerns” about. Some might think about bump drafting, but you know there will be those regardless of the bumper who will bump draft. We shall see this weekend.

Good luck boys!

Here is my latest attempt at cake decorating. I needed a little practice since I have two others to make this week–one of which will require some detail. I used my co-workers as the “taste testers” of my little experiement. The only mishap…is the black icing. You wouldn’t think when you get black icing on your hands it would turn them purple. That’s right, my hands have just a hint of purple to them today. This usually wears off in a day or two, so if you see me…sorry for the hands.

The car could have probably used a little more detail, but when you are doing this about 6 am in the morning and you have to be at work by 8:00 and you have yet to get dressed, details have to be left out. Besides it was really small as it was. I think it looks ok. The “20” however doesn’t look too bad. I really hate black icing. Thank god, Tony’s primary color is orange. If I decide to practice with other drivers i.e. Kevin Harvick, I will have to use more black.

Luckily my husband’s driver Mark Martin is blue and red. Red–is also one of those colors you have to be careful using.

We shall see how it goes.

It’s Friday–I am tired and I am in no mood for you Lubbock drivers.

Yellow light–hello–caution!!!–means the light is going to turn red. This doesn’t give you permission to speed through the intersection in the hopes you won’t have to sit through the light cycle again. Of course it doesn’t help when you see a LPD officer do the same thing. Shouldn’t they be setting the example here???

And heaven forbid the light should be red. I was sitting at a light today coming back to work from my lunch and I saw..count them…three cars run the red light. Luckily most of us waited until they went through the intersection. I have learned to hesitate before putting my SUV into an intersection in Lubbock.

Turn signals are a good thing. Just because you know where you are going doesn’t mean I do. I drive a big blue SUV…I cannot…I REPEAT…cannot stop on a dime. I am not participating in some brake experiment for Hyundai to see how well my brakes work.

I don’t know how many road construction projects Lubbock is undertaking at the moment, but it seems where ever I drive around town I see orange cones. People when the bright orange sign reads “Left lane closed ahead” it really is closed. Don’t drive up the left lane until you can’t drive no more and expect me to let you over (even if your signal is on) I read the sign. I moved into the other lane that was available for driving. And don’t even try to “squeeze in” either. Take a look at my back windows…I am a NASCAR fan, I have no problem with hitting another car. Isn’t that what insurance is for????

I dont’ like it when drivers cut me off, but if you do, DON’T SLOW DOWN once you get in front of me. I figured the reason you cut me off was to take the no space for you car spot in front of me despite the fact there was NOBODY behind me!

And finally–those of you who don’t the idea of merging onto the Loop…let me share some of the wisdom I learned in driver’s ed. When you merge into traffic, you should be almost or up to the speed of those cars that you are merging with. You don’t STOP or SLOW down! The only time you STOP is if you can’t merge. When another driver such as myself gives you space to merge—FREAKIN’ MERGE–DON’T SLOW DOWN!!

I would continue on with my discussion here, but I don’t have that kind of time.

So if you come to Lubbock, beware!

Ugh—I sometimes really hate it when they have night races. It throws off my usually routine when it comes to NASCAR. I usually start off with things on Fridays, but last night they had qualifying for the Cup Race. UGH–and I missed it! Tony qualified 3rd behind Biffle (2nd) and little Shurb (Busch) who won the pole.

This race will be on Saturday night. I really like watching Saturday night races because it always reminds me of the nights I spent at the dirt track in Amarillo as a young girl. My father was one of the pit guys for his buddy who raced modfieds. It was really cool. I spent many a Saturday night with the other “kids” running around the bleachers. I remember buying buttons of my favorite drivers including those who drove the late models and VW. I wore them proudly just as I wear my favorite drivers t-shirts today. Even back then I had that one driver I didn’t like–Commander Cody just like today I don’t like Jimmie or Kurt. I was able to go down in the pits after the races and meet all the drivers and get their autographs. It was really cool when they had the demomalition derbies. I wanted so much to get a beat up car and crash into other cars. I think that is why I am sooooo into NASCAR. It brings back all those wonderful memories I had back in the day.

But the downside to this night racing…no racing on Sunday. Once again I will spend my Sunday surfing the tv channels looking for something to watch. Hopefully the movie selection will be better than last Sunday. I may just have to start that spring cleaning…maybe…I will have to think about it.

By the way–here is the top ten qualifyers for the Subway Fresh 500.
1. Kyle Busch
2. Greg Biffle
3. Tony Stewart
4. Matt Kenseth
5. Carl Edwards
6. Denny Hamlin
7. Kurt Busch
8. Clint Bowyer
9. Martin Truez Jr.
10. Jimmie Johnson

Other notables’ qualifying spots:
11. Dale Jr.
15. Kevin Harvick
18. Mark Martin
19. Jeff Gordon
20. Elliot Sadler
22. Kasey Kahne

Good Luck in the Desert Boys!