The Little Red Wagon Fixer

Live to Eat

Some people eat to live, while others live to eat. What about you? How far would you travel for the best meal of your life?

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One day I informed my Aunt I was going to fix someone’s little red wagon and she used that quote about digging two graves.

I told her fine. That was fine with me.

” Anita.” she said heavily as she looked over every inch of my face ” you really mean that don’t you?”

I was about 14 and at the time and I really didn’t talk about what I was going to do.

I just did it.

That meant, when I wanted to write, I did. When I wanted to learn to play the guitar I did. When I decided to travel, settle scores or strike out on my own and leave people behind I did.

But the score settling- I’ve always done that.

Sometimes I settle up right away, other times I’m willing to wait years.

But it happens.

So.

The best meal that I have ever eaten was a cold dish prepared with my own two hands, flavored with satisfaction and served with a smile.

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I would love to say I understand it’s better to forgive and forget, that anger eats you up and you have to let it go so that it doesn’t eat you up.

Do you know who has told me that?  That thing about letting go of anger because I’m only going to hurt myself?

People who have pissed me off , that’s who.

Take it from the source, right?

I always do.

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Revenge is a burden but some burdens are worth taking on.

And in I have taken on a few in my day- and I’ll probably take on a few more before I’m done.

I promise.

Cupcake And The Corpse

Critical Eye

Write about the subject you usually blog about as if you were a music critic.

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Yesterday a lovely cupcake presented by a freshly dug corpse from my very own backyard stunned an audience at Seattle’s very own EMP Museums Sky Church with it’s vibrant colors, precisely crafted fondant work and of all things actual gold flecks baked into the cake itself.

Despite the Deadman’s somewhat ripe and drippy appearance, he managed to navigate the crowd with the delicate Cupcake in hand as if he were an ice skater bearing aloft  his lithe delicious partner.

His part was more complex then one would realize.

It was truly sublime.

The Cupcake and the Corpse worked together to bring stunning images to both the minds eye and the ear- no easy feat being that the Corpse was responsible for maintaining a steady pulse, much like the proverbial heart beat ( if he had one so you can see the challenge he had to rise to!) and the Cupcake had quite a difficult role to play in this piece as well- it had to rise sweetly above a crowd of hungry admirers while being carried up to the apreciate heavens  by a skeletal hand with a ring rolling around on it’s finger.

The composer of this stunning piece T. Agony

Agony has proven himself a supberb baker whose work has risen above the usual Cupcaking and entered the realm of the Gods by way of complex frosting, surprising flavors all while seemingly being held earthbound by darkness and decay.

Bravo T. Agony! Bravo!

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Brothers and Paws

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Hamish Macbeth and his big brother Micey.

Sweet, I know.

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Micey is the reason Hamish respects cats we meet on our walks ( actually, lives in fear of is a better way to put it )

Micey also does things like rolls Hamish’s toys under the bed, stands next to Hamish’s food bowl and won’t let him near it and he uses Hamish’s tail as a chew toy.

When we come back from trips or walks Hamish runs into the house and the first cat he goes looking for and gives a big, sloppy wet kiss right on the face to is Micey.

Families, right?

 

But I Don’t Want To Take A Nap!

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Sometimes you have to take a break, my artistic friends have said.

You have to fill the well, recharge the batteries,  look for inspiration.

That is such a cool way to put it… I refer to that as “screwing off” but hey, whatever gets you through the night right?

However, all was not lost as I did little more then work, play with my dog and eat pizza ( bless your Dominos Pizza…bless you) and…

I caught up on movies!

It’s Oscar season right? Right. So I didn’t watch any of those.

I saw The Minions ( Two thumbs up and a snap to the side. The  soundtrack was a little too circa 1960’s for me but it was ok ) and I watched season 2 of Sleepy Hallow which is right up there with Doctor Who and Supernatural on ‘Anita Marie’s Favorite TV shows’. Oh  and I saw a movie that really sucked.

Seriously.

I can still hear the sucking noises right now and I watched it last weekend.

I was actually ticked off about that- I mean, I wasted a couple of hours watching a sucky movie when I could have been writing or playing with my dog OR EATING PIZZA DAMMIT!

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So it’s back to the ol’ laptop for me.

Write you soon.

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