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Chocolate Love In A Furniture Store?!

Posted on June 21, 2013 by LFFL

Who knew I could find bloody good chocolate in a furniture store! We have a really nice, ginormous furniture store here where I live that I absolutely love. So I decided to go ‘window shopping’ briefly for a white, glass dining table.

But when I first opened the door to the store, I could smell chocolate wafting through the store. OOHHH, MY! (You can probably guess where this story is gonna go.) So I look around intently and follow my nose wondering what kind of furniture could possibly smell like chocolate!

AAHHH—THAR SHE BLOWS!!!—just a stone’s throw away from where I was standing. It’s not furniture, it’s actual chocolate! I never knew I’d find chocolate goodness inside a furniture store, but I’m not complaining.

So I decided to trek upstairs first to check out the dining table goods. And, might I say, I found a couple of tables that were totally GORG, totally me! And I was there all of 5-10 minutes when I trekked back downstairs—and there’s that smell again. So, obviously, I check out the chocolate candy store.

And, BOY, did I find me some chocolate-covered marshmallow lovin’ where I least expected it—amongst furniture madness. ‘See’s Candies’ is what it’s called. I’d never heard of it before, but I just HAD to get at least one chocolate something or other. And, BOY, that sucker didn’t even make it out of the parking lot/car park!

So, if you have nothing else to do today, go to the biggest furniture store you can find and order yourself massive amounts of chocolate. And if you don’t smell any tempting flavors as you’re strolling through the store—go ahead and do some furniture ‘window shopping’ and get a wish list going for your future self. It’s always fun to dream!

Take-Away Life Lesson: Apparently chocolate melts fast in your hands in 90 degree weather. Keep a stash of handwipes on standby.

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Costco Pizza Is Crazy Good

Posted on June 14, 2013 by LFFL

Don’t ask me why, but Costco pizza is SOOOOOO freaking delish! After I get out of the checkout lane, I have to pass the eating area where they serve all the good eatins before I can even get to the exit. (Well, that’s a set-up if I ever saw one.)

Now, if there’s not a long line, I’ll grab myself a slice of pizza goodness on the way out. I don’t know why I have to have one all the time. But, let’s consider the fact that I’m always starving at the time that I’m shopping at a Costco. I don’t know why—I just am.

And, as per usual, once I got inside the car—I set up the area next to me like a dining table for my pizza. (I gotta be ready for drivin’.) Clearly, I didn’t learn my lesson from the bread pudding dining. But I tore that sucker UP! It only made it 5 blocks.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, have a go at a Costco pizza. But it’s not worth the $55 membership just for pizza—unless you plan to get one all day eryday!

Take-Away Life Lesson: Don’t worry if you’re not a Costco member—just make like you’re ‘with’ the people walking in the front door that have a membership card. As long as you’re ‘with’ somebody that has a card—you don’t need one. Once you’re indoors, YOU’RE HOME FREE! RUN TO THE PIZZA LINE! You don’t need a Costco card to purchase pizza—thank the heavens!

Your Car Is Not A Dining Table

Posted on March 25, 2013 by LFFL

For some reason, my car keeps making a pit stop at that wonderful hometown diner after I leave work each day. And by ‘pit stop’ I mean literally 10 miles out of my way in the opposite direction from the way I go home each day. But that’s neither here nor there.

This is Bread Pudding Monday and I’ve been craving a piece all day. So I plan to take one home with me to eat while I relax. Then I run inside and grab two for the road. How does that happen?

But I always need an extra one on hand because it’s a WHOLE 7 days before Monday hits again for that bread pudding. So I settle in the car, bread pudding in the bag next to me, and head home. I could smell it wafting through the car. I could practically taste it. So I had no other choice.

But just because you can’t wait to get home to eat your bread pudding to-go doesn’t mean you should set up a dining area in your car while driving like I did, people! Still searching for the one bite that fell off my fork and rolled God knows where.

Don’t try this anywhere, guys. I’m clearly a bad example.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, you’re more than welcome to help me look for that bite in my car—OR better yet, find a local hometown diner you can make a ‘pit stop’ at after work each day that’s 10 miles plus out of your way.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Eat the bread pudding AT the restaurant OR pull the car over, set up shop, and go to town on the bread pudding in a NON-moving vehicle as the other cars stare at you in disbelief (or jealousy, is what I think).