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Blog awards, prayer rails and homemade frosting -- W6D2
Published: 2/9/2010 12:29 PM
Last Modified: 2/9/2010 12:29 PM


Pitch a tent, invite your neighbors -- I need revival and, perhaps, a cocoa intervention.

So I've been nominated for a 2009 Okie Blog Award! It's the most validated I've felt all year.

Considering all the other bloggers in the running, I'm quite flattered. The category I'm in is Most Humorous (vs. Most Self-Deprecating). Other Tulsa World peeps up for something are my my beloved FGP for her Fitness Guinea Blog (Best New Blog of 2009), food writer Natalie Mikles's Small Bites (Best Food Blog) and music mistress Jennifer Chancellor's Barrelhouse Beat (Best Representation of Oklahoma AND Best Tulsa Blog). So if you're a blogger in Oklahoma, please show me and these fabulous ladies some love by visiting http://tulsaworld.com/okieblogawards. Muchas gracias, amigas/amigos!

Now, back to me. I know I had confession time yesterday post-Super Bowl, but OOOOOOOOH do I have some sins to divulge today, bruthas and sistahs. Someone loan me a prayer rail, some organ music and one of those square paper fans stapled to a tongue depressor with a picture of Jesus on it and words "Commercial National Bank, Laurel, Mississippi" typed on the bottom. Break a sweat, y'all, it's tent revival.

OK, so I did the usual egg whites with spinach/oatmeal with blueberries thing for breakfast on Monday, followed by a banana at 11 a.m., then this really good curried chicken salad I made (more on that later) on a bed of spinach for lunch, along with an apple. Afternoon snack? Handful of almonds. Later, I went to Lord V's to watch "Zombieland" (loved it) and "Blade Runner" (slept through it) and ate two pieces of turkey rolled up with low-fat Provolone cheese, then half a bell pepper and some celery sticks. Yum, yum.

But after "Zombieland," around 10-ish p.m., I realized I needed to go to bed -- but I didn't wanna. So what do I do? Follow Lord V into the kitchen and start making a cake. Maybe I thought, "I'm gonna celebrate my blog award nomination because Lord knows I'm not going to win. So pass the cake!" Welcome to Rationalization Nation, Population: Me.

Lord V had already made frosting the night before, but he make some more for the new cake -- which, to my credit and total surprise, I didn't even touch. Mostly because I fell asleep. Wait! I just rememebered: I licked the bowl. Actually, I think we may have gone on a date.

Crank up the organ, it gets worse. Reaching into Lord V's pantry, I pull out a bag of tortilla chips -- you know, the one I ate 1/4 of on Thursday night. Well, sure enough Hufflepuff, I stood there and Hoovered another 1/4 of it standing at the kitchen counter. Now, there was salsa in the fridge, but NOOOOOO, I didn't bother getting it out. Instead, I just dipped the chips IN THE FREAKIN' CHOCOLATE FROSTING! A dark-as-the-devil's-soul combo of butter, powdered sugar, cocoa, milk and vanilla. Mmmm, sweet, sweet nomination celebration ...

Guilt crept in quick, though, and I found little solace in the health claims of antioxidants on the back of the cocoa box -- which were right above the recipe for the cake and frosting we made. That modicum of solace wasn't enough to ward off the guilt that FINALLY set in after eating about 1/2 cup of frosting and 1/4 of the chip bag. Somewhat anxious, I popped one of my happy pills, laid down and fell asleep to "Blade Runner."

But upward and onward. I got up this morning and ran three miles at the gym, and I have every intention of doing both kickboxing AND yoga on Wednesday morning, followed that evening by a meeting with one of the John's saints about a workout regimen or something or other. Wish me luck.

Peace, love and devil frosting ... xoxo


Reader Comments 1 Total
tallgirle (3 years ago)
Are we able to vote for your blog?
chocolate and tortilla chips? eeeeccchh!
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While other kids were watching "The Smurfs," Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright was tuned in to "Style with Elsa Klensch." By fourth grade, he knew he wanted to write, and spent almost three years publishing a weekly teen-oriented magazine, Teen-Zine -- circulation: 2. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, he became the medical reporter and teen board coordinator for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a Gannett newspaper. Eight months later, with visions of Elsa dancing in his head, he applied for the fashion writer position at the Tulsa World, where he began working on Aug. 3, 1998. He is now a general assignment reporter for Scene.

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