Nyar!

Bless UC Merced's heart, but their webmail system is terrible.  It blows chunks.  It's impossible to categorize messages as spam or delete anything and is very cluttered.  I finally gave up, made a new yahoo address, and now have all my UCM mail forwarded there.  So among my several e-mail addresses, christa.caneda@yahoo.com is now an option for all of you that want to e-mail me.  >_>!

But, I finally started baking for the first time since my traumatic "I put too many eggs in these" cupcakes!  I'm still not pro baker or anything but I'm uberly excited about it!    I made cupcakes last week and I made some brownies yesterday.  Here's the s'mores brownies that I made (sans the graham crackers 'cos we didn't have any of those in the house) with a side of strawberry ice cream (which is an odd-tasting combination):

I secretly want to get really good at baking so that I can be one of those cookies/pie/cake-making mothers when I grow up, and all the children will want to hang out at my house because I make the BEST cupcakes out of all the other moms, and my child will be super popular because his/her mom is sooo freeeakin' cool and awesome.    Practice makes perfect!

I'm also getting increasingly "AHH" about my UC Merced funds, despite the reassurance that I'm fully paid for freshman year.  It's just very intimidating once you're actually billed for $10,000 and you have no money.  >_>!  So I've been freaking out at financial aid on my FA disbursement and at Clara Abbott about sending me my scholarship check on time and at all these crazy deadlines.  Oh, college!  Oh, college.

don't you worry about the distance

Bye for now!