Hi. I seem to have a little problem. It’s kind of embarrassing, but I kind of think “embarrass yourself daily” is the overall theme of this blog so I’m still going to post it. But before I publicly humiliate myself let’s talk about yesterday because it was full of FOOD and FUN and FRIENDS! Also – please chime in on my poll at the end of the post! I appreciate it.
The legendary SkinnyRunner had a little birthday bash at the park mid-morning. Everyone (except me) has babies now so my formerly fun friends now meet up for play-dates and to get play dough out of each other’s hair and complain about the price of diapers. It’s a blast.
But I heard there was going to be food so I came. I’ll go anywhere for food.
After that I did a little work and then met SR at Sizzler for a celebratory lunch. What were we celebrating?
Um, that we live in America where there is freedom and salad bars as far as thee eye can see.
If you like to really EAT (not sissy la la eat) go to a salad bar with a couple of runners. You will feel like you are a tiny lil mouse eating in comparison.
Then, I went home and sipped some Spark to motivate myself to clean. It worked!
I even cooked a fancy dinner courtesy of Blue Apron – fish tacos. They were amazing.
Okay, on to my embarrassing situation.
This morning I got up and ready for a run around 6:30am. I needed to run as soon as the sun was up because of plans, but it was still so cold outside! I stalled by taking pictures with Vegas.
Finally I talked myself into heading out for 10 miles. It’s cold here in the mornings but warms up by mid-day most days. I felt a bit nippy the whole time if-ya-know-what-I-mean. Quick run selfie at the turn around spot!
But when I got home it looked like I was lactating or something! wth. I thought it was super weird and funny so I obviously had to capture to share.
I think it happened because that part of my body was in the most contact with my shirt so that’s where the sweat touched and spread.
But after 7 years of blogging let me tell you what’s going to happen:
A.) Some more conservative adult in my life is going to give me a hard time for showing and talking about nips on the blog. (I’m not writing the full word so it doesn’t get caught by censors on work computers.)
B.) People are going to email me or leave comments about how this could be a sign of cancer or ebola or foot and boob disease and that I should probably call 911 and just make funeral arrangements now.
C.) I’m going to regret posting all of this as soon as I press publish for 3 seconds and then I’m going to completely forget and go get a snack.
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I have been thinking about making a really great food gift for some people in my life that don’t want presents for weeks now. I have some ideas: Chocolate Chip Bundt cake, Pioneer Woman’s Cinnamon Rolls, Epic Brownies…
But I’d like you to chime in before I make the final decision.
Well…that’s certainly something I haven’t seen before!
If Trump gets in as your commander in chief, you’ll need a whole lotta Sizzler to ease the pain!
Best food delivery: lemon cake with vanilla icing.
This post is hysterical. I love your candid posts – I don’t find them embarrassing – just honest, which is always refreshing 🙂 Have a wonderful holiday!
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My favorite foods are pizza, cheese enchiladas, spanish rice, a great quesadilla and a bomb salad. Sadly i am not sure you can gift those in any normal way unless you just put all the whole ingriediants (can’t spell) in a box/bag or a gift card to a place that sells these delicious things,
that nip pic is hilarious! that has never happened to me but i think i would have to document it also! and dessert wise…anything pioneer woman is a guaranteed hit plus cinnamon rolls so i would say cinnamon rolls. but i dont really like chocolate so theres that 🙂
Received? Death by chocolate cake from my husband for my birthday. I’d love to receive that again!
If you have the time, Christmas cut-out cookies. They are epic and a lot of folks don’t make them anymore.
OMG this post had me cracking up! I have never experienced the lactating sweat look before. Haha! As for food gift I love brownies and chocolate cupcakes. Well to be honest anything with chocolate would be nice. 🙂
That completely happened to me this summer! I wore a thin white and light grey striped smartwool top. When I got home I was mortified to see what my boob sweat looked like! I didn’t notice any weird stares when I was out running, but I can only imagine what people were thinking…. Now that top is no longer used for running 😉
This post is hilarious!!
The best food gift I have ever received was a huge apple that had a ton of layers of yummy stuff on it. It was covered in milk chocolate, white chocolate, caramel, and then rolled in nuts and mini chocolate chips. It was amazing!!
I would love to get the Pioneer Woman’s cinnamon rolls. That’s probably one of my favorite things to eat!
I am gluten free and dairy free but I love peppermint dark chocolate anything, any bundt cake and love Christmas cookies. Your humor cracks me up! Totally looked like a lactating pic!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/trisha-yearwood/sweet-and-saltines-recipe.html
It’s called christmas crack and it’s to die for. Just made some myself and I can’t stop eating it!
Cinnamon rolls, for sure!
