Food Fight

This weekend I had some time on my hands since everyone and their dog left town for the holiday. So naturally this is what I researched all weekend... food. I love Cafe Rio. Don't even try to make me eat Costa Vida, Bajio, Barbacoa, or any of those other lame imitators. Cafe Rio has the best tortilla shells known to man. And sadly I now know why!!! 420 calories goes into that delicious tortilla and there is even more in the whole wheat version. My favorite Pork Barbacoa salad has 1,240 calories with everything on it, but I usually put my own spin on it. I get the whole wheat tortilla, black beans, pork, lettuce, pico, lime, cilantro, and it still comes to 800 calories... thats with using no dressing at all! Dang those delicious tortillas!

 

Now onto another favorite! The Hawaiian Pizza from CPK. I can finish anything you put in front of me... including a CPK personal sized pizza, which the term "personal size" at CPK means can feed two or three, or a small village somewhere in the abyss. 1055 calories.... oh cripes!!!

Ok now onto the heavy weight champion when it comes to high caloric food items.... The Carrot Cake from Cheesecake Factory... drumroll please......... 1,549 calories! You could either eat this one slice of cake ... or.... eat 1 Big Mac, 1 large fry, diet coke, southwestern salad (with no chicken), and a snack size oreo mcflurry for the same amount of calories. Or to put it into even better perspective you could eat THREE and a half Veggie Delight FOOT LONGS from Subway. 

Talk about sheer food madness... Michael Phelps is probably the only person who could eat all of this as he consumes 12,000 calories a day. Ugh... that makes me ill. I'm going to the gym.

Guilty Pleasure #9

Now by no means have I EVER watched Family Guy, but my sister showed me this clip and we love love love the way he says Guilty.... now every time I say the word guilty in this post, you'd best imagine I'm saying it like this...

ok ok now onto the GUILTY pleasure

Childhood is the greatest. Recess, capri suns, playing outside till its dark, and pretending to be asleep on late car rides home just so your parents will carry you to bed (so you don't have to brush your teeth). Some of my favorite childhood memories come from my favorite TV shows. Oh yeah, Guilty Pleasure #8: I still like to watch children's TV. I was at the gym the other day and Arthur was on TV, which is my all time favorite show! I felt kinda funny watching it as everyone else around me was watching Bad Girls Club or Jersey Shore. Who cares?

 Winnie the Pooh... GUILTY.................There is a new movie coming to theaters soon... I will be going to see it, most likely by myself.

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse..... GUILTY............. They have a live stage version of this show at Disney World. I'd be lying if I said I didn't see it. And also that I didn't want to go back and see it again. 

Sesame Street... seriously you can't go wrong with this one. Katherine and I watch the Christmas Special (which we still own on VHS made in the 70s) every year..... GUILTY!

Tinker Bell, yes true I did live with her once upon a time, but I loved these movies before I even left for Florida. No wonder I like babysitting... I get to watch all my favorite shows! 

One last time for kicks..... GUILTY!!!!!!!

Grandma Pillows

I absolutely love my bedding. Its from the Shabby Chic Collection at Target and so so fabulous. But shockingly, not everyone seems to love it! Our apartment has limited seating, so whenever we have people over to watch a movie they have to sit or lay on the floor. I love pillows, and my bed has quite the plethora, so naturally I bring them out for people to use to be more comfortable.

One night while watching a flick, I go to grab my pillows and what to my heartbroken ears should I hear upon returning? "Abby what the heck? Why do you have grandma pillows?"

Grandma pillows? Grandma pillows?!!!!!! "They're not grandma..... they're shabby chic!!!!"

So the above picture is my bedding, and so called grandma pillows.... pshhhh

 Am I crazy? (I used this picture specifically for my crazy eye quality) Below is the whole ensemble... People please.... I need your opinions. Have I been blindsided by my love for the Taj Mahal of superstores: Target, and their array of shabby chic bedding? I always joke that I'm 80 years old... but could it really be true? Painting nails, going to bed early, migrating to Florida, and buying grandma bedding!

