Coffee of the Day

iced triple tall skim white mocha

Mmmmmm. What a lovely little bite-sized nugget of caffeinated awesome this is. Yes, I realize that was a lot of adjectives, but they all apply, so I used them all. Deal.

Here’s what I was going for with this drink: a concentrated dose of caffeine, something I could drink quickly, cold, and sweet but not too sweet. It was definitely accomplished. Go get one asap, tell them Jenny sent you.

This tastes especially awesome and delicious because I didn’t have caffeine all weekend. I KNOW, crazy, right? I think you all just fell out of your chairs. I would help you up, but I can’t reach my arms through the television because this isn’t Pleasantville, or the Ring. Man I hated it when the creepy little girl came through the television at the end of the Ring. I saw it in junior high, but only because of peer pressure and one of my very short-lived boyfriends. Wait, was it junior high or was it freshman year of high school? Hm… IMDB to the rescue!–it was October of 2002, which means it was the fall of my freshman year in high school, and the short-lived boyfriend was Dom Fazioli. I think I’m still Facebook friends with him, so on the off-chance he reads this, Hi Dom! I only went to the movie to have you put your arm around me when I got scared and such. But if you think about it, guys only take girls to scary movies so they can put their arm around them when they get scared (and maybe brush a little boob in the process), sooo we both got what we wanted out of that.

What the hell was I talking about before I got onto the Ring?

Right. I went an entire weekend without coffee. And it was a long weekend too, so that was 3 whole caffeine-less days. But my sister was visiting–she doesn’t really like coffee, and we were having too much fun doing other things for me to need to run to Starbucks. I’m impressed that I didn’t get any caffeine headaches. Maybe it was because I was basically tipsy all weekend… Maybe my tipsy-ness somehow counter-acted the caffeine headache. Brilliant. Where do I come up with this stuff?

Oh Jody Sawyer, how far we have fallen

Holy shit, I can't believe this movie came out 12 years ago...

I am a child of the late 90’s/early 2000’s. I was also on dance teams in junior high and high school, so this movie was basically the ultimate in pre-teen/teen dancing awesomeness for me. It’s way up there on my nostalgiac list of movies that I loved when I was a teenager and like to watch from time to time (like Drive Me Crazy, which Ally and I totally watched a few weeks ago and it was still awesome). It was also high on my list of movies that I watched over and over again in high school. My friend Annie and I watched Center Stage alllll the time, another friend of ours had gone to a dance camp where Charlie was (OMG) and we all basically wanted to grow up to be Jody Sawyer.

This lovely little nugget also features Zoe Saldana, who is amazing in everything, and that brunette chick who was in every 90s movie as the girl-you-love-to-hate-sidekick (she was also in Drive Me Crazy and 10 Things I Hate About You. I don’t actually know her name. She’s just that 90s sidekick chick. Hold on… Susan May Pratt. Yeah. There was no way I was going to know that. Thank you, IMDB). Plus, Peter Gallagher and his super eyebrows, and Ilia Kulik! Oh, crap, you probably don’t know who Ilia Kulik is. He played the Russian guy in the movie, and he was a big deal figure skater back in the day. I also figure skated for 7 years before I danced, so this was exciting to me. I know, I’m a girl of many talents.

In a nut shell, this movie is part of my teenage soul, ergo part of me forever. And the other day while watching TV, I saw the new Shamrock Shake commercial. Now, I find Shamrock Shakes to be disgusting. No offense, I know they have a loyal following, but I think they’re yucky, and so I don’t normally pay attention to these advertisements. But the girl in it caught my eye…