it's ok, you can just take the cookies

today I went to work like I do everyday. one of my co-workers started talking about paradise bakery and how much she loves their salads...so I start thinking about paradise. pretty much the only thing I think of when I think of paradise is their cookies and naturally I start thinking about how I want to eat their cookies...and I think about this for the next four hours that I'm at work. you better believe when I finished the first place I went was paradise.

I walked in while chatting on my phone and ordered 2 coconut chocolate chip cookies. the girl bagged up my cookies and I reached in my sac and pulled out a handful of change; last I checked it was still a form of currency. I started to separate out the quarters when the girl said "it's ok, you can just take the cookies."

I was a bit confused at first for a couple reasons; one, I was talking on the phone and in a conversation, two, I was counting out money and trying to figure out how much the tax would be since it wasn't already figured into the price, and three because my blood sugar was pretty low and I get spacey when I haven't eaten in a while. I finally came around and thanked her, thinking "oh man, this is so great!"

I love when people are just randomly nice and do nice things!

I would have photographed the cranes with the cookies, but you better believe I scarfed those things the second I got in my car. they were delicious.

enjoi!

galler chocolate

one day on my mission, I was with my very good friend sister macclaine. she asked me if I had ever tried galler chocolate, and I responded that I had not. her eyes got big and she told me that I had to try it, that it was the greatest chocolate in the world. she offered me a bar, I don't know which flavor, but that is not important. what is important, is that she was right. it is the best chocolate in the world.

that's 59 bars of galler chocolate goodness that I bought on an exchange in brussels right before I came home. my favorite is noix de coco [coconut]. I was telling my sister how I didn't know how I could go on with life knowing that this chocolate was only sold in belgium and I didn't live in belgium when she informed me that nowadays you can find just about anything on amazon.com. I decided this morning to check it out, and sure enough galler chocolate is most certainly on amazon.com. 

enjoi! [and order some galler]

my favorite dinner :)

my mother makes the greatest stuffed shells on the planet. the thoughts of eating these often occupied my dreams while I was away and I'm so grateful that she made them for me tonight :)

aren't they beautiful!? don't you wish you had a wonderful mother that would make them for you?! I decided to take the label off of one of the spaghetti sauce bottles and use it to make a crane!

labels from bottles or cans are easy to use UNLESS they have a sticky back. this label did, so I stuck it to a piece of paper and cut the edges. very simple :)

[notice how the plates are different colors...they are so good that I had to go back for seconds!]

enjoi!