I just drank protein powder. You mix it up with water and it allegedly fills you up.
You see, I am about to drive across Iowa, to Omaha. There are Culver Custard Stands in Iowa. Culver’s, home of the butter burger and cheese nuggets. Now I know how sailors felt, trying to sail past the Sirens. I got past one yesterday. Barely.
Des Moines is almost as good as Iowa City, in terms of getting large amounts of work out of me. 1,200 words today on the novel, 2,300 on The Mystery Project. What does Christina Applegate say to Will Ferrell in Anchorman? (No, not “There’s a rainbow! Do me on it!” The other part, in Spanish.)
What kind of protein powder? I bought Revival Soy, but can no longer bring myself to drink it even though it is tasty and healthy. I like bagels.
I saw Alton Brown visit a Maid Rite stand. I want to go! Totally unique.
Good Mexican food in Omaha. And be sure to visit the Stors (?) mansion, home of a late 19th century beer baron (Stors Blue Ribbon, which was later sold to Pabst.)(I believe)
One entire wall in the dining room, if memory serves, is amazing stained glass by Tiffany himself.
Andrea!!! GODS that’s the PERFECT dinner!
Can’t do protein powder. Can’t do soy. Can’t do rice cakes. i know I should eat healthier but i just don’t think you get two chances to live and while I don’t normally eat onion rings and soft serve as a meal, I’m not gonna waste time on eating nasty stuff either! (I think rice cakes are nasty, unless you put enough cashew butter on them, which is how I ate them at that Seventh Day Adventist place i used to eat at in Boston.)
Good Asian food in Omaha too, at least once, at one restaurant, the only time we were there.
Mmmmm Culver’s. There was one in Kalamazoo, but there isn’t one where I live now. *SOB* I love their cod sandwich with onion rings. Happy memories.
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Sigh..I miss Culver’s….nothing in South Florida. Hm…maybe I’ll move north? <G>
P.S. to LL’s appearance at Pikesville Library two weeks ago. We were there today for Barry Rascovar and overheard a conversation between a woman who does the scheduling and a friend.
Fact #1. There were 144 people at the Laura sighting.
Fact #2. The friend and her friend could only find one chair so they took turns, one sitting and one standing for 10 minutes,alternating for the hour.
Have any of you, including Laura, heard anything that would top this for a LL appearance…or any other author.
Protein powder sounds like something they’d feed you on “Futurama”.
Ahhhh, but coming up on Friday, the best bakery in the Pittsburgh area is ‘across the street’ from the Mystery Lovers Bookshop!
It’s pretty good, strawberry-kiwi flavored, only 30 calories. That said, I was going to stop at Culver’s, but I didn’t see one between Des Moines and Omaha. So I had some plain old low-fat yogurt when I got here.
I also went to one of my favorite clothing stores (do not scoff, it’s quite good, Omaha has good shopping, as other attendees of Mayhem in the Midlands know) and, having seen myself in a three-way mirror, I feel comfortable saying: Officialy not too thin, Lizzie! I bought two dresses on sale and some really nice grown-up perfume, Tiempe Passate.
Just eat one.
You know you want to.
Too late. The nuggets are in the past. Yes, Tiempe Passate smells like the cheese nugget I didn’t eat yesterday.
Eat a nugget! You look skinny!
I know this is like the anecdote about Rockefeller, where he gave the doorman a dime, the doorman huffed, “Out of all your money, that’s my tip?” and Rockefeller said, “Young man, that’s why I have all that money.”
But seriously, eat a nugget. Or fedex me some.
We heard Laura’s talk at the Des Moines Public Library last night and it was fantastic. She stayed to the end, answered every question, signed every book. So generous with her time. Thanks!
david
p.s. yes, you gotta watch the Culver’s as you make your way across I-80. But then, it’s one of the best places to eat if you must do interstate-side food. Also, look out for the Maid-Rite stands.
Protein powder- Yummy. Stay away from the onion rings and the soft serve(with caramel sauce) at Culvers- they taste good but do not make a healthy dinner combination(but as a vegetarian- what choice did I have?).
Lee Child’s gotten 175 standing outside in heat over 100 degrees but they’re just nucking futs, those Reacher Creatures.
Culver’s is why Guyot is so fat.
Oh, there are so many stories about so many huge audiences for so many writers. I truly don’t rate.
Culver’s. There’s one three minutes from our front door. It’s a great/terrible thing.
FRIED CHEESE CURDS!!!!
huge audiences are quantity; your crowds, my dear, are quality.
I hath spoken. so there. (The only author line I ever waited in that went out the store and around the block was for Greg Louganis. But who wouldn’t stand in line to see beauty like that, huh?, I mean really now, huh? Okay, maybe it is just me but….sigh)