1. I have no idea what it is, but my appetite has been off the charts lately. Colder weather. Running. Daylight Savings. Whatever the cause, the result is the same — I’ve been wanting to eat ALL the foods!
2. On that note, I found myself in quite the conundrum last night… I finished my evening snack, brushed, flossed, and got ready for bed… and then I got hungry again 😯 I hate eating when my teeth feel super clean, but I hate trying to fall asleep with a grumbling stomach even more. What to do?!? Eat… and then re-brush. Food always wins.
3. Speaking of food… I went grocery shopping at 9:30 AM yesterday and the store was absolutely dead. Blissful. And in true Amanda fashion, I also walked out with these…
Revlon’s nail polish in Elusive and Colorburst Lacquer Balm in Demure.
4. From my post draft the other day…
Seriously, spellcheck?!? Are you trying to tell me that I misspelled NOT or that I misused italics?
5. After weeks of going back and forth on the issue, I finally upgraded my phone to iOS7. Uhm… why didn’t I do this sooner?!? I love it! I know a lot of people said they had trouble getting used to the graphics, but I think it looks a lot cleaner.
6. Another good idea? Mixing coffee grinds. I’ve been using the MY K-CUP reusable filter in my Keurig lately because a) it’s cheaper, and b) it let’s me play around with fun flavour combinations. My current favourite? Starbucks‘ Pike Place and Brew La La Coffee’s (seriously, how cute is this name?!) Coffee Ice Cream coffee. Smooth and bold with the perfect amount of sweetness.
7. I have another unfortunate incident involving broccoli to share with you guys. Remember how I admitted to burning the roof of my mouth on steamed broccoli last week? Well, this week I’m admitting to burning up a pot while steaming broccoli…
That’s right. I burned a pot while, essentially, cooking water (I didn’t notice it had all evaporated). If you thought I had skills in the kitchen, you were greatly mistaken. And the worst part about it is that my broccoli tasted burnt… I ate it anyways 😕
8. I’ve been listening to this song on repeat ever since hearing it over on Jo’s blog the other day. It’s funny because it’s completely not my style of music, but there’s just something about his voice and that melody that has me completely hooked.
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9. Confession: I bought a Christmas ornament on Halloween. It wasn’t intentional, but I was in the bookstore picking up A Dance With Dragons when I saw this little guy looking at me from the display stand…
That face. He’ll match my other Christmas Critters perfectly…
10. And because we can’t go two weeks of Thinking Out Loud without some random facts…
1. So that means I’d be acting in the interest of health if I caved and bought everything on my wish list?!
2. Further proof that chocolate is basically synonymous with love.
3. 😆 😆 Ohhh man… I’m such a sucker for corny jokes.
4. Smart man. Although I’m going to assume he didn’t toss in all that sugar…
5. THAT explains why I can’t go in there without losing 2 hours of my life.
Happy Thursday, friends! 😀
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What was your last kitchen disaster?
b) to paint your nails with?
c) to eat?
I have been SO hungry yesterday and today. I think it’s because I wasn’t that hungry on Thursday. I didn’t even want to do my run today because I just wanted to eat lunch already! The I ate lunch and an hour later ate Icelandic yogurt with berries and chia seeds because I was trying to satiate myself with protein and fiber… still craving… something.
Have you listened to any of his other songs? OMG. He is just…. too good. I’m so glad we’re all sharing the same music addiction now. Hahaha!
Oh your poor pan! I did that the other day with my favorite skillet…totally took what I was cooking out and then put it back on the burner and didn’t turn it off! Now it has beads of cooking spray cooked onto it…blech! Love the name of that coffee! And I’m pretty much a pro at coffee mixing these days…it all started with my need to brew half caff, but now I’ve got it down to a science…I’ve been mixing three different ones this week (decaf, candy corn, and coconut!) 😀
Mufasa! Bahahaha!
Same thing happened with me tonight after brushing…yep, food ALWAYS wins!
Black, pink, and ORANGE!! 😀
HAHAHA that “MUFASA”. I die. I love when you post these facts.
A Christmas critter tree. Love.
Grocery shopping in the morning is amazing! Last week I went at 8 am on a Friday before I had to be at my internship and it was great – no lines, no people blocking the aisles… I need to get into the habit of going early!
