Piece of cake it’s not. This watercolor business. I find it difficult. But I go to class every week and I so enjoy it. My biggest problem is that I don’t have either the ambition or energy to paint or practice drawing during the week. And I really want to. Really. I am just so tired when I come home from work……
I love cake. I love pie. I love cookies, candy and pastries. And they should (almost) always have chocolate in them. Seriously, do you want to waste those raspberries in that chocolate cake? I like raspberries. But they should not ruin a good chocolate confection. Blueberries in pancakes? Don’t waste my time. Strawberries on that lovely cream puff. STOP THE INSANITY!
I enjoy a large bowl of fresh strawberries as much as the next person. When they are in season they are sweet and yummy and delicious. But DO NOT RUIN my dessert with fruit.
I have dark hair, dark eyes and a sweet tooth, all of which I inherited from my parents. And this is the nutritional lesson I learned from them:
EAT DESSERT FIRST. If you’re still hungry, you can have something else.
My father, who was very sick for a long time from a number of things (a different post when you have about a month to read) couldn’t taste food very well. But he still wanted candy. All the time. Even when he was being fed through a tube. “Bring me some M&Ms!” My mother, who is in a nursing home and really doesn’t eat all that much, still opens her eyes wide and smiles whenever we bring her some chocolate covered jell-rings. (I hate those – good chocolate ruined by jelly) So I am genetically pre-disposed to liking sweets. Can’t help it. It’s in the blood. Or the genes. Pass that piece of cake over here please.
Next discussion: Carbs. Great food, or the GREATEST FOOD.
Oh yeah, I just started the painting of the 3 pieces of cake. It’s about an hour into it. I will go back and work on it next time in class. In the meantime, I have to go bite the ears off a chocolate Easter bunny that’s been trying to stare me down all day.
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April 13, 2009 at 2:49 am
charlie pizzarello
“EAT DESSERT FIRST. If you’re still hungry, you can have something else.”
I think we may be related!! Besides, it’s my favorite part of the meal….why should I have to wait till I’m stuffed and my senses are dulled to eat it.
Liz (my wife) and I were out to a neighborhood restaurant for Easter dinner tonight. After a filling meal, the waiter returned with a dessert menu. Upon seeing the glazed look on my face, he asked “Should I come back after you’ve had a chance to digest?” “WHAT? You’re gonna let me stay here for three hours?? Is there a Laz-y-Boy somewhere near the bar?” So now, three hours later, I’m craving that tiramisu.
April 13, 2009 at 2:50 am
Kung
LOVE chocolates! Especially dark, bitter, over 72% cocoa butter ones. Yum!
We should really look into taking an evening drawing class together. I need to get back into drawings again. It would be fun to take it with you….
April 13, 2009 at 3:25 am
Carol King
Charlie: I have no doubt that we are related somehow.
Kung: I miss you so much at work….not even taking into the account the fact that you would bring in the BEST CHOCOLATE all the time. As soon as I get back we will take those drawing lessons!
April 13, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Bonnie Luria
Paint what you know! How many times I’ve read that expression. For me, even bad cake still qualifies as cake.
At a baby shower yesterday, the cake lady walked around offering plates of two kinds of cake. She asked me and Kelly if we’d like some. I said ” of course, and Kelly said ” We’ll share one”. Both the cake lady and I stared him down ( you don’t say we’ll share to a Crucian woman who has stayed up all night making a 7 layer sheet cake the size of a sofa ..)
and said , ” she/I will NOT”!
I’m right there with you on the importance of cake in life and think this painting has the potential of another ” Hot Noodles”.
Can’t wait to see it finished.
April 13, 2009 at 6:56 pm
swatch
Alas I am with you on this one – I have eaten all me Easter chocolate already – what is to be done? Have fun with this painting – I love it – three pieces! Ai! I wonder where you will hang this when it is done.
April 13, 2009 at 10:56 pm
jimmyboi2
Lovely ! I can almost SMELL that cake. I love chocolate, but I am vestigially still allergic to it; I was always the kid who received WHITE chocolate at Easter… which everyone else coveted! I don’t have attacks from eating it anymore, but my “race memory” still warns me from over-indulging. I love Snickeras bars, and am TWISTED that they’ve gone and divided the bar into two pieces. They help when I make long drives– Snickers and Diet Coke.
CARBS… Craol and I are never happeir than when we’re eating a container of cheese balls and reading the Enquirer… which we did after being involved in a car accident ON DISNEY PROPERTY.
April 14, 2009 at 12:45 am
Carol King
Bonnalaaaaa: Paint what you know is right! And I know cake!
Stephen: I don’t know where I will hang it when it’s finished. If I see it every day I will be hungry.
Jim: And we are never happier except when we are eating a big bowl of macaroni and butter. Yummmmmmmmmmmm!
April 14, 2009 at 1:29 pm
judylobo
As a representative of the salt people of the world I still loved the painting and the post. My sister has all of the sweet teeth in the family and truly appreciated the fact that she was able to have her cake and eat mine too. My Aunt Katie, whose last years were spent in a Sephardic home was not very communicative. The best rise we got out of her in those last months was when I would present her with two Kit Kat bars. That old twinkle and smile would come to her face and it made the long schlep out to the home well worth the effort. Anyone got a pretzel for me?
April 17, 2009 at 12:40 pm
wrjones
This is a good start. Paint your passion as they say. I’m with you and the mixing of fruit and sweets. Keep em away from each other.
Does that bunny have a foot or butt I could gnaw on?
April 19, 2009 at 11:48 pm
wrjones
This has made me very hungery. What else you got to eat? Man once you start drinking it these letters are very hard to find.
April 26, 2009 at 11:44 pm
wrjones
What the hell, are you still sleeping off the gluttony?
April 29, 2009 at 1:45 pm
swatch
Hey Judy – yep you are welcome to the salties – just hands off our loot here! I think Carol is on a diet. Maybe the next painting will be of a bicycle or running shoes –
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