Football, cakes and a personal touchdown

I have two orders this weekend - a giant Hello Kitty face and an Arizona Cardinals football cake.

The Hello Kitty is a regular order so I can do that one with my eyes closed. The football field, on the other hand, is a first. Boy cakes, for whatever reason, are rarely ordered from me. Maybe I suck and I just don't know yet! It's going to be nice to make these cakes for enjoyment - the price of the cakes is no longer my motivation.

While the men in my life watched the BCS championship on TV, I was in the office making a few touchdowns of my own. I sat for hours shredding and shredding statements. Bank statements, credit card statements, student loan statements. Nearly all of them said PAST DUE in giant letters. I threw out three shoe boxes and one giant box that once housed my financial fumbles. I had to quit after a while because the dust was overwhelming. Some of the statements were from 2003!

Now that two of the credit cards are paid off, I read then shredded every monthly statement. I am one of those women who collects bills in a pretty little pile and never bothers to open them for fear of reality. I know this is a mistake but I was so deep in debt that I just couldn't take it. Today I was finally ready to tackle those white envelopes. And, just like Alabama, I won.