Well I have been told I have not blogged in a while, which is true. I thought I would talk about my big accomplishment this weekend. I made a cake from scratch. My girlfriend was having a birthday and asked for a Texas Sheet Cake (still don’t know why it is called that). My mother has a recipe that I have seen her make many times so I decided to tackle the task. I don’t bake often because of time and honestly I don’t need to be known as the man who bakes all the time. I am a creative guy so cooking is fun to me. It is something I can build with my hands and enjoy the results when it is finished. Another thing is I enjoy the fact that cooking is messy. I know my mom would kill me if she saw how messy I am but to me it is part of the fun. I also impressed myself because I was only half paying attention to what I was doing the whole time because I had the TV on. I am not one to sit here and tell you all of the steps I went through to make it. All I will say is that it was not made from a box mix and I also made the frosting.
Baking and cooking just reminds me of how much I miss creatively creating things. I miss building furniture. I miss building models for architecture. I miss drawing. All of that has been put on the back burner as I analyze the Hebrew grammar of Isaiah 40:1-11 or write my thoughts on core doctrines of Christianity or simply because I have to read 1000 pages of Jonathan Edwards. I have been sitting in the intellectual hunt for a long time now and I really want to get out to stretch my creative muscles. I don’t mean to complain just realizing that when I make a cake I get to taste its wonderful goodness but in the real world I really don’t get my cake and eat it too.
