Death by Starbucks

Hi,

I'm so annoyed.

Starbucks just opened up in front of my workplace three weeks ago. I was really good on the first week. No macchiatos, no frappuccinos, nothing! That's pretty good considering they are right across the street from where I work ...no more than 10 steps away (20 for little people like me). Every morning is a temptation.

I was doing soooo well that last week I decided to treat myself with a macchiato. And boy was that ever a delicious idea, even more so when they gave me double samples of their quadruple fudge brownie. No worries, they were low-fat.

They must have put something in their fudge because I keep coming back. Yesterday, I purchased a tall macchiato and an F3 - fruit, flax and fibre scone. I thought that that would cancel out the macchiato (in terms of calories), but then again, the scone was enormous!! It should have been called F3 - fat to the power of 3. I went to Starbucks again this morning even though I wasn't hungry. Right then I realized that they got me good. And that's when I said, "Hey, hey, hey hey, what's going on???!!!"

So I bought a tall no sugar non-fat hazelnut latte and another F3. I can play tough. They can have my money, but my goodness, they're not going to make me fat. But somehow, they've detected my strategy. The lady had 'mistakenly' given me a cinnamon swirl. I went back to tell them that they gave me the wrong pastry and so the guy gave me my F3. Just as I was about to do the exchange and tell him that he can take that cinnamon swirl and shove it up his _____ , he said with a plastic grin, "Oh, you can keep the swirl". I said, "Okay!" and skipped out of Starbucks.

So here I am, writing this blog, eating my scone and cinnamon swirl, making sure that the crumbs aren't falling in between the keys on my keyboard, and washing it down with my $5 coffee. Oh splenda.

The moral of the story is, too bad people are not coffees. Because then people would call me tall.

Okay bye,
Bless

PS: I'm get-ting mar-ried, na na-na boo-boo! Pfffbbbttttt.

WE WON!!!!

Hello all,

Well Bless and I entered a hotdog eating contest and managed a win last night! It was a couples thing, where you combined the number of dogs you and your partner could eat in 5 minutes, and we thought it sounded like fun so we entered at the last minute.

Well it started off with last year's winners (a German couple) packing away 18 dogs! And I didn't think we had a chance. The next few couples didn't really show much competition with one out of the five groups eating over 10. So then we were up. The way it was set up, was that one partner went first while the other cheered on, and then at the halfway marker, you switch it up and continue. Well we decided that Bless should go first and she ate as many as she could in her 2.5 minutes. I was next and I was only able to eat 3 dogs, but that was enough to put us to 19 and give us the win!!!

We're going to use our winnings to pay for a gym membership.

Stay tuned,
Brent.

Upset at the Dome

Hello again,

Well last night saw the end of the play-offs in our volleyball league and I have to say that the whole team was outstanding. We started the night off needing to win all our matches to win first place and after a stunning come back in the first match, we were off to the finals. The first game was a bit rough as we needed to adjust to the other teams 5-1 strategy, but once we did we fought hard and it was a close game. The second game however saw us dominating and we thought we would win for sure. Unfortunately, some critical errors were made and the other team stepped it up a notch. After some of the best volleyball I think any of us has played to date we narrowly lost the match 24-25. Oh sweet and low!

Anyway, we're only playing sand volleyball now and I'll let you know how that drama plays out.

later,
Brent.

PS- Bless and I are busy and excited about wedding stuff and we are looking at a late Nov, early Dec 2007 for the date. Oh lord, what have I done?!?

Good news and bad news...

Hello again,

Well there is some good news and some bad news on the Brent and Bless front. Lets start with the bad... apparently I have suffered some brain damage and for some insane reason I asked Bless to marry me. The good news is that she also suffers from the same affliction and said "YES." So that's right boys and girls, we are one step closer to completing our plan of world dominance and the creation of a superior race.

So spread the news and start saving for a present, because if there is one thing about both of us, its that we don't like cheap crap!

Praise be to Xenu,
Brent.

Thanks for your donation!

Brent and I would like to express our thanks to Natalie for her donation to our 1st Annual Yarn Fundraiser 2006. She donated a total of 28 cm of yarn: 18 cm of blue and 10 cm of cosmic plum -- by the way, where did you get this? I love the colour!!

Thanks to her generous donation, we have finally reached our goal! We hope next year's event will be just as fun and successful!

Welcome to the Launch of the WWBB!!!

Hello everyone,

Well this is the official launch of the Wonderful World of Brent and Bless (WWBB), and I just wanted to give everybody an update on how things are going.

First of all, Bless and I just got back from a great camping/surfing trip in Tofino and I just have to say that we are one amazing couple. Four days of being with each other and not once did we even come close to having a fight! Wow!

On the trip we made a surf movie titled "Surf Boogie" so look for that in theatres soon (or watch it at my place on DVD).

Anyway, I need to get back to work so I'll sign off, but look forward to many more fabulous posts.

Later skater,
Brent.