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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Guilty Pleasures...
Guilty pleasures...those things we love, but would never tell a soul we can't live without them. We all have them. We all try to hide them. When we're caught, we pretend like they're no big deal...but in reality, we wouldn't be us without these things. I'm going to man-up and share some of my guilty pleasures...don't judge me though because I know you have your own!!
1. Trashy romance novels: As an English teacher, I'm supposed to only read relevant, intelligent, well-written literature. I don't. I love a good trashy romance novel. Whenever I go to the bookstore, I buy at least one. I could read them for hours if I let myself.
2. Peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiches: I made one and brought it to work one day and never lived it down. Apparently people over the age of six don't eat these, but I love them. Peanut butter is a diet staple for me, and I love marshmallow fluff. Put them together on bread, and I'm in kindergarten heaven.
3. Awful television shows: Flavor of Love, I Love New York, Rock of Love...can't get enough of them. Mr. Shoo will watch occasionally if it's the only thing on, but he doesn't make it a point to spend his Sunday night sitting on the couch watching them. I do. If I can't for some reason, I will DVR them. I just can't help myself. (On a related note, I'm killing time until I Love Money starts. Put all the craziest characters from crazy-character-filled shows, and I'm sure chaos will ensue.)
4. Making stupid faces in pictures: It never fails...someone breaks out the camera, and instantly, I make the dumbest face I can think of (usually some form of fishy face). Later the pictures show up on MySpace or Facebook, and I'm embarrassed. (Well, not really. I have very little shame. The only time I insist on a picture being taken down is if I have a double chin...which leads me to my next guilty pleasure...)
5. Junk food of all kinds...especially Oreos: Before I started dating Mr. Shoo I was in shape...like really in shape...like running three to five miles at least five times a week in shape. Not so much anymore. I love food...of all kinds, but of course, my favorite is the food that is awful for me: potato chips, candy, cookies, Sonic ice cream sundaes. I've gotten back into running, but for some reason I can't get rid of the belly and the extra pudge to my cheeks. Oh, wait. I know the reason...I can't stay away from the junk.
Honorable mention: Shoes (but I really don't feel guilty about my love of shoes), spending ridiculous amounts of money to get my hair did, embarrassing my husband in public (but again, I don't really feel guilty about it), taking ridiculous numbers of dog pictures and showing them to people, Chinese take-out...
::Edit: I forgot to add my guilty pleasure song choices..."College Girls Are Easy" by Ez E, "Hanging Tough" by New Kids..., "Another Night, Another Dream" by LaBouche, the Fraggle Rock theme song. Oh, the list could go on and on. I love crappy music sometimes.::
So, Humzoo-ers, what are your guilty pleasures??
Guilty Pleasures...
Guilty pleasures...those things we love, but would never tell a soul we can't live without them. We all have them. We all try to hide them. When we're caught, we pretend like they're no big deal...but in reality, we wouldn't be us without these things. I'm going to man-up and share some of my guilty pleasures...don't judge me though because I know you have your own!!
1. Trashy romance novels: As an English teacher, I'm supposed to only read relevant, intelligent, well-written literature. I don't. I love a good trashy romance novel. Whenever I go to the bookstore, I buy at least one. I could read them for hours if I let myself.
2. Peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiches: I made one and brought it to work one day and never lived it down. Apparently people over the age of six don't eat these, but I love them. Peanut butter is a diet staple for me, and I love marshmallow fluff. Put them together on bread, and I'm in kindergarten heaven.
3. Awful television shows: Flavor of Love, I Love New York, Rock of Love...can't get enough of them. Mr. Shoo will watch occasionally if it's the only thing on, but he doesn't make it a point to spend his Sunday night sitting on the couch watching them. I do. If I can't for some reason, I will DVR them. I just can't help myself. (On a related note, I'm killing time until I Love Money starts. Put all the craziest characters from crazy-character-filled shows, and I'm sure chaos will ensue.)
