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Tonight my sister and I went ahead and made a batch of cookies since I promised… well my mom promised her that I would help her make some cookies this week. We first went online and googled some cookie recpies and found what looked sorta good. We ended up picking the “Award Winning Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies” on AllRecipies.com. We then left to go get some shortening from Albertsons. Everything was going good until I noticed that I used up all the brown sugar the last time I was making cookies. So my mom was like just use regular sugar. Mistake! haha they tasted like sugar cookies with chocolate chips in them haha. Definitely not the best batch. :). It turned out making 2 sheets of 12 each and I put the rest of the batter in a brownie pan. Well the second sheet of cookies I left in the oven longer because they were on the top and therefore further away from the element. Well I definitely left them in way too long and they were nice and dark brown haha. Hard but not necessarily burnt.
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In just the past couple of weeks there has been a very troubling event in my life and that is that Chipotle Mexican Grill is no longer serving student drinks. It used to be that if you slid right up to the cash register while paying for your food you could flash your student identification card and they would hand you a free regular drink. That was a nice break considering that a chicken burrito with guacamole was about $8 a trip. now, with a drink its over $9.
Now I first discovered this when I visited the Chipotle in Cerritos, CA when I requested a student drink while showing proper identification and the cashier declined. Now I immediately became suspicious because there was an event month earlier in which I visited the Chipotle in Orange, CA and the cashier told me they didn’t give free drinks. I told him I went to Chipotle all the time and they gave out student drinks so after giving me a hard time he simply laughed it off and said “Just kidding”. It was frustrating then and even more frustrating now as I was severely caught off guard. She notified me that they no longer gave out student drinks. I asked her if it was just at the one location but she said that it was company policy and was fact at all of their locations.
I am severely battered by this latest news as Chipotle is definitely up there on my top 5 favorite restaurants of all time. I do plan on still indulging in the great Mexican food there but I think I will have to cut back on my ordering because unlike their shirts say they’re meat isn’t free.
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I recieved a new Palm Treo 700 WX about a week ago because I had dropped my old Palm Treo 700 W. The service provider I have is Verizon Wireless and I have insurrance included with my phone. About amonth ago I dropped my old treo in the entry way on our tile floor. Now my phone has survived many impacts in its time but that last drop would be its last. Imediately the bottom of the phone split open and 4 of the screws popped out as the cover flew off. It was impossible to recover those screws but my phone was working fine eventhough there was a huge gap at the bottom.
Eventually my old phone was finished. It started falling appart sending transitors and what-not falling out the bottom. haha. It kept on working but it seemed with every part, it kept on getting a little slower and less stable. So I contacted the Verizon Insurance Agency and the representative was extremely nice and let me know that they discontinued the 700w and now used the 700wx. It wasnt that much of a difference between the models except the colors were a little different and the new one had twice the RAM. The software was a little different except I had updated the old software to be the same as a 700 wx.
I definately love the new Treo 700 wx because the added RAM makes the phone more stable. I had alot of trouble with my old phone freezing up especially when it would send/recieve e-mail. It also froze alot when using the Internet Explorer web browser. Now I can do alot more and I can be more confident in using my phone without freezing. I cant wait to see the next new Palm Treo device.
I signed up for Zoom Whitening last Monday and went ahead and had my teeth whitened yesterday. It was great because using the website, I found the dentist nearest to my house with the cheapest price. In all everything was $300. That’s cheaper than the usual price at my personal dentist for trays that take weeks to use. I had a great experience with the whitening until the last session. During the second to last session she notified me that sometimes people have little sharp pains like they’re teeth were getting shocked. That is definitely what happened during my last treatment. I had a bunch of these little “zings” as they call them. It was painful driving back to my house as it was difficult trying to learn what I could do to stop or lesson them. Opening my mouth made it worse. During the day I took Advil and fell asleep which was nice. During the evening yesterday I was feeling better until I went to Chipotle. haha The rice was really hot and since my teeth were sensitive, it really hurt when I bit into the rice. That night i still had some pain but after that it was more like a toothache. Before I went to bed, I took some Advil and rubbed on some Orajel for toothaches along my gums. It felt like my gums were sorta warm but it really anesthetized the pain. When I woke up this morning everything was great. I haven’t felt any pain except my teeth are still sensitive to warm and cold things which should go away in a day or two.
Overall I have been so pleased and happy with how the process has turned out. I went about 9 shades whiter which was really great except with the way I drink Starbucks, I’m not sure how long that will last. However included with the treatment I received trays and more whitening gel so that I can whiten more or touch up if that Starbucks tries to touch my beautiful teeth. they also sell more gel so in the future if I run out of gel, I can go back and get some more.
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Store rewards cards are the worst. My mom and I went to Borders tonight and of course the cashier asked us if we had rewards cards. We said no but I tried my dads phone number to see if he had one. I guess he did but i didn’t know his e-mail address or something. So anyways the guy asked us if we wanted to sign up and I said no but my mom said yes after we finished the transaction. The cashier said it was too late because it had to be during a transaction. Story short she bought a piece of candy and signed up for one. Then as he was giving us the new rewards cars I looked at my keychain and I already had a Borders Rewards Card. Then after we went home my came came in the living room and said she already had one too. hahaha. What a funny time.
