Sometimes, my food dish gets away from me.
It slides off my placemat and I slurp it across the kitchen.
Then it slips into the living room and tries to escape behind the rocking chair.
I keep my eye on it and chase it and keep eating without missing a beat.
Sometimes, Mom’s story ideas get away from her. She thinks she has an idea, and then she starts writing and suddenly the idea she thought she had escapes behind the rocking chair and a new idea takes over without missing a beat. A story about a funny looking creature sitting next to a regular little girl starts out silly and funny and light and crazy, and then the creature gets bullied! Wait! What?
That’s not silly or funny or light or crazy.
Mom wonders, “Do I keep writing this new story?” and “Do I backtrack and go back to my original idea?” and “Where are you going with that?”
Cupcake Speaks 
Comments on: "Chasing" (52)
Cupcake—you are something else!
Thanks, A. I like being something, and also something else.
Love and licks,
C
It’s almost as though ideas have a life of their own!
Have you tried putting a paw on that dish?
A paw…. Hmmmm. I’ll have to try that, C. Brilliant idea!
Love and licks,
C
I’m guessing you like Tag? 🙂
If Tag is like Fetch, I don’t like it.
Love and licks,
C
Not really…
It is important to keep a close eye on both ideas and food! I’m glad you’re on the job, Cupcake! 🙂
I’m on it, SLH.! Mom is on her own with this one.
Love and licks,
C
Oh Cupcake you cutie pie…….I bet in that last shot of you with your dish you’re on your way to your Mom to ask for MORE MORE MORE – right????? “Lookie Mom, my dish is empty and I’m starving to death….sniff sniff”……….it works for me too Cupcake.
Holiday Hugs, Sammy
You’re so smart, S. I never figured out how to ask for more. I usually just finish my food and then try to eat my dish.
Love and licks,
C
Aww cupcake, tell your mom I know how she feels. I love your food bowl by the way! Naughty thing to try to escape you.
Thanks, PL&W. That’s my slow feeder bowl. Mom doesn’t want me gobbling, in case of a tummy ache.
Love and licks,
C
I need one for my cat buggy he has a gobbling problem.
Cupcake tell mum to go for it….I think a great idea has been hatched with a twist to the usual..much like the Stranger danger message here…not all strangers are odd looking or ugly a mistake made under the guise of assumption…much like assuming your bowl is empty when in fact it shall be filled again my sweet 🙂 hugs Fozziemum …Pee Ess too cute you are 🙂 xx
Thanks, FM. I’m never quite sure if my bowl will ever be filled again. That’s reassuring….
Love and licks,
C
It can seem like it won’t ..Doc is always convinced each meal will be his last 😉 hugs and loves Fozziemum xxx
Cupcake you are so funny with your food bowl! My food bowl/plate needs to get away from me more often!
Be careful what you wish for…. Bowl chasing isn’t as easy as it looks.
Love and licks,
C
Have bowl will travel – snorts. I push my bowl around the Hotel Thompson. I keep thinking someone will see me with it, take pity and feed me. Snorts. XOXO – Bacon
I feel ya, B. I don’t get much pity around here either.
Love and licks,
C
Cupcake, you need a bigger bed!
It IS kind of crowded in there, what with the stuffed fish and all….
Love and licks,
C
BOL that last photo is priceless!
The blurriness is because I was going so fast. Once the bowl is captured, I don’t want it to get away again.
Love and licks,
C
I knoe this wandering bowls and my mom knows this wandering ideas. Then we stare on the keyboard to start the clic-clac-tap-wap but the words and the ideas slip away and suddenly nothing makes sense. Think we should fix the ideas and words like the feet on my bowl with skid protectors.
…or maybe you can push the computer around the house with your face, like I do with my dish. When it gets to the rug, you can eat it. Clic-clac-tap-wap problem solved!
Love and licks,
C
do you think windows is tasty? Why not, I will try it – it’s tasty tuesday :o)
There is some good news with that runaway food bowl: You get your exercise while you’re eating. Brilliant! I think your mom’s wandering ideas are exercise too . . . for her mind. 😉
Exercise ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, Miss HL. Just sayin’…
Love and licks,
C
I love the quirks each dog has. Cupcake probably loves the chase! Archie doesn’t like his food too close to his water, and carries each piece and sets it down until I have a scattering of food on the kitchen floor. Then he eats it. Sometimes I think it is a game! But, my other poodles did the same thing. Very particular.
I think Archie has more technique than quirk. He has a plan and he executes it. I wish I had a smart poodle-brain.
Love and licks,
C
That is an excellent parallel there! And Cupcake, I’m with you. My bowl ends up all over the place when I have space to push it around.
Thanks, C. Bowls are tricky. They like to travel.
Love and licks,
C
Hey Cupcake
Glad you got a grip on that bowl, my buddy cosmo’s bowl runs away from him too and then sometimes his humans can’t even find it when it’s food time! How scary! 🙂
I hope you’re having a fun day,
Your pal Snoopy 🙂
GAH! I don’t know what I’d do if my bowl ever got lost. Maybe Mom would let me put my bony little head into the food bag. That would be awesome.
Love and licks,
C
The Chase is part of the eating fun!
Mom: The idea? Fly by the seat of your pants. Gut feelings are the best. (Guts are another story) :-b
Editing will take care of the rest, I suppose. But the idea? Go with the flow.
Thanks, G. Mom and I both like going with the flow. I just hope the flow doesn’t go cuckoo.
Love and licks,
C
Tell your mummy to run with her ideas, just like you after your bowl, after all you never know where it will lead you – maybe into wonderland:-)
Wonderland would be awesome! Thanks, M.
Love and licks,
C
Sounds like Cupcake and mom are a lot alike. 🙂
Mom says thanks for the compliment. She’s always wanted to be more like me.
Love and licks,
C
Oh, Cupcake, you have a fantastic hunting instinct! And so does your mom! As an author, she needs this talent, too, in order to scent, chase and catch new ideas! You are a great team together!
I am a good hunter! Thanks for noticing, K. Yesterday I tried digging under the snow, in case there was a frozen potato chip or a candy wrapper. Mom said the word LeaveIt. What a buzzkill.
Love and licks,
C
Merry Christmas Cupcake xxx
I like the water bowl idea!
Oh Cupcake, that is hilarious on how your food bowl moves all over for you! Does it have wheels on it? I can move mine around the kitchen, but never has my food bowl made it all the way into another room! You are truly talented, and your food bowl ain’t bad either! Hugs from, Nikita and Bella
The eternal problem, for you and your mom. But hopefully the chase is worth all the effort.
I only chase on flying objects, but this is definetely worth a try 🙂 Pawkiss 🙂
I don’t chase flying things, I just snap when they come by. Sometimes I get lucky.
Love and licks,
C
We love the picture of you carrying your bowl.. you look like you are off on some important business!
Trying to eat my bowl is important business. I’ve been working on it for years!
Love and licks,
C