Apparently if you’re too lazy to get a job but still want the thrill of scooping ice cream then mashing things into it, there’s hope for you yet. Wii makes a game called Coldstone Creamery: Scoop It Up.
Seriously?
So yeah, you can pay $20 to have this game and make virtual ice cream concoctions. Or you could get a job a Coldstone, work 3 hours, and have similar satisfaction plus $20 in your pocket.
I just don’t get it.
A little later than promised, but here they are!! Chicago is a really awesome city, and I definitely plan to go back.
…But I feel like crap 
One blog is enough for the day. I can say that Chicago was absolutely spectacular though. I ate too much, shopped a bit, drank a little, and saw not nearly enough. I got to wear all my warm clothes and had a great time in the freezing cold. It snowed too!
Hopefully I will feel better tomorrow and put up a picture or two. If not, Monday for sure!
I totally forgot to post about my upcoming travels. Trip #1: Chicago!
A friend of mine has to be out there for 2 weeks for work, so her company is paying for her hotel over the weekend in between. When she initially invited me for the weekend, I was hesitant since I’m trying to start up a savings account again. Luckily my boss gave me (another) free plane ticket anywhere in the US this year for the holidays! Free flight + free lodging = recipe for a wonderful girls trip in the Windy City!
One hitch: We’re going in February, which is notoriously frigid in Chicago. Keep in mind also that I am a cold-blooded creature, and require constant heating. I mean seriously, 55 degrees is COLD. 45 – well it might as well just snow. So looking at the weather forecast indicating temps in the high 20’s/low 30’s minus windchill, I’d bet a 30% chance I would freeze to death.
I’m kinda hungry, and was just sent this picture:
Um….yeah now I’m starving. Look at this perfectly cooked piece of bread and cheese perfection. YUM. Who wants to make me one of these, grilled to exactly that color?
Thanks 
This was how my day started. One can only hope it goes up from here.
I busted out my LAST 2 packets of maple and brown sugar oat meal. Poured them in a bowl. Opened the cabinet to grab a glass to pour some OJ.
Literally as soon as this door opened, a glass careened down from the top shelf.
Like, it must have been on the edge and only staying up because the door was closed.
So that shit tumbles out and lands on my Ikea bowl. I didn’t look too closely but i think the glass is OK (It’s a serious piece of glass, heavy). The bowl cracked/broke in 2 places and there are pieces of porcelain or whatever material ALL OVER my kitchen. Dry oatmeal all over the counter, stove and floor.
FUCK
So I clean this up. I think I have all the porcelain. Start over. New bowl. New packets of oatmeal (this time going for the regular flavor since that’s all I had left). Grabbed a new glass just in case the other one is broken. This time nothing falls out of the cabinet. Score.
So I cook the oatmeal, pour a glass of OJ. I have the milk out too, which I intend to pour into my oatmeal. I go to pour milk in the oatmeal, but instead pour the ORANGE JUICE. So now I have a glass of OJ and a bowl of oatmeal and orange juice.
FUCK
So i put everything away. Dump the oatmeal. Move the poured glass of OJ over to where I will be eating my meal. This part is OK and cannot risk being messed up. Grab yet another bowl and start over. This time with Cheerios. I can’t be wasting 2 more packets of oat meal – that shit is expensive. Grab the milk. Pour it. Go to put it back. Step in a piece of porcelain. Small cut to my heel.
FUCK
Whatever, I’m hungry. Bring my cereal over to the desk and enjoy my 3rd attempt at breakfast.
I’m having issues when it comes to my birthday cake this year. Serious issues. And for something as trivial as a cake, I feel this shouldn’t be happening.
First off, I for some reason had my heart set on an ice cream cake. I have no idea why. Maybe it’s all the ice cream I’ve been eating since surgery. I was thinking Red Velvet cake with Cookies n Cream ice cream. It sounds pretty delish in my personal opinion. Turns out neither Baskin Robins nor Dairy Queen do Red Velvet. Next stop on the cake hunt: Cold Stone.
And there it was: the perfect cake. Cake Batter Confetti….offering layers of moist red velvet cake, Cake Batter™ ice cream and rainbow sprinkles wrapped in a fluffy white frosting.
YUM.
Too bad the location of my party will not allow ice cream cakes.
I recently ate at Panda Express, and noticed that my cup was kinda strange:
Is that supposed to be “I love chicken…YUM!!!” ? LOL
Leave it to Americanized fast-food Chinese to come up with something classy like this
On the 4th of July I had hoped to go out and do something. But due to a lot of factors, by the time I made this decision Petra was already in bed. I decided that rather than sit around the apartment by myself, I would hit up the streets of the Costa Brava and find some entertainment.
It didn´t take long.
I just wanted to sit somewhere and maybe have a drink while watching the people go by. However, I have a fear of going to a restaurant, particularly one in a foreign country, and sitting down at a table by myself. Not to mention that here you seat yourself at most restaurants, but not all of them. So I was definitely nervous about it, but decided I just had to conquer the insecurity and go out and do it.
I finally found an ok, non-intimidating looking restaurant and had a seat. I ordered a glass of wine and started watching the people. I realized I hadn´t picked the best of locations, but it would do. And oh were there lots of people to see!
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