happy saturday morning to you all! and by morning i mean afternoon because i just looked at my clock and allegedly it's already the afternoon. damn, i hate when lazy weekend days go by so quickly. i guess it hasn't been that lazy a day, but the rest of the day will be so i don't like to see those hours get eaten up. here's some numbers for you...
1 - number of really judgmental moments i had while grocery shopping this week. i know, i know i just posted about not vocalizing judgment on other's food choices, but this does NOT mean that i do not still think these things. i'm just curious about the thought process behind buying donuts, freezer pancakes, two quarts of ice cream, half of a cake and various other shit and then opting for the ensure nutrition shakes? i hope they were having a party. i think my most judgmental moments happen at the grocery store. good thing they're strangers so even if i wanted to say anything i wouldn't because i have a very vague understanding of social norms. sort of.
2 - number of snowballs i got thrown at me while taking a break with my coworkers this week. we played in the snow during one of our common planning periods. there are moments where working at a school and remembering to have a sense of childlike glee about snow are such blessings. these two keep me sane.
8 - number of barrels of cheeseballs i wish i'd bought when i was at target the other day. alex and i had just been discussing the glory of these things and it was all i could do to not buy one and sit on my couch eating to the bottom of the barrel while watching tv.
infinity - number of times i have missed caitlin this weekend. i'm still in a huge bum-fest over here that we're not hanging out. i know i haven't even met her in real life so it seems weird to say i miss her but i was so looking forward to everything we had planned (or not planned as the case may be) for this weekend that i feel like i'm missing out on the fun i knew we'd be having. good news is it appears both of us are having pretty good weekend anyway, despite having to change our plans. thank god for other friends coming through in a pinch to keep our moods up. i think the 3 margaritas i had while out with jess and ryan last night didn't hurt one bit in terms of my mood either.
5 - number of tulips that were broken in the bouquet my dad sent me. did this affect how beautiful the bouquet still was? not an iota. my dad is a huge proponent of random acts of affection and sending flowers is one of his MOs. he sends them to my mom and i pretty regularly and i love that about him. tex immediately said, "shit, ger is showing me up". well, here's my advice on that one tex - send me random flowers. pretty simple. KIDDING - i don't need flowers to feel love. but it doesn't hurt.
0 - number of actual fuel belts i wore while running this morning. i keep trying to take my fuel belt for a trial run but i never remember it and then don't actually want to wear it for the first time on a longer run in case i really hate it. someone remind me during one of my shorter runs this week to strap the thing on so i can see if i like it. i don't think i will but i know i have been getting dehydrated a lot lately so i need to be better about having water while i run.
27 - number of degrees it was when i went for my 8 miler with jess this morning. i overdressed in a huge way (think: two pairs of pants). i thought i would be dying of heat but i actually didn't get that overheated so i didn't regret the double pants too much. i am SO glad i found my running gloves too because otherwise i would have lost a finger to frostbite. i know 27 isn't that cold but i haven't run outside in the 20s in a long time so it was cold for me.
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well, i left a comment and then it was just promptly deleted. kill me. anyways what I was saying is that I overdressed too, no idea how I got through it I just kept jamming along. cheese balls are dangerous, I could eat a whole barrel in one sitting. looks like I killed the cheetah guy after it. now I am hungry and have to work till 7 #fail
ReplyDeleteUmm funny story about those cheese balls. During the hurricane this year, my roommate and I stocked up on "the goods" which is cheesy rice cakes, goldfish, oreos, grapes, etc. for me and a massive tub of cheesy balls for her. I made fun of her for so long and they're STILL sitting in the pantry. Ew, now that I think of it, I may have to talk to her about throwing those things out. Although they're so processed, they probably haven't gone bad. And I definitely dug my hand into the bucket more than a few times..... they're so bad that they're good!
ReplyDeleteI totally understand where you are coming from with #1. I used to work as a cashier at a grocery store, and let me tell you...many, many judgmental thoughts crossed my mind. It is certainly interesting to try to understand people's thought processes when they select what food to buy ;).
ReplyDeleteYUM! Cheese balls! :) I cannot buy those because I am fairly certain I would eat the entire container in about 2 days, haha.
My mind gets all sorts of boggled when I look at what some people buy in the grocery store too... but then they're probably looking at all my fruits/veggies/healthy stuff and mentally cursing me out. That's life. The best are the really weird ones - I once stood in line behind a guy who bought what was probably 20 boxes of surgical gloves and a box of Twinkies. To this day I still have no idea what that was about... science experiment, maybe?
ReplyDeleteI'm still so bummed too :( I hope our plan for next month works because I need real Molly time like whoa! I'm loving our texting, though...at least we can chat that way! And I LOVE LOVE LOVE that your dad sent you flowers!! That is absolutely beautiful! Someone else in my life needs to jump on that bandwagon stat, or I'm going to start whining...and withholding new victoria's secret purchases...
ReplyDeleteI could have used a fuel belt of bottles filled with hot chocolate on my run today ... it was chilly! And if I ever plan to do a winter marathon again (haha. unlikely.) I will totally experiment with hot chocolate fueling. ;) Terrible of me, but I haven't been bringing water or snacks .. no place to put them (during the summer, they go in my sports bra, nothing else in there filling it anyway)
ReplyDeleteBetween my restricting and binge/purge phases, I got more than my fair share of judgemental looks at the grocery store. So much so that I really have to walk through with blinders on because I don't want to judge others. However, that being said, I was judgey-wudgy of my own purchases yesterday. Need to commit to more balance (read: I need some good functional choices for treats available in Canada ...).
Um. I love your posts. A lot. Just like I love you. A lot. Why can't I be in DC? sigh.
Woops on being judgmental!! I think we are all probably guilty of that sometimes... Whenever you get around to using the belt let us know how it is! I never eat or drink on training runs and think that carrying a belt around would be annoying! Marathon training will probably make me need some sort of fluid later this year.
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