Mike is in bed, and it's his birthday tomorrow, so I'm baking him a cake. Just an ordinary sponge cake mind (recipe coutesty of James Martin and the BBC food website) only I thought I'd experiment a bit and poured some chocolate chips into the mix before I shoved it in th'oven. I'm gonna do a buttercream filling for the middle, then normal icing sugar/water stuff for the top, and I bought some writing icing to draw something on top. The icing thing is the only test of my culinary abilities. Don't ask me why, but I have never been able to do icing. It ALWAYS goes wrong (even if I cheat and use a cake mix).I dunno why icing hates me so much, but fingers crossed this time.

Anyway, enough talk of cakes. Things are starting to look up on the money front - I have a job, sort of. I haven't started it yet, the manager is suppose to ring me and let me know when he wants me to come in for a training day and he hasn't yet, but he will because my friend from uni works there, unless she decides she doesn't want me there anymore.

Okay I just looked in the oven and for some reason the cake mix has leaked. It desperately needs rescuing. Better go!