Chocolate? Yes please!

This is what I plan on making next.  You can find this recipe for Triple Chocolate Mousse Cake on my current favorite website: www.americastestkitchen.com 

I highly doubt mine will come out that pretty, but I definitely do my best.

The times they are a-changin'

It's finally starting to get cooler around here.  It still gets warm during the day, but the mornings & nights are quite pleasant.  Which is welcome relief to this incredible heat we've had around here.

We still don't have the refrigerator we ordered back in July.  We purchased this thing FROM SEARS & we kept getting phone calls pushing the delivery date back.  The day of delivery arrives, we make all the preparations to receive the refrigerator (pull the broken one out, transfer food from the old (not broken one) one to the cooler) and we receive another phone call saying that the fridge would not be delivered & we'd receive a phone call in a couple of days with details.  The details??  THE FRIDGE HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED AND WE'D HAVE TO RESELECT.  What?!  You've got to be kidding me.  It wouldn't be as big of a deal as it is if we didn't live and hour away from the store & if you had told us this the first time you pushed the delivery date back.  The people at the Sears store, once they found out what was going on, have tried to be helpful, but substituting the new model refrigerator (that replaces the discontinued version) that's coming out in October as an equal trade, doesn't quite seem enough to me.  Throw in the warranty package at no cost & we have a deal.  It's definitely aggravating & I never once thought we'd have this much trouble with Sears. 

BUT, we did finally get our wedding album.  He threw in some pictures that we wouldn't have necessarily picked, but all in all, I'm really pleased. 

I suppose that's it for today...time to go mow.  Later Taters

I am loving...

1.  This week being over.  Today we helped with freshman move-in.  I can't tell you how much I dreaded hearing the words, "ninth floor".  I sweated so much my jeans were soaked.  My fault for wearing jeans during a heat wave.

2.  America's Test Kitchen.  I love the Equipment Corner & the taste testing.  Love it.



3.  Our anniversary that approaches.  Can't wait to delve into that top layer. 

4.  Sleeping.  TTFN

Where is that you say??

It took lots of pestering & mallets, but I beat it out of C.  It was supposed to remain a secret, but I don't do very well with that.  I know it was in the U.S. & in the south.  Then I got the clues "british" & "category 5".  I'm really not sure how I finally ended up guessing Harry Potter, but I did. 

We're going to Universal Studios Orlando for our anniversary!

So excited.  Can't wait to visit the Harry Potter part.  I'm gonna drink a butterbeer & then be sorely disappointed when it tastes nothing like how I imagine.  Haha!

Speaking of which, we're SUPPOSED to get our wedding album this week (grrrrr if it's not here tomorrow) & I'll be sorely disappointed if it's nothing like how I imagine.

Our new fridge is being delivered on Sunday.  I know what it is, so I won't be sorely disappointed. 

Just thought I'd leave on a high note. ;o)

Introvert?

I've never thought of myself as an introvert before because I equate introverts with being recluses.

I'm beginning to think more and more that perhaps I am one--an introvert, not a recluse.  I don't shy away from people, but I know I'd be perfectly content having my weekends to myself for the rest of my life.

There are 4 weddings coming up...only 1 of which I feel comfortable going to.

We've had student staff training all this week & I find myself shutting down and looking for the nearest exit when everyone is together.

But there are other get-togethers I'm perfectly fine with.  I wonder if there's a secret mixture of # of people to # of people I know well.

I think I've always been this way but just didn't know it for sure until recently.  I think my sister said they didn't expect me to last in the dorms at college.  I did, I just didn't romp around in big groups.

Not really sure what the point of this story is.  Just that I'm exhausted from staff training, I have to help with freshman move-in tomorrow (which puts me in more big groups of people), & I can't wait for training to end (which just means the beginning of more craziness when everyone is back in classes & signing up for memberships and/or Group eXercise classes).

This isn't an uplifting post.  Don't read it--just skip to the next one.  OH!  Too late!  :o)

Pocket emailing?

Never thought I'd ever pocket email someone, but it has happened.

I apparently sent an email to a friend of mind with 'R' as the subject.  And what did she send back?

Arrrrrrr! 

Hilarious.