Death by chocolate! Best dessert I’ve ever had, it’s like a brownie truffle with whip cream, chocolate pudding, skor bits and never a big enough spoon!! Sometimes being a lady SUCKS when running
I’d choose cinnamon rolls because people can have an easy breakfast to pull out for their families especially if they freeze them. I’d choose a cream cheese frosting over the maple one that Pioneer Woman uses. Put the frosting in individual Tupperware so each family gets their own to put on the rolls as they wish.
Hah! This is great!
I would really like someone to make me homemade cinnamon rolls … And bring me them right now!
I am literally dying with the picture. A few years ago you had a context for worst running pictures and i posted a picture of my sister with the same problem…and hey she is still alive and healthy so you are all good!
OMG on the sweat – that’s funny!
I LOVE chocolate pretzels – and making and decorating them is fun too! But of the things you listed my vote is for the cinnamon rolls 🙂
If it’s “B”, I have dibs on Vegas!
I made Cinnamon Roll Cake bars for a party and were a hit. They would make great gifts except for the inch of frosting on the top – which could become very messy unless you only wrapped one – and one bar would be a pretty cheap present. But, seriously, if you made these and gave them to a friend, or even a frenemy, you would get a spontaneous hug. Oh, wait a minute….
The cinnamon rolls, anything made by Pioneer woman, Ree Drummond looks amazing!
Best surprise gift was a bag of goodies from a local natural health food store……in it was the most amazing Cinnamon bread and 4- “healthy” (yea, I don’t think so) LARGE monster cookies!!! YUM!!
ohh the bundt cake sounds good! I love cookies or brownies or a chocolate fudge cake, perfect presents. Or a cookie cake!
Hi Monica! It’s Audie (aka the crazy Army girl who sent you a pic doing the RER pose in South Korea!) And after reading this post I wanted to tell you that I happened across a Sizzler in Seoul while I was at this park called Lotte World with my friends! Apparently the amazingness of endless buffet goodness is slowly making its way around the world!
I have celiac and have to eat gluten free, so whenever someone takes the time to make me something I can eat, I become super grateful and their bestie for life. My boss made me GF cookies this week for Christmas and I lost my mind.
Of the things you listed, I vote for PW’s cinnamon rolls! They look amazing and cinnamon rolls are the perfect holiday food – breakfast and dessert in one
Fellow celiac here!! Have you tried “a girl defloured” blog? She has some fantastic recipes. I make the banana bread at least once a month when I want to remember what normal bread feels like! Also, I don’t know if you have a trader joes near you but the gluten free pumpkin bread is good, so good non-celiacs will ask for seconds and thirds. Just thought I would share!
Ooh, no I haven’t seen that one. There are a bunch of others I read – Gluten Free Goddess and Gluten on a Shoestring are my current favorites I’ll definitely check that one out – thanks for the tip!!
Boo sweat is a day in the life for me. Tip: bras with liners in them
It’s so weird, this has never happened before. I usually wear two sports bras, but I think both of these were super thin.
You are hilarious Monica!! Pioneer Woman cinnamon rolls are hands down the best gift you could give. Just made those on Friday and everyone loved them, pure heaven in cinnamon bun form!!
I have heard these are amazing! I wanted something more cake-like but I think this is a smart way to go.
My dad sends my family the Harry & David “treat tower” every year at Christmas, which is full of amazing goodies and the best pears ever. I share most everything with my hubby and girls, but to this day they have no idea that baklava is part of the decadence. That little flakey box of goodness is pure heaven on earth and it’s mine, all mine! I also did just get some of those mint Oreo truffle balls from a student of mine and hid those in the console of my car…I might have a problem. But really, you can’t go wrong with the gift of chocolate.
My mom admitted to me that she used to get Mexican wedding cookies from the former cafeteria manager for Christmas every year and always hid them from us.
Cinnamon rolls; and you crack me up!!
Received? A friend sent me See’s dark chocolate truffles (we don’t have See’s where I live).
Love to get? Ditto!
I love See’s Dark Chocolate Nuts and Chews box.
I love your humor! I laughed at your picture because I’m usually run in the cold with with arms up to hide the effects of super cold weather and not thick enough shirts.
I love food gift. I don’t like chocolate boxed though because most of them I don’t like. I love a pound cake or biscotti. Both of which I’m making tomorrow.
Happy Baking! Let me know if you need my address to send some over…
Best food gift ever…candy – chocolate! When I give good gifts, it’s usually a sweet bread of some sort. I’m making pumpkin bread, cranberry bread and banana breads for my colleagues at work.
This post made me laugh out loud. Your 3 things that are going to happen was amazing. Also, I don’t think you are going to die and good for you for getting out while it was cold! 🙂