Saturday night smile

Hey, look! There's the Taco Time sign.

You can't see the food but it
was a fabulous fast food experience.
I'll write more later. Take care!

Saturday

After eating dinner with my folks this evening at Taco Time, there was not
much to do (in this small town) except go to store, like all the other people
who go to the store, because there is not
much to do except go to store.
Maybe if I write that again it will be funnier--but I doubt it. haha...
which doesn't always mean I'm funny. But it does mean I'm joking.

Note: I decided to put the last post back to the original date it was posted. I'll do some more thinking on the topic and get back to you. Take care.

Halo-Halo for dessert

My version of Halo-Halo is a yummy dessert, even if it isn't
as delicious as Halo-Halo I ate in the Philippines.

It's been almost four years since I went there, so I'm trying to explore the memories as though they were a mini vacation.

"Remembering my favorite halo-halo or 'mix-mix' doesn't require much money-money, just a lot of imagination-imagination."

Yeah, I just quoted myself. haha

"Three" is for me. Three Bean Salad, that is

I love this meal... Couscous, Greek yogurt,
and Three Bean Salad.

Thursday afternoon, while I was driving around, I began to think about what would be good for supper. My first thought was to pick up a couple of hamburgers and find out which one tasted better.

I decided instead to eat couscous and the bean salad, which is tangy, due to the vinegar in it, and at the same time is slightly sweet, but not too much. This three bean salad was from a can. It tasted great, though the special three bean salad Mom makes using a recipe is even better.

I bought the foods and Mom helped do some cooking because I had already been quite busy preparing and frying ingredients for the dessert.

The couscous, from a box, only takes five minutes to cook on the stove. I especially liked eating this Greek yogurt with the couscous, which had pine nuts in it, because of the contrast of textures and flavors. There's protein in this meal and that makes me like it all the more.

I felt great after supper, though not too full. And, as I had planned, a little bit later I was ready to eat dessert. Sorry I can't share the dessert. However, I do have a photo which I'll post next time.

Blueberry pancakes are delicious for breakfast,
and dinner too. But today this blueberry pancake
with melted butter and syrup was my afternoon snack...
so I'd have enough energy to watch
another rerun of "The Beverly Hillbillies".
I love funny TV sitcoms like this one!

Caution: Be careful when making and eating
blueberry pancakes because the blueberries could become
very hot. I ate my pancake at the table, then went back
to watching the TV show.

Cheesecake

A taste of paradise!

One of my favorite foods is cheesecake. On my birthday or around that time in January, I like to eat cheesecake. Yes, I love cheesecake! Those of you who love cheesecake know what I mean -- and how delicious it is!! Just make sure you don't eat too much.

Just a short note. I decided to take off the most recent post or maybe make changes but not sure yet.

God bless President Barack Obama and the United States of America!!!

Delicious Shrimp Dinner!!

Shrimp with sweet and sour sauce, Thai
rice and sweet corn!

I can't take credit for the delicious dinner. Mom cooked this special meal on Monday for our family's early celebration -- the evening before the inauguration-- of our new president of the United States.

Fun winter treat!

One time this month when it snowed, I decided to eat Hostess "sno balls". There are two in a pack. The small marshmallow-and-coconut covered chocolate cakes (cream-filled) are a sweet snack. Each one is soft on the outside, and that's obvious when giving it a little squeeze. Hostess Sno Balls look like... well, a bit like real snowballs.

Although they could also remind many people of what they have been missing ...which is a dessert-snack for breakfast?! Yes, I mean fun! Good, clean fun! (Don't eat this if you can't eat sweets.) Not the kind of fun you have all night long, then in the morning eat a dessert-snack for breakfast before going to bed as the sun rises. No, absolutely not! But true, I am a man!

After dinner, I'll open another pair of Hostess Sno Balls, and share! Note: The word "pair" was used because it rhymed with "share". haha See you next time!

Morning coffee

These photos were taken one morning about a week and a half ago. They are a little blurry, sort of the way I'm thinking when I first wake up. These days I like to drink coffee when I'm writing or just doing some thinking. In my opinion, sugar and non-dairy powdered creamer help create a good tasting coffee drink. Of course, you might not like it that way and may prefer to stir in some half and half and not use sugar at all. I realize many people drink their coffee 'black' but that would bother my stomach.