I can't deny the fact that I have pictures of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, James Dean, Gene Kelly, Walt Disney and the Beatles hung on my walls... (ugh I think I just dug myself into a hole there)... But I thought I had good taste in duvets. Let me know... I can take it.

FYI, there is a new love in my life. We met in Florida... her name is Lady. Is it unhealthy to buy a stuffed animal for yourself at the age of 20?

 Or to love it as much as a real dog? I must say we both have stunning eyelashes.

Technophobe

I have a love and hate relationship with technology. Somehow every time I change something on my blog disaster strikes, and then I am forced to spend hours fixing what I changed. I need a computer savvy person to help me out!

However one thing good came out of this. I found this polaroid converter and I love it. It makes this beauty of a flag look even more amazing eh? And on a side note, I spent the whole entire day inside my apartment. I woke up feeling sick and decided to skip all my classes...very uncharacteristically Abby, however I found it strangley liberating.

Jim Henson what were you thinking?

Tell me this is not the scariest thing you've ever seen. And to think, my parents let me watch this movie when I was 8.

NO sweets NO facebook February

I am saying goodbye to these delectable treats for the month of February. No sweets. Period. I did this same fast last January and honestly it feels so good. You don't really even crave sugar anymore by the time the month is over. 

The only issue with this challenge is that people can give you a lot of grief for doing this and try to break you! Already people have been saying, "But Valentine's is in February!!!!" Like Valentine's is even supposed to be a big deal? haha

Another thing I'm giving up is facebook. I realized just how much time I waste on it and deactivated my account. I've only been without facebook for two days... but I've already been so much more productive.

Dating in P-Town Dos

So in my ward we have this dating & relationships class, and let me tell you, church has become much more entertaining because of it. I think they should replace regular sunday school classes in all singles wards with this class.  I mean, I didn't even have to pull out my doodle paper pad once! It was only a four week deal, so the class is over now but some hilarious things came out of it.

Such as... " Guys, don't corner girls into a date." Amen to that sista. Cornering a girl into a date is calling her and asking "hey what are you doing Friday night?". The girl starts to think... oh boy... what do they want? Are they going to ask me out? Or are they asking me to help with the ward service project or something along those dreadful lines. If she says that she's doing nothing, she's almost obligated to go out the guy regardless of how she feels. If she says she's busy, the guy is pretty much toasted. See.... burned on both ends. This is an awful way to ask someone out. One time an attractive male called me with that exact same intro and I thought, wow is he asking me out? Wrong! I said I was free.... but.... too bad it wasn't a date with him, he was asking me to double with his friend who wasn't quite all the way there, if you know what I mean. Ever since I have been very tactical when it comes to phone calls like that.

I've also learned its ok to say no. Sometimes it feels like you get asked out by all the wrong guys, and the ones you really want to ask you out are either too scared, unobservant, or not interested. I have a really big problem with always saying yes even when I don't want to. I'm predictable. I'll go on a first date and if  its fun, I'll always say yes to a second. But then usually something "interesting" happens on the second date and I tend to flee, then proceed to disappear into outer darkness so the boy can't ever find me again. You'd think that by never hanging out with someone or returning calls they'd get the idea. I'm an avoider, but what I really just need to do is say no. Has anyone ever said no, and had a positive experience before? If you have I'd really like to know. I can say that I've never met a girl who's just straight up said no, without lying or making up an excuse. I'd be the first of my kind if I could pull it off.

(P.S. This may be one of my favorite pictures of all time)

Finally, the big M-word. Marriage. This article explains it all http://universe.byu.edu/node/13393. I'm 20 years old. Uhhh.... thats really young. But somehow mormon culture tells me that by graduating from BYU unmarried (which I will be doing this year) I'm a lost cause. Marriage will happen when it happens, its not a race and by George shouldn't be! Read this article, its pretty spot on! This concludes Dating in P-town exposed: issue #2 by Gail. (which is what people are calling me these days, and its truly awful, but if you can't beat it, embrace it)