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Old 05-08-2012, 08:02 PM   #1151
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There's cookie talk going on at the '500 words a day' thread. And cake talk here.

But which is better? Cake or cookies?

That will keep me thinking for the rest of the day.

Now I'm hungry...

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Old 05-08-2012, 08:08 PM   #1152
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Cake or Cookies? Cookies or Cakes?

I am also hungry . . .
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Old 05-08-2012, 08:13 PM   #1153
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Cake or Cookies? Cookies or Cakes?
Both.

And let's not neglect pie.
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Old 05-08-2012, 08:28 PM   #1154
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Hmmm.... I'm making dinner for my laid-up pastor. Maybe I should add in some chocolate chip cookies. Because he really likes them, is why. Not so that I could hide some for me. Not at all...
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Old 05-08-2012, 11:55 PM   #1155
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Both.

And let's not neglect pie.
This is wise advice.

So tell me, who came up with the notion that we have to finish our mains before we can have dessert?

If I ran the world, everyone would be allowed to eat dessert first. If you had room for the mains, then that would come next.

And nobody would have to eat any vegetables. I am 42. I still hate vegetables...
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Old 05-09-2012, 12:11 AM   #1156
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Also sage, Shara.

I do love veggies, though...

Made the chocolate chip cookies. Everyone loves me. The world is happy. Fatter, but happy.
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Old 05-09-2012, 01:42 AM   #1157
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heyjude, there is a theory that the best way to feel thinner is to fatten up everyone around you. Sounds like your cookies are going the right way!
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Old 05-09-2012, 01:49 AM   #1158
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I love that theory.
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Old 05-09-2012, 03:00 AM   #1159
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I have a new hobby. I wrote the first three, or possibly two pages on the new WIP and saved it... somewhere on my computer. My new hobby is looking for it.

Here's where it isn't - in the file for the new WIP, where the research, the storyboard, all that stuff is. Not there.

Not in the file with the mss (it's research etc) that I'm getting ready to query.

Not in the file with the romance book I work on from time to time and never finish.

I know I wrote those pages, I used Dragon and I remmber thinking it was easier to speak the story as it came than to read from handwritten pages.

Poof.

Maybe I'll just write those pages again. Or maybe I'll make cookies.
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Old 05-09-2012, 03:22 AM   #1160
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Old 05-09-2012, 04:20 AM   #1161
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So tell me, who came up with the notion that we have to finish our mains before we can have dessert?
Whaat? I've never heard of this.

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I will eat your vegetables. But not pickles. Suspicious green color, pickles.

Stlight! It's got to be there somewhere, right? It must! Maybe if you have some pie, its location will suddenly come to you.
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Old 05-09-2012, 07:27 AM   #1162
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Tollhouse cookies are on the agenda for tomorrow, my children are thrilled! I think I'll just scoop them right off the cookie sheet and rub them on my butt, that's where they're going anyway!! Do you ever get off the phone or finish a conversation with someone and feel that your I.Q. has dropped at least 15 points? That was my day today. Hopefully, I'll have chocolate running out of my ears tomorrow instead of brain matter.
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Old 05-09-2012, 07:48 AM   #1163
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I thawed some shredded zucchini and made two loafs of bread. Yumm.
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Old 05-09-2012, 07:50 AM   #1164
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Pfft! It wasn't the Romans!

They believed you ate dessert first in case you were attacked mid-meal.

They did it right.
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Old 05-10-2012, 01:09 PM   #1165
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Good grief, the words are rubbish today And they're coming so slowwwwly - it's like pulling teeth!
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Old 05-10-2012, 01:59 PM   #1166
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Sympathetic hug, mccardey.

Zucchini bread and tollhouse cookies sound just what I want to eat today. Sadly I can't bake to save my life.

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Old 05-10-2012, 02:15 PM   #1167
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I am having a very bad day at the EDJ (Evil Day Job, for those not in the know).

I come to this thread in search of chocolate.

Any of those tollhouse cookies left, Nightingale? I LOVE tollhouse cookies...

Have a recipe at home somewhere, from my mother. I just never get time to bake these days.

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Weighed down by birthday cake? Maybe it's nature's way of telling you to party some more.


BTW: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!



I'm not sure if it was yesterday or today - but best wishes anyway.
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Cake or Cookies? Cookies or Cakes?

I am also hungry . . .
No need to choose. They made Oreo Cakes!
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Oreo cakes? Ooh...

Not available in the UK yet (though we do have oreo cookies, from certain select suppliers).

Must make a point of checking them out next time I visit the US!

Mmmm... oreo cookies....
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We get ice-cream with small chunks of oreo cookies in it.

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Ooh. Yes. It will do very well. Thank you, Gail! *nom nom*
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