Pancakes. April 7, 2008
Friday night our new friends Jacob and Katie came over and hung out. At one point I asked Aaron what time it was, and he made me guess. I went with eleven, but it was actually 1:30, so they went home. I like new friends that you can sit and talk with for six hours without realizing it.
During that talk I told a story about how Aaron, Susan and I had gone to IHOP once after a concert and I ordered pancakes because I love pancakes. I mean, I really really love pancakes. I would eat them for every meal if I could. They are so delicious. Anyway, not only do I love pancakes, but I love playing with the food that’s left on my plate after I finish eating. I cut it into tiny pieces, or draw lines in it with my knife, or build little castles with it. It’s a problem. So after I had finished eating my pancakes, I still had some left. I took the straw from my water glass and stuck it in my pancake to make a circle. When I picked up the straw, the little bit of pancake stuck inside it. So I started making holes all over the pancakes and the straw started filling up with little pieces of pancake.
I thought this was pretty cool. Aaron thought it was pretty gross. I am unsure of what Susan thought.
Once the straw was totally full of pancake pieces, I held it with one hand and used the other to squeeze the pancake pieces out of the straw. This is where things got awesome. The pancake pieces came out in one long strand, making a giant pancake worm. It was the ultimate playing-with-your-food discovery. Pancake worms! Who knew!
I like to tell this story because I think it is funny and it makes me want to eat pancakes. Aaron does not like for me to tell this story because it grosses him out but also somehow makes him want to eat pancakes.
Saturday morning we slept in pretty good. Aaron got up before I did, but he closed the door behind him and left Miles in the bedroom with me. Miles hates that because if he doesn’t have easy access to both of us at all times he starts freaking out. It’s a hard life. So I got up to let Miles out of the room and found Aaron in the kitchen. Making me pancakes. From scratch. Scratch!
How awesome is that? To show my appreciation, I refrained from making pancake worms out of them. But I sure wanted to. Because I love pancakes. And pancake worms.
i’m with aaron, i’d be making the ‘omg, what is she doing’ face if i was sitting next to you at IHOP.
also, i usually go with the Viva French Toast because i love french toast.
It kind of grosses me out. But I am not a huge pancake eater. I hope you can forgive me.
i love pancakes too! and IHOP. special place in my heart.
i might even love pancakes worms. i don’t know though…
I think I was probably highly entertained by the pancake worm. I am not easily grossed out.
It’s also entirely possible that I was so tired I didn’t really notice. Ha.
(why is it such a fuzzy memory in my head? What concert was this? Was this after my first Sonic experience? I’m not sure I’ve ever been to a concert WITH Aaron…)
It was after your first Sonic experience! Aaron didn’t go to the concert with us. We drove to Manchester to see Derek Webb, and when we got back to Nashville Aaron wanted to go out. So we went to that wine place, but their kitchen was closed so after the wine we went to IHOP.
YES. I probably was kinda sleepy. And had had like 3 mini-glasses of wine without food. That explains it!