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Today’s theme is muffins.

More specifically, when they are going to put them out in the cafe.

I had an early morning meeting today and I wavered on whether I would just work from home and call in, or whether I would get up before dawn cracked and get into the office for it. I chose the latter for the sole reason that I went to bed at 9pm last night and simply couldn’t stay awake after 5:00am this morning.

I showered, drove into the office, and made my way to the cafe to get my coffee. Ironically I only drink decaf when I’m at work, but let’s not go there right now. Typically my breakfast consists of a banana. I used to get breakfast burritos but I’m watching my calories so bananas are a healthy/delicious and low-cal alternative.

While I was fixing my coffee I overheard a man say “when are you gonna put out the muffins?” or “where are the muffins?” or “give me my darn muffins!“. It was one of the three I’m sure. It had something to do with the fact that there were no muffins set out and he obviously wanted to have one for breakfast. As a note – they don’t set the muffins out until 7:00am, and it was only 6:45am. Tough luck dude. I grabbed my banana and smiled at him as I walked out of the cafe. (get your minds out of the gutter)

Muffins are pretty darn good – especially the muffin tops. I’ve always been one of those people who only likes the top of a cake or the top of a muffin. There’s something about the part that was closer to the heating element that gives it that wonderful crispness and deliciousness. I’ve even seen places that specifically sell “muffin tops” vs. the “muffin”. They know their target audience – and somehow muffin tops cost the same as an entire muffin in most of those shops. Strange.

Muffins are so amazing that there are even films dedicated to muffins. Muffin Films by Amy Winfrey offers some delightful animated movies honoring the muffin. Be sure to check out #6 – The Muffin Tree which has a wonderful moral lesson reminiscent of the Animaniacs.

Muffins, specifically muffin tops have also made it into the Urban Dictionary to describe: When a woman wears a pair of tight jeans that makes her flab spill out over the waistband, just like the top of a muffin sits over the edge of the paper case.

Powerful stuff. Powerful stuff indeed.

And so today I honor the muffin, the muffin top, the muffin bottom, and even the muffin wrapper. Praise be the muffin.

I had decided not to blog about it (I tweeted it instead), but I figured what the heck.

Yesterday was the SuperBowl, blah blah blah. Actually the game wasn’t bad, and I think that the Saints played well enough that they deserved the win. It’s good for New Orleans as well (and they sure reminded us of that throughout the entire broadcast).

But I found myself constantly distracted by twitter – watching people’s reactions to the commercials. Yes there were a FEW people talking about the game, but mostly people were commenting on the commercials. Unfortunately, this year we didn’t have that much to pick from.

Compared to previous years I say this year gets a D+ for quality and variety of commercials. There were a lot of themes this year: rodents, men in underwear, womanizing. But 90% of them weren’t even funny. (and did anyone notice that the F*cus on the F*mily advertisement was a bit toned down from the original plan?)

Only a few kept my attention and made me remember them (for various reasons), so here they are:

• KGB: It’s no longer just a secret police, now it’s a search engine (this one was memorable because of how dumb I think it is) – http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-super-bowl-commercials/09000d5d81645010/KGB-commercial
• Dante’s Inferno: A new game from Electronic Arts (looks like an amazing game although not available on PC) – http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-super-bowl-commercials/09000d5d81643a88/Dante-s-Inferno-commercial

And then two that are worth embedding for your viewing pleasure…

and of course…

For me, the Betty White ad wins the day. Why? Because, well, it’s Betty White! And if you don’t like it, she’ll cut you.

I hope you all had a wonderful SuperBowl Sunday!!