Hey, hi, hello, and happy Thinking Out Loud Thursday! Much thanks to Amanda for the wonderful opportunity to do a little rambling as the week and my ability to focus on one thing come to an end 🙂
1.) As much as I love writing letters, I hate shopping for cards. They’re (almost) all too mushy, cheesy, stupid, or age-inappropriate. Can this tradition please go away? I’ll write you a letter whenever you want one, but please don’t ask me for a greeting card. Please.
2.) I had yesterday off work and the weather was beautiful. My mom and I decided to head downtown in the afternoon and wander around the Short North. Basically, it’s a bunch of neat little galleries and shops and restaurants and it was a really nice, relaxing outing. We admired some art, took some pictures, and window-shopped.
3.) Oh, and we saw this sign.
Truth.
4.) Also part of the Short North area? North Market.
We wandered around there, as well. North Market houses a ton of vendors of fresh, local food. Some act as restaurants or sell prepared food, but you can also buy spices, local meat, cheese, produce, and flowers. Such a cool place.
5.) Naturally, we needed to have lunch there. It was tough to decide where to eat, but after circling the market twice we finally settled on Holy Smoke BBQ.
Pulled pork and chicken sliders, four kinds of barbecue sauce, and the best homemade potato chips I’ve ever had. I’m not usually the biggest chip person – I totally can eat just one – but these were crazy addictive. Demolished. And followed up by Jeni’s.
I had raspberry sorbet and bourbon salted pecan (with a sweet waffle cone chip!). The sorbet tasted exactly like frozen raspberries and was somehow super creamy. Sorbets usually have an icy quality, but not Jeni’s. And the salted pecan? Let’s just say it was incredible enough for me to choose it over my favorite darkest chocolate. It’s big when I choose anything over chocolate.
6.) My dog shows almost no interest in me when I get home and it’s kind of mean.
I walk in. She tries to go outside, but I prevent that because she absolutely will run away, if only for a short time. She turns away from me and sits directly in front of the door because it’s my mom she cares about. It makes me feel (un)loved.
You know, until she proceeds to lick my legs and dance around me while I put my shoes on to take her outside. That makes me feel loved.
7.) I was out and about yesterday and swung by Target (again) to pick up the conditioner I forgot. I’m kind of glad I forgot it because I got to witness such a sweet mother-daughter moment.
And I think I’ll end on that note. That’s a happy way to end. 🙂
How do you feel about greeting cards?
Any other thoughts on this lovely Thursday?
I’m with you on the cheesy cards! My family tends to go for as simple as can be, with nothing written on the inside. I LOVE writing letters- it’s actually how I pass the time when I cannot sleep, but I fully agree not he cheesiness of cars. It takes away from what I am trying to convey.
Exactly. Letter-writing is far superior – more personal and genuine.
That’s the cutest mother daughter moment ever! I’m not a fan of greeting cards either, but I do appreciate cards that have a fun pattern on the front and are plain inside 🙂
I love cards like that! Nice stationery is one of my favorite simple pleasures.
I think cards are pretty pointless too- I mean what do you even do with them?
Those burgers looked like they hit the spot, especially with those crispy chips! And that ice cream.. the pecan one sounded delicious, I love trying out ‘stranger’ ice-cream flavors.
Right? I mean, they’re supposed to say nice things I guess, but they often just seem kind of tacky to me.
Ahh it was such a great meal! Haha I like trying *all* ice cream flavors, but the stranger ones are pretty interesting. Jeni’s is excellent for that!
I have the hardest time picking out greeting cards as well. I usually just try to go for the funny ones, because the others are just all sorts of sap and cheese. And hey… everyone appreciates a good laugh 😀
I usually pick funny ones, too. Sometimes I even pick out ones intended to be from kids because they’re simpler and funnier 😀
I so agree about the card thing! Since when did the majority of cards get to be so lame?? The Short North area and North Market sound like a really fun place where could totally lose myself for hours!!! Sounds like you and your mom had a great time! I bet my mom and I would’ve had a blast shopping around in a place like that for our recent girls’ day out. And you had my mouth watering at your Jeni’s treat…oh. my. Now I think more than ever I need to visit that area of town sometime! 😛
Definitely come visit! It’d be so fun 🙂
I am not a fan of greeting cards, they are so impersonal. I like the ones that are blank on the inside so I can write exactly what I wish.
Isn’t Jeni’s ice cream amazing! I sampled the bourbon pecan and it IS delicious!
Same sentiment on the greeting cards. And I totally forgot that Jeni’s made its way to Illinois recently – sweet! 🙂