Joe's Journal

12/29/2013 23:52 #58513

Wegmans Organic Smooth Almond Butter
Category: food

The first of the nut butters from (e:paul).

I never had almond butter before because usually it costs so much. I think this might make me less of a cheapskate because this is the best nut butter I've ever had. It is just almonds, no sugar but but still tastes kind of sweet. The texture is gritty but in a good way. I opened it yesterday and it's already half gone. A+ 5 stars would buy again.

joe - 01/06/14 12:49
That's really true, I haven't even considered grinding my own. I can get almonds from Aldi for ~$4.50 a pound which definitely sounds cheaper. Might be worth the extra couple of bucks if Trader Joe's is that cheap!

tinypliny - 12/30/13 14:34
The original Justin's Hazelnut Butter (the version with only Hazelnuts) was around $7 or so. They have now added almonds to it and marked it up to $10. I sometimes think all we need for wonderful butters is lots of nuts and a good food processor.

tinypliny - 12/30/13 14:32
Hey, you need to try the $5-6 TJ Almond butter and post a comparison!!

joe - 12/30/13 12:08
It's amazing! I checked Wegman's website though and it's $9 at the Amherst Street store. Sounds crazy to me when I buy $2.50 Trader Joe's PB, but maybe as once in a while thing it's worth it. The glass jar is really nice.

tinypliny - 12/30/13 11:32
How much is the bottle, for reference?

tinypliny - 12/30/13 11:32
wow! super jealous!!!

12/29/2013 22:04 #58509

Pumpkin Moving
Category: halloween

The giant $38 dollar pumpkin is finallunoff the porch. After (e:mike) squashed the air out last week it it started leaking a river of pumpkin blood down the porch. We finally decided to move it since it was thawing. (e:paul) rolled it down the stairs then we moved it back to the compost pile. our hands smelled like rotting pumpkin.

tinypliny - 12/30/13 11:34
Hahah - love this post! :)

12/28/2013 14:30 #58507

Old friends and Founding Fathers
Category: going out

(e:terry) and I met up with Emily, Kevin, Lindsay, Tim and Kyle at Founding Fathers last night. It was the first time I've actually seen Kyle in such a long time even though Ive been at her house a bunch since then. Of course I needed the nachos.

After we headed to Brick Bar for a bit. We ran into a couple of people we haven't seen in a real long time - Emily D. and Andrea. I can't decide if it was awkward or not because its been so long. Emily D. used to be my one of mu best friends but there was a lot of drama with the whole group abd her liking me, and I haven't seen her since. I think the last time we hung out was after freshman year of college.

Lindsay wanted to head to Chocolate Bar but we headed back in pretty early.

12/28/2013 10:56 #58504

Ice skating at Rotary Rink
Category: winter

Yesterday (e:paul), (e:terry) and (e:mike) went out to ice skate at the Rotary rink in Fountain Plaza. I don't think any of us had been ice skating in a while.
Skating was super tough with the loose skates and rough ice, but I think we figured it out by the end. Paul tied his laces around the back which made the skates way tighter.

Terry was super good at ice skating just like roller skating. He was was even doing circles by the end (no triple lutzes though sorry).

I'd definitely go again but maybe with skates from somewhere else since these were beat up and so gross (the rental place smelled awful) and smoother ice. Maybe MLK splash pad when its open for skating?

12/27/2013 12:42 #58501

Woof
Category: love

They're so ridiculously cute.

paul - 12/28/13 10:49
Woof