Hello, hello, friendly faces! Happy Monday to ya! 😀
So. Uhm. Okay. I was hoping to share a cookie recipe with you guys today, but the one I’m working on still needs a bit more tweaking, and I didn’t have a chance to do enough of that this weekend since I spent the majority of Sunday with my momma. You know… Mother’s Day and all.
SO! We’re pushing the cookies back a few days and busting out the Currentlies. This post is actually a little overdue anyways, since I normally do them at the beginning of each new month. And cookies soon! Promise.
Current book: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. I’ve heard this author being compared to Patrick Rothfuss (who wrote one of my favourite books — The Name of the Wind), so I decided to check him out and I’m enjoying this one so far. I’m only about 60 pages in (out of 530) so I can’t say much for the storyline, but I really like the writing.
Current music: We Can’t Stop by Timeflies [Tuesday]. Easy on the ears, and easy on the eyes. Mmm hmm.
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Current [non]-guilty pleasure: I had to borrow a page from Meg’s book here and change this to NON-guilty pleasure since I always had such a hard time thinking of something that I enjoy but guilty for. And this month’s pleasure is finally being able to take my walks/runs outside and having this about 5 minutes from my door…
Current nail colour: Passion from OPI. Baby/nude pinks like this one are pretty much my favourite polishes to wear on a daily basis because they give you a nice classy colour and shine, and you barely notice when they chip.
Current drink: Green smoothies, all day, everyday. Well… every morning, anyways. Love how refreshed and energized I feel after starting my day with one of these, and they’re a great way to get in some extra vitamins and minerals, especially if you’re not so big on salads.
Current food: Chocolate Mighty Flakes from Love Grown Foods. Holy.snap, you guys. I’m not even sure if I should recommend that you go out and try these because they’re.so.crazy.addicting. The crunchy, flaky texture is on point, and they legit taste like brownies. I may need to join a support group.
Current obsession: Raw chocolate. So much love for Zimt chocolate and cacao right now.
Current wish: That I could find more than 2 flavours of aforementioned raw chocolate. I mean, I love coffee, but I don’t always want it combined with my chocolate. It’s either that or cayenne pepper, though, and me and anything spicy is just… no.
Current need: A dress for Blend! I kind of need one by Friday night, which leaves me 3 days to find one since I’m leaving on Thursday morning. Have I mentioned that I like to wait until the very last minute to do things? 😆 But I’ve got my eye set on this one…
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… I just need to actually try it on and decide between black or red. Whatcha guys think?
Current triumph: Running these stairs in the river valley a few times a week. I feel like Rocky when I get to the top. Well, when my legs stop shaking, anyways.
Current bane of my existence: The cookie recipe that I mentioned at the beginning of this post. I feel like I’m so close to perfecting it. Just a few more tweaks.
Current indulgence: Aforementioned rejected chocolate chip cookies… Although it’s not so much an indulgence as it is a necessary evil at this point 😆
Current procrastination: Packing my suitcase… which is probably my answer to this question at least 80% of the time.
Current blessing: Family. No idea how I’d get by without them.
Current excitement: 3 more days until I get to see some of my best blogging buddies at Blend!
Current mood: Excited, nervous, and scatterbrained… which is basically how I feel before every trip.
Current link: Can You Pass This Middle School Quiz from 1995? Bam. Nailed it.
Your turn! Give me your current:
1) … book.
2) … food.
3) … wish.
4) … mood.
5) … bane of existence.
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That test was amusing. At first I was surprised that Bulgaria was among the highest scoring countries but after doing the test I feel bad for the kids who actually don’t know such simple facts. I don’t know how things have changed since I was a kid but back then this stuff was elementary school level.
Dress… I’d pick the black one. I’m in love with red but it’s a bold colour and combined with the length of the dress it would only make me feel uncomfortable and anxious. If it were a little longer, I’d definitely pick red.
Red, red, red! I am already excited to take a picture with you in that dress— you’re gonna kill it.
Current food: Artichokes! I always get them on salads when I’m out, and I looooove them. But I should try getting some myself to make salads and dips at home!
Current mood: excited, content, excited. 🙂
Red dress!!
3 more days! I didn’t get a chance to talk to you last time – hopefully we can this time!
YES! It’s so hard to talk to everyone since there are so many people there and we’ve only got a few days 🙁
Ooooh, I like the dress! Black is always a classic, but the red is pretty fun.
And I’m impressed that you run those stairs. Walking up them killed me a little.
1) … book. – The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs. Definitely not what I normally read, but it’s pretty interesting.
2) … food. – the dark chocolate covered pretzels that I bought today. Yum.
3) … wish. – that I was going to Blend with you!
4) … mood. Tired. Sleep has been escaping me lately.
5) … bane of existence. Hmm. maybe the fact that it snowed this morning? I miss the 26 degree weather we had like 2 weeks ago.
Red dress all the way! I don’t have a dress. They’re all for 90-100 degree weather and yeah it’s only going to be 60’s in Boulder. Way too cold for this girl! I think I’m landing on a black skirt with a lace shirt I bought in Munich.
