Friday’s Life Lesson

“You cannot get skinny from only eating sugar and delicious treats.”

Yesterday was my best (and extremely talented) friend’s CD release party. The masses have been anticipating this show for ages, and last night, gads and gads of family, friends and strangers off the street gathered in the chic downtown Portland venue,”Peacock Cleaners”, for a stunning show by the one and only Natalie Closner. Dessert began at 7 and music at 8, and as the best friend of the artist, I appointed myself head pastry chef for the dessert table. I created masterpiece cupcakes and my quickly-becoming-famous, sea salt chocolate-chip cookies. After a week of preparation, and the extremely necessary taste test for each sugary morsel of heaven, I weigh much more when I arrived in Portland Saturday morning. As a first Friday Life Lesson, I must say, I need to go on a vegetable cleanse when I touch down in LA tomorrow. This weight has got to go.

If there was to be a second life lesson for friday, it would be that letting Natalie Closner’s EP pass by without a listen, would be a terribly unfortunate mistake.