Weight Loss Plan

Last Friday night, me, Stephen, and Hayley went on a diet. If you would like to easily cut 500 calories out of your evening, follow the procedure below:

1) Put 6 cups ice cream in blender.
2) Put 1 cup Nestle Quick mix in blender.
3) Mix up ice cream and Nestle Quick.
4) Taste-test ice cream. Mmmmmm.
5) Turn and lift out the blender/pitcher
6) Realize that you forgot to connect the bottom of the blender to the pitcher . . . the pitcher was just kind of sitting on top, tight enough to hold in the shake, but not actually connected . . .
7) Watch as your lovely milkshake flows through the bottom of the pitcher and all over your kitchen.

I really can't describe how I felt at that moment when I lifted off the pitcher. Time seemed to slow down. It was one of those moments when your eyes see something, but your brain can't quite grasp what's going on because it's so unexpected, because it's not something you realized was possible. WHAT? How is the ice cream coming out of the BOTTOM of the pitcher? AAAAHHHH . . . and then we burst into hysterical giggles. The irony of it all. I really wish I'd taken a picture . . . but who thinks to do that when there's ice cream spilling all over the kitchen? Come to think of it, though, it was quite an aesthetic experience. The chocolate smelled wonderful, and it flowed very uniformly out and down. The movement of the chocolate was like that of a gentle wave. Haha. What is that art called in the Humanities? A "happening," where the art comes from the process of creation, rather than from an actual finished product? That's what it was. See, we were actually getting in touch with our unconventional artistic sides . . .