Let's back-track to Thursday. I spent time over at the Sunny Farm. It's so nice there. Working there reminds me of what my job is supposed to entail. Knowledge. My lit. class has been assigned a novel of 670 pages for the first two weeks of March. I'm excited. When they saw the book on the first day, they were not. However, two students stayed after class to talk to me about the book. "Prof., I want to tell you that I do not like to read. And when I saw you hold up that THICK book, I thought this is going to kill me. But, I bought it & once I started it, I couldn't put it down. I finished it yesterday. Just wanted to tell you that & say thank you because this is the first book I have actually read and finished in a long time & now I can't wait to go and get more books by this author."
Do I really have to tell you that my head was spinning from this?
On Thursday night I spent two hours at the fabulous B&N drinking coffee & looking up Munchen stuff. So excited! The only dowsnide to this whole trip is that every time I see the word 'munchen' I think of 'munchkins'---as in Dunkin Donuts---and I become hungry & crave those wonderful miniature creations in chocolate glazed & jelly. Mmmm......yummy. Anyway, Happy Khoury went with me because he is, well, happy & wanted to have coffee & talk. Fine by me. So we talked & looked up stuff & he actually liked the bookstore. Yippee! From my perspective, I can't figure out how one wouldn't like it there. They have books, Starbucks coffee with a friendly staff & even serve cheesecake from the infamous Cheesecake Factory itself. How can you go wrong?
Yesterday my mom and I went up to the Harriman outlets. I love going up there. However, my wallet wasn't too pleased as it turned into (to quote the frenchie bombshell) "a pretty woman" experience. So many things that I did get & so many more that I want to go back for. OH--evil winter clearance sales you have caused me great issues of inner struggle (that would be the inners of my wallet).
For the evening event, KDP & I had a non-dinner. The Cheesecake Factory was the destination & we like to order the fun stuff on the menu. So, we had drinks, appetizers, and dessert. She had a raspberry martini & I had my favorite candy apple martini. For our "meals" we enjoyed avocado eggrolls & tamale corn cakes. FANTASTIC is all I have to say. The waitress suggested we polish it all off with a slice of white chocolate peanut butter cheesecake. A bit too peanut buttery for me, but still good.
We then shopped for shoes, which is always a good time for me. KDP decided that we would finish off the evening at our favorite starbucks where the little gay barista always recognizes us & then proceeds to make us the best caramel macchiatto there is. He wasn't there. Some other guy made a lame attempt at it & got it wrong. Evil bitter coffee is how we ended a tasty time. Ignoring that lapse in time, Thanks. KDP for a yummy evening!
