Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Coffee Bean Ice Blendeds and Other Simple Pleasures of Life

Coffee Bean Ice Blendeds
Coffee Bean Ice Blendeds are one of my favorite pleasures of life. They are simple drinks and very easy to enjoy and become addicted to. I am not addicted in the sense that I have a dependency; I just make certain my Wednesday afternoon schedule is clear so I can go visit my favorite Coffee Bean store.

The only reason that I have to go visit this particular store and that is because Tihana works there. That would be Tihana at the left. I should have put my glasses on when I took the photo to be certain that it was a good one.

Oh well, life happens and there is always next Wednesday. I can ask Tihana for her indulgence and let me retake the photo.

Getting back to Tihana and why she is so central to this simple pleasure.

Tihana, simply put, makes the best ice blendeds. Period. They always come out just the way I like them.

What more could I ask for?

Probably a lot but none as far as the ice blendeds are concerned.

Doug got me interested in Coffee Bean Ice Blendeds when I was going through my primary chemotherapy earlier this year. He said they had lots of calories. Doug went on to say the best ice blendeds were made in South Orange County; living in the South O. C. I would expect that from him.

I quickly became attached to the Mocha Mudslide drink. Unfortunately, it was not available this Summer. One of the few good baristas, besides Tihana of course, suggested a mixed ice blended as a close substitute. It was a very close substitute.

About this time, I experienced a series of dreadful drinks from more than one Coffee Bean store. I was about to give up on Coffee Bean and try Starbucks instead. I figured that I couldn’t be much worse off. I mentioned this to Doug as we were going to visit Dr. Karen the oncologist. Doug suggested that I try Tihana’s store again because he said it was the one that he went to when he was up in the South Bay.

I tried the store on a day when Tihana was making the drinks and the rest is history as more than one movie script has said.

Stuffing the Ballot Box
Stuffing the ballot box is an American political pastime that generally no longer exists.

I got a survey invitation on my Coffee Bean receipt today.

Can anyone guess how well Tihana did in the evaluation?

Yes, that’s correct. Tihana got the highest marks possible. More simple pleasures.

Other Simple Pleasures of Life
I got out of class early today because this is finals weeks. My students just had to take their final exam and hand in a written project.

I left school around 9:30 AM and headed to Gloria’s frozen yogurt and ice cream store. I planned to make it a Dr. Karen day with lots of calories so that I would not lose too much weight. I got to her store a little before 10:00 AM.

I forgot that Gloria has adopted Winter hours and now the store opens at 11:00 AM. As much as I like Gloria and her ice cream, I didn’t plan to wait an hour for her to open up. I will swing past her store tomorrow because I have to be at school earlier for a meeting. I can have my ice cream and be at school early.

Perfectomundo.


Be well and stay happy.

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