"Life is uncertain eat dessert first! "

ok that is my fave motto to live by! and i totally do it! i go out to a restaurant and order dessert as my appetizer! sometimes i get odd looks from who I'm with or the waiter. but generally, it goes over well. my reasoning behind this is, i never have room for dessert , i eat salad and bread, and then dinner, well i can take dinner home, but i wouldn't normally think, " hey i am totally gonna order dessert to take home." It's more like... "holy crap i am full and i can't eat another bite! " so if i get dessert first, i might have less salad, less bread and take leftover dinner home for lunch tomorrow. all while getting to enjoy the wonder of dessert at the restaurant which is in my opinion the best part.

now there have been times that i don't do this. and they are...

1. when my husband realized i puked after every meal out either in the bathroom or in the parking lot when i was pregnant with my first kid. and every time i have been prego since, but he lets me get my dessert to go and i eat it after i throw up dinner . plus we have since not gone out as much, the more kids we have, but my sister had to wonder why we went out at all during the first pregnancy just because i was so ill. and i was paying for food i couldn't keep down. and vomiting everywhere we went! i got really good at throwing up.
   
2. at restaurants that i don't love their dessert i can just totally not get any that visit. Like PF Changs i love the food but the dessert is lacking.
   
3. i don't do it at cheap places, or for lunch usually
   
4. when i am with my kids. because then they would want some too. and wouldn't eat dinner. plus i generally have to finagle them to eat dinner when we go out by offering dessert as a reward. like at Mi Amigos we have to get sopapillas afterward every time. and it is their fave part. but then i rarely have any. and let all the kids have mine.
   

I like my dessert before i eat real food, because if i eat it afterward i feel sick. i have to eat something salty after my sweet stuff.

one time i told my new friend this quote ,when we went to dinner the first time and i had just ordered my dessert , and she said "that is so true!" and she went into a story about one Thanksgiving, her father in law died from a heart attack after Thanksgiving dinner before they had dessert, and they never got to have pie! and the horrible next few weeks afterward. it was a sad story really. and i can't image how lame that would be!

OH i just remembered i have a sign, I made in vinyl lettering! i need to get that out and hang it up! gosh i forgot about it. LIFE is uncertain eat dessert first.