I'm back!

Hey all. So the Christmas season eventually took over the blogging and I've been spending quite a bit of time with a girl. Don't read anything into that, it is literally just spending time together, mostly eating and shopping at Target. Unfortunately, my new friendship has come at the cost of my blog. Well I'm hoping to get back to daily notes, but I have the feeling it'll settle somewhere around two or three posts a week. Still better than my latest average of none a week.

Last night we went to BJ's, a restaurant we'd visited before. I'm going to let the lousy service go because that isn't the point of this and it wasn't spectacularly bad. Just...not good.

I ordered the Parmesan crusted chicken and, while it was good, there was something that just struck me funny about it. Before breading and cooking the chicken breast, they cooks pound it nearly flat. I assume it's to keep the outside from burning before the middle is cooked. It's a sound principle, but it looks ridiculous. I end up with sitting behind a serving platter, literally, with two pieces of chicken that are each 8" across. To make them look even bigger, there's maybe a table spoon of sauce pooled in the corner of one piece. Evidently, the chicken's easy but the sauce is hard to come by.

The final difficulty I have is that my friend is on a diet. So while she's decided she's only eating half of her meal, no soda and definitely no dessert, I'm sitting in front of something that looks like its own buffet station. Hard part is, not only is it delicious but it's the only thing that ever sounds good. Guess I'll have to sacrifice a little dignity, but it's worth it.