I’ve totally done that to a pot too when I was trying to cook wheatberries for the first time and all the water evaporated on me. Actually I think I did it again the second time I tried to cook wheatberries too. I haven’t touched them since haha. 😛
My favourite colour to wear depends on the season, but right now I’m loving mustard! I’m really boring when it comes to my nails though and I tend to just go for clear. But I rarely even paint my nails in the first place because I don’t like the feeling of polish on them. I know, I’m weird. My favourite colour to eat is brown! Bananas (with brown spots), oatmeal, chocolate, brown rice, roasted squash that has been browned a bit… yup, all the best foods are definitely brown.
Favorite colors: To wear: Blue or black. To paint my nails with: Blue, pink, purple… To eat: orange.
Sadly I can relate to the burnt pot. This past summer when I was working I came home earlier than expected so I took my thermos of food and went to reheat it on the stove to make it taste fresher. Well… usually when cooking my food I used frozen veggies so it took about 15-20 minutes. Not the same with already cooked food though. I came back 15 minutes later with a smoking stove 😯
It’s kind of embarrassing how much I’ve been eating lately. Actually..not embarrassing. I’m semi-proud at how much I can fit into this body of mine 😉
Random: what’s your favourite colour…
a) to wear? Ummm…Red. I think.
b) to paint your nails with? Black or orangish red. But mainly black.
c) to eat? Brown. Chocolate, coffee, carbs…etc.
Also, I just wanted to clarify on my last comment because after I wrote it I began feeling really bad. I didn’t mean that posting your day’s worth of eats was disordered, I just meant that for ME I am still not in a place where that would feel normal. However, I have posted full days in the past and I think it’s fun and forces you to be creative. Plus I LOVE reading your WIAW and I almost always pull something from them and incorporate it into my day (like those chocolate chip pumpkin cookies).
I just didn’t want you to think I was pointing my finger at you and saying what you were doing was disordered…because that isn’t even close to what I meant!!
Awwr no worries at ALL, Laura. I totally understood where you were coming from and didn’t think you were pointing any fingers 🙂
Yes! I’ve been a hungry hippo lately!
I’ve totally been lost in IKEA before! Frustrating but at least there’s a lot to look at 🙂
Before I get into your post 52 weeks of Thinking out Loud… Congats thats a years worth of Thursday posts 😉
There has been SO many times I’ve brushed my teeth and then gone to the fridge. I think I’m immune now to the minty taste on food. What a perverted Hershey’s machine….geeze.
The last kitchen disaster was my knife breaking whilst cutting open kabocha…luckily the bone strength one from Ikea shows future ones who’s boss. Can’t believe you burnt the pan. I can believe you still ate it though 😉
Dude, now that I’m running again, I’m hungry all the time! I just finished dinner and I’m sitting here feeling like I’m starving!! Must resist!!!
Lol, I knew that about Ikea, particularly because it always felt like a frustrating maze! And lol at the mufasa joke. That Christmas ornament is cute!
For the first wow fact, it could just be that women who shop more have higher socioeconomic status, and being well-off might be the reason for increasing lifespan, not the act of shopping itself.
I don’t doubt that at all! It just sounds more humorous to say it’s the shopping 😉
I am totally with you on #2! I CANNOT go to bed hungry. Those rules about not eating after 7 or 8…yeah, so not for me.
WINNER WINNERRRRRR FOOD IS THE WINNER! I am ALWAYYYYYSS in that little pickle! I brush my teeth and my stomach says, HOLD YOUR ROLL GIGI – YOU NEED that spaghetti squash in your fridge, YES YOU DO. Even though at dinner I literally ate like 300 pounds (NO JOKE)… Oh but then I GO FOR IT and then wind up with a stomach ache. BAHH HA HA! But speaking of food, flipping HUNGRY right now! I’m GOING IN!!! Cover me! 😉
I always eat something before I go to bed. Cannot sleep at all on an empty stomach. Even slightly.
i hope that shopping means grocery shopping because i’d live forever!
p.s.
I blame cold weather for my appetite.. gimme gimme
It gets cold in Texas?! 😮
My favorite colors:
A) coral – it’s so pretty on everyone!
B) I never paint my nails.
C) Probably green – all kinds of peppers, avocado (well guac), etc. Otherwise brown: chocolate.
And I never work Mondays, so I grocery shop around 10 or 11 those mornings. It is always so empty and the store is fully stocked and looked fantastic. I could never go on weekends or evenings after this!
The Brew La La coffee looks amazing!!
Jo got me hooked on that song to. On REPEAT. And I have plenty of burned pots to show for my cooking endeavors. Sigh. At least they were cheap pots?
Soak them in baking soda and vinegar! That’s what I did and the burnt stuff comes right off — you don’t even have to scrub it!
Ahh thank you, I will do that!