1. sweet paprika in my homefries
   
2. my new pocket camera and how i justified getting it
   
3. the air in the alley that smelled like fall this morning
4. our new realtor who is going to find us a house we love and can afford
   
5. still getting congratulated by strangers for being recently married
6. hearing from and being surprised by old friends on facebook
7. randomly meeting and making new friends on a barstool
8. clean fresh sheets on the bed, and how they equal a good night’s sleep
   
9. memoires and autobiographies, and how everyone seems so fascinating
   
10. actually being excited about getting my money (and lack of) under control
    

tonight i received a call from an unknown number, and did what most people do, let it go to voicemail.  it’s a good thing!  now i can replay the wonderful message from moxie’s ice cream in wynantskill, ny, letting me know that I GUESSED THE MYSTERY FLAVOR on national ice cream day!  me!  lil ole nene!  

it was sweet potato and it tasted pretty awful.  i love sweet potatoes, in fact we grilled a few up for dinner tonight.  the moxie’s gal totally tried to psych me out when she went around the table asking our guesses.  she responded to my sweet potato with an “oh, yah think so?”  in fact, her response made me doubt myself, and i went back to fill out another form that said carrot.  how dare she psych me out!  i’m gonna give her a piece of my mind when i pick up that prize later this week.  and by piece of my mind, i mean high five.

i sure am glad we blew off the demolition derby for national ice cream day!

i hope everyone enjoyed national ice cream day!  we celebrated in style with the llamas hanging out at moxie’s in wynantskill, ny.  check out more photos on my flickr.  i treated myself to a sundae this year, and went with a hot fudge on black cherry.  perfect on a steamy sunday afternoon.  the sunday sundae!

the county fair is happening this week, and i’m looking forward to checkin’ out the demolition derby on sunday night.  no demolition derby is complete without cheese fries, cheap booze, and some mud on your face (and hopefully not on the camera lens).  maybe this year a team skfl nene airbrush t-shirt is in order.  ooh!

at that point, it was the best day i had ever known.  i went to my grandma mac’s house and baked a cookie the size of my head.  and it was all mine!  i don’t remember eating it.  i do remember baking it and posing for this photo.  today my mom sent us the above and below photos.  apparently food is what really makes me shine.  hee hee.  glad i look less like a boy on our wedding day!  here’s to good times!