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1. So I learned something pretty freaking crazy the other day. You know the carrot oatmeal muffins I posted on Tuesday? That was actually the 1,000th post I ever published…
One, zero, zero, zero. When the heck did I write that many posts?!? And how?! I mean, I know it happened gradually over 3+ years… but still! It totally boggles the mind. It’s one of those things that really makes you wonder how much different life would be if you didn’t randomly get inspired to start a blog and nervously hit that publish button on your first post. Never know where things are going to take you!
2. I also never knew I had it in me to get emotional over an ad for batteries…
Have you seen that Duracell commercial floating around on YouTube? The one with the father sending his daughter a teddy bear with a voice recording? I usually skip past the ads as soon as I can, but I decided to watch that one to the end for whatever reason and OMG THE FEELS! I can’t even say that I know what it’s like to have a father that’s in the military, but my dad did a lot of travelling/working when I was growing up, so I know what it’s like to miss him. Freaking heartstrings… Well played, Duracell. Well played.
3. Speaking of the feels, I stayed up until about 1 AM to finally finish Morning Star the other day, and… woooooow. Just wow. I honestly can’t remember the last time a book took me on such an emotional rollercoaster, and I’m feeling a little lost knowing that that’s the last of it. Brown referred to this series as “Braveheart in space,” which is 100% totally accurate. So much betrayal, so much sacrifice, so many bad decisions made, so much redemption, so much manipulation, so much love, so much death, so much “NO! That did NOT just f*cking happen!!!!” If you’re into that kind of thing, then you’ll adore this book. I did. And I think I might have to read parts of it again just because. Definitely a satisfying (and surprising!!!) ending to an amazing trilogy.
4. I actually would have told you all that in my February favourites post, buuuuuuuut there won’t be a favourites post for February. I was all set to post one on Monday until I took a look at my notes and realized that I didn’t have a single favourite thing written down for the entire month. Not.even.ONE. That’s not to say that I’ve been hating everything, but I didn’t really come across anything new that I felt compelled to share with you guys. Here’s hoping March is a little more exciting on that front.
5. At the very least, it’s looking a lot more exciting as far as travelling goes! I’m [finally] heading to the mountains this weekend (insert happy dance ->here<-) after not being up there for a couple of months, and I’ll be headed to Hawaii at the end of the month for the Spoons’ annual family vacation (insert BIGGER happy dance ->here<-). We were going back and forth on a few places, but finally decided on Maui after enjoying it so much last year. Can.not.WAIT.
6. Can someone please tell me why I no longer get e-mail notifications whenever someone leaves me a message on Facebook? And why this is what I see when I click on the “Notifications” tab?
Everything was working fine and dandy at one point until it just randomly stopped. What the heck did I do to have such horrible technology juju?!
7. On the bright side (literally), I finally fell into the habit of remembering to turn up the brightness on my monitor whenever I’m editing pictures. But before you go praising my proficiency, I should probably admit that the other day I caught myself trying to edit out something that I thought was in the picture when it was actually just a spec of dirt on my computer screen. Cue #facepalm… ->now<-.
8. And if you’re wondering what it is that I was editing, that would be this bad boy right here…
… which’ll be up for you guys to.mor.row. I’m excited.
9. I’m less excited about the fact that I can’t get my eyebrows to jump through hoops for me today (read: eyebrows are NOT on fleek).
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10. BUT! I hope you’re having better luck with yours than I am with mine (read: that you’re having an awesome day), and I’ll see you hip cats (what?!?) tomorrow with some more FOOD 😋
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Oh my gosh…that commercials!!! BAWLING! My brother is in the military so I can kind of relate. It’s hard to have him gone for so long but I’m lucky we get to talk via email and get the occasional phone call.
Oh man last night Neil made me watch The Good Dinosaur which is a Disney movie and I told him I need to prepare myself for things like that because it had me crying a good 3-4 times throughout. Curse those emotional movies and commercials!
I don’t think I’ve seen that one. But oh man. Disney movies can seriously bring out the waterworks. The pound scene in Lady and the Tramp? Died.
YEAH for Vacations! My husband won’t fly so I know I will never go to Hawaii unless I go without him? Maybe. Jenna Marbles is from near me somewhere, she cracks me up!
Hawaii. Those photos. Take me there now…
The spot on the computer screen killed me. I remember just a few days ago I tried to pick off a dead bug from the inside of the van windshield. It wasn’t coming off and I finally realized that a) It’s on the outside and b) Why would I want to touch it with my finger anyway? Mom sleep deprivation is real.
Ahh so jealous you’re going to Hawaii! I would kill to go anywhere warm and tropical right now. That sweet potato looks amazing!
Jenna Marbles leaves me in stitches pretty much always.
Maui + Mountains? Not together, but still. I’m excited for you!
Also, umm, why ya always gotta end on an even #, can’t us odd folks get some love!? Haha
Haha! No one ever speaks up for odd numbers – love it! This week. Promise 🙂
Maui sounds lovely right now. I’m in the process of planning another Italy trip and am so excited. Haha knowing what I’m working my butt off to save more helps me stay focused—and cheerful.
Ohhh Italy! I’ve never been but I’m dying to go. I have no idea why I have such a harder time going east than west…
that duracell commecial is stupid emotional…i’ve seen it a few times and no one needs to be emotional when watching grimm! Yay for mountain and hawaii, you must post pictures i am dying to go to the mountains right now!!
So jealous about Hawaii!! I wish we hadn’t already taken out annual trip so I could go soon… I will be living vicariously through you while you’re there!
