Happy #thinkingoutloud Thursday! No idea what I’m going on about? Click here!
1. I’m gimped! I don’t know how I managed it (I’m special), but I somehow gave myself a crick in the neck while washing my face. Everything was all fine and good until I looked up from the sink to see if I got all the cleanser off my face and literally felt something slink down my neck and into my left shoulder blade. It isn’t horrible, but I’m hoping this goes away soon and doesn’t turn into what happened to me back in February because that started out the same way and ended up knocking me on my a** for a good 2 weeks…
(circa earlier this year)
2. On that same FML note, I spent a good 4 hours curled up in the fetal position on Sunday night after eating something that didn’t agree with my stomach. And by “something” I mean pasta sauce laced with lots of garlic. Tomato-based sauces have given me grief as far back as I can remember, and garlic has a way of chewing up my guts like nothing else… which means I had a feeling that eating the pasta sauce would give me some issues, but I did it anyways. Please tell me I’m not the only one who does that. And please tell me I’m not the only one who makes deals with God, promising to never do it again if only the pain will go away this one.last.time 😆
3. I’m just thankful that the problem with tomato sauces doesn’t transfer over to salsa, because I can literally eat that by the cupful. I don’t even need anything to dip into it… just give me a spoon and I’ll call it good.
4. While we’re on the topic of food, I’ve had quite a few people ask me why I never do What I Ate Wednesday posts anymore, and the honest-to-God truth is because they started to feel repetitive and I just stopped enjoying them. I know they’re a reader favourite, though, so what I’ve been thinking about doing is taking pictures of random meals/snacks when I’m in the mood and dumping them all into a monthly roundup. It wouldn’t be a full day of eats, but at least it would give you an idea of what I’ve been putting in my belly. Besides these…
5. And speaking of monthly roundups, lots of people said they’d be interested in seeing the return of my Monthly Favourites posts, so those will be coming back as well. Yay!
6. So it’s Thanksgiving for us here in Canadaland this weekend, and I’m not even close to feeling in the holiday spirit. I don’t even think Thanksgiving is as big of a thing up here as it is down in the States, which is sad because I’m always looking for an excuse to fill my belly with an abundance of delicious food. Either way, I’ll still be heading over to my family’s to celebrate, and I’m in charge of dessert 
7. And because no ToL would be complete without random facts, here they be…
1. Wow. So… I think I’m just going to elope.
2. This reminds me of how they said Oprah wasn’t fit for television, or that Walt Disney didn’t have a creative bone in his body. Never let negativity get in your way!
3. Mind = blown. I actually had to look into this one, and this is what I found. I may never see this song in the same light again…
4. The real question is… where do they go?!?
5. I’ll admit to being surprised that the number was this low. It kind of boggles my mind how much effort goes in to creating an image on social media. Who got time for day? Almost everyone, apparently…
8. Hope you guys are having a great Thursday! Ending things on #8 today because I’ve been trying to keep my posts shorter, and this one is already nearing 700 words. Apparently I just like to talk. Or think out loud 😉
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I would have thought that last fact would have been higher, too! But then again, I have insta posts of my climbing big rocks, walking along narrow beams over water, and doing a crow pose over the river in Ottawa. I’m a bit of a daredevil by nature, so I guess social media just gives me another excuse to do less-than-safe shit 😉
Also – I keep forgetting it’s Thanksgiving weekend too. Oops.
We ended up opting out of Thanksgiving this weekend because of all the craziness with my parents’ move. Maybe we’ll endue p celebrating the American one instead 😆
Salsa and nut butter are alike in that I don’t need anything to dip into them except a spoon but I’ll also put them on a million things 🙂 And I totally know what you mean about just knowing something will tear up your stomach and eating it anyway. I hope you feel better soon!
Those facts are always so interesting. I hope your neck feels better soon!
I hate random injuries/pains like that that happen when you are literally doing NOTHING! Like, “I just lifted 250lbs at the gym today and I was totally fine and now I hurt my shoulder while cooking dinner…wtf!”
I love ALL tomato based things to thank goodness I don’t have tummy issues related to tomatoes, my friend just gave me a jar of homemade salsa and I literally ate 3/4 of it with a spoon. It was SO good.
I’m actually excited for Thanksgiving this weekend. Probably mostly for the pie. 😉
Aww…I’m so sorry!! I hope your neck and gut both feel better soon! I have digestive sensitivities myself, so I know *exactly* what you’re talking about. I don’t know why I succumb myself to the things that I know just rip apart my gut and leave me moaning and doubled over in pain…oh, wait, it’s because I love it so much!!! I mean, pizza and froyo sometimes call my name so insistently, I must answer the call. 🙂 And suffer the consequences.
Oh, yes, my favorite salsa, I basically could eat off a spoon, except is a wee bit spicy, so my tongue probably wouldn’t like me after a few spoonfuls. Do like yours spicy? If you do, I cannot recommend highly enough Wildwood Emerald Valley Kitchen Organic medium salsa (I know…long-legged name). Their mild is pretty good, but the medium blows my mind every time!
