My friends and I do movie nights each month as a way of keeping in touch since we all live in different towns — some closer than others. July is my turn to host and show my movies. I planned on showing Be Kind Rewind, The Triplets of Belleville, and if there was time, Lars and the Real Girl. Unfortunately, MP couldn’t make it. As Movie Night rules state, if one of us can’t make it, it has to be cancelled. I then rescheduled it to last Saturday. But, lo and behold, AY texted us all telling us she won’t be able to make it this time. Sadly, it seems my July movie night is cursed…

OK, ever since I stopped eating fast food after reading Fast Food Nation about 2-3 years ago, I have been an avid devotee of Panera Bread, easily one of my favorite eateries ever (2nd only to Tokyo Tokyo in the Philippines). I am fan of their Half/Half concept — which is probably not the official name — where you can pick 2 halves (half sandwich, half bowl of soup, or half salad) with a side. I usually pick a half sandwich and a half salad with potato chips on the side, which I reason will be balanced with the healthy-ness of the salad. It also doesn’t help that my sister works at one near home and they offer a 50% discount to family and friends of employees. LOL. Plus, on occasions when she’s there to close, she can make the food for free… so there’s that too…

There’s a Thai restaurant near where I work which rates their food on a 5 pepper scale. My coworker, RC, who lived in Thailand for a year, was challenged to eat a 5-pepper entree by MC. Many of us went out to lunch together to witness the challenge. Unbeknownst to RC, MC was planning on playing a prank on him. He didn’t intend to ever eat a 5-pepper entree because a 4-pepper entree he eat 2 weeks before totally made him tear up and gasp for water. (It was actually a funny sight.)

Anyway, once we got there, MC conveniently needed to go to the bathroom after we had ordered our food. On the way to the bathroom, he cornered the waitress and let her in on his plan. MC changed his order from 5 peppers to 3 peppers. He definitely played the challenge very well. Well acted. RC was definitely fooled, but he was a good sport about the whole thing.

When we were in France weeks ago, I really wanted to eat crepes since that’s what France is known for! Unfortunately, we ended up settling for some Chinese food. LOL.

However, I had some yummy crepes today for lunch! Mine had pepperoni, salami, spinach, tomatoes and cheese (I think?). It was very yummy! There’s just something about crepes that make the whole thing taste great!