When we drank this coffee, the holidays were over and it was Sunday morning. I still felt like having a good time, and did!

If you can't drink coffee for health reasons or just don't like coffee, don't drink it.

End snowball fights!!

Promote snowball fun?!
What?...Hey, stop it! I didn't mean that
kind of fun.

Two snowballs went on a roll, because they couldn't go for a walk. Yeah, I gave them a little toss onto the powdery snow that fell from the sky at the beginning of the week. Later, I tried to roll them down a snow pile, which didn't work out (one fell through...oops) and that sort of ended their 'togetherness' or whatever you call it. Anyway, this little story will end with a morning snack. No, not those snowballs, but it looked sort of like them.

Soda pop to celebrate the New Year

I celebrated the New Year with my favorite (no alcohol) soda drink of the 90's & early part of this decade: A mixture of Dr Pepper and Diet Coke. Maybe this year I'll go back to drinking pop that way, at least some of the time.

...and we were eating out

Before we went to the mall, Mom and I
went to this Carl's Jr. restaurant.

It was the best part about shopping because it wasn't shopping at all. I don't recall going to this location before, but maybe I did. My snack was Carl's Jr. CrissCut Fries dipped in their House dressing. I also ate the waffle-like fries with Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake on Election Night, back in November. Obama won! Oh yeah, you already knew that. He will be president in a couple of weeks.

It's gonna be Obama week on this blog soon. I'm not sure what will be posted for the celebration. Health food?! Really? Not sure. I'm getting nervous. Me? Health conscious? Sometimes. Yeah, you don't know me all that well. Ok, I'll try to eat a square meal, or something, instead of a round meal, like waffles. But I do love those round meals. Yum! haha

Next time, I'll be thinking like a guy doing some 'serious' thinking, and in this definition of serious I mean less joking around though still sprinkling in some silliness, goofiness and just being me.

To be quite honest, I'm not sure what any of this means, except if you find it to be worth 'nothing', don't forget that this is a free blog. My price is zero. That brings up my favorite candy bar of the ones I can't always find in stores. The Zero candy bar. It was among the sweets I posted last month.

Zero is also the number of regular-season wins my Detroit Lions had in 2008. When I write "my" in front of a team, I'm not saying I own it, but rather it's one of my favorite teams, to the point of needing another 'man-definition' of the word "love" (oftentimes a word for sissies--I'm joking, ladies-- but dudes, here it's cool) coz it's loyalty to a football team. We want our teams to win a championship every year, but of course that doesn't happen. Not every year. And sometimes not for a long, long time. I won't say never. And you too... never say that word. Ok, I've said it before. But it makes me unhappy.

Actually, my two favorite teams the longest have been the Washington Redskins and (starting some years later) the New York Jets, about the same time I started liking the Lions. I would say the Redskins are my number one favorite team, followed by the Jets and Lions. Those three teams didn't make the playoffs this time. I could go on and on about what they did wrong or didn't do right, though let's just say the teams that reached the playoffs are better. Let me change the subject.

Dating might be a topic in the near future (but of course it's mostly me kidding around about a subject I know little about, if my recent results matter), and while that has nothing to do with fast food or football, it's one of things on my mind when I'm eating fast food. And it goes without saying I'm more successful at eating fast food than choosing a fave team or finding a date. (I mean meeting in person for a date to the movies or dining, not chatting on the Internet.) Heck, dating--or the lack of it--can be frustrating but it's not the end of the world.

I'm nice, funny and in pretty good shape for a guy whose one team had an 0-16 record and who most of the time can't even get a gal to meet him for coffee.

Snowballs

They are not going steady.

After the holidays I found out this Carl's Jr.
restaurant was open on the holidays.

The red sign with white letters that said so was still in the window on Saturday when Mom and I stopped in for something to eat. I had a snack and Mom ate lunch. We agreed the food was yummy! Then we went to a shopping mall and I ate my supper at a food court.

My Favorite Chicken Sandwich of '08

My choice for Best-tasting chicken sandwich
in 2008: Arby's Chicken Cordon Bleu

Well, actually it was the second time
I ate this Arby's chicken sandwich -- in the last three days.
The photo is of my New Year's Day dinner this evening.

The Cheddar Curly Fries added even more great flavor to what I feel was one of my favorite fast-food meals in 2008. Oh yeah, I'm talking about the previous time I ate the sandwich and fries, on the 30th of December, when I treated Mom and Dad to lunch.

