today i have learned that i should never, ever work in a bakery.
i ate a banana on the way to the bakery (to take pictures). i intended to leave around lunchtime, so i'd stop at the store next door to pick up something healthy. well, i never left to eat so instead i just ate the things the folks at the bakery offered me.
so what did i eat today? 1 blueberry muffin, 1 cinnamon bun, and then for lunch? a cupcake. a chocolated-frosted, absolutely-delicious yum-yummy cupcake. but now i feel absolutely god-awful. i stopped off to get some tofu salad to try to balance it all out, but it didn't seem to help.
blech.
they told me i could take home whatever i wanted. i chose this key lime cake, decorated with palm trees. but it was out all day, and then it went outside in the hot sun with me... this is what it looked like by the drive home. cake is the absolute last thing i want to eat right now anyway, but i decided to salvage it by re-frosting it and sticking it in the fridge. it's a $30 cake, after all!
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!"
