Eat Cake

I had coconut cake for breakfast. Yes I did, and it was delicious. Carolynn asked in a post last week if we would share our "guilty pleasure." Coconut cake immediately came to mind, and then I couldn't stop thinking about it. I bought one on Friday and enjoyed a small slice each day until today when I cut up what remained [three quarters of the cake after sharing with others] and froze eleven pieces to enjoy in the future. That left the odd-shaped piece that just had to be consumed on the spot with a cup of coffee. Mmmmmm...

That coconut cake has been my answer to trying to fit the square peg in the round hole. In other words, if all else fails eat cake. As hard as I have tried to remain mindful, in the hopes that that would spread good karma, many things have not gone smoothly in recent days.

I am on a town committee that has invited our two state legislators to speak to townspeople this Wednesday evening. It has been a comedy of errors from the beginning ~ from the state senator not confirming with us that he will attend and his name still going out on flyers about the event, to people within our own group not keeping track of changes in each other's email addresses which means important communications are lost in cyberspace.

So eat cake.

I have McAfee anti-virus on my desktop computer. For some reason McAfee periodically eliminates my Google toolbar, where I keep "bookmarks" that are my vehicle to get to all the sites I regularly visit. Last time this happened I made a phone call to McAfee and they walked me through a process to reinstall my Google toolbar, all the while making sure I understood that it wasn't McAfee's fault. I could go through that again but there is no certainty that the toolbar won't disappear again; my daughter says McAfee sees Google as a threat, probably because it doesn't own stock in the big G. McAfee doesn't seem to care about the list of bookmarks that show up on my iGoogle homepage, so I can get to the sites one at a time, I just can't move from one to the other without going back to my homepage.

So eat cake.

The job I applied for two weeks ago has been re-advertised. That means they have not gotten the type of applicants they were looking for.

So eat cake. Then climb on the treadmill and walk it off.