One down

I did it! Wrote a crappy picture book manuscript today! But still! And the good news is that it was kind of fun to do. Writing is SOOOOO much easier when you have no expectations of yourself (other than to finish something).

On the food front I ate many, many (sadly many) caramels today to obliterate the memory of yesterday's nasty cupcake. AND my boys, my daughters-in-law, my husband and I went to our favorite go-to restaurant for my belated b-day dinner--Rio Grande. Yes! Life is good!

No excuse for . . .

. . . a crappy cupcake. That's what my friend Lisa says and she is sooooooo right. Anyway, I had a terrible cupcake this morning at the Barnes and Noble down at the Gateway. It was red velvet with cream cheese frosting and a chocolate mousse center. DUDE! HOW CAN YOU SCREW THAT UP?

Here's how. Let it sit in your glass case for too long so that it dries out and tastes like cardboard with a dollop of nasty pudding. What a disappointment.

But! Speaking of Lisa! (Which we were!) She does this thing where she writes a poem a day for a month. The poem doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be done. And after the month is over, Lisa has this treasure trove of raw material. Genius! Anyway, I want to do a picture book verion of this project (something several Utah children's authors have done). I'll write a picture book a day--and we'll see where that takes me.

Hopefully NOT back to the cupcake at Barnes and Noble.