Day 242

Blurb: Do work son!

Backstory: I've spent today tackling my outrageous to-do list. It's gotten so long because I'm super lazy on the weekends (this is a decision I'm now regretting). The pressure is also mounting because I get the keys to my new place two weeks from tomorrow. That means I need to set up my utilities and try to find a cable plan that won't made me go broke. Today I probably spent an hour on the phone setting up utilities and calling about couch prices. Needless to say I'm a little drained and disheartened.
I don't need a cable plan that's close to a hundred dollars. I really only watch seven channel(at the max) and use Internet. If cable companies really wanted to make some money they would create some sort of pay $2 for every channel you want. This would allow people like me to just pay for E!, Comedy Central, TLC and ESPN. Because honestly all I want to do is watch Toddlers and Tiaras, Chelsea Lately, The Daily Show and Ohio State games. I managed to get most of the items knocked off my list but I still have a little ways to go.

Day 241

Blurb: This thing is kind of like crack.

Backstory: Today I'm making a formal declaration: the Dairy Queen blizzard you see pictured above will be my last blizzard of the summer. I will not be having another one of these until next year. I make this statement with high hopes, because let's be honest who needs to eat one of these 500+ calorie streets every week.

Day 240

Blurb: Awww look at us.

Backstory: I'm sure you're familiar with this young lady, she's been pictured in my blog before enjoying some margaritas. It's my former DC roommate and grand little Christine "Chrissy" "Chris" Dennis. Right now this little booger is living in Cincinnati and denying me her entertaining in-person conversation. Today I was luckily enough to catch this lady about town after a bachelorette party, needless to say she was hungover when we met.
Because she was in need of greasy food and because I love greasy food in general, we went to one of my favorite old haunts: Jack and Benny's. It's a diner specializing in breakfast and it's right outside OSU's off campus area. During my junior and senior years of college I probably went there every other week. Chris on the other hand had never had the fantastic experience of Jack and Benny's buckeye pancake and butter drenched hash browns. So we enjoyed ourselves today, gorging in food and talking all manners of shit. I miss her little face and hope to see more as the year progresses.

Day 239

Blurb: Yes, this is an owl made from bacon.

Backstory: Today I did something child Bailey would have been really proud of: I went to Bacon Camp. It's a lot like what it sounds like, I ate bacon in many different forms for an hour. I'm just going to get strait to the meat, here's what I had:
Bacon Eclair
Bacon Cheddar Dip
Bacon-Whiskey Jelly
Bacon Pop-Tart
Three different types of BLTs
Bacon Wrapped dates stuffed with Pecans
Bacon Cupcakes with Avocado dressing
Spicy-Sweet Bacon
and some type of Bacon Manwich
Yeah, that was a lot of bacon and it was actually pretty overwhelming when I was done. Did I also mention that there was a big plate of bacon so you could just eat it whenever you needed a normal fix?
I have to give credit to the people who came up with the really unique recipes, which were judged in competition. Most of the restaurants that were there had tasting plates with savory snacks; all of the BLTs were made by restaurants. The competition food on the other hand was extremely unique and the majority of it mixed bacon with some type of sweet.
It was a tie when it came to picking my favorite, it was a toss up between the bacon pop tart and the bacon eclair. When it came to the pop tart I really enjoyed it because the pastry wasn't too sweet, it was a nice balance with the bacon because bacon can be an overwhelming flavor. It was one of the few things I wanted to go back and eat, the only problem was they were eaten every quickly. The eclair had a really interesting brown sugar flavoring that was the most unique in the competition. Plus there were baby eclairs so you could eat more than one. The bacon flavoring in this was very understated and it seems like a very classy desert.
So today I salute bacon camp and that amazing bacon owl structure you see in the picture. No, you could not eat this, or the neighboring picture of Kevin Bacon, but it was totally made up for with the half a pig I consumed.

Day 238

Blurb: This shit is insane.

Backstory: Who knew people in Columbus would get so excited over food trucks? I certainly didn't expect it when I headed out to the first food truck festival. It was so incredibly crowded when I got there you couldn't move. Some of the lines for the trucks were a hundred people deep and there were only two beverage tents at the event (and when I say beverage tents I mean any type of drink). It was a great event for the vendors but when it came to people who actually wanted to eat it sucked.
I don't think the event planners were prepared for the number of people that would show up. One of the local sites says 12,000 people attended the six hour food-fest. It was held on the Columbus Commons and that place was totally packed, children were running around like pacts of wild animals while I was trying to get food. This added to my upset along with the fact that I couldn't get a grilled cheese sandwich from the grilled cheese truck. It was an ok time, so whatever.

Day 237

Blurb: I am now committed to fantasy football.

Backstory: A couple years ago I tried playing fantasy football but a quickly lost interest. Things are going to be different this year, I've committed to playing in a league at work and I want to make sure I have at least a non-embarrassing showing. The best part about participating in fantasy football is picking a name for your team. Guys are pretty funny and come up with a lot of good names; I believe my friend Drew has the most epic name: Hurricane Ditka. I settled on Toddlers, Tiaras and Ditka for my team but here's the list of names I considered:
My Big Fat Fantasy Football Team
DD Divas
One Eyed Dog Wonders
Big Fat Crying Babies
Irish Cream in Your Coffee
Mohawk Street Zombies
Columbia Heights Rejects
The Green Line.
I'm pretty happy with my choice and I found a really creepy picture of a little girl to use as my logo. Needless to say this season's off to a pretty good start.

Day 236

I forgot to push the magazine this month, so that's what's happening today. There are only a few days left in the month so head out today and pick one up.