Category: Diary

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

It’s the day before Thanksgiving!!!

Yaaaayyyyy!!!!

The turkey is thawing so Dave can deep fry it tomorrow, Sabby made a bunch of treats, everyone’s really looking forward to coming over tomorrow…  yay!!!!  Lots of food!!!!

I like thanksgiving.  But I’ll talk about what I’m thankful for tomorrow.  After all, it’s not thanksgiving yet.

But I’m thankful for a lot.  I really am.

I remember last year at this time, I was in Florida, and Jack and I were getting to know each other… and, well, let’s be honest… trying really hard to not make some huge hormone-driven mistakes.  Did I ever tell you how hot he is?  And apparently he thinks I could be a supermodel or something.  I don’t know…

I think I loved him even then, and I don’t think I ever stopped loving him.

Awww.

He’s a good guy, too.  I chose well.  I didn’t really want a boyfriend, but if I’m going to have one, Jack’s a pretty good choice.

Anyway, big day tomorrow.  Lots of cooking and sports and then going to the shop and getting ready for our grand opening!!!

Did I ever tell you what we named the shop?

Sabby’s Sweets!!!

Okay!  Marie needs a walk before it rains and then time for sleep!!!

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

And we’ve got a LOT to do!!!

After Beth and I got back from class, Sabby and I went over to the store and we did some more preparation.  We’ll have to go Thursday night and make cookies for the next day!!!

Sabby’s going to be very busy.  But she likes being busy, so…  yay?  I need to learn how to make them too so she’s not the only one who ever makes them, but I’m not as good as she is.  I’m not a great baker.  Oh well, I’ll try anyway.

But Thanksgiving should be nice!  We went shopping and got the turkey, etc.  It’s so expensive now!!!  Aww.  But we have the turkey and the deep fryer and everything, so it should be good!  Jack and Liz’s families are coming over!!!  It’ll be nice!!!

Wish I could get a little time alone with Jack though.  It’s been a few weeks.  Late date was just going to his apartment and watching a movie with his family.  It was nice… but not the same, y’know?

Our store has been getting a lot of word of mouth attention!!!  In fact, the news might come by on Friday!!!  That should be fun!!!

Anyway, gotta go.

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

And it’s STILL cold and rainy!

Brrrr!!!!

It was a busy day though.  Beth and I went to school and did our school stuff.  She’s doing a little better now.  It was tough for a while but her therapist seems to be helping.  I hate how she comes out with tear-stains in her makeup, but I guess it’s a good thing overall.  She’s started to talk to me a little, too.  Crystal really hurt her.

Aww.

But it’s hard to be mad at Crystal, though.  You don’t get mad at sick people for being sick.

After we got home, Sabby and I headed to the shop and did shop stuff.  She made me a little chocolate and candy experimentation station, which was nice of her.  I’ll learn how to do all that stuff and then we can sell it too. Jack doesn’t really want to do delivery for us right now, he says that he’s happy with his job and doesn’t want to leave without at least putting some time into it.  I guess I understand.  Maybe I’ll have to do delivery for a little while.

Apparently there’s been a lot of word of mouth from the samples she delivered, and now we’re getting a lot of questions about orders and stuff.  Sabby says we can’t grow too fast, though, so she’s being selective with who she accepts for right now.  She’s telling others very nicely that we are a small company and don’t have much capacity, but we’ll reach out when we’re able to service them.  They’re… very disappointed, but they understand.  I told you her cookies were good!!!

Sabby’s a surprisingly good businesswoman.

We also got a large bulk delivery of baking goods today.  Like, more butter than I’ve ever seen in one place before.  A literal ton of flour.  And I’m sure she’ll put all of it to good use.

So now we’re home and Marie wants a walk, so I’d better do that and go to bed.

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi! It’s me! Lily!

And it’s still cold and rainy!!!

Just last month it was hot and not rainy!  And I wanted it to be cold and rainy!  Now I want it to be not cold and not rainy!!!

Sometimes you just can’t please a girl.  Hahaha!!!

Sabby and I went to the shop today.  I made some chocolate!  It wasn’t perfect, but it was good!!!  I brought it home for everyone to taste and they really liked it!

