mocha madness
The internship is great. :) I’m enjoying it immensely.
Last weekend was An and Jonah’s wedding, for which I flew back to Davis. It was lovely and I’m so happy for them!
This weekend.. I participated in a “playtest” at Microsoft, where you basically help them test video games by playing them and answering some questions. I also met up with Jason, who used to be at UCD but now works at Microsoft.
Today was absolutely beautiful and warm so I went to Pikes Place Market for some grocery shopping. I waited in a long line, patiently, and bought a dozen assorted donuts (plain, powdered, cinnamon, sprinkles over chocolate) which are so tiny and delicious. I have to resist the temptation to eat them all. I also got half a pound of roasted hazelnuts. I’ve only had raw hazelnuts before, so I was very pleasantly surprised to detect a faint taste of sweetness in the roasted ones. The hazelnut flavor is definitely enhanced by roasting and I’ll have to get more when I run out.
I went to Piroshky, Piroshky again and waited in line, again, for a smoked salmon pate piroshky. They were out of the ham, cheese and spinach one AND the bavarian sausage. Ah, elusive Ham, Cheese and Spinach Piroshky, I’ll taste you yet!!
On my way back to the apartment, I stopped by a little window called Monorail Espresso for an iced mocha. (Yes, the weather was just that good today!) The man working there was so kind and made small talk while he made my drink. He shook up the mixture of chocolate with espresso and ice and poured in whole milk, saying “You and I could both use some whole milk to gain some weight.” Hehe. What girl doesn’t like being called skinny? The mocha was delicious. I’ve been avoiding mochas because Starbucks always makes them way too sweet for my taste. This mocha was not too sweet and I tasted more of the coffee than the chocolate, which makes me very happy.
And that brings me to my last point and intended topic for this post, which is that I’ve now regained this obsession with mocha flavored things, from the dark chocolate espresso chocolate bar I sectioned into small pieces for a piece a day last week at work, to a quickly depleting supply of mocha rocas, to the coffee addiction that’s growing because I drink a cup of hot coffee mixed with powdered hot chocolate in the mornings at work.
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