Feven Fosts for Friday

What up people?!  This is your buddy John and I’ve been tasked with Feven Fosts for Friday, so let’s see what I can come up with right now..

1.  Jack is probably entering some terrible twos fun.  He doing the testing where he sees how hard he can touch you before you get mad.  He’ll first touch your face and then hit it a little bit harder and then just go all out and slam his hand into you.  It’s not the best feeling in the world.  He’s also been having a good time taking his hands and trying to pull my cheeks off… I literally mean pull my cheeks off.

2.  We have free pop at work and I’m afraid I am addicted.  It’s terrible, but you can’t say no to it.  Well, now I’ve noticed they have Crystal Light Energy.  Therefore, I’m trying to replace some of my daily pop with a little bit of that.  That’s the real reason I drink it is to get a little caffeine, because I don’t like coffee.  Gotta say New Orleans = Lots of Coffee for most people, but I actually drank less caffeine over the past week than when I’m working.

3.  Friday is also Food Truck Friday at Rackspace, so I’m pretty excited about eating out of one of the many food trucks.  They bring up 6 or so vendors from around town from BBQ, to Pakistani, to down home…  It’s all fantastically delicious.

4.  A few months ago .. actually probably about a year and a half ago… I read, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.  It’s the mostly true story of Abraham Lincoln’s life, except that he’s also a vampire hunter… which is a little known fact about our greatest president. Anyway, the movie.. that’s right… the movie will be released in a few months.

I can’t wait!

5. We have no big plans for the weekend.  However, that might not be true.  Molly plans out our weekends and I just follow along.  So, if we do have big plans with you and I forgot, please don’t be offended… we’ll be there under Molly’s direction of course.

Campbells Just Wanna Have Fun

No time for a real post today...we are too busy soaking up our last morning on vacation by eating beignets, listening to street performers belt out some jazz, and showing Jack the big "barcos" on the Mississippi. Despite a night of high fever and toddler vomit, a double ear infection, and an inevitable trip to the Emergency Clinic, all three Campbells agree that our 5 day trip to New Orleans was a success. We return to San Antonio this afternoon, but first it's time to let Jack dance to some more saxophones and get covered in powdered sugar at Cafe du Monde one last time.

Ten on Tuesday

The formatting on this may be messed up because I am trying to post from my phone. Be sure to visit Chelsea at Roots and Rings for more Ten on Tuesday Valentine's excitement.

1. How do you feel about Valentine’s Day? I don't feel too much about it. We never celebrated it all too much, we'd maybe go out to dinner and one year John got me a lovely necklace but it's not that important to us. This year, we won't celebrate it really at all.

2. Are you in love? More than I ever thought possible.

3. What is your favorite love song? The Luckiest, probably. It's our wedding song...John sang it to me one day in the car when we were dating and it's always been "our song" ever since.

4. Did your parents do anything for you on Valentine’s Day when you were a child? Little things like give us teddy bears with our names puffy painted on them...nothing huge but enough to make me feel loved.

5. What is your love language? Physical Touch...I'm a cuddler. (Click here if you want to take the quiz.)

6. How do you celebrate Valentine’s Day? Gifts? Dinner? See #1: we don't really celebrate it.

7. What is your favorite flower? Tulips
8. What is your favorite love story? (Book and/or movie.) I don't really know...I'm not a chick flick/chick lit kind of girl. Probably You've Got Mail because it's do darn cute
9. What is the most romantic thing someone has ever done for you? Or you have done for someone? On our 4 year wedding anniversary, I woke up and went to go get my morning coffee before I got ready for work. As I passed by the dining room table, I saw that it was covered--completely covered--by little pieces of paper. On each one, John had written a favorite memory of our relationship or something he loves about me. I was late to work that morning because I sat there reading each one of them.
10. How did you meet your spouse/significant other? We were both on the Speech/Debate team in college. I met him when I went to the first practice. He thought I was a beyotch...it was meant to be.

COCO: The Best Kept Secret in San Antonio

Now this post really only applies to my San Antonio readers. But I'll talk about it anyway because it's not everyday that you find a place you just LOVE...and I LOVE COCO Chocolate Lounge and Bistro. I know, it's not at all like me to like anything with the word "Chocolate" in it. Kind of like how Liz Lemon gets bummed out by the word "lover" unless its between the words "meat" and "pizza." Yeah, I just made a Liz Lemon reference, what of it? As John so eloquently stated the other night after we finished watching New Girl and I told him I wanted to be cute like Zooey Deschanel, "Baby, I love you...but you're more of a Liz Lemon than a Jess. Just own it." So own it I will! And in true Liz Lemon style, I shall now tell you about all the foods I like to eat! Let me just wipe this stain off my TGS sweatshirt and we can begin our tour...

What: COCO Chocolate Lounge and Bistro
Where; 281/1604 - in the Best Buy shopping area
When: Open for Happy Hour, dinner, and at night for a boom boom hip-kid club. Needless to say, I'm not much of the hip-kid club type but so long as I have pomme frites in one hand and a dirty martini in the other, I'd probably be okay.
Why: Because it's delicious.

I discovered this little gem of a joint back in December when Raphaelle and I met there for Happy Hour. I had passed by it a few times but thought, "Chocolate? Sick. This girl doesn't want to sip on a cosmo while eating fudge. I'll stick to my gin martinis at Swig." I also thought, "Isn't that a club? I'm not a club kind of girl. I'm Liz Lemon, after all. I'm the girl saying, "He wanted to buy me a drink? I already have a drink,...do you think he'd buy me mozzarella sticks instead?" But I went with Raphaelle anyway and was so surprised at the menu and the drink options. First of all, the cocktail menu is admittedly filled with "froo froo" drinks that aren't really my bag. But as Rissa the server has told me on more than one occasion, "Honey, we can make you anything you want." After being turned down when I asked her to make my ten dollar bill into ten thousand ten dollar bills, I ordered a dirty gin martini. It came out just like I like it: old manish. That is to say, they nailed it. That and the fact that I can get a good quality martini for $5 during Happy Hour makes me a Happy Hour Happy Camper. And these aren't those dinky little drinks--$5 buys you a good-sized cocktail. And because buzzed driving is drunk driving, you should probably get a little something to nosh on while you're there so that you don't get behind the wheel feeling less than alert .(Have I told you how much I loathe anyone who drinks and drives? Because I do. DON'T DO IT!) Anyway, I've had lots of stuff on the menu during Happy Hour: goat cheese dip, calamari, crab cakes, fries, pizzas...there are so many things that are only $5 during the hours of 4pm-7pm and 9pm-10:30pm. Now I love me some queso and taquitos as much as the next girl, but it's nice to know that there are some alternatives to the typical San Antonio Mexican food Happy Hour. And alternatives there are...

Potatoes fried in duck fat and drizzled with truffle oil and sea salt, you guys. Need I say more? The only thing that would make these any better is if they came with a garlic aioli or something. Or maybe if they were just constantly sitting within 3 feet of my eating hand. What? You don't have a designated eating hand? Yeah, me neither.

Note: I didn't get paid or in any way compensated to write this post, I just really like COCO and am always surprised when San Antonio-ites haven't heard of it. It's a secret little gem and I think more people should know about it! That and I'm now obsessed with it and I never want it to close down so I guess I should probably make sure they get as many customers as possible. But seriously, go try it and you'll be a believer too!