Ok, now that my life has settled down as much as it could possibly could, I can try and focus on blogging once again. I have had a certain habit throughout my life and it has once again bit me in the ass. When I stumble on something new and exciting, I take the reigns and become obsessively passionate about it.... for about 5 minutes. After I exhaust the hell out of it and it starts to lose the initial appeal, I am on to the next obsession. I can't tell you how many times I have went to Michael's, dropped a small fortune on supposed crafty projects I was all gung-ho about and then find these unfinished crafts in plastic shopping bags months or years later. Even better, one of the boys will find them and either scatter the pieces all over the floor or start playing with them like toys. I think my friends can vouch for me when I say I literally have a new obsession as often as the season change. (which is every other day, with the crazy weather we've been having lately!)
As you all know, my latest passion has been getting fit, and now that I can finally check Broad Street Run off my bucket list, I need a new hobby.... not that getting fit is a hobby, it's become a lifestyle now, and it actually pains me to eat a damn french fry without a moment of guilt. Don't get me wrong, I still have dessert and an occasional (aka often) glass of wine, so I haven't completely lost my mind just yet. But, for me, I need something new to strive for. I've always been a busy kind of person, and if I don't have a new goal in mind, I start to go a little stir crazy. Maybe I need to take up something entirely different, like glass fusing! Yes, that's it... glass fusing! I'll Google it when I am done.
Now, onto more interesting things that have been happening. Yesterday, the Swanky Babblers (the playgroup I've been helping organize) were invited by the Food Network to dine in a restaurant that Chef Robert Irvine was trying to re-vamp. If you have watched Kitchen Nightmares with Gordon Ramsay, it was something like that. A group of about 24 of us went to dinner at Villari's in Palmyra. Ben used to go to the restaurant as a kid and he remembers it being very dark inside. The inside was redone very nicely and was open and bright. Our waitress was pleasant and took our drink and dinner order right away. Our apps, salads, and drinks were delivered right away and were pretty delicious, especially the Crab soup. Then the chaos started to ensue... 2 hours later, we still hadn't gotten our dinner. The only thing we had going was a buzz after ordering like 5 rounds of drinks before dinner finally came! Ben's seared tuna was awful, but at least my seafood fra diavlo was good. I coerced Ben to send his tuna back and he ordered lasagna in it's place, which was pretty good, but come on.... who can mess up that?! Basically, the wait staff was totally overwhelmed (some of them had just been hired and it was their first night!) the kitchen was definitely not ready for a crowd of that caliber (they probably hadn't seen it that busy in a loooong time) but I will definitely go back and try it again when there isn't a major TV station filming a pilot.
The company we were with really made the food aspect seem less disastrous, and Ben and I really had a great time talking and laughing with new friends. Even though it seemed more like everyone was laughing at us (for the record, Ben was not sunbathing with a fanny pack on lmao) but I guess we can't help it if we're funny people, haha. Overall, it was a very memorable experience and I am so glad we were able to be a part of it. Now, we just have to wait till the fall to see if any of us even made the cut to be on TV! The show is going to be called Restaurant:Impossible and it is going to air sometime in the early fall!
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