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04 Mar, 2011

Dear Fishies

Posted by andrea tomkins in: Misc. life

My head is overflowing with random bits of fluff n’ stuff: new clients and projects, new writing and social media (!) jobs, the reno (I have a huge update to share), pending family activities… and some Valuable Lessons Learned in the Kitchen (more specifically, a really good recipe for meatloaf). I wish I had time to get it down and sort it all out, but, sadly, I don’t. Today is Andrea’s Head Down Get to Work Ignore the Laundry and Write Day.

But I don’t think I can ignore the laundry any longer.

It’s hard not to let myself be distracted by a thousand different things. So I’m going to sequester myself and leave you with a couple recent items you may have missed (1) the giveaway from Scratch Kitchen and (2) the casting call from Mountain Road Productions. They both make me weak in the knees because: (a) I love food and reading your comments makes me hungry. (Also, it’s interesting to note that many of you love curry and butter chicken!)  (b) if I qualified for the casting call I would totally do it. (Speaking of which, did you SEE my kitchen?)

Happy Friday!


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