1. Remember back when I actually used to post random facts on these random thought days? Yeah, me neither. That being the case, let’s kick things off with some random facts that’ll make you everyone’s first pick for trivia game partner…
1. Funny because breakouts and oiliness make me feel a -tad- less beautiful…
2. What I wanna know is… how’d they test this one?
3. That’s a lot of rainbows. Do you have a favourite colour of Skittles? Mine is red…
4. I -had- to Google this one, and apparently it’s true… but not as exciting as you might imagine.
5. That would be awkward… Just like sending a text/message to the wrong person… 😯
2. Remember how I admitted to rockin’ the Christmas socks underneath my boots? I wasn’t kidding…
… and I’ll probably be doing it until at least mid-March.
3. Speaking of Christmas, please tell me I’m not the only one who still has all of her decorations up…
It’s not even that I don’t want to take them down — I’ve just gotten so used to them that I hardly even notice anymore. They really do have to go, though… My tree is currently sitting in the spot where I take all of my food photos, so that’s been a little inconvenient to work around #foodbloggerproblems. I would say that I’ll take it all down this weekend, but that doesn’t seem likely to happen because…
4. … the cold spell has finally broken…
5. … and I’ll be heading up to the mountains on Saturday morning! Whoop whoop. I’m in desperate need of some time on the slopes after basically becoming a shut-in thanks to this nasty weather, so you’d better believe that I plan on taking full advantage of this blessed respite from the cold by spending as much time with my snowboard as I possibly can. Can.not.wait.
6. Can.not.go without road trip snacks, either… which means that I need to whip up another batch of granola bars in the next couple of days seeing as this is all that’s left of the last one…
… and now that’s gone too 😥 What can I say? They taste like cookies…
7. Edit: I went ahead and whipped up another batch approximately 5.5 minutes after writing down #6 ^^ … Now the trick is going to be making them last through the next two days. I can do this… maybe.
8. I’ll just turn my attention to these chocolate and vanilla bunnies instead… You know those foods that completely annihilate all your sense of proper portion control? Yup. Well played, Annie… well played indeed.
9. So hey! We’re about a week into 2014 now, and for those of you who are doing it with me, how are your memory jars coming along? Are you still keeping up with them? Or have you already thrown in the towel? 😉 Still time to catch up!
10. And now for my favourite part… reading your guys’ random thoughts! Seriously one of the highlights of my Thursday…
Love the random facts! My favorite Skittles are the green ones. 🙂
Glad your cold weather spell has finally started to break… our temps are supposed to jump 50 degrees tomorrow, to a high of 30 & snow. I’ll take it over this horrid cold though. Good luck w/the granola bars! 😉
I am always amazed by your photography!! It’s so great. Our Christmas stuff came down a week ago 🙁
YES to rocking Christmas socks! And while we’re on the topic, wearing gym clothes underneath your regular clothes is a major plus to these frigid temps. Yep. Everyone’s doing it…okay, maybe just me?
It actually isn’t impossible to swallow your tongue. It’s just impossible to swallow it while it’s still attached to you! If you chopped that sucker off, you’d definitely be able to swallow it down. Haha ;).
So happy that you guys are getting some nicer weather. Enjoy the snowboarding!!
😆 Oh geez, girl. Thanks for that lovely mental picture 😛
I don’t know if it’s actually that a woman is “more beautiful” in the traditional sense of the word during that time of month, but I know that they’re more attractive to men in general because it’s a sign that the woman is fertile. I think certain pheromones are released that men (unconsciously, of course) pick up on. (Science nerd here…)
Haha, that is going to be me with some no bake choc/date bars I made … I can’t keep my hands off them! I can eat a whole 8×8 pan in two days, easy. I still have snowflakes in my room, but I’m calling them wintery, not Christmas-y … it works, right? I’ll have to go google the unicorns in the Bible. I love finding random facts like that … the info will serve me well at some point … I hope. 🙂
Laughed out loud at the facebook bar/search bar fact. I double check this all the time in fear! I LOVE the buffet you have showed in the picture under 3. Where is it from?
To be honest, I’m not actually sure. I picked it up from Homesense, which is a home goods store kind of like TJMaxx, and I have no idea where it came from before that…
I definitely took all my decorations down the day after Christmas haha. I get in the mood to purge the second a holiday is over. I’m so glad the weather is turning around, too. I walked into workout without gloves and a hat and it felt awesome!
Christmas Socks – appropriate all year. …And Christmas decorations – uhm. Yeah. Me too. 🙂 Enjoy some time at the mountain – I don’t ski this weekend for the first weekend since we opened. My legs need the rest!
I love Annie’s gluten free choc and vanilla bunnies. I always keep a box stashed in the pantry! Also you are not alone with the Christmas sock wearing. I just wore a pair yesterday with my boots. 🙂
I kind of proud of myself. I’ve been keeping up with the Memory Jar Project! I’ve been doing it at night before going to bed. I think it has already become a habit and I love ending the day this way!
My Christmas decorations are definitely still up too – my goal is to take them down this weekend. If you want to whip up some of your granola bars and send them my way, it be greatly appreciated 🙂
Pretty sure I wear Christmas socks year round. Yep. I just grab the first pair I can find 😉 I am sure I consume more sugar on a daily basis than the average person so that number is pretty terrifying haha
Pretty sure I wear Christmas socks year round. Yep. I just grab the first pair I can find 😉 I am sure I consume more sugar on a daily basis than the average person so that number is pretty terrifying haha
SO jealous you are going to be snowboarding! You need to somehow have someone catch some action shots of you!
It’s a sad day when -11C is warm weather, hey? 😉 I absolutely cannot leave Christmas decorations up after boxing day. They make me sad and suddenly seem junky and cluttery, not festive.
