Bacon Flip

Have you ever wondered what bacon flavored vodka tastes like? Or are you shaking your head in disbelief that bacon flavored vodka exists? Well it does. And I've tasted it.

I didn't actually taste it by itself, however. I may be from Iowa, but I do not like bacon. I like vodka, but my dislike of bacon trumped that. Luckily, the reason the bacon vodka was purchased was to be an ingredient in something much more spectacular: The Bacon Flip.

The Bacon Flip ingredients are as follows:

• 1 raw egg
• Bacon Vodka
• Bailey's Irish Cream
• Maple Syrup

It's breakfast in a shot. Our shots got a little excessive because the ingredients were not measured out at all. So it turned into a plastic cup of breakfast madness.

We'd been hyping ourselves up about the Bacon Flip all week at work. And when I was stirring the egg up in my cup, I was very apprehensive. I also don't like eggs. I know, I don't think I'm really a native Iowan. But truth be told, the Bacon Flip was not nearly as awful as it could have been. The maple syrup masked everything. The worst part of the whole experience was feeling the egg go down because it was stringy and felt like a snot rocket.

The Bacon Flip was conquered. Let it be known.

Hooting Owls

I stepped out on to my mom and dad's back porch around sun down this evening and I heard owls hooting. Yes, my parents live in Iowa, which most people think is all farm land, but they do not live on a farm and I've never heard hooting owls before. So went back inside to spread my joy and I ran into my dad first. I said, "Dad, did you know there are owls out back?" And he looked at me like I was freaking stupid. But my mom overheard my joy of owls from the back bedroom and was excited about the prospect of hooting owls, too. She came out to hear them. Mom spotted them. There were two of them.

It was spooky and very Halloweeny (hee hee, that sounds funny) for the owls to be hooting so close to the house this evening.