poor spatial awareness

so this was my first try making an actual birthday cake. actual as in ACK-CHEW-WALL. ok, i don't know what that means. but usually, the cakes i make (even for birthdays) take the form of bundt (i bought the pan, i want to use it as much as possible, darn it), may have some kind of ganache or frosting, but never writing. when i volunteered for the cake, i thought, how hard is it to write "happy birthday" on a cake? i scrapbook. i make cards. this'll be... well...a piece of cake! wrong-o. writing with icing is harder than it looks. you have to go soooooo slow...and turns out i'm not that patient. not to mention my poor spatial awareness...not realizing that "birthday" is longer than "happy," thus needing to be smaller, NOT bigger. oh well, now i know for next time. at least i had enough sense in me to buy tips for the icing. came with 4 different tips...thus the wierd star puffs around the cake. like i said, i like to get the most out of my purchases!