Happy Birthday to the Empress!

I'm kinda packing. I need to get more serious about this project. DH has decided to tow the smaller boat down to do some work on it over the winter. So we changed the rental vehicle to a bigger one with tow capability. Will probably leave about 4am or so and crash for the night in Chapel Hill. Take off again in the wee hours to get back home by early evening. Yeah, packing, should get on that.

Cute baby pictures!

Happy birthday, Aimee!

We used to play team handball in high school gym class. Broke my glasses once, when I got hit in the face. (Just broke the frames, not the lenses.)

I just went on an Olympics-inspired bike ride. Was fun. Rode along the river for a bit, then along the canal for a bit. I like the canal path a lot better, but it's not paved, so it's a bit tougher on a bike. Then I stopped for ice cream on the way back, which was also fun.

Me too. Especially since they stopped using lard in the creme formula.

What?

Oreos, too. However, I find that I much prefer the Trader Joe's version of Oreos (Joe-Joes).

Twinkies never really thrilled me, actually. I reserved my cake sweet tooth for chocolaty things, for the most part. For instance, Hoho's, Suzy Q's and Ding Dong's.

And when I was a teenager, I was bananas over Banana flips. I'm pretty sure it was the banana creme.

All this was pre-diabetes, of course. Plus? When I was a kid, things like that were a treat, not a daily foodstuff.

It's the birthday of our Empress!

I can't stand Twinkies. Never liked them, but in college, I did a play wherein the director wanted me eating a Twinkie every time I came on stage. After 2 weeks of 10 Twinkies per night? Can NOT stand them. Haven't eaten one since and don't expect to.

Hail, Empress, on the day of your birth!!!

{{{{Drew}}}} Honey, all kinds of ~ma to you and your family.

factoid:

Two phlebotomists gave up trying to find my brains oops, veins. The woman who was called in to finally succeed was wearing Spongebob Squarepants scrubs.

Twinkies has put lard back into the creme. They only removed it for a year or two, but they replaced it with shortening that was full of trans fat. When people started getting freaked out about trans fat, they switched back to lard.

Matilda and Dylan are my new OTP.

Cash's family relationship with the Rotorooter guy is also pretty sweet.

Oh, I also liked getting an occasional off-brand Snowballs when I was younger and pre-diabetic.

I say off-brand, because the pink ones freak me out. Something called a "snowball" should be white by default. And if they are making them green for St Patrick's day, they should have mint flavoring.

I think I lost my taste for them in my 20's. Too many with dry, crumbly cake, short on filling and tasteless marshmallow creme.

Something called a "snowball" should be white by default.

Could be worse. Could be yellow.