4. Making stupid faces in pictures: It never fails...someone breaks out the camera, and instantly, I make the dumbest face I can think of (usually some form of fishy face). Later the pictures show up on MySpace or Facebook, and I'm embarrassed. (Well, not really. I have very little shame. The only time I insist on a picture being taken down is if I have a double chin...which leads me to my next guilty pleasure...)
5. Junk food of all kinds...especially Oreos: Before I started dating Mr. Shoo I was in shape...like really in shape...like running three to five miles at least five times a week in shape. Not so much anymore. I love food...of all kinds, but of course, my favorite is the food that is awful for me: potato chips, candy, cookies, Sonic ice cream sundaes. I've gotten back into running, but for some reason I can't get rid of the belly and the extra pudge to my cheeks. Oh, wait. I know the reason...I can't stay away from the junk.
Honorable mention: Shoes (but I really don't feel guilty about my love of shoes), spending ridiculous amounts of money to get my hair did, embarrassing my husband in public (but again, I don't really feel guilty about it), taking ridiculous numbers of dog pictures and showing them to people, Chinese take-out...
::Edit: I forgot to add my guilty pleasure song choices..."College Girls Are Easy" by Ez E, "Hanging Tough" by New Kids..., "Another Night, Another Dream" by LaBouche, the Fraggle Rock theme song. Oh, the list could go on and on. I love crappy music sometimes.::
So, Humzoo-ers, what are your guilty pleasures??
The pleasures I feel I need are, Watching Premiership Football (the sport known to natural born yanks as soccer), and reading. Other than that I can live without pretty much everything else.
Oh, I do spend rather a lot of time on Humzoo.
Anything is a guilty pleasure for me now--- unfortunately. I would say having an ice cold root beer is my current one (when should be drinking a diet rite or water).
Also, red wine. Too much will make my teeth purple though!
1. taking a bath in the middle of the day just to escape the kids
2. listening to random dance/rave music and just acting like a fool dancing around
3. garlic toast - any kind - I could eat a whole loaf of bread made this way (this would be why we rarely have it in the house)
I am sure there are lots of others but those are the main three I can think of at the moment.
i like to eat ice cream out of the carton with a fork ... does that count? ...and mudslides: frozen, martini, rocks. doesn't matter, they're delicious.
(i also love terrible television. but i missed that new show...don't know how that one got past me!)
Niki - You know your dad watches all the stuff, right? so you always had someone to watch it with :)
I like to eat Twizzlers in bed while I read late into the night which is my other guilty pleasure (acting as if I don't have to be functional the next day!). Dh doesn't mind the twizzlers in the bed. He says they are so much quieter than the apples and crackers I used to eat in bed. LOL
Reading everyone else's guilty pleasures is reminding me of more. Meg, I also really love garlic toast. When we have spaghetti, Mr. Shoo makes it out of French bread. I could eat the entire loaf.
China, If I start eating anything while I'm reading, it's all over. I just keep putting food in my mouth without thinking because I get so involved in my book. I'll usually keep a giant diet Pepsi around if it isn't too late at night.
And fluffer nutters are da bomb!
The internet is my latest vice. Bad me!
(maybe i should keep that to myself...nah.haha)
-McDonald Happy Meals
-peanut butter and brown sugar mixed together eaten with a spoon
-laying on the couch all day while my husband cleans the house
straight up cold butter, right out of the fridge
I know; I'm so bad. LOL!
Bek, when I was a kid I ate butter with brown sugar. I apparently thought it tasted good. I'm a huge peanut butter fan, and I mix it with honey all the time. I might have to try brown sugar.
Maybe my other guilty pleasure is obsessively buying baking supplies but I usually use them all...does that count? I think I'm up to 30# of butter right now. :)
LGrant,
About that 30 pounds of butter...YUMMMMM!
And in the non-food category: I have an addiction to picture frames. You'd think as a photographer there'd be tons of framed photos in my house. Not true. I have picture frames, bunches of them, empty... in boxes. Can't pass up a pretty picture frame, but never get around to putting just the right picture in it.
Kristina, I LOVE those lifesavers too. You know if you bite them in the dark you can see the spark they left off when you break 'em.