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January 7, 2007
Mount Chocula
We came home and celebrated my son's 7th birthday. My wife made a chocolate volcano cake about 10 inches tall with chocolate frosting and fire-breathing dragons on top, just like my son requested weeks ago. The dragons are toys and we put a candle in each mouth. This cake was a work of art and science. You are looking at cake piled upon cake with a lot of homemade icing as mortar (and two wooden skewers) to hold it together. She had to remove a drawer from the refrigerator just to make it fit.
But I didn't have any since I'm on a break from chocolate for 2007. I scooped the Rocky Road ice cream and passed plates around for everyone, making sure to not get a bit of chocolate on my hands. Then I had vanilla ice cream and some of the non-chocolate lava frosting that I scraped off the volcano. As I predicted, it was tasty, but I didn't crave seconds since it wasn't chocolate. Ordinarily, I would have seconds on birthday cake right then and probably thirds sometime before bed.
Sandra, my wife, said I should stop buying any chocolate for the family, but I said I want to show that I control the chocolate and the chocolate doesn't control me! Who's in control? I am! In my MBA class, we just learned this thinking is called "internal locus of control." It reminds me of what I was taught years ago as self-efficacy.
By the way, if you ever decide to put a plastic dragon on a cake and light a candle in its mouth, take the picture quickly.
Seven days down!
Posted by Wes Williams at January 7, 2007 10:30 PM
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