Can I just say that Mary Alice Yeskey from Ace of Cakes Rocks? She is one cool chick that hasn’t let celebrity go to her head. There a story in the paper about this teenage gal that has leukemia, chemo stopped working and was crossing things off of her ‘bucket list’ (her term, I’m not being insensitive). She is a big fan of the food network show and the paper had mentioned that meeting someone from Charm City Cakes was on her list.
Lo and behold, Mary Alice happened to be in Washington State for the first time in 27 years and saw the alert in her email. She said how the stars must have totally aligned because it happened to be the first email so she read it AND she had already planned on driving through that way to visit family and would make a visit to the teen. MA went on to say after the visit that they were going to send the girl a birthday care package of ‘a whole lot of awesome’. What a great story. Restores your faith in celebrity and humanity.
The reason why this is relevant to me in a six-degrees kind of way? I actually got an email from Mary Alice last year. Like her, personally, not some automated response ‘thanks for your email’ mail. Here’s how it went:
NHB: Mary Alice, I wanted to let you know that you made my irreverent annual Christmas letter. It’s mostly about my boring single life and bad dates, but I also do a ‘Best Of…Year in Review” and you provided one of the highlights of my year:
Most innocuous quote on network TV -
“You did such a bang up job on the beaver last week”,
Mary-Alice Yeskey, Ace of Cakes
MAY: First of all, thank you for making me giggle on a Thursday night when I’ve had a hell of a long day. I am honored to be one of your highlights for 2007! Happy Christmas and an Ass-Kicking 2008 to you and yours!
No wonder she has her own fan club. Like I said, is she a whole lot of awesome or what?
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missmarchabouttown // August 13, 2008 at 7:39 pm |
Funny story: I actually talked to MA also because I designed some fan gear for Ace of Cakes. She is VERY sweet, cool, and down to earth. What a sweet story about the girl, I didn’t know that! And I love the quote in your letter
PS. Thank you for the uplifting comment on today’s post. I really needed it!