"Love that chicken from popeyes!"

Yesterday Foti and I were doing so many errands to prepare for both sets of parents. Both sides are coming from Houston to watch Foti get his 1st place award for best feature story! Of course, I totally think he won because my friends and I were in it! (Kidding, but only slightly.) He won for best feature in his market. The story was called "personal papparazzi" and it's genius.

Moving on to the unhealthy part of my day, we had bed frames to buy and little things to get ready for our 4 guests this weekend.

With stress, traffic and a laundry list of items to do within 48 hours we were famished from all the thinking, driving and planning for this weekend. We were about 39 miles away from home, where the healthy food lives. It was 3pm and we hadn't eaten all day. Have you ever been there? Too busy to eat early in the day, so you reward yourself with some fried, unhealthy goodness? Oh wait, is that just me? On that same note, I definitely think it's harder to eat healthy when you're on the run and busy. It's either starve by not eating at all, or eat the worst possible things created on the earth. Foti and I chose the latter.

There was a Popeyes and there's not one within 20 miles of where we live. Dangerous!!! In fact, I would say they're rare in Austin. (Coming from La. where they're on almost every corner, I crave it like you wouldn't believe.)

We spot one on route to yet, another errand. Then, it's over. Just over.Foti and I just look at each other. We know what's next. Like a magnet to a fridge, we're there. We're so there. We scarfed down 10 wings in 2 minutes. I had 4 and he had 6. You know, because I'm dainty and need to eat less! HA! Well, that made me feel better anyway. We got water, so that definitely saved a lot of calories, right?! (Leave me to my thoughts!) But, even though it was so good while we were eating those tasty, fried, delicious wings, we both felt bad afterwards. Great fast food is totally like having an affair on yourself. It's great while it's happening, but then regret, shame and more regret. Yet, we still "love that chicken from popeyes!"

p.s. and who said effective marketing doesn't build customers for life? at least I never watched commercial for smoking ...