I could write my thoughts for new (and old) college students, but I am not as eloquent as Miss Davis. Sooooooooooooooo, instead I will write this...
People talk about how much I do, but I actually spend a lot of time neglecting stuff. Sad, really.
About an hour ago, I was actually doing work when I felt the immediate need to eat a snack. It had been a whole five hours since I had last eaten, so obviously, I was famished. Thankfully, I had made a quick run to Kroger after play practice (what do you do when you realize that you are completely out of toilet paper while going to the bathroom?). At Kroger, I decided that I needed to buy bagels. Yum. I had a little leftover cream cheese from bean dip. Double yum.
Bagel toasting and scarfing (I hate seeing that word spelled out...it should not be spelled the same as the item of clothing) ensued.
While I was spreading the cream cheese, I thought to myself...
"Do I like anything more than a bagel and cream cheese?"
I immediately answered...
"Of course. I love tons of food. This is why I am fat."
Thus, the need to pick my Top 10 Favorite Foods arose. A bagel doesn't even make the cut.
In no particular order:
1. Alie's apple snicker yum yum.
2. Bean dip--Thank you, Sarah Kjeldsen. Thank you.
3. Chicken Enchiladas--Is it a Sara Lee recipe? Becky Gearhart?
4. Cheddar Munchies
5. General Tso's Chicken from China Garden (rice included)
6. The Hazelnut Raspberry Chocolate cake from Bone Fish
7. Breyer's Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream
8. Cornbread casserole
9. Guacamole (The best ever? Made fresh by the lovely women in Reynosa...)
10. Chicago's breadsticks with nacho cheese and/or Chicago's barbecue chicken pizza
Honorable Mentions: Either an everything or an asiago cheese bagel (toasted) with cream cheese, Bonefish's Florida Cobb Salad, Max and Erma's tortilla soup, Adrian Orchard's apple cider slushies, steak, baby back ribs, chicken salad, Sara Lee's potato salad, Poo Shingles, watermelon, asparagus, popcorn, and Brie cheese...with pretty much anything...okay...cheese, period.
You try it. It is really hard to choose.
(Especially if you have papers to grade and can make a list such as this to waste as much time as possible.) Instead of sleeping tonight, I will probably try to figure out what I have forgotten. It will plague me.
No, seriously. Respond with your favorites.
5 comments:
Why did you do this to me?
It's all I'm going to be able to think about.
Seriously, though, I'll get back to you.
Ok, now I got it. I think.
1. French Silk pie. I don't know where we get it, but this certain kind.
2. Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory.
3. Chocolate chip pancakes.
4. Cheesy rolls from Red Lobster.
5. Fazoli's breadsticks.
6. Milk chocolate hot chocolate from The Chocolate Cafe on the circle. I know that's not a food.
7. Chocolate Raspberry Truffle ice cream from Bruster's in a waffle cone.
8. BBQ chicken pizza from Mother Bear's.
9. Sweet potatoe fries.
10. Movie theater popcorn + too much butter.
Honorable mentions: a really good BBQ cheeseburger, Red Lobster broiled seafood platter, Panera bread bowl with vegetable pesto soup, twice baked potatoes, pot stickers, pesto cavatappi from Noodles, gyro's, chicken alfredo spinach tomato pizza from Papa John's.
I love food. (Though you can clearly see I love chocolate, bread, and potatoes most)
1. I love reading your blogs. They always make me think...about something. I've been working on my food list too :)
2. In regards to Lauren's quote. That is my FAVORITE part of that movie. And I really like that movie.
3. At the time, I thought that the "healing" process was done before Mississippi. Since then I've realized that Mississippi was a huge part of my rebuilding in itself. In all honesty, I'm still not completely back to where I was before or where I want to be. But I'm a lot closer and I can truly say that I probably would not be where I am had I not gone on that trip. I know that sounds cheesy, but I really really think it's true. I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to have that...experience. When I said yes, I was thinking it would just be a fun thing to do this summer, but it turned out to be so much more than that. For one thing, it was really eye-opening to see the damage from Katrina close-up and actually interact with people who had been affected by it. But, I feel like that's what everyone says about it.
The experience was uniquely valuable to me because it was a chance to get away from my real life. Not that the trip wasn't part of my real life...but I mean...I was able to stop thinking about the things that normally plague my brain and the everyday matters that come up at home and think about something completely different. And I got to spend time with a completely different group of people. It's so unbelievable to me how that group became so close in just one week. I feel almost closer to those people than I do to a lot of people I've known my entire lives. It really was like a family. We let each other into our personal lives and our inner circles. As corny as it sounds, that group will always have a special place in my heart and my memory.
I know we joked about this, but for me, this summer really was defined by Mississippi. I really will always categorize things that happened as Before Mississippi and After Mississippi (Mississippi being its own entity that I feel can't even fit inside the box of my summer). And I don't know if that freedom you witnessed in me was the result of a sense of peace or happiness within myself...or if it was a carefree, slightly reckless response to being completely broken down, but I will say that I am who I am and where I am today in part because of that trip. I'll always remember Biloxi as not only a place where I literally rebuilt houses but also where I rebuilt a little part of myself. I can't thank you enough.
(Sorry this has turned into such an essay. But, in my defense, you did ask for feedback on the trip. I'm just a little late getting to it)
:)
What are poo shingles? Gross!
P.S. I'm back.
Only if you wash my feet with your hair and a year's salary worth of perfume first.
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