Burn-out

I don't know what's going on with me lately. I just haven't had the energy to write. I keep trying to write posts, but I get part way through, then, nothing. What should be an interesting post shapes up to be so dull, I'm even boring myself. And I'm usually really good at being entertaining in my own mind.

I think part of the problem is that I'm in the middle of a new issue of the magazine and the same photo shoot has been cancelled twice now. The first time was when I was nearly on the plane to Kentucky. I live three hours from the airport; it's a trip that required planning and multiple modes of transportation.

The shoot was rescheduled for Chicago, but cancelled the day before my flight. At least I hadn't left the house yet. Now we're back to shooting in Kentucky next week, on the day that the magazine is due. All these last-minute changes have left me with a screwed-up sense of time, and a feeling that I'm now well-qualified to become a travel agent.


Yesterday was Tom's 33rd birthday. He informed me that in four months his life would be one-third over because he's intending to live to be 100. Anything over that will be a bonus.

I spent the day making carrot cake (his favorite) and enchiladas. In his family, you don't mess with the enchiladas and I'd never made them by myself before so I was a little nervous. Despite only being able to get hold of green chile sauce instead of red chile sauce (enchilada sauce is nasty and should be banned from supermarket shelves) they turned out pretty well. Of course, enough cheese makes anything taste good.

The carrot cake was also a success. The dogs were happy because they got the tops and tails of the carrots as I peeled and grated them. As I was about the shove the peels into the garbage disposal, I realized the dogs would be equally excited about those and doled them into the dog bowls. After they were both finished gobbling them up, Cooper ran back and forth checking for strays and licking Jake's bowl spotless. Cooper adores all foods orange, up to and including oranges themselves.

A little more interesting to the humans in the house was the cake itself with its lemon cream cheese frosting. Now I just have to think of a use for all that left over frosting...