Hard week

Last week (that is, not the one just ending, but last week) was a hard one, physically and (somewhat) emotionally. Tuesday morning my uncle died--the last of my father's four siblings. My father was the oldest, but the only child who did not get myotonic dystrophy in the great genetic dice-throw, and so he has out-lived three sisters and one brother.

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Birthday cake-making

So, to continue on last week and its activities...

After returning to Atlanta Thursday night, I got up Friday and went to the regular exercise class and the "extra" one, then came home and started on a birthday cake for my nephew, who just turned 5. Said nephew has forsaken Spiderman for Harry Potter of late (the first book has been read to him, and then he was allowed to see the first movie), and so he needed a Harry Potter birthday party. My sister-in-law conceived the idea of buying some miniatures to go on top of the cake, and suggested that I just try and make the cake look like a stone wall, a la Hogwarts Castle. Then the figures could be placed on top, and we're done.

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