so i was thinking about peanut butter this morning, as is normally the case, and i remembered that last time i was in des moines i found, in the depths of my mom's kitchen pantry, peter pan CHUNKY honey nut peanut butter. i usually buy skippy honey nut because i like the added honey flavor, but i am always sad upon polishing off the jar that they don't make it chunky style, because, let's face it, peanut butter is much more fun when you have that added extra crunch. it's true. so i go home to chicago, eagerly anticipating my next trip to the grocery store because i figure that in my previous visits my favoritism for skippy has prevented me from checking out other peanut butter brands, and that somehow i just happened to miss the peter pan chunky honey nut peanut butter. to my misfortune, however, dominick's does not carry peter pan chunky honey nut peanut butter. and that makes me sad. sad to know that i have a wider variety of peanut butter options in des moines as opposed to chicago.

in other news. i had a conversation with ara last night, in which i learned that he has a pet bird. it's a cockateel (sp.?) and when his family bought it they originally named it lola, thinking it was female. well, this bird doesn't mimic speech, but it does mimic whistles, and somewhere along the way it learned how to cat call (which ara swears on the holy bible that he didn't teach it to do). problem is, it only cat calls girls. so they figure now that it's a boy or a lesbian cockateel. consequently they decided that they couldn't call it lola anymore, so they renamed it Bird. which is freaking hilarious if you ask me. but you didn't ask so i'll just tell you.

houston is just over a month away. i'm very excited about that. WHEEE.