Tuesday Things.
1. My car AC is punking me. It’s supposed to be cool out but it’s like 80 degrees, and it just decided to stop working. While I’m sitting in traffic in the burning sunlight. Then on days when it’s 62 degrees… it starts working again. Not funny.
2. WHAAAAAT this cookie dough chocolate cake is calling my name.
3. Umm. I might have been a wee bit obsessed with the happenings of the Clooney wedding this past weekend. Not sure that word even properly describes it.
4. I’m kind of dying to see Gone Girl. Even though I had mixed feelings about the book (years ago I wrote about my reaction of flipping the last page and being all WHAT) I have been sucked back into the press. Also keep waiting for Gillian Flynn to write something new! I lovvvved her other books.
5. I seriously cannot handle the sons of anarchy episodes – I have walking-dead-style anxiety before every episode. It just CAN’T end!! I can’t get over how creepy Gemma was at the end of last week’s episode watching Jax with pride. Eeek. I loved this week’s episode of boardwalk empire – the Margaret/Nucky scenes were so priceless! I wish her character was like this the entire time. Annnnnd OMG Nashville. Last week I said… is it just pregnancy hormones or do everyone on this show LOOK AMAZING tonight? I really liked the episode but of course hated the outcome. Bah. The Masters of Sex finale? GAHHHH. Not enough finality for me to wait an entire year. Lizzy Caplan is just so good. I still have the biggest crush on Michael Sheen even if he is an awful person on the show. And he was just on an episode of the nerdist podcast!
6. ‘Tis the season for finding all the scary horror movies on TV and changing the channel as fast as I can because I’m still afraid of the dark.
7. For months I’ve been seeing people use “ICYMI” on twitter and instagram and haven’t been able to figure out what it means. Instead of being normal and googling it, I just continued to wonder. I finally got that it’s “in case you missed it” which just seems… like a really, really long acronym?? Weird.
8. Soooo someone sent me an email about this thing called chocolate coke. Like coke mixed with hot chocolate fudge? Do you know this? Tell me more.
9. Oddly enough these never get old for me. I still sit in a room by myself and laugh hysterically when new autocorrects come up – and even when some are repeats.
44 Comments on “Tuesday Things.”
My grandma used to talk ALL the time about drinking chocolate cokes at the dime store in Cleveland. She made them at home once when she was in chemo by mixing Hershey’s chocolate syrup with coke and she said it was like a trip down memory lane.
I selfishly can’t really come to terms with the fact that clooney is married – yea she’s beautiful … and seems smart but what the heck, I thought him and I had a thing going ( maybe just in my little world .. but whatevs )
I literally LOL’ed at number 6 — because that is TOTALLY ME!! I can’t even watch movie previews sometimes
Omg the clooney wedding. I can’t. I just can’t. Her dress was gorge!! Oh and the choc coke thang..I had it in Hershey and was not a fan. Maybe it needed bourbon, who knows.
ICYMI = In Case You Missed It (just guessing without knowing the context)
Yeah you just answered that – LOL. I sometimes jump the gun.
Jess, your ac fan might be bad. My ac went out on me this summer – it’s fine when it’s cool out because the fan is pulling in cooler air and it’s not terrible when I’m driving (still not cold!) but when I’m stopped at a light or in traffic – holy hell. At least it’s about to be winter?
I just made my husband google ICYMI last night, I had no idea either! Way weird and too long
As the folks at my neighborhood Steak N Shake will tell you, I’ve had a chocolate Diet Coke problem for a while.
I have a family recipe for Chocolate Coca Cola Cake that is awesome. I just made it again recently. I think coke + chocolate must be a thing. It really adds a super unique flavor to chocolate. It’s delicious.
I was underwhelmed by Gone Girl after so much hype, but am wanting to see the movie badly for some reason! Side note: I went to middle school with Carrie Coon who is playing Margo! That fact makes me feel special. Haha. :)
Yep. I thought i didn’t care about the Clooney wedding, but then I was pretty sad. Happy Tuesday!
Oh, the autocorrects. I laugh until I cry every. Single. Time.
Yay for #6 and someone else being as wimpy as me!!
P.S. Get excited because your food painting is totally happening. Brainstorming has begun! Cheese, chocolate, repeat.
YES. I just finished Sharp Objects, and have Gone Girl in my Amazon cart right now. I cannot waaaait to read it!
Hahaha ….. I was the same about ICYMI! God forbid I Google it. Took me forever to figure out what SMH meant. I’m old.
I too am waiting for more Gillian Flynn books! I am excited to go see Gone Girl, but feel like I need to see it with someone else who has read the book. You just know you are having a totally different experience that someone who hasn’t aka, my boyfriend (who doesn’t want to go anyway). This one may be a “me-time” matinee.
OK, I’ve been wondering what MAND means?!!?!? Have been sitting in wonder for MONTHS.
Those are the cupcakes I brought you on Saturday! I hope you and Eddie enjoyed them!
I’ve heard that Gone Girl, the movie, is going to have a different ending than Gone Girl, the book. I didn’t love, love the ending of the book but I was okay with it. I’m curious to see how I’ll feel about the movie. I love Rosamund Pike, so I feel like I’ll enjoy the acting no matter what.. Fingers crossed… =)
Ha,ha,ha,ha ………….My older daughter texted me and she was asking where her cat was,I replied( thanks to my correcting phone) “she’s in Russia” and I was trying to say she’s sleeping???? go figure ,Molly was all upset and confused , it was a funny laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just want to send all of my messages quirky!
