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Guilty Pleasures Part 2

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Hi friends! I’ve missed this little space, and I’m sorry for my sporadic blogging. I hope to be more regular with my posting soon. This is just such a strange season to navigate, so I’m thankful for those who understand 🙂

Today I’m linking up with Emily and Lindsay to share my guilty pleasures. You can see my last guilty pleasures post here–there’s some good stuff on there!

Now, when I think of a guilty pleasure, I really just think of something that I really enjoy and find happiness in….not so much that I feel guilty in doing it.

1. Eating ice cream out of a coffee cup.

It may be weird to you, but I do not enjoy eating ice cream out of a bowl. Eating it out of a coffee cup is where it’s at because your hand never gets cold holding the cup, and you can feel like you’re eating a lot when you really aren’t. I also prefer to eat soup from a coffee cup too–that way you can drink the rest!

2. INSTAGRAM STORIES!!!!!

I really should have made this number one because I’m obsessed. I could easily waste 20 minutes watching all of the IG stories on my feed. If I follow someone new who posts pretty pictures but their IG stories are boring, I unfollow immediately. I was never really into snapchat, so I was really glad IG started stories. It got even better when everyone else started using IG stories, so now I feel like I really know some famous bloggers because of their stories.

3. Really good cookies

Cookies are my weakness, but not just any cookie. I don’t like my cookie to be crunchy and hard. I want it to be soft and chewy. Dustin and I recently tried a new-to-us cookie place in downtown Homewood and I felt like I had died and gone to Heaven. It was definitely one of the best cookies I have ever eaten in my life. THANK GOODNESS that cookie store isn’t near me because I would be very large if it were.

4. Reality TV

Yes, I love it, and yes, I know it’s stupid. I love watching it (not all reality shows, though) because it gives my mind a chance to check out and I don’t have to do any critical thinking haha! My favorites are the Kardashians (I’ve watched them since season 1 when I had no idea who they were), Real Housewives of NYC/Beverly Hills/OC, Summer House, Southern Charm, Counting On….and some others that I probably just can’t think of right now.

5. Breakfast for dinner

Oh man, do I love eating breakfast for dinner. Dustin..not so much. He just recently jumped on the bandwagon but he’s still a little cautious. I could make and eat a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich or make waffles or pancakes and be so happy a supper time.

6. Christmas movies year-round

Hate on, people, but it makes me happy and I’m going to continue to watch a Christmas movie whenever I want 😜 I watched two Hallmark Christmas movies that I had on the DVR this past Saturday because we had horrible rain all day long. AND I wasn’t sad about being stuck inside all day because I was watching a Christmas movie!

This post was so fun that I’ll have to make this a twice a year installment! I can’t wait to check out everyone else’s to learn more about people!

Sense of Sarah: Guilty Pleasures

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

We all have those “guilty pleasures” where we take time for ourselves to do something that we specifically enjoy. Sometimes we enjoy doing these things alone (hello, alone time = the best) or we do them with a friend or significant other. I have LOTS of guilty pleasures because I enjoy doing lots of things! I left a few things off, like watching the Kardashians, but this is a pretty comprehensive list of who I am 😜

Check out my other Sense of Sarah posts!

1. Making holiday-themed sweets

My best friend and I started making holiday-themed sweets when we lived together in college and we’ve kept it up since college. It’ll probably be pretty hard this year since she’s just moved 3 hours away 😩, but this is something I always look forward to! When we lived together in college, we didn’t get super creative like we do now. I remember one year making chocolate dipped pretzels for the people who cleaned our dorm building. A couple of years ago we made reindeer out of marshmallows and pretzels and it literally took us HOURS.

2. Monogramming….everything

I’ve calmed down a little on my monogramming…as in, my towels aren’t monogrammed anymore now that I have to share them with Dustin. BUT when we were dating, I even got him on the monogramming train and ordered him a monogrammed lunchbox for him to take to work. Please note, he doesn’t style his hair like that, it was from sweat and working outside in the field that day 😂

3. Eating cookie cake

I’m pretty particular about my cookie cake, too–it better be from the Great American Cookie Company. I’m obsessed with cookie cake and you better limit what I have in front of me because I’ll eat it until I become sick. After Dustin proposed to me, he took me back to my mom’s house to a surprise engagement party where he also surprised me with cookie cake–he was definitely trying to impress me haha!

4. Shopping

I love fashion; I love clothes; I love putting together outfits. I love it all. Shopping is definitely a guilty pleasure of mine, and actually, I enjoy shopping alone sometimes more that I enjoy it with people because I’m always afraid that whoever is with me is bored and then I feel pressured. Just me?!