I’m not overly impressed with the weather either 🙁 It might even rain on Saturday, so I wonder how that’s gonna play out since that’s the day of the hike…
My sister gave me 3 books to read, so I am excited to tackle those since we have similar tastes. It is always nice when you have a friend/sibling who gives you good recommendations. I don’t like going into a book store and not knowing what the heck I want to read. 😉
Ugh I know what you mean. I usually do some research on Goodreads before picking out a book, but even that has lead me astray on a few occasions.
I love the amount of chocolate featured in this post. That rocks. I vote red on the dress! You should stand out Amanda. 🙂 Those stairs are ridiculous! I am impressed by your willingness to run them!
The dress is HOT! Go with the red! You always say your closet is full of grays and blacks. This is a once a year event so get a once a year dress! ;o) lol
The dress is HOT! I would go with the red because you always say your closet is full of blacks and grays. This is a once in a year thing, so buy a once a year dress! ;o)
Current…
1) … book. – I’m currently going between the Tiny Buddha book and a book I found on Amazon… I forget the title… -.-
2) … food. Oatmeal with pb and banana. Classic.
3) … wish. Money. It can’t buy happiness, but it can pay for my student loans.
4) … mood. Meh. Not great, not bad. Kind of anxious?
5) … bane of existence. My gut!… I don’t wanna go TMI, though. lol
Get packin’, chicka!
Is it weird that your Currently posts are my favorite? Well, that and your recipes of course 😉
And girllll that dress! I say since it’s spring/summer you should choose color, but knowing you, Im going to guess you’ll pick the black 😉 But you’ll look fantastic in either!
😆 Am I really that transparent? I just feel like red doesn’t go with my skin! But we’ll see.
I can’t remember when last I read a really good book. You’d think that now I’m done school and doing a whole lot of nothing I’d have more time to read than I did during exams. Apparently, sleeping is more time consuming and exhausting than I thought. Also, I need cookies now.
I vote for the red dress; go a little wild.
I am very nearly done with my book, and it seems like there should be hundreds of pages left and yet there isn’t…is this a trilogy? An abrupt ending? What did you get me into? 🙂
My mood is EXCITEMENT to see your smiling face.
I got you into an amazing series! It is indeed a trilogy, and the second book is called The Wise Man’s Fear 🙂
Ugh, those cookies…you tease. 😉
I wish I could go to Blend with you! I suck so bad. I haven’t gone to one blogging conference. I need to get on that. And I say go with black. It’s timeless and sexy!
Also, I love your scenery for running. I can just smell the fresh air through the screen!
I wish you could go too! It would be fab. to meet you one day <3 How about Hawaii? 😉
Food: POPCORN!!
Wish: For my blog to grow 🙂
Hahaha anytime I get “We Can’t Stop” stuck in my head, it’s always the Timeflies version. His stuff is always better than the original.
1) … book – nothing at the moment. I just finished reading How to Castrate a Bull.
2) … food – Insta tells me that I’m obsessed with asparagus lately, but right at this moment I’m having a mini reeses and a mini mounds bar. Balance 😉
3) … wish – that someone would make my pinterest closet come true. Or, give me a ton of money so that I can get a new summer wardrobe.
4) … mood – Happy!
5) … bane of existence – my current summer wardrobe.
Not gonna lie… I totally had to Google the title of that book, and I made sure to put “book” at the end so that Google wouldn’t give me results I didn’t really want to see 😆
Hey Amanda, I live in Edmonton too and I’ve found a bunch of the Zimt chocolate flavours at Blush Lane on Whyte Ave. And Noorish on 109 South Side, has this raw chocolate from GiddyYoYo that is amazing! By far my fav 🙂
Thanks so much, Z! I used to love GiddyYoYo, but I haven’t been able to find it anywhere lately, so I’ll definitely be checking those places out!
100% yes to the dress! I would go for the red, it makes the dress pop!
My current food is forelle pears, I got some from costco and they are amazing! or new season asparagus.., Yum!
Raw chocolate! My uncle recently went on a trip to South America and bright back all the nieces and nephews a huge 5 pound bar or raw dark chocolate and oh my goodness I had to have my husband hide it from me.
That nail polish color is right up my alley this time of year. I really need to break out the blender too and start making green smoothies again! Bring on the summer! I can’t wait to read all about Blend! I’d be scatterbrained too haha.
I’ll have to check out that book! I just went on a crazy book buying spree and now have about 7 from Amazon just staring at me. Actually, there are a lot of things from this post that I need to get.
I vote for the red dress because red looks awful on me but always so nice on other people. 🙂
I had to laugh because that’s how I feel about red as well, so I’m betting it looks fabulous on you 😛
The pro and con of living in Denver: I will wait until the last minute to decide what to wear on Friday! Can’t wait to meet you in person!