Have a great Thursday and upcoming weekend! Hope you get well soon!! <3
My stomach is actually the biggest wimp when it comes to spicy foods, so I usually go for the mild version of things. It really depends on the brand, though! Some mild ones are too mild even for me.
I’m pretty sure I had a mini heart attack when you mentioned Thanksgiving…I was reading this shortly after waking up in the morning, and my brain was like, “Whaaaa?! Wait, wait, um, how did it sneak up like that!?” Then I realized what you were talking about, and felt stupid for not keeping track of the fact that you live in a different country, haha.
As for the bobby pins, I think they like to go down heater vents, hide under toe kicks, on sidewalks, parking lots, and grocery store isles. In the corners of your car, too. At least, those are some of the places I’ve found them! Weird though, because I used bobby pins for the first time in forever (that was not on purpose; I’ll never be able to use that phrase again without thinking of the song!) yesterday, and was thinking about how I would probably lose one or more.
Hope your neck is fine, and have a fun Thanksgiving!
Hehehe. Yeah… our Thanksgiving kind of sneaks up on me as well. We ended up opting out of Thanksgiving this year, though, just because of all the craziness that came with my parents’ move. Maybe we’ll end up celebrating American Thanksgiving instead 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving! I get the same way with milk but sometimes I just want ice cream or cereal (with real milk) and just go for it haha.
I’ve tried making those deals with the guy in the sky, he just never seems to want to seal them! I don’t like tomato sauces actually, because i’m not big on tomatoes, but last time I ate one because it was the only option for my food (it was on some chicken) I had major fetal position time on the couch too that not even Gilmore Girls could solve…
I love your random posts! I do miss the WIAWs with stories behind them though too. My brother is coming home from school this weekend because his girlfriend goes to school in Canada and she’s off for Thanksgiving. But I don’t think it’s as big of a deal up there as it is here either. Either way, I hope you get some good food out of it 🙂
We actually ended up scrapping Thanksgiving this year because of all the craziness that came with the move. Maybe we’ll end up celebrating American Thanksgiving instead 🙂
I don’t do WIAW either because I eat the same type of food for breakfast and lunch. The only meal that changes is dinner, and when I make large recipes, I have the leftovers during the week. It does make for easy prep when I get home from work.
I think my favorite part of this was the random facts! So much new information has been given to me! I for one have a safe spot for my bobby pins in my purse to make sure i dont lose them. such a hassle. Hope your neck feels better!! Get some heat on that baby 🙂
So any chance you have a Nightshade sensitivity? I have tomato issues though yours sounds worse. Love the blog. Love Love the recipes! Hubby even likes them. Made muffins and pumpkin bars.
I thought maybe it might be a nightshade thing, but it only seems to happen with cooked tomato sauces. Not raw tomatoes or salsas.
Well you can tell if you have a sensitivity cording to Dave Asperey by checking your pulse before you eat something and again after. they even have a app to help. http://www.bulletproofexec.com/find-your-kryptonite-with-the-free-bulletproof-food-sense-iphone-app/
Happy Thanksgiving! And I hope your neck feels better…. traumeel cream is great to rub on those out of no where pains.
Gah, I did the same thing to my stomach the other day. Drinking straight-up milk always gives me issues, but I was craving milk to go with my snack of a graham cracker with PB and chocolate chips. 10 minutes later… I was curled up on the floor wondering how little gnomes had managed to crawl into my stomach and start stabbing it with little knives. Yet I know I will probably still drink a glass of milk in the future, and hate myself for doing so all over again.
Glad your tomato sauce thing doesn’t transfer over to salsa though. I thought I was the only one who eats it by the spoonful! Hope you feel better soon
You’re definitely not alone, Jess! I always tell myself I’ll never do it again, and inevitably… I do 😆
I never do WIAW – I just forget and really, who wants to see a picture of my sandwich?
Yay Thanksgiving!!!
You seriously have & make the best food! Now that life is settling down a tiny bit, I’m hoping to actually make more recipes/food!
Mmmmm salsa. I too can eat tons of that!
p.s. my link wasn’t showing up–not sure if there was something off with the linkup widget?
I’m not sure why, but iLinkz randomly decides to have issues with some links so I have to go in and manually approve them 😕
I am drooling – those food pics – yum!
I actually did know that about Closing Time. It is my husbands favorite 90/s song and when we found that out we both were amazed. It’s pretty brilliant, really!
And I firmly believe that about the bobby pins because mine always seem to disappear and I don’t have any idea where they go. But oddly, I don’t feel like I see bobby pins all over so it really does beg the question of where they disappear to…
Right?!? I never in a million years would have guessed that that’s what the song was about…
That wedding number! I totally believe it. That’s why we ran away to Mexico to get married! And I never knew that about Closing Time. I had to watch the video cause I didn’t believe you. So crazy.
