What Kind of Pathetic Daddy’s Girl Spends Her Fake Spring Break in Ohio?

Filed under no i really do love ohio

I’ll be visiting my family and (real, not-just-out-of-convenience) friends (haha, just kidding, wonderful and supportive NYC friends) in Ohio for the rest of the week!

So far, my plans include:

• reluctantly eating home cooking when I know there’s a Dairy Queen 10 miles away (which in no way reflects the quality of the home cooking)

• photographing one of our scrapbooks for a brand new blog-in-the-making with my best friend, Tracey

• dancing at Skully’s on Ladies 80s night, which now apparently includes 90s songs (blasphemy!)

• making Dishy’s pumpkin whoopie pies and some sort of (hopefully many sorts of) cupcakes

• planning entire days of scrapbooking based around where Tracey and I want to eat beforehand and afterward

• getting sprinkles for the first time ever on my favourite ice cream from the best ice cream parlor in the whole world, Graeter’s

• trying to figure out why my parents’ TV is always set to the Hallmark channel whenever I turn it on

• as little else as possible

PUMPED!

14 Comments

  1. Erika says:

    oooh, have fun! i’m totally jealous, i was a regular at ladies 80s until i moved and probably still would be if i lived in columbus. there is no place better to dance all night!! and eat lots of graeters, and jeni’s too, missing those way too much.

    • Tracey and I feel really bad, because neither of us is a big drinker, and since we get in for free, the place is lucky to make $3 off of us. I’m sure it’s the same if you go to the same places all the time in NYC, but I just love that the exact same people are at Skully’s every Thursday. If the generic girl in the black t-shirt and glasses wasn’t humping the railing up on stage every time I go, I wouldn’t know what to do with myself.

      • Erika says:

        I don’t drink anymore either, so I feel like spending $3 for the whole night would make up for times like this weekend where I was charged $8 for the world’s tiniest bottle of water + $10 parking + $25 ticket + $12 “processing fee”. Karma!!

        Also, I’m on REAL spring break right now and it is totally weird to be a 27 year old self respecting woman saying that, but whatever, I’m into it.

  2. Jessica R. says:

    Sound like the best faux Spring Break ever!

    Also, there is a Dairy Queen in the entrance to my neighborhood. And I totally don’t feel guilty ordering baby blizzards.

  3. Dishy says:

    OOoh Can’t WAIT to hear all the goings-on after they go on! Especially can’t wait for you & Tracey to make whoopie pies … Oooooooohh golly – getting hungry just thinking about those lil babies. I have a cupcake for you two to try too:

    Mexican Chocolate Cupcakes

    They’re by Meg of Writemeg! fame — one of Nat’s book blogging buddies. I am DYING To make them, but John doesn’t like watering down his FIRE with things like chocolate, and the girls don’t like spice that much – and I really shouldn’t eat 2 dozen cupcakes myself, though I may have to.

    • I have to run out to the airport, but I just wanted to say how great those cupcakes look! Thanks! Come to Ohio this weekend and sample them with us!

      • Dishy says:

        Katie – if I could travel without fear of repercussion, ever – it would be for a girls weekend of cupcake indulgence. Safe and happy travels and a wonderful spring break to you all!

  4. Aunt Brenda says:

    Yippee! Spring break in Ohio! Come and see us if you can fit it in!

  5. Chris says:

    Sounds like Ohio is bumpin’ (for Ohio) I’ll make it a point to slow down or even stop or gas next time I drive through :-P

  6. That sounds like the funnest spring break EVER, in my opinion.

    Makes you wonder why people even BOTHER with Panama City and South Padre Island.

  7. Lisa says:

    And now I want a cookie dough blizzard.

    Have fun!!

  8. Tracey says:

    I’m so pumped that we actually did most of the things on this list!

    And so, so sad that it went so fast and you’re already gone.