So I was just strolling around the neighborhood with Rose and her roommate enjoying the nice (and finally dry) weather. Rose and Roomie wanted to get frozen yogurt + mixins at the cafe across from my house. This little shop serves frozen yogurt and freshly mixes in anything you could want - m&ms, coffee, heath bar, crunch, chocolate chips, whathaveyou. It's a good summer time snack and it tastes real good. When I go I like to get vanilla fro yo + chocolate chips. Rose likes chocolate with coffee and heath bar...I think, she'll correct me if I am wrong. Roomie likes vanilla plus two scoops of M&Ms.
The last couple of times Rose and Roomie have gone, I have walked with them but not ordered the fro yo. Tonight they questioned me. "Why? Why no mix-in?!" They seem to think it's because I am trying to be healthy. Tonight it was because I needed dinner so I needed to get some pizza. But usually it's been because I have a half gallon of chocolate haagan daz in my freezer and to be quite honest nothing beats real creamy, chocolate ice cream. I love a good mix-in (I mean, come on, it's a blizzard for the most part and I am from MN so I love anything from DQ). But ice cream is ice cream and when it's good, it's real good and fro yo cannot compete. For the last couple of weeks I've been having scoops of ice cream or making myself chocolate shakes - my favorite summer treat.
My love for chocolate ice cream and chocolate shakes started when I finished college. Probably because my one roommate always wanted chocolate shakes - and we lived 6 blocks from Ben and Jerry's. So it just stuck withe me and now I want them all the time.
So Rose, I am sorry to disappoint you by not eating enough Fro Yo Mix Ins. I hope you can forgive me some day!
Now onto my August obsession - the Olympics. Schmat and I have been having some amazing email exchanges about Summer Olympics 2008. Specifically, we are obsessed with women's gymnastics. The women got silver last night which is very exciting, although it was sad to see some mistakes for them. You think to yourself - they've been working their whole lives - given up being regular kids and teens for this one moment... So when they don't perform as well as they have in the past, you can just imagine it must be devastating for them.
I am also really into swimming. I love to watch it and just see the team (and not just Michael Phelps) haul ass. I've even given up my 8 hours of sleep a night to watch the Olympics this week.
If you have not tuned in, I highly suggest it. You could then also yell at the tv, grab a pillow because the race is too close or the uneven bars are too far apart just like me!
P.S. There is something pretty funny about sitting on your couch for 5 hours watching these athletes defy all the odds and push their bodies...meanwhile, I just lift the spoon of ice cream into my mouth.
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