Compared to -36, -11 is shorts and t-shirt weather! 😆
The cold spell is finally ending here too tomorrow and it’s “warming up” to +1! I am so flipping excited.
I think I might make your granola bars tonight, since I just packed the last of my energy balls in my lunch today!
I think the fact about women being more beautiful during menstruation might be a valiant attempt to make women have more self-confidence during an otherwise crappy time. Perhaps 🙂
I hope you have a wonderful time in the mountains this weekend! Thinking of being outside in the cold right now makes me want to hide in a [warm] hole, but I’m sure snowboarding will make it worth it. I just go outside to go to school really, so I don’t have the most favorable association with the cold 😉
I hope you have a lovely Thursday, Amanda!
did jesus ride off to heaven on a unicorn? I must check this out. LOL! And gah.. totally need that memory chest. Please keep reminding me.
YAY FOR WARMER WEATHER!
Have fun on the slopes! All of my decorations- minus the tree because it died- are up and I don’t know when they will come down. I enjoy them, and my house looks normal filled with them! haha
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Boots are awesome because you can literally wear the ugliest socks in the world and people would still think you look fashionable.
Side note: yours aren’t ugly their adorable.
So excited! Linked up for my first time : )
Glad to have ya, Jenn! 😀
AH! I’m so glad you posted about the memory jars, I completely forgot. I guess starting late is better than not at all. I LOVE the piece of furniture in your Christmas decoration picture! Beautiful! And I’m dying over the “biggest Facebook fear,” I totally agree!
I took our tree down yesterday; a small piece of my heart went away with it. It honestly makes me feel so sad!
Okay, so fun fact #5 about Facebook!!! This actually happened to a guy I know (a friend of a friend)… he was sneaking around on his girlfriend and “searched” this other random girl he’d “met”. Anyway, he didn’t realize he’d made her name his status update and it was there for some time. Needless to say, it didn’t end well!!! Karma’s a B!
Oh dangggggg. But it serves him right. It ticks me off when people get away with stuff like that.
I totally know people who have used the status bar as the search bar lol…And yes, I have totally sent text messages to the wrong people. On more than one occasion and one of those occasions was my former boss while I was supposed to be working. Uh huh. Not too smart of me lol
That Facebook fact? A true fear of mine, haha 😉 And to be quite honest, the only reason my Christmas decorations are down is that the little tree I purchased started dying so I threw it (along with the ornaments) out :/ I also had no other decorations up since they are all packed away at my MIL’s house!
Yay for a little warmer weather, if you can call that warm. 🙂
Funny because I do fear using the status update as the search. hahaha. Anyways-
Christmas socks are the warmest. I’ll be wearing them at the house or under shoes until March as well. Random thought from me: Have you ever seen a goose land? I think it is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while, though they are still terrifying creatures.
😆 When I first read your comment, I thought “a good land” was some kind of documentary or YouTube film — but you actually mean a live goose landing on the ground, right? I feel smart 😆 But yeah I’ve seen them. And yeah I’m terrified of them — I got chased by a pack of big Canadian geese when I was little. Still traumatized.
I was so shocked about the unicorn! We still have stockings up but that’s it.
I’ve been wearing neon green compression socks under my boots, which makes me feel a little like a secret superhero at the conference I’m attending right now 😉
Oh, you just reminded me of this memory card thing. A friend of mine gave me a note book to take notes and memories down from my trip to Rennes. I should really start using it, but first I need to get my thoughts together and remember what I did for the last 6 days….
😆 I have the same exact problem — sometimes I can’t even remember what I did the morning of. But even if you start a week late, you’ll still have an awesome collection by the end 🙂
I packed (in my gym bag) Christmas socks to wear under my boots today!!!
I am rocking the Christmas socks too! All year-round for me 😉 My decorations are also still all up! Why take them down, no rush!
And my memory jar is coming along very well! Sometimes I forget and have to get out of bed to quickly write something down, but I have all 8 days written so far!
Don’t fret or feel bad, my decorations are also still up & sadly coming down tomorrow. I figure it’s only a short time so I try to enjoy for about 5 weeks
Hahahaha – random WOW facts #5, oh that was a good chuckle – cos thats so tru – for me at least!!!
Red and white socks are cool – mine yesterday were fuzzy black ones, with pink lips on em – so not picture worthy! 🙂
My daughter and I started a “Things we are thankful for” Box – after you suggested it, and while we don’t put something in there everyday, we have been adding to it every couple of days or so – thanks Amanda this was such a BRILLIANT share!
Will you bring along some of those Annie Bunnies when I make it to a conference?? 🙂 Seriously, we need to chat sometime – I haven’t even a clue when and where they are and how to register. The only thing I wish for my birthday now is definitely money to pay it all!
Yayyyy for snowboarding!! I will go with my brother end of Jan – SOOOO excited!!!
I haven’t heard much info released about them yet, but I’ll definitely let you know when I do! It usually happens a little later in the year, though. HLS was in September, and I think Blend was in May? Either way, I’ll be sure to tell you as soon as I hear something 🙂
I’m with you on Fact no.1 – shocking! Keep rockin’ the christmas socks girl.. funky :). As if you needed something to make you seem younger haha 😉 . Yup I’m on the memory jar wagon.. Once I made up my mind to do it I sort of can’t slip up; every night before bed!
Unicorns….Jo will be thrilled with that.
#1….Oh I’m going to have to scrutinise my female friends or my sister now to see if that is true. I didn’t even put up Christmas decorations so no problemo there. Now as for those socks……
You know you want a pair of your very own 😉 Bonus: they have fuzzy snowmen near the top.