Showing posts with label guilty pleasures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label guilty pleasures. Show all posts

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Thursday's Ten: True Confessions, Bloggy Style



Confession is good for the soul
And sometimes good for a laugh or two!

Today's Ten is all about confessing. I'm not talking deep dark secrets here (unless you just really wanna)...more of the silly kind of confessing.

Ten Confessions of Mine

1. Sometimes, just for a minute or two, I really think my stuffed animals can hear me and feel things. Guess that child never truly vanished.

2. I love love LOVE McDonalds. I know it's weird, especially for my former ED self, but dangit quarter pounders and sweet tea are the bomb. I DO limit myself to visits. Well, with the burgers at least. Hard to beat $1 for a large sweet tea.

3. I have an unhealthy adoration of ranch dressing. I have been known to lick it off of things and out of containers. It's like this with all condiments--I could eat them on their own. It's just that ranch is my FAVORITE.
(remember the Will and Grace episode with this dialogue?
GRACE: Yes, that's right. You've left me absolutely no time, but I once threw together a dinner party for eight with nothing in the fridge but mustard and a roll of film.

WILL: Yeah, and all we have to remember that evening is double prints of eight angry people getting sick eating mustard soup.

yeah. I could totally do a meal with nothing but my fridge door.)

4. my sleep habits are crap. I've tried to change this. It doesn't work. Something in my body will not allow me to fall asleep before 11:30 pm, and my body's favorite bedtime is 2 am. Which means I need to sleep until 9 or 10 am to get a full night's sleep in. Unfortunately, the US does not operate on that type of clock so I end up being extremely tired all day. I DO try to get to bed in the midnight to 1 am range, but every night is another battle.
(and yes, I've tried pills. But I hate pumping chemicals into my body)

5. I separate candy out by color before eating it.

6. I adore napping. This may or may not be directly related to #4.

7. I looked like this in high school. My how I've changed.

8. When I was growing up I just KNEW someone had broken into our house and if I moved they would kill our family. I would literally wake up to go to the bathroom and lay there frozen until I couldn't wait any longer then SPRINT to the bathroom and back. While I no longer have that hang-up (thank goodness) the memories are vivid.
Yet I can't get enough of crime dramas or movies. Guess it's the police officer blood in my family (dad and brother both have spent time in law enforcement).

9. In fact, if I didn't want to be a mommy more, I would have already followed the steps to entering the FBI. Dream job.

10. Since I can remember, I've always felt that I'm going to have cancer someday. Perhaps it's because my county growing up had a very high rate of cancer.. I've learned that my "feelings" on stuff like this are usually accurate.
(let me be clear...I don't currently have cancer, nor do I think it's going to be the cause of my death. but it DOES explain the fascination I have with it. It doesn't scare me...yet, at least.)

What about you? Grab the TT button, sign McLinky and then... 'fess up!







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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Halloween 5K...or Downfall by Donut

The day dawned bright and WAY early, and Kat (who had spent the night) and I made our way to the fair town of Smyrna, TN.

The thing about Tennessee is that they love to confuse people with their directions. Hence this random picture of the road that lead where the 5K began. "East Enon Springs West" the sign reads...



Did I mention it was early for a Saturday morning? Hence the thrilled looks among us. Can YOU find the morning person in this group?
(left to right is A's aunt, granny, mom and sisters Hailey and Kat)


I noticed this wonderful car in the yard of one of the houses we passed. Klassy.

Hailey and I were the only 2 that actually ran any of the 5K. Neither of us ran very long, but hey, we did it!
And we finished together!

Anthony's mom and granny finished together too, and were laughing at us as we cheered them.


then came the refreshments for the participants...
beginning with water


but then...


came the amazing
tantilizing
glorious
homemade
DONUTS


We all enjoyed them


Oh, there was healthy food...


and oh, there was Chik-Fil-A


but donuts


Donuts screamed our name


To be completely fair, I only split a donut with Kat, and since we had burned over 500 calories according to my handy treadmill/pedometer app on my iPhone...I figured we deserved it.
Plus these donuts were AMAZING.
I even brought one home for A.
Which we split.

Next 5K: January 23, 2010
Nashville Zoo
I'm running at LEAST half of it, perhaps all of it.


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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Weekend Wordle and Six Words

Shannon is hosting weekend wordles as usual--here's mine for this week:





I found white fudge oreos already!



They are to the winter season what pumpkin delights are to fall.
Beautiful.
As long as I don't find the 5 pounds that I've lost lately because I've found them...we're doing good.


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