Yeah, technically I'm writing, not talking but if you were here, I'd be speaking with you like I am writing now, so it's sort of like we are together, even though we're not... but we can still be friends, right? Cool! Take care!

Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year!!!

It's New Year's Eve (morning) as I write this entry! Perhaps you are reading this entry on New Year's Day. Or maybe it's the next day or week. In that case, have a happy, healthy, successful and caring 2009!

Today, like some other days only more so, I'm going to eat a yummy food and then I'll eat another yummy food, and then... well, I don't know... Rampai, what should I do next?

Rampai, I really appreciate you as my friend. The meal you ate last week looked so delicious, especially the ice cream. I have a lot of fun when I read Rampai's excellent blog. Rampai's dog, Teta, is so cute and really likes to show off for the camera. haha

Today would be a good day for me to go to the store and buy some tea, food, etc. Hmm... let me think, what kind of tea should I buy? I remember now... Okky wrote a great article about Rooibos tea!

Okky is a friend of mine through blogging, because we know each other through reading each other's blogs part of this year. He's a nice guy! I am really thankful for his kindness to me. Okky's outstanding blog helps people feel happy and enjoy their time online much more.

Thank you for being my friends, Rampai and Okky!!

Merry Christmas to you!
I hope you have a great day!

Happy Holidays!!!

After-Midnight Christmas Party

Just look at this plate full of tempting
sweets!

In a previous post, I featured some of my favorite foods to snack on, eat for dessert or breakfast. Here is a portion of those candy bars, little cakes, cookies, brownie, and Philippine dried mangoes.... all looking so delicious! I treated Mom and Dad to this holiday dessert party. They had just gotten out of a Christmas Eve church service and I woke up about an hour earlier, because I went to sleep shortly after dinner.

After I cut the sweets and divided them equally, we ate what we could (saving some for later) and we drank coffee too. I had a lot of fun!

Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas!!!

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Merry Christmas!!! Merry Christmas!!! Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas!!! Merry Christmas!!! Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas!!! Merry Christmas!!! Merry Christmas!!!

Sheet of ice

I did some late night Christmas shopping on Tuesday and returned from the store around midnight. The big patch of ice on this street looks like shiny glass. It could be dangerous if drivers don't slow down. Please be careful when driving this winter especially if you have ice and snow on the roads in your area. Take care!

Winter is cold

I took this photo of the icicles early on Monday. About the same time this morning, I went outside to see if they were still there and they looked just as beautiful as the day before. So I snapped a few more photos.

December morning

Icicles

Snow and more snow

This photo is a little blue, and that also describes my feelings. It was morning and the sun wasn't high enough to provide much light. Dolly ran my direction at just the right moment to get her picture taken. I like action photos!

Sunday morning, the ground outside was covered with snow. But that's nothing compared to what the ground looked like by the end of the day. I was told we got a certain number of inches of snow but I don't know for sure the exact amount. Let's just say, umm... way too much to get out of the driveway and drive safely around town to go Christmas shopping.

Lucky for me, I went to a couple of grocery stores and bought some yummy goodies on Saturday night. Just look at the photo below. When I came out of one store, there were snowflakes floating down onto the parking lot and vehicles. I did snap a couple of photos but they weren't all that impressive. The little bit of snow didn't stop me from going to a convenience store at a local gas station for more foods I probably shouldn't eat... Oh yes I should. It's almost Christmas! I'm going to have some fun!

Starting the holiday fun now

These are some of my favorite treats especially
in recent years. On Saturday night, I bought all that's in the photo. I could call it snack food or dessert, but I have also eaten some of these sweets for breakfast. Not the whole breakfast, but part of it. The appetizer part.

I'm ready to get the holiday fun started right away. Anyone want to join me? If you were here, of course I would share, and also
ask you: Where are you gonna buy the ice cream for us to eat?

Hi

I took this picture tonight using the webcam.
Yeah, it's me! The "cute guy" pic in a previous
post... yup! that was me too.... Always make sure
to tell yourself something you like about yourself
because it's wonderful to be who you are and who
God made you. Take care!

Snow photo

No matter which way I turned

the photo, I didn't see the word: FOOD!

But that doesn't mean anything.

