Anna DeStefano's Blog

I owe you a sonnet on Michelle’s and my hotel experience last weekend, and I’m good for it. But this fine Saturday morning, my family’s whirling like a runaway top, and I’m chasing dust bunnies in their shadows trying to keep up. So, here’s some of the things that gave me some Internet happiness (or double-takes)  as I re-entered my “normal” life this week.

I’ve never worried about aging, never had a “list” of things I needed to do by a certain age to feel fulfilled, never looked back (much) at some point in the dwindling past thinking THOSE were the days.I accept every morning (and I know it’s a blessing) that better stuff is ahead. The “it’s all downhill from here” perspective of some? Forgeddaboutit.

So, I give you 4 Cool Women Making 40 Fantastic.

I do drink expensive, designer coffee, but only because Starbucks makes it the best, the way I like it (incredibly strong, yet decaf and doused in tons of fat-free milk and so cold you can feel your throat bracing itself just before you take your first sip).

What I don’t do is indulge (very often) in the pastry in their cases or the hot chocolate or the other “light” and yummy looking things they offer that, to me, seem just a little too good to be true. Not to mention the fact that if I ate that much sugar and fat in the middle of the day, I’d be in a coma before I managed to drive wherever I was headed next. But I know others love the goodies, and I don’t judge.

Except, when I see the latest “mini” bites of heaven tempting folks as soon as they walk in Starbucks door. Birthday cake pops and mini cupcakes and tiny red velvet woopie pies… OMG!!! If my low blood sugar wasn’t the one thing about my system rivalling my thyroid problems for top billing in the making me sick department, I’d have dove head first, love at first sight, into the pastry case.

They’re so cute. And they’re just a tiny bite. Everyone can have one of these and feel good about their choice, right?

Forgeddaboutit.

Average calorie count: 170-190, for each tiny taste! For the spiced carrot cake with cream cheese frosting mini–100 out of 190 calories are from fat. 25% of which is saturated fat. Dietary fiber, 0 grams.

I mean, I know this isn’t supposed to be health food. But here’s Starbuck’s “healthy” talk on their main food page, “You told us what’s important to you – real, wholesome food that is naturally delicious. So we removed the trans fats, artificial flavors, artificial dyes and high fructose corn syrup from everything in our food case. All you enjoy is the goodness of delicious food made from real ingredients. So now our food not only tastes better, it is better.”

I actually started laughing right there at the counter the other day.

And finally, in honor of my son–whom I believe was already an engineer in the womb–I leave you with the largest Great Ball Contraption in the world, made entirely of LEGO! You have to see this thing…

Now THAT’s unforgetable!

Tags: anna’s world, creativity & inspiration, travels and memories

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