habits
I have been accused of falling behind on the entertainment value by people who obviously don’t buy into the whole, this blog is all about me, hype and think it is all about them (who am I to burst their bubble?) Thank goodness scarylarissagrasshopperleg has had lots to say the past couple of days to make up for that. Some excellent posts over there. I’m thinking of telling people that I wrote them for her.
But I have been truly busy, because there has been something of a minor crisis here. It hasn’t reached true crisis proportions yet, but it’s threatening to and creature of habit that I am, I’ve been trying to figure out what to do about it and it’s been taking up lots of time.
It seems that, because of the New Year, lots of people are making resolutions. Diet type of resolutions. These resolutions have begun to affect me since these same people have apparently decided to begin buying out the only brand of Slim Fast Meal On The Go Bars that I eat, and have eaten, for breakfast, for the past two years. (Did I mention the creature of habit thing?) The other day I was down to my last bar. The husband scoured four stores. At the fifth he hit paydirt and found six. The manager muttered something about people going on diets and buying out supplies. He also mentioned the possibility of Slim Fast discontinuing that flavor, but I will not address the foolishness of that notion. I am far too fragile at this moment.
I implore you, people who are buying the Peanut Butter Chewy Granola Bars — buy the chocolate chip ones instead. I would, but I cannot eat them since they have the faint taste of French vanilla and I cannot eat or drink anything involving French vanilla since the three year old (when she was the one year old) threw up vanilla Pediasure directly into my mouth. I will not go into details — suffice it to say that many people found the incident highly amusing and I did not.
If I can no longer find these bars, I will not know what to eat with my coffee. And, since we all know I can’t cook (on a side note, when I mentioned to the husband the thing about recipes on author’s websites being very popular, he suggested I put a recipe page up here and just put links on it to all my favorite take-out places. He found this highly amusing. I did not say anything, because damn, I need him around to cook because there is only so much take-out I can eat and because he’s the only one around here who knows how to work the snow blower, which, from the looks of things, we might be needing in the next couple of days) — where was I….oh, right — can’t cook, get sick of cereal — my whole morning coffee, slim-fast bar, read emails and blogs morning writer routine will be thrown off. And then where will I be? Not so entertaining, I can promise you that.
I can’t be the only creature of this much habit out there, can I?
Steph T.
January 7th, 2005 at 3:21 pm
Yeah I’m guessing for diet food companies, Jan 1 is kinda like their Black Friday lol.
Glad a major disaster hadn’t befallen you anyway. I’m thinking a pretty scary search party might have made it’s way to your house if we hadn’t heard from you soon.
January 7th, 2005 at 3:24 pm
Should it scare me that the scary search party is quite a comforting thought?
Would you all have brought the missing slim fast bars?
January 7th, 2005 at 4:11 pm
Steph, you got me again. I laughed so hard at the French vanilla spew. I needed a good laugh after the BIG R I got for Silhouette two days ago. So thank you…I feel a little better…good luck finding the breakfast bars. If you can’t find any let me know.. I’ll see if I can find you some here.
Jerri
January 7th, 2005 at 4:12 pm
May I suggest the SlimFast Peanut Butter Crunch Snak Bars? I love them!!! They taste just like a Crispy Crunch Choc. bar. In fact, sometimes I think they are CC bars, just a bit smaller to reduce the calories. *ggg*
January 7th, 2005 at 4:13 pm
Oh, and the take-out page sounds good to me! Then again, I work in a restaurant, so I eat ALOT of take out.
lol
January 7th, 2005 at 5:45 pm
{{{Jer}}} R’s suck. Glad I could make you smile a little. We’ll get there. Promise.
Sasha - that’s how I feel about my peanut butter bars - they’re like candy to me. It’s like eating candy for breakfast :) I’ll look into the crunchy ones.
January 7th, 2005 at 6:57 pm
Oh Steph You’re Back!!!!! I LMFAO then chased the kids away so I could laugh some more.
Ok 1. resturaunt page sounds good. I love take out though guilt (and no husband) does occasionally force me to cook.
2. Have you checked Target for your bars? I know our local target carries a wide selection of slim fast and Kashi Go Lean Protein Bars and some Lemon flavored bars I really like.
3. Bars–I heard on the radio this week that eggs is the better breakfast food because it leaves you feeling fuller longer. So my fried egg sandwiches are safe (no comments larissa I’m really trying not to think about your egg information)
4. Bars–but wait, you can’t cook. 8-D
5. Jerri–Hugs on the R!!!!
January 7th, 2005 at 6:58 pm
oh and 6. Bars–in three weeks your bars will probably be up to their normal easy to find rate in stores 8-D
January 7th, 2005 at 6:59 pm
Last post I promise….
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/physlabs/601893.html
Bars =)
January 7th, 2005 at 7:12 pm
Cece - You’re my HERO!!! Why didn’t I think of online bar shopping, since the computer is practically attached to my head? I haven’t tried Target - normally I stalk CVS and Stop & Shop for the bars.
I do like the occasional egg sandwich too - but, as you mentioned, that pesky cooking thing (and, more recently, scarylarissagrasshopperleg’s scary egg article) gets in the way.
January 8th, 2005 at 10:59 am
LOL! My husband turned green at the puke story. He thinks puking babies are the worst thing EVER. And I think your husband’s recipe page suggestion is hilarious!
Cece–what, fried slimy flaxseed egg substitute sandwiches won’t work? *ggg*
Jerri–hugs on the R!!! That sucks. There’s been a huge rash of those lately. I freak out every time I check my mail. My stomach is already churning, and the mailsadist doesn’t come for three more hours!
January 8th, 2005 at 9:06 pm
fried flax seen sandwitch?
I SWANNNNN hearing that after six months a certain editor at berkley STILL has not read my ms is nearly as frustrating as a rejection =(
February 6th, 2005 at 7:08 pm
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