soapbox

Maybe it was the alcohol last night, combined with “newlyweds”, but i just had the weirdest dream last night. i dreamt that i was staying over at the osbournes, in this really creepy, dark house that was definitely haunted but the unspoken rule of the house was that nobody talked about it. actually, i think it was more like an ancestral castle. for some reason, there was a dog that gave birth to puppies, but the puppies were tiny little things that barely looked like puppies, as though, like a kangaroo, they had to live in a pouch for a bit to get to be full size puppies. then, suddenly, the puppies are normal size puppies, because they start mysteriously dying. and they look strangely like plush puppies when they have died. the last thing i remember is the cops showing up, asking us if anything’s wrong, and feeling pressured to say everything’s fine. i think i broke and said no, things are wrong, but it’s really very fuzzy to me.

i found last night at price chopper “The Gobfather” and “Fossil Fuel”. Fossil Fuel is excellent. Ranks right up there at the top with Phish Food and Coffee Heath Bar Crunch for me. It’s sweet cream ice cream (though it tastes almost like vanilla to me) with chocolate cookie pieces, fudge dinosaurs (I’m thinking Becky will like it because of this ), and a fudge swirl.

On the other hand, I was disappointed by The Gobfather. it’s chocolate ice cream with a nougat swirl and fudge covered almonds. I was expecting something greater, but it’s essentially chocolate swiss almond. i couldn’t taste the nougat at all, except for a vague change in texture. it’s not bad, as i like vanilla swiss almond. but to have only 3 parts to the flavor, the one part should show up far better than it does.

at first I envisioned a candy vending machine – the truth isn’t quite as exciting but it’s still kinda funny.

This is my horoscope for today:

A man with a large nose will attack you with a sword today, while composing free verse in archaic French. Luckily, he’ll get stuck trying to come up with a word that rhymes with “l’orange”, and you’ll have time to slip out the back way.

I thought it was cute.
Will there be softball today? My money is on no…
and I burnt my arm on the oven this morning. So if you see me, you should give me a cookie…

10 days left of this quarter (gasp!)