Right?!? I seriously can’t listen to that song anymore without picturing babies and delivery rooms 😆
That wedding statistic is insane..and the exact reason why I actually am eloping (in Belize!). Can’t believe that about Friends, although I do think the first season was a little odd and it picked up a lot as the seasons went on, and I’m going to read about that song! Hope your neck feels better soon. Cricks are the WORST
Eloping sounds perfect 🙂 I used to want a huge wedding when I was younger, but the older I get, the more appealing something small and intimate feels.
I hope your neck feels better soon. That’s the worst!
My husband is the same way with tomato-based pasta sauce! He cannot tolerate it. Salsa, fine. Raw tomatoes, fine, etc. Interesting! I have my own list of foods that give me terrible stomach cramps. Foods that I think are awesome and tasty. I understand your urge to eat it anyway, even knowing the pain is coming later!
Maybe it has something to do with the tomatoes being cooked? I have no idea, but I wish it wasn’t the case!
I am totally guilty of eating something event though I know it will upset my stomach, like dairy. Every time I eat it, I think, it will be okay this time. And every time, I’m wrong.
Happy Thanksgiving! I’m sure your dessert will be delicious!
Noooooo Closing Time is forever ruined–that’s crazy! Oh and I totally eat food that I know will upset my stomach/make me bloated sometimes. It makes no sense, but in the moment it seems so worth it.
Right?! I seriously can’t listen to that song anymore without picturing babies and delivery rooms 😯
i eat salsa by the spoonful too! Its just soon addicting, glad you don’t feel sick when you eat a lot of it!
I was in a car accident and have had neck problems since. I can’t turn mine fully to the right. It’s really annoying so I feel for you!
Oh no! I hope your neck is ok. So weird how sometimes the slightest movement messes us up. Happy Thanksgiving!
Oh no. I swear I could give up salsa forever but the tomato sauce???
I always have to edit my post down as well. I can hit thousand words easily and then I need to hack away 🙂
I’m the same way. I feel like if I did WIAW posts, they would all be the same. I eat a variety but, for the most part, I’m a simple food, person.
It’s definitely sad how obsessed our society has become with social media.
Simple foods are my favourite too, and my stomach takes the most kindly to them as well. I’ve had people complain that I always eat the same things, and then complain when I stopped showing my meals… just can’t win 😆
I love your google facts because they are so interesting. Seriously where do all the bobby pins go? Or the black hair ties for that matter! Oh and I had no idea about the Closing Time song! Hope you feel better soon Amanda!
I hope that your bodily luck changes very quickly!My husband pulled his bicep while bowling… and the man can curl more than anyone I know (and I know people who can curl a lot). Isn’t it funny when people want you to do the post that seem the most “whatever” to you? I guess we all like to be nosy and also to know that other people are normal/abnormal too 😀
Heehee. I definitely think there’s truth to that. Sometimes I miss doing the more personal, nosy posts, but it’s hard to find time to get all the posts in there!
Yikes!! I hope your neck feels better ASAP! …and that you have a good chiropractor to speed that process along?! 🙂
My link won’t add!! Ugh, enough with the computer issues this week already…I kept meaning to say it’s thanksgiving for you and you haven’t mentioned it lol.
If I had it to do over, we would have eloped. I think my parents would have missed the party, but I don’t think we would have.
Ugh! I’m with you, unfortunately – I was doing strength training yesterday, same routine I’ve been doing for months & nothing crazy (actually supposed to prehab you) & just felt my back tweak. Still sore (not bad, but I’m feeling it) this morning.
I have a half this weekend & I’m pretty sure I’ll be fine by then, but I could certainly have lived without this.
On a happier note, happy thanksgiving!
I hope that your back is feeling better Judy, and that you had a great race! I used to think that I wanted a huge wedding, but the older I get, the more I like the idea of a smaller more intimate wedding.
Time for you to go home to the places you will be from – oh gosh mind really is blown, and now I’ll be singing it for the next week, too 😉
Right!?! Such a good song, but now that I listen to it, I can’t stop thinking about babies and delivery rooms 😆
I had a crick in my neck a few months ago and it was awful! I hope you feel better soon! And I’ve definitely eaten stuff knowing I won’t feel good- sometimes its worth a bit of discomfort. I have no idea where all those bobby pins go. I feel like I never use them but still end up buying them every couple years. I think I always wear them to weddings when I am traveling and they get lost in hotel rooms/travel bags, but that’s the only theory I have!
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, Amanda! I’m sad that I won’t have the Thanksgiving hype and build-up now that I’m in Scotland 🙁 We’re still going to have a dinner and that, but it won’t be the same!
I believe that wedding fact 100% (as well as the bobby pin one, where do they go??!). My hubby and I did a very small family-only wedding and it was reasonable. I think weddings are just ridiculous a lot of the time. So much money and it doesn’t have to be that over the top. I guess if you have it to spend, go ahead, but it’s definitely not worth being in debt over for 10 years like some people do!
All the food pics! Yum! 🙂
I used to think I wanted a huge extravagant wedding, but the older I get, the more appealing smaller and more intimate weddings feel. I hope you had a good dinner, Erin!