Ha ha I asked my boyfriend “hey babe did you like the chemo this morning?” I really said “did you light the candle this morning”.
Oh gosh. Should never have read the autocorrects at work. Tears rolling…
WHERE are those cupcakes from?? I want them. Now. In my face.
Ugh Sons is just the best. I will cry when it ends. I freak out every Tuesday! Gemma was a total creep, BUT I actually think that her look at the end was one of a bit of disgust/fear over how far Jax is going…also WWTT? {what would tara think? it should be a thing.}
A word about your car – have your hubby or a mechanically-inclined friend or just a mechanic check the thermostat out. Because that started happening with my car – first the heat, then the a/c – and then several months later the whole head gasket blew and left me stranded at a stop light one block from my house. $1600 later… ugh. That was one year ago and I still haven’t paid my mom back. Not trying to scare you, just get it checked out sooner rather than later.
p.s. – I’m dyyyyying over those cinnamon rolls you posted the other day!! DYING.
almost had a bad autocorrect moment with my dad – was texting him about the ‘niner’ game, and niner corrected to ‘boner’. ….. no thanks!
Drinking a chocolate coke…… wouldn’t that just be a float? Maybe?
I can’t wait to see Gone Girl either!
Back in the day, and I really mean”the day”, I worked the soda fountain at my hometown drugstore. It was a real order! You’d pick up the glass, squirt the chocolate syrup in the bottom, add the ice and then fill with coke. The float is it’s own thing. Cherry syrup in the bottom was only a little less popular. An no such thing as “diet.”
I was super pissed this morning because I missed the Today Show segment about Clooney’s wedding. I want details. I am totally going to buy some trash mags next week to indulge.
Those cupcakes look ridiculous!! And I toooootally feel your pain about the broken AC. I went all summer (in Texas!) with mine blowing cool, not cold air…. now that it’s almost October, I found out the repair is covered under warranty!! haha.
NOTE: Do not open autocorrect lists when you’re sitting at work and can’t laugh out loud so you’re hurling at your desk with your chest bouncing up and down uncontrollably to try and not let out the laughter!!!
I feel like all those autocorrect conversations are made up. Maybe I’m just a cynic. But I totally agree about Gyllian Flynn. Why hasn’t she written a new book yet?!
I am super excited about “Gone Girl!” Even more so when I found out David Fincher was directing it and Trent Reznor was in charge of the music. I felt the same way about the book. But I can’t wait to see it!
Chocolate coke?! Genius! And I’m slightly suspicious of the autocorrects, although they’re absolutely hilarious!
My first job was as a soda jerk at a fountain insidea drugstore in a small town in southeastern MO in the late 70’s. As others have said, it’s simply a Coke with a squirt of chocolate syrup (we used Hersey’s.)
I have been getting a chocolate coke at the Canfield Fair for YEARS!!!!! I have to have that plus a Molnar’s Cinnamon Roll and popcorn, otherwise it just isn’t the fair. I’ve tried making it at home, but you are missing something if you don’t have the fountain Coke. Try getting a McDonald’s Coke and bringing chocolate syrup in your purse (yes, be that lady) and adding it there.
LOL!! I’m dying over the autocorrects! I’m sure some aren’t real but that doesn’t make them any less funny. I needed a good laughing session before work this morning. :-)
I’m not quite 60, but we used to go to the soda fountain at the pharmacy on Perrysville Ave. near Perry High School to get chocolate or cherry Cokes. Real cream of soda too. It was one of my favorite memories from “the days”. I’ve been in Fort Myers now for 10 years, but thanks for bringing back the memories!
Yes, the Clooney wedding, He is getting old looking now, but damn him and his wife are fabulous and flawless! Should I hate them or love them? Like you always go out with perfect make-up and hair and dress?
I am so glad the coke and chocolate isn’t just me. I’ve never had a chocolate coke (it sounds delicious!), but I use chocolate ice cream in my floats – coke, root beer, whatever. My husband things I’m insane and that vanilla is the only ice cream to be used in floats. If they made a marshmallow ice cream, I would use that. Like, probably every day! :)
Oh, and when we were dating, my husband would use “IIFC” in texts and e-mails. It was almost a year before I finally asked him what it was (by then I was almost too embarrassed to ask). If I recall correctly.
I worked at Sonic as a teen and chocolate coke was requested there a lot. I also live in the south so that may have something to do with it
Ugh! I feel so old most of the time when my 16 year old sister uses all these acronyms and I have to google what they mean almost everytime. I mean, I’m only 24.. I can’t be that out of touch? Lol!
We haven’t started watching Sons of Anarchy yet (we will soon) but you mentioned the Walking Dead. I’m so obsessed with this show!! We are on season four right now and I can’t wait to be caught up for the premier. Ahhh! So good.
Jess
I used to always get chocolate coke at Steak and Shake. Everyone made fun of me but it is so weirdly delicious! It really is just chocolate syrup mixed with Coke.
Chocolate Coke – it’s the drink I get from Sonic 99% of the time. So good when it is mixed right. Hershey’s syrup in coke is not the same, but special dark chocolate syrup in coke comes sort of close….I love it.
Gone Girl angered me. Not a big fan of Gillian Flynn’s writing style and the characters of the book enraged me! Though the film has me intrigued – David Fincher and Ben Affleck with a sountrack from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – yes please!
Chocolate coke-yes! I haven’t thought about that for 25+ years but it takes me back to childhood. It was something my mom let me order as a special treat once in a blue moon.