after dinner sneeze

library bar: we went with a and v to the new-ish bar in the bottom of the Rittenhouse.  the cocktails are splendid – very professionally executed with premium ingredients … however … nowhere in Philadelphia should a cocktail cost $20 … nowhere.  g, who likes to play the optimist’s card, likes to point out that “at least they were very good cocktails!” … but still … it’s not like they were 50% better than any drink at Franklin Mortgage (I’m not sure they were any better, actually …)  So we decided that Library Bar would be a nice place to go (good environment, very posh) to meet people for -A- drink and nothing more … but I still hope there never comes a time in my life when I’m “ok” with a $20 cocktail … (I have been known to splurge on a $20 glass of wine once or twice, but usually to taste something I’d never be able to get otherwise – so I’m ok with that)

my dumb idea: I wanted to make myself some chocolate chip pancakes but lacked chocolate chips.  I reasoned that peanut-butter M&M’s would be appropriate, especially because I’ve even had the PB chips and chocolate chips in the same pancake at Honey’s before.  However, unlike regular M&M’s, the moment these guys hit the batter, their colors started bleeding.  The end result was the psychedelic pancake you see above.  So what was the disappointment?  Yea … so peanut-butter M&M’s in pancakes is actually not as nearly as tasty as it sounds [to me].  That might be a “no duh!” thing to you, but for me, I was a little sad :-(

i saw this on a ?moped?/?motorcycle? on my way to work and I just had to take a picture.  I love the bumper sticker … what’s the sad part?  it’s not mine. (the sticker … not the vehicle)