Buster dragged me off in the Prius to the beach so we could ruminate about how much we hate Ben Stiller. It was Mr. Bigglesworth's 2nd birthday, and all the doodles and labradoodles and goldendoodles and bichonoodles were running around grinning from ear to ear. Ah, joy!

Who could concentrate on how much they hate Ben Stiller at the beach?

And, there's not a whole lot to do with cupcakes at the beach, except there is a giant all-white Bulldog that Buster always tries to dig holes with named Cupcake.

Last night we had Trixie, a ten year old tiny miniature poodle, and her mom come over to watch "A Serious Man" with us. Trixie stole Buster's hoof and growled at him for trying to get it back. WAAA-AY more entertaining than "A Serious Man". Poor Larry Gopnick. Have you ever noticed how many synonyms for "tool" there are in Yiddish? Schmuck, Putz, Yutz, Shmendrick. We like to say things in Yiddish because it's fun and it reminds us of Nana who used to say things like "umpie".

We thought of a catchphrase: "Hey, nice cupcakes!" It doesn't even have any remotely dirty connotations.

This is Buster. And some cupcakes I made using Betty Crocker mix and frosting. We watched "Julie & Julia" last night, so Buster decided he wanted to write a blog about working our way through all the recipes in "Hello, Cupcake!" by Karen Tack & Alan Richardson. 41 recipes, 365 days to go! Good thing the book starts with April Fool's Day- my birthday! Buster also wants to talk about Louie and his escapades. Louie is the Mean Maine Coon cat that is Buster's litter-mate. Louie lay on his back and scratched a hole in the the mattress cover under the bed and then crawled into the hole. He looked like Frank in the special Christmas Episode of Always Sunny in Philadelphia when he tried to hide in the leather couch, one of the funniest TV moments ever.
So Buster and I are lucky to be married to a super nice husband like the husbands in Julie & Julia, who also takes awesome photos! He just said I could mention whatever I wanted to about him in my blog, "As far as I'm concerned, any publicity is good publicity." Seven years of Film School....
We feel bad for Julie that Julia Child thought her blog was gimmicky- so we hope to make ours extra gimmicky! Cute! Happy Purim- the Jewish Halloween. My favorite aunt's church in Boston has a pancake dinner that the men have to cook for Fat Tuesday, so we decided to make that our Purim tradition. It's a beautiful day in San Francisco, so we're off to the beach since the tsunami warnings have passed. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the people of Chile. I hope you enjoy your day and happy [catchphrase]! winkie face! ;-) Bonne Cupcake!