December 19th, 2005
Saw this fun little quiz posted on another blog. Who knew I had an elf name? 
Tonight’s installment of Books I Liked During Childhood goes back several years to when I was a little tyke reading simpler books. There was an IGA supermarket in my hometown in those 1970s days, and there are three things I remember about it:
1. There was a cafe inside that served tater tots. I LOVE tater tots.
2. They made great rotisserie chickens, those WonderRoast kind. Yummy!
3. There was an aisle that had little shelves extending from the main product shelves. These smaller shelves were full of small children’s books, mainly Little Golden Books and Tell-A-Tale Books. And for some odd reason, the one that has stuck out in both mine and my sister’s memories is The Runaway Pancake. I honestly don’t remember much about the book other than the pancake jumps out of a pan and takes off. I do think the tale ends badly for the pancake.
Writing update: I’ve gotten through three chapters of second-round revisions so far today and plan to finish up Ch. 4 tonight. I’m cutting/tightening material and thus the pages that need to be shaved off, but we’ll see if it ends up being enough. I’ve got 16 chapters to get through, so I’m hopeful I’ll be done by the end of the week. Merry Christmas to me.
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December 20th, 2005 at 7:50 am
My elf names is “Jolly CandyLips” (way too many jokes with this one…), and I, too, LOVE tater tots. The CandyLip Clan rules!
December 20th, 2005 at 9:19 am
LOL! CandyLip is appropriate for me. Actually, SweetTooth would have been more appropriate.
December 20th, 2005 at 10:05 am
That’s GREAT! Puddin CandyLips. Sounds like a pet name from a dh.
Too cute!
December 20th, 2005 at 1:21 pm
So the moral of the story is, It Sucks to Be a Pancake?
Yeah, at my house, it would totally suck. Lotsa pancake eaters here.
In fact, now that I think about it….Pancakes for Dinner!!!
December 20th, 2005 at 8:46 pm
LOL, Stef! Did you really have pancakes? I love pancakes too, lots of butter and warm maple syrup. Yum! I have the urge to go to IHOP.
December 21st, 2005 at 2:43 pm
With my real name I got “Beaker Sugar-Socks”. Ooo-kay…. and with my pseudonym I got “Goofy Mistletoe”. I can’t say I’m too pleased with either of those. *g*
December 22nd, 2005 at 11:33 am
I remember that book!
You know, reading today’s post makes me remember two books that I loved as a girl, but I don’t remember their titles. I sure would love to read them again.
One was about some kids who moved into this house, where the former owners (like 100 years before) were killed by a fire in the nursery, and when there’s a fire in the nursery this time, the ghost kids help the real kids escape.
The other was about two girls who were writing a romance, and the romance story was interspersed in the story of the girls. The only thing I really remember was that the girls had the Rhein River flowing the wrong direction.
Anyone remember?
December 22nd, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Neither of those sound familiar to me, Mary, but they do sound good.
December 22nd, 2005 at 1:51 pm
Wait, which book do you remember–the one I can’t remember the title to or The Runaway Pancake?