Who can resist homemade blackberry cobbler with ice cream?
I know who can’t.
And so I had some with lunch today.
If anyone knows where I can go and purchase some self-control please, do tell.
Because I lack so much of it sometimes.
I plan to run 5 miles each day Mon - Wed to hopefully help offset the massive amount of food I plan on eating this week.
This picture pretty much sums up Sunday morning.
A bag THIS big full of Bojangles for just 2 people can mean only 3 things:
1. Either we haven’t eaten in 3 days and are starving
2. We have great metabolisms and can eat whatever we want and not feel guilty
3. We had a long Saturday night
Take your pick.
I watched this movie Sunday morning. It was ridiculously cute. Maybe it’s just hormones or something, but I even cried during part of it. True story. I would watch it again right now. I’m such a sucker for cute doggie faces.
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J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings |
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This pretty much sums it up. I have not seen Twilight or New Moon and have not read any Stephanie Meyer books. I just have zero desire and just don’t understand the craze. This dude’s not that cute. And after seeing this comparison he’s even less cute. Because it’s fairly accurate. I know the rest of the free world just looooves him to death. And that’s fine and I respect that. I guess he’s just not my “type”. :) Just my 2 cents.
haygirlhay:meredithnyc:scottfriday:ronworkman:joelleworkman:
As the commercial says… the Wildcat is coming to Carolina tonight! What they forget to mention is that the Panthers have been running the Wildcat offense for years. In fact, Dan Henning was the O Coordinator at Carolina in 2006 (I think) when the Panthers implemented a formation with no quarterback where the ball was direct snapped to the running back due to a QB injury. Dan Henning is also the current Miami O Coordinator that has worked to perfect the Wilcat Offense concept with the Dolphins.
Go ahead…bring your Wilcat on. We’ve got it covered. And Gamble’s gonna get a couple of INTs! My prediction. That’s why I’m rockin’ the 20 jersey at work today. Yes, it is casual day in my world. I don’t tell you how to dress so get off my back!
Happy Birthday, Steve!!
This was from the last Panthers game we all went to. Fitting since there’s a Thurs night game tonight. :) We had so much fun with that boy. We all miss him dearly. Every day.
Dear makers of Cap’n Crunch Berries:
Thank you for making such delicious little sugary morsels that I am allowed to call “breakfast”. Every time I eat them the roof of my mouth gets chopped up and cut up like crazy from the jagged edges, but I do it anyway. And gladly. Because it’s worth it.
Yours truly,
Brook
p.s. Could you not make the berries into dinosaur and fish shapes? I like them round. Like berries.
It’s one of those kind of days. And weeks.
We all need some positive reinforcement.
You have to love yourself before you can love someone else, or before you can allow them to love you. So think about all of the wonderful things about yourself today and remind yourself why you matter and why your friends and family are lucky to know you. And vice versa of course.
Some of the things I love about myself:
-I can almost always roll with the punches
-I work to see the good in everything and everyone, even when it’s not visible on the surface
-I’m a good listener, and give pretty good advice
-I’m loyal and always stand up for myself and for those I care about. No matter what.
-I’m a goofball. I have no shame. I don’t get embarrassed too easily.
-I try not to make assumptions. I try to see every angle of a situation before forming an opinion.
-I am never content. I always want to be a better person and to learn.
-I’m a generally happy person. I laugh every day and am easily amused.
-My skin tone. I’m always tan, even in the winter. Thanks Mom and Dad :)
I definitely need this clock. I’m always at least a liiiittle bit late. I think maybe it’s because I know there aren’t really any consequences for me being late, even to work usually. Dru even lies to me about what time it is when I’m getting ready and friends may tell me a wrong time to be somewhere, in the hopes that I’ll be ready when I’m supposed to be. Even that rarely works. Tardiness runs in my family, so I usually blame being pathologically late on my parents. We are just 5-minute-late kind of people. And I’m ok with that.
Redbook’s Faith Hill cover
Great article and photo comparison. So are some of the links.
It’s sad how even a magazine that promotes confidence as a woman and being yourself and being comfortable in your own skin feels the need to retouch cover images so drastically. I wish they didnt’ retouch them at all. No wonder we, as a society, have so many self-esteem and body issues. More than 1 in 4 high school and college aged women have an eating disorder (maybe the number’s even higher now, that’s what it was 10 years ago). Everyone is obsessed with molding themselves to meet some ridiculous high (not even real) standard of beauty. Children as young as 8 and 10 years old are going on diets and working out excessively. It’s just sad.
My parents blessed me with some good genes and for that I’m thankful. However, I’ve still spent my entire life being self-conscious and feeling like there’s more I could do to be prettier or skinner or more attractive. I think most girls go through this. It took me more than 25 years to feel mostly comfortable in my own skin and that I’m truly beautiful inside and out, but I still struggle with it. Everyone does. And it’s because of stuff like this. We are bombarded with celebrity images of how “they” define beauty but when you really get down to it, those images are nowhere even close to REAL. Even the most naturally beautiful people have been airbrushed and nipped and tucked all to hell and presented on their pretty little silver platter for the rest of the world to envy and strive to be more like.
I love looking at the sites or articles that show celebrities “everyday” and in regular photos, just like the rest of the world. It’s a reality check and it puts all this nonsense into perspective. Those people in the magazines are just like the rest of us for the most part. Sure, they have designer clothes and makeup artists and personal trainers and all that stuff, but under all that they are human beings. It’s just sad that girls (and guys) are feeling this sort of pressure at younger and younger ages, moreso now than ever. Somehow, even knowing what’s real and what’s not, I, like probably most of the world, still feel not good enough at times. We put an excessive amount of pressure on ourselves to be so perfect, and for what?
