I was sitting in Olive Garden the other night (my birthday dinner with the Reed family) and was having the hardest time not eavesdropping on the table next to ours. (I had chicken fettuccine, by the way... yummm) Okay, so I wasn't really trying very hard not to listen, but don't judge me... they were talking super loud. Anyways, at first they were talking politics, and I immediately got nauseous and tuned them out. (It was so nice to receive those 8 million messages on my machine yesterday asking me to vote for every politician with a pulse, but I am SOOOO ready for this election to be over!) Well, then their conversation turned to Halloween and Trick or Treating (it was that night) and I couldn't help but tilt my head back in their direction. You know what this chick said?!? She said that someone very important that lived somewhere very renowned did a very famous study that concluded that there are roughly 8000 calories in one of those little orange pumpkins that all the kids collect their candy in. Seriously? Must people go and ruin a perfectly good holiday by attaching statistics to it like that?!? I was JUST FINE, thank you very much, without having an actual number associated with how terrible I was/still am/will continue to eat after this wretched holiday has passed. Well, you all know me, I can't possibly hear something so upsetting without passing along the joy to anyone who will listen. So there you go, people. Happy Freakin' Halloween! Enjoy your candy.
P.S. I was eating a mini twix bar while I typed this. It was soooo worth it!
Monday, November 3, 2008
Spreadin' the Joy
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No, I heard that if you eat the mini-mini candy bars (you know the ones...they're so much better than the original minis) that you get to actually count the calories in negative numbers. No, really. There was a study done, somewhere by someone really important. So today I ate -15000 calories in milky way mini MINI's alone. Good stuff. BTW, so jealous that you got to eat Olive Garden without me. You know it tastes better when you eat it with me. :-)
You know you miss eating out with me, too, Rick. C'mon, admit it... :-)
I'm going to pretend that when I start breastfeeding those 8000 calories will be the first to go!
You only ate 1 little 'ole mini twix? That's not even worth braggin bout Jenny! You can do better than that! :) So, I had to put the rest of the cafe rio in the freezer because no one would come eat it with me :(
That is just not nice for them to ruin your Halloween!! :) Your posts make me laugh! You definitely have a way of writing! I hope you are doing well. Let's get together soon and hang out!
Isn't it funny how every time you go to a resteraunt there is always someone in that resteraunt who is talking so loud that you feel you are at their table with them. I've always been more of a private conversationalist with those at my table. But I must admit when I get together with my sisters we can get pretty loud. I would hope our conversation if overheard was at least entertaining to the over-hearer! ;)
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