Greetings from Obama-land! [I facebook’ed that this morning, and my friends have all begun calling the States Obama-land.]
The last three times I’ve been in North Dakota, my breathing has gone from good/okay to sucky [One of those times probably doesn’t count because I had a cold, but whatever]. ( here, here )
i have only been feeling the teeniest bit off today, but I was able to distract myself from it and do some hardcore shopping. Yay for shopping! Both my energy and breathing started going downhill at about 7:15 [12 hours after my AM Symbicort . . . duh.] So woohoo for that! 
[After taking my Symbicort, I felt wayyyy better. However, I took it like, 2 hours late, so that kind of was not fun, but things were okay [and I didn’t have to hit up the Ventolin in the middle of a store like one of the previous times I was here.
Now for the fun part. Here are some pictures from today of various American-type things.
In Menard’s. Which, for those of you unfamiliar, is a store full of junk you put in your house. [I suppose, however, that defines most stores.]
This is Christmas-land:
Um, hello? These are freaking AWESOME. I want to cover my lawn in these things.
We went to Hardee’s for lunch. Except for, being of the non-meat eating variety, I had raspberry Nestea [which is apparently the only type of sweetened iced tea that seems to be available in restaurants in this state?], as I am sick of fries. Since I was bored-like, I drew on the back of a comment card and left it on the table for the restaurant.
Race protein bars by Snickers? These amused me greatly. Steve, have you ever tried them?
Pomegranate 7-Up? Antioxidant 7-up? Antioxidant 7-up just seems wrong. I think if I were concerned about antioxidants, I wouldn’t be drinking 7-up.
This is epic. This person is staying at the same hotel as I am.
Is this a North Dakota thing, or are all the streets named after numbers? Because that’s just uninspired. Seriously.
Stamart! Which I constantly pronounce Stah-mart. Americans: is it “stah=mart” or “stay-mart"?
I bought these at Stamart. Kool-aid in little twisty top bottles!
Went to Denny’s for supper. I wish there was a Denny’s in my city . . .
This made me laugh. Specifically the “It’s the the icing on the cake, but for pie” part.
Okay, here’s my heart-attack-in-a-bowl. Smothered cheese fries, no bacon, no ranch. It is basically fries with melted cheese and cheese sauce. It makes me die inside a little. [Or maybe that is just my arteries clogging].
This is cute. It looks like a Starbucks cup, but is actually reusable. The cap and pretend cup holder thingie are rubbery, and the cup is glass. Very cool.
Now for some weird stuff in our hotel bathroom . . .
Um, yeah, in Canada, we call this stuff “soap” not “deodorant bar”. Personally, my deodorant comes in a nice stick [that is full of unscented goodness that does not make me sick. Unscented FTW!]
This is by the sink in our bathroom. Cute, Super 8.
That is it. We’re heading back pretty early tomorrow [translated: 9:00-ish], so I will catch y’all when I get home [and perhaps show you the stuff I bought. Woohoo for buying stuff!]
Oh, also, I found Payday and Trix yogurt, as well as Combos pizza pretzel nuggets. No luck with the Yoo-Hoo. Oh well! Better luck next trip with the Yoo-Hoo [I haven’t had it in almost two years].
Hope everybody’s having a great weekend!
Greetings from Obama-land! [I facebook’ed that this morning, and my friends have all begun calling the States Obama-land.]
The last three times I’ve been in North Dakota, my breathing has gone from good/okay to sucky [One of those times probably doesn’t count because I had a cold, but whatever]. ( here, here )
i have only been feeling the teeniest bit off today, but I was able to distract myself from it and do some hardcore shopping. Yay for shopping! Both my energy and breathing started going downhill at about 7:15 [12 hours after my AM Symbicort . . . duh.] So woohoo for that!
[After taking my Symbicort, I felt wayyyy better. However, I took it like, 2 hours late, so that kind of was not fun, but things were okay [and I didn’t have to hit up the Ventolin in the middle of a store like one of the previous times I was here.
Now for the fun part. Here are some pictures from today of various American-type things.
In Menard’s. Which, for those of you unfamiliar, is a store full of junk you put in your house. [I suppose, however, that defines most stores.]
This is Christmas-land:
Um, hello? These are freaking AWESOME. I want to cover my lawn in these things.
We went to Hardee’s for lunch. Except for, being of the non-meat eating variety, I had raspberry Nestea [which is apparently the only type of sweetened iced tea that seems to be available in restaurants in this state?], as I am sick of fries. Since I was bored-like, I drew on the back of a comment card and left it on the table for the restaurant.
Race protein bars by Snickers? These amused me greatly. Steve, have you ever tried them?
Pomegranate 7-Up? Antioxidant 7-up? Antioxidant 7-up just seems wrong. I think if I were concerned about antioxidants, I wouldn’t be drinking 7-up.
This is epic. This person is staying at the same hotel as I am.
Is this a North Dakota thing, or are all the streets named after numbers? Because that’s just uninspired. Seriously.
Stamart! Which I constantly pronounce Stah-mart. Americans: is it “stah=mart” or “stay-mart"?
I bought these at Stamart. Kool-aid in little twisty top bottles!
Went to Denny’s for supper. I wish there was a Denny’s in my city . . .
This made me laugh. Specifically the “It’s the the icing on the cake, but for pie” part.
Okay, here’s my heart-attack-in-a-bowl. Smothered cheese fries, no bacon, no ranch. It is basically fries with melted cheese and cheese sauce. It makes me die inside a little. [Or maybe that is just my arteries clogging].
This is cute. It looks like a Starbucks cup, but is actually reusable. The cap and pretend cup holder thingie are rubbery, and the cup is glass. Very cool.
Now for some weird stuff in our hotel bathroom . . .
Um, yeah, in Canada, we call this stuff “soap” not “deodorant bar”. Personally, my deodorant comes in a nice stick [that is full of unscented goodness that does not make me sick. Unscented FTW!]
This is by the sink in our bathroom. Cute, Super 8.
That is it. We’re heading back pretty early tomorrow [translated: 9:00-ish], so I will catch y’all when I get home [and perhaps show you the stuff I bought. Woohoo for buying stuff!]
Oh, also, I found Payday and Trix yogurt, as well as Combos pizza pretzel nuggets. No luck with the Yoo-Hoo. Oh well! Better luck next trip with the Yoo-Hoo [I haven’t had it in almost two years].
Hope everybody’s having a great weekend!