Chocolate WHAT?!?!

"why i am an idiot"

so... here's a funny story. or if anything a story you might read and think "wow Kristie really is an idiot" if you don't think so already

so on wednesday NC State had a "Chocolate Festival." At the festival you payed 6 dollars at the door to go inside and walk around and try 6 samples of chocolate... and I'm not talking chocolate chips here. there were cakes 3 feet long from expensive places... a chocolate fountain with fruit, cookies, brownies.. and chocolate milk... oh and the list goes on. IT WAS AWESOME!

you even got a pink box, a little bit smaller than a shoe box, to fill up with your treats. I still have chocolate cake in the fridge! I just can't eat it all! now the best part about all of this is that every cent went to breast cancer research. now certainly breast cancer is no laughing matter... but let me tell you about one of the booths that has prompted me to tell this story.

you see... i could have sworn there were chocolate boobs at the festival. and a silent auction was going on so i thought maybe they too were up for bid... there were three in fact at a booth all by themselves. I found myself looking at these... we'll just call them "objects"... on a table along with flyers and other informative information around them... and as i stood there looking over someone's shoulder i felt as if the lady in charge of the booth was coming over to talk to me, so feeling odd for having been near these "objects" for so long i quickly moved away.

my friend Karly also went to the festival, only later on in the day. She told me about this very interesting and interactive booth that she had visited at the the festival. an interactive booth where you could feel and touch three different plastic "objects" to see what it would feel like if you felt a "normal" breast another that simulated one with non-cancerous cysts, and a third that simulated what it would feel like if you actually had a lump... a key sign for breast cancer....

at this point i stopped to ask.. "you mean the ones that looked like they were made of chocolate?" ... karly lost it.. and i felt like a total idiot... and quite embarrassed that they weren't made of chocolate... nor on sale.

that my friends... is a true story.

The Gardner's Wedding

Darryl and his now hitched buddy Brian.

My lovely date for the evening.

Here I am with my dates for part of the night since their husband's and my fiance left part of the reception to get nasty chilli and burgers at some hole in the wall joint across the street. I danced to that Cha-Cha song (it was fun) but had to sit out during the Electric Slide (gag me) Its amazing what white people will do (particullary dancing) when they have had some wine or a drink. Whoever made the Electric Slide should be ashamed of himself.

Anyone who knows me (well at least to those who I know from back home) will know that it never fails that I have "demon" eyes in pictures. So here is a great example of how every single picture taken of me (since i was a baby) ends up with me having bright red eyes. I know the scientific reasons for why this happens and it has nothing to do with demons. I just have big blue eyes... so booo ya!

Thank goodness for red eye reduction. Jeremy you know what I'm talking about!! haha