Does anyone else feel the need to add this attraction as a must-see on your Bucket List? Uhhh, I do.

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I’m pretty sure I’m gonna die. Or I’m pregnant with twin unicorns. Holy belly cramps. There, the real emotion behind this post is out. Now on to bigger and better things.

Here was dinner last night. Probably didn’t help the current tum-tum issue:

Baked potato topped with hamburg gravy. The gravy took about 3 1/2 seconds to whip together, but the friggin’ spuds baked for an hour in the hot box before they were ready. (hot box. hahah).

No amazing stories to recount from last night. Other than the awesome fact that I got in bed around 7pm. Insert the ‘wah wuh” sound. Oh, but I do have the love turd recipe for everyone! Here goes:

1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
1 cup milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup butter (one stick, unless you’re in Canada, it’s 1/4 the BLOCK)
3/4 cup dark brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
4 egg whites
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 325 deg.
Line 8×8 baking pan with foil and spray with cooking spray
Melt chocolate and butter in sauce pan over medium low heat
Remove from heat
Whisk sugars into chocolate mixture. Add egg whites and vanilla. Mix until combined.
Stir in flour and salt until incorporated and pour batter in prepared pan.
Bake around 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean.
Let cool completely before cutting.

This recipe was adapted from here

After cooling, I topped them with some homemade icing that I learned from my mom. It’s a mixture of powdered sugar, melted butter, milk, and a splash of vanilla.

**This is the post to flag for Sunday if you want them sans the calories!!**

Now for your random reading pleasure:
Ok, anyone familiar with the color Cerulean (courtesy of Crayola)? For some reason, when I was younger and going through my tom-boy phase, that crayon what my favorite color. I pronounced it “sur-lean.” Cut to 10+ years later, and I’m sitting in my college dorm, coloring (because that’s how you get a degree) and exclaimed to my friends that “sur-lean’ was my favorite crayon of all time. (smirnoff and bud light may have contributed to my enthusiasm). Well, one of my friends boyfriend was there, and he immediately crushed all the rainbows and unicorns (wow, this is a unicorn-heavy post) in my life by quickly responding “Uh, Jen. It’s pronounced ‘sur-ill-e-un.” NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I was devastated. Anyways, the point of this story was that during my middle-of-the-night reading escapade, the book mentioned Cerulean. And I burst out laughing. Like a fool. Dog: awake. Boyfriend: awake. AND THEN, I fell into a deep slumber.

Anyone mispronounce things (on purpose)? I still refer to it as “sur-lean”

Big things, you guys. Big things.

1.)  Live! With Kelly is coming to Banff in April. See my header photo? That’s Banff. I practically live there. And since she tapes LIVE (the title gives it away, I think) AND since my days are free for the most part, I’mma try to score some tix! How awesome is that? Plus, I could hit up Saltlik again and get me a nice hunk o’ meat. (Not a bo-hunk of the oily variety, but an actual cut of filet mignon. Hard to tell the difference, so I thought I’d clarify).

2.)  RIP belly button ring (2003-2012). I have decided that I’m grown-up enough to get rid of my rebellious and youthful body art statement piece. Now if only tattoo removal was as painless and inexpensive…

3.)  I finally found that avocado I lost in my car. Good thing this blog is sans smell-o-vision. 

I find three points to be sufficient for a Monday morning post. Let me get my *ss in gear and I’ll check in later in the day with more awesome things.

 And by getting in gear, I mean buy dog food and foil and thaw a hunk of ground beef. Sa-weet.