But the texture could use some work.  Maybe next time!!!  I put another batch of beans in the dryer!!!

Sabby was making Thanksgiving treats!  She really outdid herself again!  And this time she had industrial baking equipment!  She made so many cookies that we couldn’t even take them all home!  So instead she made up some business cards, put them in boxes, and took them around to hotels and convenience stores and all sorts of places that might want to buy cookies and cakes!  And.. that was genius.  She had calls on her phone before she even got back to the shop!!!

So the shop might be opening after Thanksgiving, but I guess we’re spending all this week filling orders!!!

The shop I used to work for wants a contract!!! Where we deliver cookies every day!  She said she’s open to that, but we need to hire a delivery driver!!!

Oh JAAAAAACCCKKKKK!!!!  Hahahah!!!!!

Maybe we need a van or something.  I don’t know.  We’ll see.

Jack might not be able to until he’s 18.  But maybe he can.  We’ll have to talk to the lawyer.

While Allison was over for Girl Thanksgiving her bathtub fell!  Awww!!!  And now her family is running around trying to get everything fixed!!!  I guess chocolate doesn’t fix bathtubs, but I hope they tried!!!

Anyway, it’s later than usual and I gotta bed!  Marie is already asleep.

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Today was a nice day.  Well… not weatherwise.  It was cold and rainy weatherwise.  In fact, they forecasted sleet.  I don’t know if I saw any, but…

It was a good day for hot cocoa and hot soup.

And spending a bit of time with my boyfriend.

I went over to Jack’s house and just spent some time with him and his family.  Grace and Lily wanted to play, but it was so cold and rainy.  So we just ate lunch and had a movie and just cuddled for a bit.  It was nice.  It’s always nice cuddling with Jack.

Otherwise, not much going on today.   Sabby made a nice, warm dinner, which was nice, and we went over to the shop to get ready for the grand opening, which we decided was the day after Thanksgiving.  Yaaayyy!!!  We spent some time talking over the menu and figuring out what we wanted to offer.  I had the idea to also learn how to make candy, and Sabby thought that was a pretty good idea, but we also have to be careful not to make too many different things.  But chocolate and candy fit pretty well with cookies and cakes, so…  it works out.

But I have to learn how to make all that stuff.

I also spent some time roasting my cacao beans.  It’s hard to do, but I think I got it.

She’s going to spend some time making some Thanksgiving treats to get used to all the equipment.  Knowing Sabby, we’ll be swimming in treats for a week.

But that’s something I love about her.

Anyway, gotta go.

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi! It’s me! Lily!

It’s Girl Thanksgiving!!!

What’s Girl Thanksgiving, you might ask?

Well, since Crystal and Diana have plans for Actual Thanksgiving, everyone came over tonight and we had Girl Thanksgiving!!!  Liz, Crystal, Diana, Beth of course, even Allison!  Though she’s a bit tired from being sick.

We didn’t have turkey, but Dave grilled up something special and we ate and drank.  And afterwards, we all talked about what we were thankful for.

And while we each had our things, we all said we were thankful that Crystal is alive and here.

And she started crying.

But they were happy tears.

Of course I also said I was thankful for chocolate – because I am.  Hahaha!!!

Afterwards, we all watched a movie, and now we’re all in our pajamas and ready to play some games before bedtime!  We’ll all make a huge girl-pile tonight!!!

I just hope the farter, well, doesn’t. Hahaha!!!

Okay!!!

Oh and Sabby’s birthday is coming up.  I have to think of a really nice present for her!!!  Any ideas???

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi! It’s me! Lily!

I’m a Lily!!!!

Haha!!!

I was watching YouTube last night, and I saw another woman named Yuriko!  I guess I should have known I wasn’t the only one, but… it doesn’t seem to be a common name.  Lily is a common name!  But it’s spelled differently sometimes.  Lily, Lili, Lilli, Lilly, Hey you… haha!!! But my name is spelled Lily!!!

Well, it’s also spelled ゆり子 or 百合子 but we don’t talk about that.  Haha!!! 

Lilies are pretty though.  Even spider lilies!!!

Lycoris radiata.