Never been to Hawaii and I so want to go!!! Enjoy!
hahaha, that comment on trying to edit out the spec on the screen, made me actually LOL at work…thanks for that 🙂 Now people are staring, okay not really, but it gave me a good chuckle. Along with the eyebrow meme…:)
I’m pretty excited about that sweet potato recipe 🙂 Looks delicious! And I don’t understand where the word “fleek” came from… I know what it means in context, but is there a standalone definition?!?
I honestly have no idea where it came from or when. But I think it basically means “flawless” or “on point.”
I 1st saw that commercial a few months back. Now pretty much ANYTHING military related can get me to cry [I love our service men and women!] but then you gotta go and throw a father/daughter relationship into it? Yep – I wept. Freaking Duracell….
My parents LOVE Maui Amanda! 🙂 I hope you have a lovely time there. 🙂
I always love your book recommendations, so I’ll have to check that one out! 🙂
Wow that is some amount of posts! Keep it up 🙂 I can’t wait til tomorrow and Saturday, I’ll finally be off! So tired 🙁
1000 posts eh? Wow oh wow!
Well done you for hitting that “publish” button those 3+ years ago. “She who dares wins” and all that eh? You’ve proven it!! And you continue to be an inspiration, not just to all your female blogger friends but to us “handful” (you called us that 😉 ) of male blogger friends too.
BTW. You might also be interested to know that I showed Lynne your previous Hawaii post, about a year ago, and that’s one of the reasons we are hoping to go there in January 2017. Plus she’s obsessed with animals so we’re going to do the whale watching thing there! 🙂
Thank you so much for the kind words, Neil — totally brought a smile to my face 🙂 And you are seriously going to LOVE Hawaii! Maui is so great for whale watching, but I feel like the best time to visit is in March or April – that’s when they’re all over there having their babies, and the young ones are already old enough to start working on their jumping. You’ll get to see SO many whales breaching – it’s pretty amazing.
That is one thing I hate about the Internet and all this social media, things work one second and for no reason at all it is crashing the next! Have fun in the mountains! I am heading up at the end of March and I can’t wait!
Congratulations on the big 1000! That’s amazing!
And speaking of amazing, tomorrow’s recipe looks like it’s gonna rock my world.
yay so awesome about Maui!! Hawaii is number 1 on my list of places I have to visit!
Also, congrats on 1,000 posts! So awesome!
It definitely deserves a first place spot! I’d seriously love to live there if it wasn’t so isolated from everything.
I’m ALL over that recipe. Looks amazing. Oh and any commercial that has to do with the military and children (especially them missing their parents) gets me.
Ahhhh!! Back to Maui! Can I come with you?
Those sweet potatoes look dreamy. Can’t wait to see them. Thanks for hosting!
YES! They should make blogger meet ups in places like Hawaii. That would be heaven.
So jealous of your Hawaii trip! I haven’t seen that commercial but it definitely sounds like a tear jerker.
Whenever I am see stuffed sweet potatoes, I always think “Does it work with regular potatoes too?”. Or there is not such thing like stuffed with sweets regular potatoes?
You know… I honestly don’t think I’ve ever tried sweet regular potatoes. I’ll have to add that to the to-try list!
Lucky you for going to hawaii this month, I’m so jealous! The weather is going to be so perfect there! Also can’t wait for that sweet potato recipe tomorrow, looks like I’m gonna be in sweet potato heaven 🙂
Have a FABULOUS vacation! I am so jealous – I’ve never been to Hawaii and it looks gorgeous. Enjoy! And one of these days (maybe next week?) I’ll join in the TOL linkup. So intimidating 🙂
Would love to have you join up 😀
Since I’ve never been to Hawaii, I’m going to crash your family vacation one year. Surely Mama and Papa Spoons won’t mind. Congratulations on 1,000 posts. That’s awesome.
I join you on the vacation crash. One of us is not enough. Everyone agrees on that.
They definitely wouldn’t mind. And neither would I. Hint, hint. Nudge, nudge.
That eyebrows on fleek picture is so funny! I just read a book called bread and wine and oh boy, was it emotionally draining for me!
I’m actually paranoid about my eyebrows LOL. I get them done pretty regularly. Congrats on 1000 posts, that is incredible. I’m just as impressed you have 17 drafts ready to go!
I -wish- they were ready to go! Most of them are just a few sentences or ideas 😕
you know I love you and that you are one of my favorite people but I cannot love the word fleek.
😆 I can only love it when I’m using it jokingly. I don’t think I could ever be serious about it in a sentence.
Maui sounds amazing right now! So jealous! And I cannot wait to hear more about that recipe.
Whatever that recipe is it looks beyond delicious! I’m always brushing my screen thinking I have dust on it when the speck is actually in the picture, I’d prefer the opposite 🙂 Also I’ve basically given up on my eyebrows because I always seem to do more harm than good, I need help!
Wouldn’t that be cool if we could just edit our pictures by swiping the screen with our fingers… wishful thinking right there.
Haha the eyebrow picture made me laugh. I can definitely relate! Can’t wait for tomorrow’s recipe. It looks delicious!
Congrats on 1000 posts! Wow. Just wow.
HI. M favorite place on earth. Although there are many places I haven’t visited. But we’ve been there 3 times & my husband already informed me he doesn’t want that to be my last half because he wants to go back sometime this century. 🙂
I’m just looking forward to going to Maine and meeting up with a blogger friend when I go to Seattle to visit my MIL & SIL.
I pretty much have that eyebrows thought daily – I get nice eyebrows and all but my goodness, I feel like it’s gotten out of hand. So jealous of your impending vacation!! I went to Maui in high school and had a stomach bug the entire time – I’m dying to go back!!
The eyebrow thing is definitely a little crazy. I mean, I get that they make a huge difference to how your face shape looks, but still!