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It’s all fun and games until someone puts walnuts in the brownies…
Remember when eating a bowl of cereal was enjoy to sustain you through lunch even though you inevitably ran around at recess like a half-crazed wild child let out for the first time ever? Oh…that was just me running around like a half-crazed wild child let out for the first time ever? I see. Anywho, gone are those days. Now I eat a bowl of cereal and a couple hours later my stomach is complaining as if I had the audacity to skip breakfast entirely! And I never skip breakfast. Or any meal for that matter until I’m super full from a previous meal [but in most cases I just shift the eating back an hour or so] or if I’m just too sick to even stand the thought of food.
Anywho, I had myself a bowl of cereal today and by the time I got to work [granted, almost 2 hours later] I was hungry again so I ended up taking a trip to the closest Starbucks [but really, there’s like 5 of them nearby. It’s like, take your pick] for a breakfast sandwich because they’re slightly cheaper and yummier than the offerings at the McDonald’s where I don’t eat anyway except for the occasional French fries because those things are fried in crack which is why they are so delicious. Or maybe it is an after effect of being braised in beef juice or what have you to make them extra delicious. Either way, yum.
But these are bigger and a whole lot softer than the Mickey D’s sandwiches so on the very rare occasion that I go out to buy breakfast like this, I’m almost always going to go with Starbucks.
I stopped off at Marilu’s house last night to drop of her half of the Bon Bons and we introduced them to both Marela and baby Spawn who took to them like a duck to water. After we finished the bag, he kept telling Marilu that he wanted more but she whenever she said there wasn’t any left, he’d point to the bag I brought them in and say there was more there. Lindsey later yelled at me for starting the boy off so early but you know he had to learn sometime. You should have seen the smile on Marilu’s face when I walked in. We talked Marela into sampling them after going through a slightly crazed explanation of the goodness that they possess and she looked at us as if we were slightly crazed but I took solace in the fact that Marilu agreed with everything I said while describing them [even when I called them “little bags of candied crack”]; she totally gets it.
While I was there I ended up having a dinner of ice cream bars even though I really wanted a cheeseburger; and not a fast food cheeseburger [even though I was convinced that In-N-Out would completely suffice] but a real cheeseburger, like a diner cheeseburger [and wouldn’t you know, May is National Hamburger Month!]. But I did enjoy the two ice cream bars Marilu gave me and while I was diving into the second one, I had an odd sense of déjà vu: this was exactly what she did to me while she was pregnant with Spawn! She would force me into sympathy eating all this junk food while she’d have like, cucumbers and stuff. That girl…she can’t be trusted.
We all hung out for a bit before finally heading home so we could catch our respective television shows…weird how that happens. But Thursday is the only day that I actually know what to watch [all NBC until 10pm because I had long given up ER and really, I can’t believe that show is still on].
The company sponsored a lunch for us today with Mexican food in celebration of Cinco de Mayo and thankfully it wasn’t fajitas. I enjoy fajitas when they’re made right but those are always hit or miss. Today’s menu consisted of taco salad [which was good except for the lettuce that had a very strong lemon taste to it], chicken tortilla soup, fruit salad, this beef and potato thing, black beans, rice and chicken enchiladas that were actually really good. I don’t normally eat chicken enchiladas but these were delicious. And for dessert there was tres leches cake and brownies but the brownies had nuts in them. Ugh, why do people insist on ruining brownies by adding nuts? That’s a crime against humanity, yo!
Except I sampled a little bit of everything and now I want to take a nap. If only they had the foresight for a company-sponsored siesta. Because my eyes! They are! SO HEAVY!
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