I haven’t seen many of those lately, but it seems significant in my life for some reason.  I have no idea why.  But I do have a couple of very pretty glass spider lilies stored safely away.  They’re so pretty in the light!

Anyway, can you tell I don’t have anything important to talk about today?  Sabby’s happy, she’s learning how to use all of her equipment, and my beans are dry now!  I can start roasting!!!  But from here on it gets a little more time consuming.  I’ll have to do mixing and blending and tempering and pouring, and I’ll probably mess up the first batch.  And the second.  And the third.  But I get to taste it, so not all is lost!!!

Some of the girls are coming over tomorrow night.  Both Crystal and Diana are going places for Thanksgiving, so no girl get-together next week!  But that’s okay!!!  They come over a lot anyway!!!  Maybe Allison can come over and bring over Milo!!!

Okay.  Gotta go!!!

Love you all!!! ❤

 Hi! It’s me! Lily!

And nothing’s going on.

Nottttthiiinnnnnnnnngggggg!!!

It’s boringly boring today!!!

But dinner was good, and I checked on my beans – they’re still drying out but look good!!!

And this weekend we’re going to spend all weekend at the store to prepare for the grand opening!!!

Sabby’s been making flyers and everything!

PREPARE THE DOOTER!!!

Hahahahaah!!!!!

Dooteronomy!!!

HAHAHAAH!!!!!!!

Oh man I had chocolate, can you tell?

WHEEEEE!!!!

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi! It’s me! Lily!

My beans fermented!  Yaaay!!!

So now they’re in the dehydrator getting nice and dry.

They’re so eewwww right now but… they turn into chocolate!!!

Otherwise, it’s Wednesday.  A nice, quiet Wednesday.

This evening Grace, Lily, and Jack came over for dinner!!! Well, Grace and Jack.  Lily and Marie played in the backyard.  They get along fine!!!  Grace had mac and cheese!  She loves mac and cheese!  But Dave grilled for the rest of us!!! It was yummy as always!!!  It’s so cold outside though!!!  Jack’s place has a good grill, but apparently they were doing some repaving at his parking lot and it was a huge mess!!!  Lots and lots of big machines!!!  Grace loved it!!!  But Lily wasn’t very happy, which was one reason they took her over here to play with Marie.

But it was nice having them over.

Dave bought one of those big turkey deep fryers!!!  I hear they’re dangerous.  I told Dave if he gets hurt, I’ll make it hurt twice as much! 

At least he had the decency to gulp.

Sabby backed me up on that, though.  There’s a safe way to do it, and a not so safe way.

But Jack and Grace went home.  Awww.  Oh well, at least we see each other on most weekends.  And Thanksgiving is near!!!

I haven’t heard how Allison’s doing, though.  I should ask.

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

It was not anything special as far as days go.  It was a day.  A cold, rainy day that was really good for some hot chocolate.  And, well, I had some hot chocolate.

I mean, I’m me, what did you expect?

When I go to Starbucks, I get a mocha!  Because it has chocolate!!!

I like mint too, but not as much as chocolate.

I heard Alllison is sick today!!!  I couldn’t get her chocolate, but I asked her mother to give her some!  I hate being sick!  Awww!  But it’s when people take care of you, so… that’s something, right?

And give you chocolate!!!

I checked on my fermented beans today.  They’re still fermenting!  But almost done!!!

We invited Jack’s and Liz’s families over for Thanksgiving!  Yaaaayyy!!!  It’s a week and a half now!!!  TURKEY!!! and CRANBERRIES!!! And… there’s no traditional chocolate food.  Aww.  Well, I’m sure we’ll figure something out!  Maybe a chocolate cake, with my own chocolate!  We’ll see!!!

I checked my Twitter account today.  It’s been a while.  And… everyone’s complaining about a guy called Elon!  I guess he bought Twitter!!!  It just seems like people want to complain about him, though.  Awww.  I looked him up, he’s really rich!  And smart!  If it weren’t for Jack…. haha!!! Not really.  He’s not really good with wives.  Guess you can’t have it all.  I’ll stick with Jack.  Hahah!  Poor Elon!!!

Okay!  Bedtime!

Love you all!!! ❤