So it's been about 5 weeks since I last updated the blog! I'm going to work hard in the next few months to stay on top of updating, but there hasn't been a whole lot of interesting going on lately, so I guess it was easy to ignore blogging. I do have a few updates to make, though, so we'll begin with something small.
We have an iPad and have downloaded something called "The Game for Cats" for $2. Basically it's a cheese background with a mouse that flits across the screen that squeaks when you touch him. The 3 cats go NUTS for it. Every time you hit the mouser, you get 100 points. Keebler smacks the iPad like nobody's business and once in a 30 minutes span racked up 50,000 points. And we always poke fun of him for being simple! He's master and commander of the mouse game! Max overthinks the game a little bit because every time the mouse isn't on the screen he assumes it's under the iPad. He's constantly digging his paws (claws up!) under our device trying to get the mouse, but all he does is scratch up our case. Oh well...it's not going to last forever! Most of Max's points come from putting his face too close to the iPad and head-butting at the mouse as it moves across the screen. Tiger is content to just be entranced watching the mouse, although he'll sometimes slap at it.
This game was probably the best $2 I've ever spent. I like to fold laundry on our bed and each cat likes to systematically join me to "help" (usually that involves Max laying on my piles of laundry and Keebler knocking them over), so all I have to do is grab the iPad and they are entertained forever. We put out the iPad while packing for our trip to DC earlier this month, which is where the pictures are from.
Forgive the ugly blue blanket...we pile on the comforters when it's cold out!
From these two photos, you can clearly see that Max likes to hog the iPad when the mouse game is on it. He's also taken to wanting to be all up in your business with any device someone might pull out now...a phone, an iPad mini, a laptop, etc...all because he thinks there are games on there he can play. When I'm surfing the internet on our iPad and he's on my lap, I'm not surprised if he swats at the screen randomly.
Actually, he's sitting on my lap as I blog on the desktop, wanting to play with the computer keys. It might not be such a bad idea to get the iPad now!
As many of you know, we live very near campus and when we take walks when it's nice outside, we do like to walk down that way. It makes total sense to us since there are sidewalks and the area is nicely lit (not like most streets near us). The other day we were cold so we walked through some buildings and we happened through LaFollette, the largest dorm on campus that also has classrooms, 3 dining areas, and the Housing Offices on the lower level. They have an all-you-can-eat buffet there, and man, did it smell wonderful! We began talking about all the times we ate there, which was severely unbalanced! Kyle lived near LaFollette and naturally ate there more often than I did since it was such a hike from both of the dorms I lived in during my two years on campus. He reminisced about how his first year he would stop in at the buffet an average of three times a week to get an amazing breakfast all for a price lower than $4.
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Then we got this great idea:
Why don't WE do a breakfast date sometime soon and go to breakfast buffet in LaFollette? The longer we talked about it, the more appealing it sounded! And since we had President's Day off today (thank you Lord for built-in snow days!), we had the perfect opportunity to see our plan through! We would sleep in really late (like we did in college), maybe shower (we didn't do that before going to breakfast in college), walk to the buffet (we walked everywhere in college), roll in to breakfast in our pajamas (we didn't get dressed often in college either), eat our way through AT LEAST four plates apiece (we could totally do that in college), and come home to crash in our food coma (happened more than I'd like to admit in college). We might put on a couple pounds today (that happened all the time in college, too!), but it would be worth it! Plus, we could sit at our table totally alone and make fun of the sad Ball State suckers who had to go to class today.
Well, the plan didn't exactly work out the way we wanted it to. I mean, we made it to breakfast, but 7:00 is way oversleeping for me nowadays, so that's when I got up. And we felt pretty disgusting, so we showered before we went. Annnnndddd...apparently we're too adult now to go out in our pajamas, although I really would have liked to. Plus when we were in college, we must have been pretty weathered, because as soon as I saw how cold it was this morning online, I begged to drive the car to breakfast. We got there with more than an hour of breakfast left, which is NOT how it usually went when we lived on campus!
And then the worst thing happened....
...I forgot how to eat at the buffet!
Let me explain: when we lived there, I knew where the plates were. Where they kept the ketchup, the syrup, the glasses, etc. I forgot where the tray return was! I realized when we walked in that I had forgotten all of these things! Okay, it has been about four years since I've eaten there, but really? I felt pretty dang stupid, but luckily Kyle had a lot more experience and could vaguely remember how the process worked. Except for the part where he almost let me go through the line backwards. What a meanie.
It was heavenly, though! I still had my four plates, although the last two were only a quarter-filled, but I think it counted. Between the two of us, we had doughnuts, homemade waffles, fruit, French toast, sausage, eggs, hash browns, biscuits, gravy, and about eighty glasses of orange juice. And we DID make fun of the college kids who were doing homework at breakfast. And we also got to listen to some interesting conversations from neighboring tables, one of which included a guy photoshopping a butthole over a friend's face and posting it to facebook somehow. It was a very interesting trip.
And we ran like mad out of the buffet to make sure our meter didn't run out because we remember VERY well how quickly university police make rounds (2 minutes left...success!). We came home and passed out to take a 3 hour nap. My food baby is only just now settling down.
We should do this over spring break, too....
