i don't know why i go for ice cream

mood: it's 3 in the morning...
music: 3 AM, Matchbox Twenty
random word: ice cream

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cata and i would just like to say that we have had the best day ever. and that this is a joint blog. just to clear that up...

first, despite minor difficulties with the tollbooth, and the distance between it and her car, cata did NOT get lost on her way to my house. she got here in wonderful timing for dinner, which involved very slippery noodles and stir fry. It was almost like old times. Almost. Excpet there were no chopsticks. And the noodles were slippery. And there was no Suite I. The thought of eating noodles together once again was almost perfect. Except the noodles fell off my fork. aaaaaaand it's bedtime for cata.
not if i have anything to say about it. and clearly i do. i just stole the keyboard. and the stage... ja!

anyway, we decided that we were going to go see a movie. the break-up. which started at 8:20 and was about 20 minutes away. but, then, at around 7:40 we decided the best idea of the night would be for me to play "piano man" on the piano (as i have been practicing it oh-so-hard recently) and for cata to play on my flute! half an hour later, we realized we had to make it to the movie... but it was all ok. because if we had been doing anything other than being the piano man in a joint effort instead of driving to the movies in a timely manner, i would have been very upset with both of us. but we could not very well interrupt our musical climax for a mere motion picture featuring jennifer aniston and vince vaughn. so it was ok.

well, then came the part where becky knows nothing about her "home" town. we got to the mall at about 8:18, and proceeded to drive all around it, to the other end of the mall (nowhere near the movie theaters, apparently). we almost stayed in the car to listen to "highway to hell", but decided we should probably find the movie theater instead. after successfully locating the portal into the mall we sought a location device. the map was split into upper and lower levels of the mall. i stared at it for about 2 minutes, a perplexed (cata just wrote perflexed instead of perplexed!! dan! it's a linguistic moment!) dazed look upon my face. "what's in this space here?" i asked becky, using my finger to indicate the region between the 2 floors which were drawn next to each other considering the 2-dimensional condition of the map. "Is it just like an abyss of nothingness? How do we get accross it?" "That," Becky responded, "is because the mall is on 2 floors." I thought she was a genius. Until she took us in the wrong direction down the other end of the mall... right. so, um, after deciding teleportation across the abyss was impossible, i may have led us in the wrong direction and we may have gone across half the mall before realizing it. BUT, regardless, we turned around, got to the movie theaters at around 8:30, and managed to make it into the theater just as the opening credits rolled. and yes, we did have time to buy an all-too-large bag of popcorn. A huge-ass bag of popcorn that i am slightly shamed to say I could not even finish. it was unbelievable. i do believe i've met my match. until we came home at like 11:00 and decided it would be a phenomenal idea to make these enormous sundaes. yeah. and after that i ate half the bag of m&m's.

So who wants to hear the best idea of the... what's bigger than century? MILLENIUM!!! After enjoying our most delicous sundaes, we figured it was necessary to open our ice cream shop. First, we rejected ideas such as "Cata's Candy Shop, and Becky too!" and "Sweet Eden", specializing in chocolate apples, we were feeling much more creative. And we had 2 ideas. our first shop will be called the "Choose Your Own Adventure Sweets". Your ice cream flavor, choice of dish/cone and all the toppings you choose will lead you to a personalized and creative story adventure. We haven't worked out all the kinks yet, but trust us, it will be a hit. And we have already drafted all of you to help us write the adventures. ;) our second idea was much more completed... the name of the shop: "Brenda and Eddie's"....see below:

“A nice white dress and a party on your confirmation” = Vanilla ice cream with strawberry sauce, strawberries, pieces of shortbread, and whipped cream

“The stranger” = Forbidden chocolate ice cream with dark chocolate chunks, cherry sauce and chocolate coated walnuts

“Don Perignon in your hand and a spoon up your nose” = Coffee ice cream with mocha sauce, toffee bits and white chocolate chunks

“Stand-up routine in LA” = Black raspberry ice cream and hot fudge, with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles

“We didn’t start the fire” = Vanilla ice cream with bits of red hots

“They cut it down to 3:05” = Vanilla ice cream with peanut butter sauce and hot fudge, Reeses Pieces and whipped cream

“Living in her white bread world” = Vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream with whipped cream

“Just a fantasy” = Mint ice cream with chocolate chunks, hot fudge and whipped cream

“Drown our doubts in dry champagne” = Cheesecake ice cream, hot fudge, strawberries

“Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood” = Coconut ice cream, pineapple sauce, shortbread and coconut

“A bottle of red, a bottle of white” = Vanilla ice cream, cherry sauce and dark chocolate chunks

“Tradin’ in his Chevy for a Cadillac-ac-ac-ac-ac” = Sweet cream and Forbidden Chocolate ice creams, with bananas, hot fudge and caramel

“Dream how wonderful your life will be” = Chocolate ice cream with marshmallow sauce and chocolate sprinkles

“His age and his size took the teller by surprise” = Vanilla ice cream with hot fudge and M&M’s

“Crazy Latin dancing solo down in Herald Square” = Strawberry ice cream with pineapple sauce and bananas

“Through a valley of fear to a river so deep” = Sweet cream ice cream with blueberry sauce and walnuts

“My pointless point of view” = Cake batter ice cream with Oreo and brownie bits

“Guess you’d rather be a martyr tonight” = Chocolate ice cream with peanut butter sauce and Reeses cups

“Flames were everywhere but no one really cared” = Forbidden chocolate ice cream with red hots and brownie bits

“9:00 on a Saturday” = Vanilla ice cream with hot fudge and walnuts

and the fact that you're all still reading right now is the reason that i love you.
p.s. patent pending. you steal, you die a chocolately death.

peas and carrots signing off.