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A pillar of strength against baked goods, that’s me.
I deserve a freaking award. I got out of the Collin Street Bakery without buying anything sweet.
Had I visited the new bakery on Interstate 35 two weeks ago, I would have said, “Screw it, my head hurts” and bought something sinful. But this week I’m trying out something new — virtuosity.
Wednesday began so strangely, things really could have gone either way. I got to work early, determined to have a good day … and then ate the small salad I brought for lunch, for breakfast.
I had a lunchtime school board meeting, which is usually all you need to convince you that you deserve pizza. Or chocolate-covered, ranch-dipped, fried cheese. Ya know, whatever. So it’s no surprise that Collin Street Bakery sounded like a good place to go after the meeting (which was a planning session about planning, for the record).
But it turns out that $4.50 at the Collin Street Bakery will buy you the best little chicken salad sandwich in town. The sandwich is small, but intense and packed with white meat chicken. My favorite in Waco. For reals, yo.
I browsed the rows of cookies and lists of cheesecakes, trying to convince myself to get something for the newsroom. But I finally called that idea what it really was — me paying $20 to justify having one piece of cheesecake.
I give the Bakery a very polite two thumbs up. The chicken salad is excellent and a friend told me the bathrooms are really clean (good to know!). It seems like the perfect place to take your relatives who come to town who don’t dig doing the hole in the wall thing.
Take your Grandma to Collin Street Bakery, get her a sandwich and a macaroon and she’ll send you a letter written in precious grandma cursive that says something like, “Wendy, you’re becoming such a lovely young woman! I so enjoyed attending church with you and then eating at that adorable little bakery. What was it called? We’ll have to go there again. Stay sweet, darlin.” (Clearly, your Grandma doesn’t know me AT ALL, but that’s another issue)
Please go and eat something horrible, and preferably chocolate, for me!
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By Cecil 1
June 3, 2009 5:02 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
You left the sweet shop and didn’t by a thing sweet?? good god your sick ,, oh yes by the way do not come back from Ireland with out pic..
By mark
June 4, 2009 12:32 AM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
Hey, glad to see you back and blogging. I can’t remember if I’m replying to your previous blog or this one, oh well, I’ll probably cover both with this… As far as going to Ireland, and it just occured to me that “raising someones ire” may be a cautionary term, I would suggest that you NOT do anything that El Doable, er, El Diablo recommended (especially in Ire land). That guy’s a fashionista nut job. He wears “man skirts” i.e. “kilts”. Just to clue you in, I first found him going thru a dumpster for a clean t-shirt, for me or him I don’t remember. I started to post yesterday but the Irish whiskey got in the way and some comedian whose name I can’t remember called it the long ugly vowel… Aaaeeeiiiohhuhh… yes, it was that bad. I really enjoyed the blog post. It was (dare I say, I dare, I dare!) your most prosaic that I can recall. Oh, Dave Matthews band rocked on Jimmy Kimmel tonight.
By Paddy O'Diablo
June 4, 2009 5:49 AM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
The thing I like most about “dumpster shopping” behind funeral homes is that nobody is going to say, “Hey, isn’t that my old shirt that I threw away last week?” when they see you wearing it in the Dollar Store.
By wendy
June 4, 2009 9:32 AM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
Wheeee!(giggle)It’s so nice to talk to y’all again! I’ve been such a bad blogger! Anyhow …
But Em, I already bought a Hannah Montana fanny pack! Dang! :) Thanks for all the advice guys, please keep it coming. And I, in turn, will continue to inflict my travel anxiety upon you. That’s what friends with blogs are for!
By Cecil 1
June 5, 2009 8:47 AM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
Wheeee!(giggle)It’s so nice to talk to y’all again! I’ve been such a bad blogger! Anyhow …
YEA, YOU BEEN A VERY,VERY BAD GIRL, SHAME ON YOU, WORKING, INSTEAD OF BLOGING, HUMPPP, DISGUSTING..
By Jacqueline Deavenport
June 5, 2009 12:41 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
Wendy, don’t tell me about another bakery! I’m already hooked on What About Cupcakes?!