It happened on a Monday...

I often joke about consuming my body weight in various snack foods and other food-related items, such as, but not limited to...

coffee :)

raw veggies

raspberries

dark chocolate

dark chocolate with raspberries (Rice Dreams...sigh)

dried apricots

and lastly dried plums (i.e. prunes)

I have a tragic tale regarding the final item on my list of "Things I could consume my body weight in..."

First of all, before I begin this story, I will have you know that I really do love all kinds of dried fruit EXCEPT dried banana chips.  It's not right to dry slivers of banana.  I can't explain it.  Just know that it's not right.

A couple of Mondays ago, yes...this happened on a Monday.  Not that any other day of the week would've been better, but it happened on a Monday.  On this particular Monday, I was slightly stressed-out and rushed with a deadline imposed upon me by someone who does not take my office sign seriously:  "Your lack of preparation does not constitute an emergency on my part."  Yes, THAT person. 

So it was a Monday.  A tense Monday.
I was hyped-up on massive amounts of caffeine.  (That is an exaggeration -- as I now only consume 1.5 cups at the cottage and 1 mug of green tea at work - I heart antioxidants.)  I was hyped-up on a little caffeine...and maybe an adrenaline rush when I saw the binder-clipped pages that required my "immediate attention."  The "immediate attention" part was a directive from the "lack of preparation."

[Insert pause.]  The only things that require my immediate attention are...
A) the weather radio blaring a warning;
B) severe loss of blood;
C) a natural disaster;
D) running out of coffee;
And lastly...
E) a Martian attack.
Oh and... F) brushing my teeth after lunch.  :)

All other situations do not require my immediate attention.  [Unpause.]

Since it was Monday - I had in my possession a Ziplock-type baggie containing a week's worth of my most favorite snack of all...dried prunes.  Please note:  a week's worth...5 servings.  Also, another noteworthy word:  had.

During my mid-morning breaktime, I munched on my Monday serving.  After break, I failed to put the baggie out of reach.  (Sigh.)  Do you see where this is going?  Oh, it's not pretty, friends.

A few more pages of typing and more snacking...more typing...more snacking...and around the 6th page, I realized I had managed to lose track of the quantity of prunes that had made their way from the baggie into my mouth.

The baggie was empty.
I consumed 5 servings.  FIVE!!!!
You can guess the end of the story...it wasn't pretty. 
On the flip side, I did get the opportunity to leave my cubicle and meander through the lobby area.  We have two ponds with lovely fish and turtles.  I'm sure by my 4th trip scampering through the lobby, I'm sure the fish were talking. 

The moral of the story:  Always, always, ALWAYS put the baggie away when you are done snacking...and by "done snacking", I mean, after consuming one serving.

The SECOND moral of the story:  Don't ever, ever, ever joke about consuming your body weight in prunes. 

Ramblings...weather, scarves, hot chocolate, Sunday school, and the upcoming week

We've had a very weird/winterish spring.  March came in like a lion and out like a lamb...and then there has been ridiculously cold April.  April 19th - we saw snow!  It was mostly flurries but add to the flurries a blustery Artic wind.  Brrrr...I'm cold just thinking about it.

We've, also, experienced several (SEV-ER-AL) rainy, gray, overcast, Eyeore-ish days.  [Eyeore from Winnie the Pooh.  Whenever I think of Eyeore, I picture the vintage-looking Eyeore.  Purple-grayish.  Cuddly.  I love Eyeore.  Most of the time, A.A. Milne gave Eyeore a pessimistic attitude...but every once in a while, Eyeore took on a cup-half-full attitude and it always, ALWAYS cracked me up!]

Random?  Yes.  You know you love my randomness.

I have three infinity scarves to work on. 
The 1st is black with white polkadots;
the 2nd is solid black with the other side a black-white-&-pink print
and the 3rd is a mystery to even me, the sewer.  I've not purchased the fabric for the third.  You see, it's a birthday present...and every time I go meandering through the fabric store, I've not found a yard of fabric that screams/hollers/shouts the birthday girl's name.  The other two scarves -- the fabric seemed perfect.  This third scarf...(sigh)...I'm not sure what to do...so I am waiting.  A little bird (i.e. another sewer in the Rockford JoAnn Fabric's store) told me to take a roadtrip to Janesville or Algonquin - as both of those stores have larger selections.  Hmmmm...  I'd be all-over the Algonquin roadtrip, except...I learned this week that my beloved Caribou Coffee on Randall Road closed up shop on the 14th of this month.  Closed.  Gone.  Bye-bye gluten-free dark chocolate hot chocolate. 

Speaking of hot chocolate - yesterday I made some deeeelish hot chocolate using my Penzey's Dutch-Pressed Cocoa, almond milk, sugar in the raw, and gf vanilla.  Now that I think about it - I might make myself another mugful.

Yesterday I realized this week is the last full week of April...  Wow - this month has flown by!  Ridiculous!  I said it like this, "Reeeeeeee-dic-uuuuuuu-lus!" 

Today was my second Sunday in grown-up Sunday school.  Our class is studying Bible prophesy.  If I could go back in time to my 20-year old-self, I would say, "Angie Good, take the Bible Prophesy class!!!"  I didn't.  Instead I took Romans and Life of David and General Epistles.  All excellent Bible courses at P Double C.  This Sunday school class has been sooooo interesting.  For example, never did I know that Israel is only 65 years old.  I guess I always thought the country existed for forever...  It hasn't. 

This upcoming week, I have several FUNNISH events...
1. Monday night - thrifting with Rhonda
2. Tuesday night - my last sewing class (Sniffle.)
3. Wednesday night - Bible study
4. Thursday night - hit the gym...and hope it doesn't hit me back!
5. Friday night - decorate for the ladies banquet...which will also include laughter and fruit skewers.  It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye!
6 Saturday - Spring banquet

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April 6, 2013
Ten very random things I am thankful for:

1. Remembering that I saw buds on my lilac shrubbery yesterday

2. Acknowledging and being able to take a week off of work (tentatively the week of April 28th)

3. My washer and dryer - Because back in the day, I would've had to haul my laundry down to the river and wash it.

4. My eyesight...being able to look outside, although a gray and dreary day, I can view God's handiwork.  The trees, the grass beginning to turn spring green, and did I mention the buds on my lilac shrubbery?  :)

5. My Sunday school kids.  My new teaching-helper which will allow me to go to grown-up Sunday school every-other-month!!!

6. Pictures.  Memories made and new memories.

7. Coffee.

8. Change.  I've been praying about a particular hat I've worn for 7.5 years and God has showed me, through my best friend, that perhaps it's time to pass this hat along to someone else.

9. The weekend.  I no longer feel guilty for enjoying what I formerly would've negatively labeled as a "Lazy Saturday."  Our bodies, minds, and spirits (souls) need down-time.  Time to refresh ourselves.  Jesus said to love others as we love ourselves.  We are to take care of our body, our mind, and our souls before we can love others.  It's not selfish...it's loving.  Don't fill up your car with gas -- what happens?  Your engine stops.  The same is true with our bodies.  When we aren't filled, we cannot give to others. 

10. The changing of the seasons.  Can you even imagine if we lived closer to the Equator and it was always warm and humid?  Or if we lived adjacent to the frozen tundra (and no, I am not referring to the month of March!)?  Seasons change.  Life changes.  The seasons change...from cold winter to the first hints of spring...then summer...and fall...and then like a merry-go-round, we begin again.