Might as well be Nebraska

I’ve only been in Lincoln, CA for 2 days but I’ve already been attacked by wild turkeys and I’ve gained 5lbs eating the most amazing cupcakes ever. It’s been an eventful weekend.

So my Bestie, (aka BFF, Buffy, Becca) lives out in the country in Nor Cal and we came for a little visit. By country, I mean country. There are roosters crowing at dawn and people have legit reasons to wear cowboy boots. We’ve taken a million pictures that I will post later of hilarious things like my 3 year old riding a motorized jeep totally naked and my husband putting a carrot in his pants at the dinner table (don’t ask). All I know is that 6 bottles of wine have magically disappeared and so did a dozen cupcakes (see below). Good times.

You see that sticker that says “I’m all yours!”….yeah that was just a cruel joke because we had to share these with the 4 little people in the house. After sampling all of them, I would say the mint chocolate was my favorite. If you live in the area, go to Icing on the Cupcake and enjoy.

While here, I’ve learned a few things. First,  I’ve learned that fruit has multiple purposes:

This picture of my lovely husband might be more explainable if it would have involved the aforementioned wine. As you can see however, it was broad daylight and the drinking had not yet begun. Although today may be the day we engage in daytime drinking because it is supposed to be like 100 and something-ridiculous-degrees here today. And in my opinion, if you’re going to be sweaty then you might as well be drunk. I learned that in Mexico. Mexico also taught me that if you are wearing a bikini it is best not to get on the mechanical bull. Actually, it is best just not to get on the mechanical bull at all. Yeah.

So, it turns out that the Costco in Roseville is pretty much heaven on earth. It’s huge and it really met all of my bulk shopping needs. Also, did you know that if you skip a meal and eat a cookie you will look like a movie star?

I didn’t buy these “Hollywood Cookies” but I’m pretty sure that I already know about the “eating cookies instead of real food diet” – in fact, I could probably write that book. Oddly, I never found it to be particularly helpful for loosing weight.

Today we are going to go to a fruit stand and I might go back to Costco to see if I can find something else that I can buy 500 of in order to save money. Once again, that’s “Jenn math” or what I like to call “math for political science majors.” Alright, I have a turkey to chase so I will be going now. People there are real wild turkeys here, I’m not talking about the drink.

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