Frozen Friday: Take 4

Things are finally starting to settle a bit... and by settle, I mean I'm getting back in the swing of 12+ hour days, 6 days a week. The adjustment has been slow (by my terms) and somewhat arduous. Who knew that taking 2.5 months off work and everything would throw me off my work mojo so badly?

Alas, there is no time for whining. Things are going well and it's hard to believe I'm about to start the fourth week of the semester.

Of course, if a new week is starting that means a few days ago I had... Frozen Friday!!!

The truth about this week is that I totally had ice cream on Wednesday and Friday. On Wednesday I went to the Creamery with one of my classmates... and had the Death by Chocolate. That ice cream is going to be my ultimate vice, I can already tell. Then, on Friday, I had Apple Cobbler Crunch.

If you like apple pie, then Apple Cobble Crunch is pretty much the way to go. Per the Creamery site, this awesomeness is cinnamon apple flavored ice cream with pie pieces and apple sauce swirl. Um, YUM. I don't even really like apple pie and I really enjoyed this ice cream. There are, quite literally, chunks of pie crust in the ice cream. The apple sauce is mixed in such a way that you get these bursts of appley goodness. Mmm. Yum nom nom.


On that note, back to work. I have procrastinated enough!


- Mel(li) :)

Frozen Friday: Take 3 and PSU Football

I'm late on the Frozen Friday update, so this is a combined Frozen Friday and ZOMG I WENT TO A FOOTBALL GAME post.

First thing's first: Ice cream. After last week's terrible predicament, in which I had to pick between Death by Chocolate and Espresso Fudge pie, I decided to make the logical ice cream choice this week. I went with the Espresso Fudge Pie. The name really doesn't give away anything about the flavor itself. Per the Creamery site, Espresso Fudge Pie is coffee cinnamon flavored ice cream with espresso fudge pie mix and fudge swirl. All I know is that what I got had chocolate chunks and I have no idea where the fudge pie mix was, BUT... holy hell was it good! My first thought at the sight of "coffee cinnamon flavored" was something akin to, "coffee huh?" I wasn't sure how I felt about that combo, but I'm now a fan. The cinnamon was ever so slightly present, so it really gave the ice cream this awesome, deep flavor. (I've been watching too much No Reservations to be talking like this.) Apparently I'm also in love with their fudge swirl... if it's the same thing that was in the Death by Chocolate, which I'm sure it was, then fill up a bath tub with that stuff and call me Happy.


Other than the ice cream, things have been OK. Both of my computers decided to act stupid this weekend, and one of them had to be fully restored. (Poor Molly Mini.) This put me back a bit, but such is life... a game of catch up.


More exciting is that I went to my first Penn State football game. (Hey, Keverz. BOOOO, YSU!!) It was kind of unreal and hard to describe. For you USFers, imagine the mall parking lot times three or four (size wise). Imagine hundreds of RVs and campers... people who set up entire living rooms, complete with icicle lights, fluffy chairs, and even stand-alone DirecTV dishes. Prior to the game the sheer mass of people was a bit disorienting, which says something considering about 20k people showed up somewhere between the first and second quarters. Announced attendance was 101,000; not capacity. One thing I found humorous is that you can pick out JoePa no matter where he is on the sidelines. As far as I could tell, there's no beer in the stadium (noooOOOooOo). They use songs that I'm used to hearing at Bulls games, so I pretty much sat there humming my little USF heart out at completely inopportune moments. Worst part of the game? The Blue Band made the afternoon imperfect by doing a Star Trek themed halftime show... complete with a Starship Enterprise formation. Blargh!! (OK, so it was really awesome, but I have Star Wars loyalties to remain true to.)


Anyway, that's it. I have to get back to the mountain of work that sits waiting for me.

If you're on Facebook, I'll post some pictures soon!


- Mel(li) :)