Mmmm proper chips.

But! Waitrose Mango Chutney!

!!!!

One of our supermarket has a deal with Waitrose, and they stock a small range of Waitrose products! This is very exciting, for it is Genuine Stuff From Home.

(...there may be some inherent unlikelihood in being in Asia, and getting excited about Mango Chutney as nostalgic comfort food from home, but I choose to ignore it. La la la.)

So long as I can get proper tea with proper milk in it, then I'm happy.

But Waitrose stuff! How nice! Kind of like the exotic food section in Tescos over here, but, not.

When I lived in Brazil, they stocked Skippy peanut butter in the exotic foods section. And Campbell's tomato soup. I thought the soup was the funniest - my dad refuses to eat tomato soup today because he was dirt poor as a child and they had way way too many tomato soup dinners.

Gronk. Tis the first day of school for my chitlins. We are up early so we can go out to breakfast before they head off to their dooms.

How do I have a high school senior? Boggle.

Oh, Stephanie! I'm even more excited about my trip now. It's gonna be real! Not just something I talk about maybe doing. I've got my tickets and everything! And I'm finally going to meet you all!

I come home the day before MLK day, so that won't work, but we'll still have fun!

Suzi! I can't believe she's a senior either! Craziness! Hope you guys are off having a good breakfast.

School starts for me today. I need to get back into a routine. Maybe I'll start tomorrow...

Fabulous icon, Daniel! Is it gankable?

Sure. I store the original cat in a box from the lolcat link Fay had upthread.

I actually did a rough version of it at full size, but I had to redo the text after the shrink to make it readable again. The bigger one is quite a bit rougher looking, as I did a quick pass with clone stamp in Photoshop to erase the cat.

Good morning, good morning. (For me)

I'm killing time in a Panera so that rush hour traffic lets up and I can start the, well, actually, quite short drive home. Bless Panera and its free internet. It ranks up there with libraries and the free books they offer... only Panera comes with tasty beverages, too. Green iced tea this morning. Yum.

Oh, I love Panara! I wish I one close enough to actually go to. Their Chicken and Wild Rice soup is like none other.

mmm...Panera. Easily on my top 10 things I miss the most!

I come home the day before MLK day, so that won't work, but we'll still have fun!

Cool - I'm excited too. I reminded Joe about it yesterday and his response was, "cool! I love meeting new Buffistas. They are all a little different, but always lots of fun" which of course made me laugh because it's so true.

Awwww...I like that Joe! I'm excited about the whole trip, but I really think I'm most excited about finally getting to meet you guys. I mean, being a beach bum will be fun, but I finally get to meet you guys! YAY!

Ok, I'm abusing the exclamation point again. I'll go do a little happy dance in the privacy of my own home.