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Why You Need an Extra Fortune Cookie

0 fortune cookieWho doesn’t love cracking open and eating a fortune cookie after a savory Chinese meal? It provides a light dessert and a smallish paper crystal ball as a mini bonus. But many people don’t realize the importance (I use this term loosely) of asking for one more cookie than the count of your dinner party.

Why is this so important? Because if the number of fortune cookies are equal to the number of diners, the last person getting a cookie has their proverbial destiny determined by the other cookie grabbers. Having one extra still leaves the slow grabbing, remaining sole a choice for their cookie. Hence, their destiny not left in the hands of the other individuals. So next time you are at a Chinese restaurant and the cookies are provided, make sure there is at least one extra. If there isn’t, you may just be leaving your destiny in the hands of the crumbling solitary cookie.

My Sweet Little Bullet

000 NutribulletLast month my wife and I had our 16th anniversary. Don’t get too mushy about it because we are long past that. I am lucky enough to have a mother-in-law that is more than willing to send us a nice check to celebrate the occasion. Usually, my wife and I would use the money to go out to a nice dinner. My wife suggested this year that we buy something that we want for ourselves that we normally wouldn’t purchase. After going through several friendly jab conversations, we decided to split the money and each buy something we really wanted. My wife had been eying a hammock but has yet to make the lounging plunge. I had been eying the beautiful Nutribullet for quite awhile now.

My eating habits lean heavily to the healthy side and I am a sucker for a good smoothie. I even love smoothies that contain vegetables like Kale, Spinach, and Cucumber that would make most McDonald frequenting Americans want to puke. For many months, and heck years, I have spent way too much money buying vegetable/fruit smoothies from the latest and greatest smoothie shop. Well that ends today. I am now the master of my smoothie making domain. Just tonight I made three smoothies. One for me and one for each of my two daughters. I am pretty sure this machine is the greatest invention known to man. While that maybe an exaggeration it has to be in the top 10. Ok, top 100. Forget it, you just don’t understand what a good smoothie is all about. Next time you go out to that romantic dinner that costs you $100, just think to yourself that you could have bought a smoothie making machine that brings you the health and happiness that your marriage maybe lack.

Yes Hon, I still love you! And I love you too Nutribullet.