Dogs, Danishes, and Weather Control

So i finally got to get out of the hospital this morning for a short period of time. I had to run home to take the dog out and pick up the infant carrier, because we are going home today. I stepped out side and thought, gee its cold...Starbucks must be open, but on my way home i found that it was not. At this point I realized that the uber coffee chain is not as all powerful as we all thought.

Here is the back story. Our house is about one and a half blocks from one of the main through fairs of the city. About two months after we moved in, the gas station on the corner of previously mentioned through fair and and equally substantial cross street, was torn down and a big billboard was erected that declared "Starbucks opening summer '07." About six months ago the construction started. This is a big deal because we live approximately 5 miles from the two hospitals that Karen works at, and between here and there, their is no where to stop to get a snack or drink or anything. Once you get past the hospitals there are things, and if you go the in the opposite direction of our house from the hospital you come across things in a couple blocks. But, essentially we are in a no drink zone. So this was nice because Karen could now grab a drink on her way into work and start her day on a slightly happier, coffee induced, note. Well as we all know summer has come and gone according to the calender, but not according to the temperature outside, and as most of you do not know Starbucks is still not open. So, both Karen and I, on separate occasions, with separate sets of friends, both deduced that Starbucks must have purchased the array of weather controlling satellites that the USSR launched during the cold war, to brain wash the public into thinking it was still summer, and there billboard was not a lie, and the the new Starbucks would be open in the summer of '07, or at least before it got cold. The sad thing is that, even three days ago when we checked into the hospital, it was still too warm outside to be considered fall. However, this morning when i went outside it was chilly, the news was reporting freeze warnings for the next few days and there was actually a nice layer of ice on my car. SOOO naturally my first thought was, Starbucks is open. but alas it is not, and Starbucks is officially no longer the supper power that I have been lead to believe they are, they can't even control the weather.

To continue the original story. Once i thought Starbucks was open i decided it would be a nice surprise to bring the new mom, her favorite coffee and a piece of lemon loaf. Once I found that it was not open, I thought mom like Panera better anyway. This thought sent my brain on a completely different tangent because of my love for German chocolate danishes. Panera has (or i should say had, but that is getting ahead of my self) the best German chocolate danishes ever. Whenever we go to the St. L Bread Co, i get one for dessert, but i have not been able to the last couple of visits because they had been sold out (or so i thought). So i get to Panera and rush up to the pastry case, which is packed to the brim with all sorts of decadent baked goods, and am shocked to see no German Chocolate Danishes. So i get to the counter and ask about them and the cashier says "we stopped making those about two months ago, they did not sell very well. Apparently no one liked them." WHAT? no one liked them... I liked them... I loved them, no one asked me. At that moment I realized the shock and dismay that Karen had felt when coldstone stopped carrying Cinnamon ice cream. I was heartbroken, but then i thought of X and my heart was whole again. I finally settled on a couple of asiago cheese bagels with an assortment of cream cheese.

After picking up breakfast I went home to check on supper pup, and he was supper excited to see me, which was nice. I brought home a baby rag so he could get some of the scent in before X gets home. he seamed to really enjoy it. Hopefully this will make the adjustment to another "creature" in the house a little easier. At least that is what all of the parenting books seam to say. We will see tonight, and i will be sure to leave an update. Until then...