5. Eating sweets

I really have to practice self control around sweets. Stick me in a room with a ton of bags of chips–I won’t be tempted. Stick me in a room with lots of sweets?? Buy me bigger pants. It’s a problem 🙈

6. READING!!

I have loved reading probably for my entire life. It’s my favorite thing to do and if I’m really into a book, I can sit and read for hours without realizing it. I’m also a super fast reader so it doesn’t take me long to read something at all. I’ll never forget the first time I really became obsessed with reading something. I was in the 3rd grade and decided I wanted to read everything about Eleanor Roosevelt (why?!?). I read all of the books about her in my elementary school library, and then my mom took me to the public library and I read all of the books about her there–aka I was reading adult biography books as a 3rd grader. Basically I have an addictive personality (thanks Mom) and once I find something I like, I become obsessed–like with Eleanor Roosevelt 😂😂😂

7. Blonde hair

Surprise, surprise, blonde hair isn’t my real hair color! It’s actually a dark brown. But I love how I look with blonde hair so much more than with dark brown so blonde hair is definitely and guilty (and expensive) pleasure.

8. CHRISTMAS!!!! (and coffee)

Christmas decorating starts for me on Veteran’s Day and along with that comes Christmas music and movies and all the Christmas things. I love this holiday so much and may even sporadically listen to Christmas music throughout the year ha!

Coffee is also a guilty pleasure! I didn’t start drinking coffee until I was 27 when I had my very first pumpkin spice latte. I still can’t drink black coffee but I’ve definitely dialed down the sugar in my coffee a lot since then!

9. Summer Snow

For those of you who have never been blessed with Summer Snow, it’s a shaved ice place in Tuscaloosa, AL. It’s basically heaven in a cup because it does not taste like shaved ice–the consistency is so different. I was introduced to SS my freshman year just a few days after I moved in my dorm after hearing some girls talk about it on the elevator. I’m so glad I listened in on their conversation because my life has never been the same 😂 I loved it so much while I was in college that I overdrafted my checking account several times at SS because I still didn’t know how to manage money…embarrassing, I know. Now every time I go to Tuscaloosa and if it’s SS season, then I make sure to stop by and buy my favorite flavor–the Jimmy Buffet, which is strawberry flavoring and margarita flavoring. Yum!

10. Taking pictures of Dustin sleeping

#wheredustinsleeps is the best hashtag ever on IG (thanks Erica!) Dustin falls asleep in random spots and taking these pictures of him has become a guilty pleasure since we’ve gotten married 😂 It’s like I try to challenge myself to find him sleeping in weird spots…like one time he fell asleep on my shin while I was watching tv.

11. Pizza

I mentioned before that I’m obsessed with sweets, but when it comes to savory foods…pizza is my favorite. I could eat pizza all day every day if I allowed myself to. One year in college when my best friend and I were trying to decide what to give up for Lent (picture 2 Southern Baptist girls who really didn’t understand the reason behind giving up something for Lent. We were just trying to join in with our Methodist friend.), I decided to give up pizza because I ate it every day. Yes, I was that college stereotype. Now that I try to eat healthier, I don’t eat pizza on the reg and just save it for a special occasion. Pepperoni pizza is my favorite!

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Quirks + a Giveaway!

Thursday, January 21, 2016

I’ve been reading lots of posts where people are confessing embarrassing things about themselves–Andrea had her Momfessionals day, Erika has her Owning It posts, and Mackenzie posted yesterday a list of confessions.

I have something to confess: I LOVE reading these! It’s comforting to know that other people have their quirks and are ~~weird~~ different than what’s considered the “norm.”

So I asked Dustin about some of the quirky things that I do or about some of my stranger tendencies. Keep in mind that these are written by him. My thoughts are italicized below!

1. Alarm clock times.

She doesn’t set the alarm clock for normal times like 5:30 or 6:00 but sets if for times like 5:32, 5:37, or 6:03.

Haha! I do this because I feel like I get a few extra minutes!

2. Fork size.

No matter where we are, she has to have a kid sized fork.

Yes, I like kid-size forks. I’m the only one at the dinner table that still uses them haha!

3. Showering every night.

No matter what time of night it is that we get home, she takes a shower. For example, we get home from a concert at 1 in the morning and she still takes a shower before she gets in bed. Me…brush my teeth and I’m out.

What can I say, I like to feel clean when I get in bed to go to sleep!

4. She never wears ball caps.

I find it weird that even on lazy days or days that we do outdoor activities, she never wears a ball cap. I don’t even think she owns one.

Nope–no ball caps here. I look weird in them!

5. The eye pillow.

I feel like I’m married to Ray Charles! She always has it on in the mornings before I leave for work and I can never look her in the eyes telling her bye.

He makes it sound like I sleep with that all the time! I do put it over my eyes when he gets up to get ready for work since it’s like 3:30 AM and his cell phone is so bright. Whatever helps me sleep!

6. Sleeping like a mummy.

She lays flat on her back all night with her arms straight to her side and the blankets encased around her (not an ounce of air can get in).

I’m a back sleeper (sometimes a side sleeper) but I do like having the covers tucked around me–this probably stems from childhood and my mom doing it to me.

7. Chapstick every night before going to sleep.

Even after I kiss her at night before going to sleep, she has to reapply the chapstick.

Yep, I like my lips to stay hydrated during the night!

What about you–what are some of your quirks?

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