So jealous! I still haven’t gone shopping 😆
I like the black dress a lot but I cannot pull off body con dresses. I hope you have a fun time at Blend…that seems like it would be a great time!
I love light pink and nude nail polish because it’s not obvious when it chips.
I am gonna have to say black for that dress – but then again, I love black – I think I have 3 black dresses and one funky colored one! in my closet!
My current music/song “Shut up and dance” is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdIJ5ZSpSk my daughter says it’s been around for awhile, but, it’s my current jam!
My current food has been lemons – lemon in everything…ooh, but I don’t think I’ve yet combined lemon and chocolate…hmm…food for thought!
Lemon and chocolate sound pretty amazing! I’ve done orange and chocolate, and ginger and chocolate, but never lemon. And black is my go-to as well. Can never go wrong with the classics 😀
I love lace dresses, and I’d go with the red. Because I always wear black even with the best intentions of trying to get colors. How fun that you’re going to BLEND! Confession? I actually LOVE to pack hehehe. Happy Monday to you!
Come pack for me! I hate it 😡 And I pay in cookies
So, I know you kinda love your black, but dang it’s gorgeous in red!! Eeek Blend! 3 days?! Have a crazy good time 🙂 .
I’m living up to “belated is the new black” by only getting into My Sister’s keeper (by Jodi Picoult) now. It’s not my usual choice, but I do like it.
I enjoyed that one as well, but yeah… definitely not the kind of books I usually gravitate towards. The Pact was also really good!
I love these posts. I may have to create my own version in the near future. : ) Kudos to you lady for running those stairs. I live on the third floor of my apartment building and sometimes after a run, I will try to run up the three flights and I am TOTALLY winded by the time I reach the second floor haha. My current wish would be to be on a beach in Hawaii. I feel like a lot of my friends have been going recently and now I have the itch ! Hope you had a great weekend!!
omg you live in Narnia.
I also have a long list of people you need to chuck pies at when you go to blend and it’s out of love 😉 (AND FOMO)
And where am I supposed to get said pies?!
I’m addicted to aloo ghobi (Indian dish) and I’ve been eating it a few too many times lately. I’ll even pick some up and bring it home for lunch. I get it HOT. Ahhh and it’s amazing. And as for the dress… pick red pick red!
That nail polish! I love nudes/light pinks! And those cookies!!! Omg, now I’m not going to stop thinking about them until you post them!!!! And I think the red dress would look good on you 🙂
The current book I’m reading is The Girl on the Train. I’ve only read a few pages so far, but it seems pretty interesting, plus after hearing so much praise about it, I was curious and wanted to read it to see what it was all about.
I’ve heard a lot of good things as well! I may pick that one up sometime in the future. First I need to get around to reading The Goldfinch, which is another one of my “I heard good things…” books.
Cookies are fantastic stair-running fuel. 😉
Have fun a Blend! You’re gonna’ look hawwwwt
I am getting my nails done today (at least that is the plan at some point) and I really need to find Passion again – it’s definitely one of my favorites but isn’t always at the nail salon.
This is why you need to buy your own and just take it with you 😛
That raw chocolate…I want a square right now! I love the dark cacao with black tea leaves right now.
I love your book recommendations, I finally got to reading the Divergent series and my oh my was I addicted!
Confession: I received the boxes of Love Grown chocolate flakes a few weeks ago, but I’m saving them because I’m so excited to try them and will be so bummed when they’re gone!! I’m so excited to learn that they’re good – cannot freaking wait to dive in…
You’re going to love them! And I think they should be available in stores soon? I was actually super surprised by them. I’m not normally a flaky cereal kind of girl, but oh man did I love these…
I am finally going to dive in and make some green smoothies now that the weather is sort of telling me to in the afternoon! I need pep in the afternoons as I shuttle children to various activities 🙂
YES stairs and yes to that dress! Hot mama. Um… I always go for black but red is a little more fun. Depends what look you’re going for! Oh and I’m all about the green smoothies these days too (about to make one now…)
Get that dress…no questions asked – it’s gorgeous! If I were buying it for myself, I’d go for black because I’m boring (or classic depending on how you look at it) like that but that red is STUNNING! I don’t think I’ve tried raw chocolate before but you have piqued my interest- what % cocoa is it? My current favroite food is McVities Digestives biscuits- do you guys get them in Canada? They are heavenly, especially dipped in a cup of tea!
I remember those digestive biscuits! My parents used to buy me some like that when I was little, but I think the ones we got had a layer of chocolate. And the % cocoa varies like normal chocolate bars, but it’s usually upwards of 70.
Current book is the Husband’s Secret. I just started and it’s kinda weird and confusing..I hope it gets better!
Current bane of my existence is this mysterious spot I got on my dress on the way to work. I’m pretty sure something in my lunchbox leaked and now I smell like vinegar and there’s a huge spot in the middle of my stomach. Not cute.
Can’t wait to see that cookie recipe 🙂
I found The Husband’s Secret a little confusing in the beginning as well, but it definitely gets better once you see how all the different characters’ stories start weaving together!