But she left this task up to her deadbeat hubby Luis (that's what she calls him) who:
1) Thought there was a Baskin Robbins in South Beach and 2) Thought that they would have pre-made turkey-shaped ice cream cakes in mid-September.
He was wrong on both counts; custom ice cream cakes take two days to make. And there is no Baskin Robbins in South Beach.
On top of that, Luis had to work and hadn't bought the cake yet, so asked me to take care of it. I'm up in Broward. I got two ice cream cakes from Publix. I picked the football cakes. Luis disapproved of this choice (ha!). Anyway, they melted in the cooler on the way to Miami. Obviously.
So she wanted a turkey. Instead, she got two very ill-looking cow-pie type postres. Hey, I tried.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
