More food & friends (a popular theme)

Food:
Just when I'd had enough pasta & ragu and pasta in broth to last a lifetime, and was ready to shun pasta altogether, I had the most amazing Spaghetti carbonara for lunch today. mmmm. I still could really use a pb&j, cheetos and a dr. pepper, but lunch today reminded me how wonderful Italian food can be too :) Not to mention that I have a powdered sugar croissant for breakfast almost every morning... I don't think that will ever get old.

An unfortunate story of my peanut butter search: I've tried a few places now. It's getting a little frustrating. My host mother drove me to some all-natural-products store and said it would probably be there. It wasn't. I looked around a few other stores, but the only thing I continually find is shelf after shelf stocked full of nutella. Nutella is good, great. Peanut butter is too. I don't understand why some people think because they're both made from nuts they are essentially the same thing, one American and one European, and therefore one may only like one kind or the other. I think they are both delicious and appropriate at different times with different things. Anyway, I go on one last trip to the grocery store and they have ONE JAR!!! I am so happy. Grinning as if it were destiny that I find this ONE jar that is left. But wait...the seal is broken. But wait...there is usually another seal under the cap! But no, it's gone. The peanut butter is not sealed and who knows who opened it or how long ago. Although I was kind of happy to be able to go talk to a store worker about this problem, explain what was wrong & ask if there was more all easily in Italian, it in no way made up for the fact that he said there were no more jars, and then chunked my one jar in and across the back room into the garbage. Fail. :( I guess I'll try again soon.

Social life:
I went out on Wednesday night to celebrate Australia day with my new aussie friends. It didn't mean much to me, but it was still really fun to hang out with people who were so excited for their national day. We of course had appertivi & drinks first, in the middle of which I walked around the corner and got an incredible HUGE piece of pizza from a street vendor for 1,20 euro. Amazing. We went to a few bars that were kind of lame, and didn't stay long at any. The Irish one was nice because it felt more like a bar at home. And Susan introduced me to a new yummy drink... vodka lemon lime. Very good. Overall, a good night, although I was still kind of hoping for another nutella crepe. Hopefully this weekend...
There were also two guys from OU in Oklahoma that joined us this night and it made me SO happy to have some of "my people" there too. It was just so nice to not be the only one looking around the table baffled with confusion when words like "trackies" and "jumpers" were used.


((Susan & me celebrating Australia day... with Australia flag tatoos!))