Archive for March 29th, 2010

• Day 30: Need Motivation? If You Live Where I Live…

  Date: 2010.03.29 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 0

  If you live where I live, on the Mediterranean, this is what summers look like. So kill the sugar, cue the sun!

• Day 30: Breaking News: Carrie Underwood & Cupcakes

  Date: 2010.03.29 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 1

  

  Do I really need to catch sight of this important news bulletin breaking across the Internet that Carrie Underwood will be having cupcakes at her wedding rather than a cake?

  Especially when’s it’s around 5 p.m. my time – otherwise known as the perfect time for high tea and cupcakes. For lucky people who allow themselves to eat sweets.

  Carrie says she is ordering her wedding cupcakes from IveyCake In Franklin, Tenn. See photo at left. Which is about as close as I may get to a cupcake during this long year.

  Bitterly yours,
  

• Day 30: Learn the Ancient Secret of Kicking Candy

  Date: 2010.03.29 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 3

  

  Here’s what I wrote for the Huffington Post to celebrate a month off candy:

  I hope I don’t sound smug when I tell you that this candy addict has managed to last a month so far without candy and sweets. Amazed is how I really feel.

  Maybe blessed is a better word. Yes, blessed, for what has been revealed to me and what I am about to reveal to you.

  Four weeks ago, I announced my not widely-anticipated plan to kick all the sugary things I love for a year. I called it Mission 2010: A Year Without Candy and it coincided with my new blog, A Year Without Candy, in which I chronicle my efforts.

  Big news: While racking up one month candy-free, I stumbled onto a long-hidden secret, passed down through the centuries, usually by albino monks, about a universal law that can help everyone who wants to kick sweets.

  The Ancient Secret to Kicking the Candy Habit – or Da Candy Code for short – reveals the most powerful law in the universe. The knowledge of this law has run like a golden thread through the lives and the teachings of all the prophets, seers, sages and saviors in the world’s history who jonesed for Junior Mints, and through the lives of all truly great men and women – at least the ones with a sweet tooth. All that they have ever accomplished or attained has been done in full accordance with this most powerful law.

  Before I get to the Ancient Secret, let’s look at what we’re up against this week. These are the dangerous days leading up to Easter and I don’t mean just for the Pope.

  I don’t know about you, but enormous, enticing milk chocolate bunnies seem to perch seductively everywhere I look, winking at me and whispering my name as I rush by, covering my ears with my hands so as to resist their siren call.

  Continue reading more here at the Huffington Post

• Day 30: “Cake” Responds to Meg!

  Date: 2010.03.29 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 0

  After Megan Bozman wrote her “Letter to Cake,” her husband, Kevin Bozman, read it. Coincidentally, not long after that Meg received this response from “Cake” itself…

  

  Dear Meg,
  I appreciate your honesty and admire your sincerity. Let me just start off by letting you know that I do cherish our relationship. Throughout the years we have had countless wonderful experiences together. The feeling of having you fight over me makes me smile. I love how I cause you such anger and turmoil. I am so simple. Just a few ingredients are all I am. I am but made of flour, sugar, eggs, salt, and butter. I mean you no harm at all. It is not my fault that you’re bickering over me. All I want is attention from you. I want you to drool over me. I want you to be thinking about me while you drive in your car. I want my cousins (cookie crumbs in your car) to remind you of me also. Please don’t throw away all we have had together. Our relationship is NOT one way. I give you a quick fix and I receive enjoyment through attention. Attention is what I crave from you.
  I have been missing you these last 2 weeks or so. I am lonely without you. Please come back to me so we can be bad together. Sure you will be mad and upset a few minutes after we reunite but it will be so good. Come eat me!

  Hungrily,
  Cake