V-Day Yum!

Dr. J and I typically bake "Lust Cookies" for Valentine's Day. But this year, the cookie-baking got scuttled for three reasons . . . (1) we were busy meeting with our Realtor putting in an offer on a house; (2) the snow and ice storm prevented us from safely making it to the sto' to purchase the ingredients (okay, so we failed to think ahead); and (3) SOMEBODY locked their keys in their car on V-Day after work, and thus had to wait until AAA came to rescue them, getting home late in the process.

Being as Dr. J was away this past weekend on business, I decided to surprise him with a belated V-Day fieldtrip to celebrate. I had read about this newish cupcake bakery, Dozen Cupcakes, in Squirrel Hill, and just knew, as soon as I checked out their web site, that is was THEE perfect place to take my sweetie, a cupcake aficionado!

We had a blast, munching on cupcakes and drinking our little cartons of milk (skim, of course!). It really is a teeny-tiny shop, but man, do their cupcakes pack a wallop! Aahhhhh, were they ever yummy!!! Mmmmm!!!!!!!!

Stocking Up on Staples

Last week we had a good-sized snowstorm, and lots of ice. Nothing catastrophic, mind you, but enough that you should stay off the roads if you could -- for maybe ONE whopping day.

Nonetheless, I always get a huge laugh at the t.v. and newspaper stories about folks who rush the grocery stores in advance of a snowstorm . . . as if we are gonna be snowed in for 3 weeks, and as if most of these folks don't already don't have TONS of food in their pantry (or could stand to skip a meal anyways)?!

It got me to wondering, what strange "essential" food/beverage items my friends and family must have at home to survive the blizzard??? (After all, there's something a little bizarre that all of us want to have on hand, to survive, LOL!)

Our list is something like this . . . microwave popcorn, wine, fudgesicles, and cereal for Dr. J.

Here's what the rest of you replied:

* Cereal
* Fresh milk (as opposed to sour milk? I dunno!)
* Diet Coke
* Water
* Bananas
* Cheese
* Popcorn
* Pretzels (2 votes)
* Beer (2 votes) -- interestingly, enough, the beer votes came from Buzz, and his son, Joe (wow -- what a stunner? NOT!!!)
* Frozen pizza
* Ramen noodles

And from the Kal-ee-forn-yah crew, who don't quite understand the whole "we need toilet paper" urgency . . .

* Pasta, water, dog food, bagels, butter, beer, and if that time, (sorry boys) tampons
* "As long as I have my stock of boobjuice storage bags, I'm good to go. I'll just wipe my ass clean on the wall."


Let's keep it all in perspective, folks! And hey, let's not forget -- Punxy Phil said we're having an early Spring!!!