Recent pic

Cute guy on a cam! haha

Voted Early, Ate Fast Food Earlier

About two and a half weeks before Election Day, I went in search of fast food. It was Friday afternoon. Shortly after eating my snacks, which for me was a small meal, I decided to vote because I had received my ballot in the mail. It was a great Friday evening because I voted for Barack Obama, who is President-elect and will be our president in two months.

This isn't a blog about politics. But like I said before, the topics that guys-- hanging out eating fast food-- talk about will also be brought up once in a while.

Anyway, I ate my snacks first. No, I wasn't all that hungry but did need something to eat. Good thing the local Burger King and McDonald's restaurants are very close together. I went to the two drive-thrus and then back to the place. I was glad to have my own choice of menu items from McDonald's and Burger King. It was my type of combo-snack, with foods I like.

Did they get along? you say. Huh?! It's food! Did you think fast foods would be debating each other? I sure hope in my nightmares fast foods don't go into politics. That would be too scary. But it's probably what I get for voting and eating fast food on the same day and writing about both topics in the same post. haha

Election Night: Obama wins!

Congratulations to President-Elect Barack Obama!

Tuesday evening, I decided to put on a dress shirt and tie and went in search of a party. I voted for Barack Obama and wanted to go to an election victory party!

It would have been a good choice to drive to the big city but I had to wake up early the next morning. So I didn't. Instead, I found a local party but it seemed like a different group, and possibly in the wrong dimension. I'm joking. It was our dimension... just wasn't an Obama victory party, as far as I could tell.

Thank goodness for fast food. I decided to get some. When I eat it, I usually know what it's going to taste like. I bought a fast-food snack and a little bit later listened to the radio at the exact moment Obama reached the number of electoral votes needed to win the presidential election. Wow! That's great!

It would have been more fun to celebrate at a party, but I'll find some way to keep celebrating all weekend. Maybe I'll even see some people. But they better like a guy in a blue t-shirt. That's what I'll be wearing. Unless I'm wearing the green one. I don't want to wear out my ties. haha

I'm Scott, and on Tuesday I was...

Looking for an Election Night Party!

Bright Side of Fast Food

We hung out at Burgerville.

Cameras don't have feelings, as far as I know. But there are times when this digital camera does capture my feelings even though I cannot express them in words. For example, the night I got together with my best friend, especially when it comes to talking about sports, singles activities, and meeting gals who like to talk sports at singles activities. haha I'm joking about the last one, but I wouldn't mind if it came true.

I wasn't trying to change the world that night. But I was hungry and wanted to eat something. So I asked my buddy to go with me to Burgerville, a fast-food restaurant located near where the dance was taking place.

After I ordered a milkshake, we sat down and talked for a while before I realized they hadn't brought it to my table. I walked back to the counter and saw it there, melting a little, but that didn't matter to me because it was a good milkshake.

We didn't stay there long because we were going to a dance just down the street. I don't recall dancing, but I did a lot of talking, and listening too. Instead of staying until the end of the dance, three of us decided to leave a bit early and went over to Burgerville. That was my idea. Guess you probably figured that out! haha

Had some fun!

This picture was taken last month in Portland, close to the fast food restaurant where I went with a buddy. The Oregon Convention Center is in the background. We met in that area, walked to the restaurant and hung out there for a short time. I was getting hungry. (Yeah, it does seem like food is all I care about, but it's just not true.) My hunger was due to not eating much that day, though I did later.

Hello. It's Friday! Time for something good to eat, and then post the pics. (I'll post the pictures this afternoon.) I went to Wendy's for chicken sandwiches and french fries around 11 a.m. today and made it easy on myself by using the drive-thru. Wish you could have been here. Enjoy the weekend!

It's Fry-Day! I mean Friday.

Chicken sandwiches and french fries
from the local Wendy's

I only ate the equivalent of one sandwich and less than half of the fries. My goal is to stay trim but still have fun eating with friends and family on special occasions. Like fry-day! I mean Friday! Anyway, take it easy. Eat something and think of me; I'll do the same. haha

So, maybe your dog's stomach thinks it owns you, too?!

"Chicken and fries are mine!"

"Hey, who said that?"

Well, man and his best friend think alike. But if you said "Man wins again!" ...Thanks for the vote of confidence! Note: The dog doesn't get much food we eat, but (shhhh... quiet!) don't anyone tell her she's only a dog.