1. I have eaten the exact same lunch the past three days and I am officially obsessed.
Spinach, kale, broccolettes, and sweet potatoes. Topped with mustard and nooch.
I dream about this bowl.
2. I have competition. When asking my (autistic) sister if she had a boyfriend her reply was, “*****. He is a good guy.” Well that’s odd, ***** is my boyfriend. Hahaha.
3. I have FINALLY finished Scott’s book.
I still want to be his best friend.
4. I haven’t had sweets in too long. I lost count. I would shank someone for some Snackimals right now.
5. I went urban hiking yesterday. I didn’t know that was even a thing. It’s what you call walking around town, I guess it sounds cooler to call it urban hiking. Weird. The sights were still as good as a mountain hike though.
6. I love the smell of cleaning products. It’s bad. Citrus smell, bleach, Ajax, laundry soap, cat litter..nothing like chemicals to awaken my senses. Who needs drugs when you can smell cleaning products…….JOKE!
7. I’ve owned my car for 5 years and have yet to change the wiper blades, until yesterday. This may seem like no big deal to my desert friends, but I live in a state that rains..a LOT.
With a combination of discounted blades at Costco, and an insisting family, I bought the blades. I also wanted to use them as ninja sticks.
Fortunately for me I didn’t have to put them on.
Now it just needs to rain.
8. I have found the next half marathon I am going to run. Super jazzed.
9. Sitting in a coffee shop reading a book, people watching, or blogging is one of the most relaxing things ever.
10. I have found the most amazing app for my cheap frugal ways. I have this habit of picking up change when I see it on the ground. I get wayyy too excited when I find pennies, nickles, and dimes on the ground. Don’t even get me started on finding a quarter. I decided to track how much change I find starting from the beginning of March. I found at least $1.50 from January to February. Laugh away, that will buy me a free donut!
So March hasn’t been a big payday yet, but I’m holding strong for the day I find those quarters! My friends won’t be laughing at the end of the year when they see I’ve found $5.00 for free!
Q(s):
- When’s the last time you changed your wiper blades?
- What’s your weekly confession?
Blissfulbritt 
63 thoughts on “Early Morning Confessions”
Nicole Marie Story
If yours is the body of a ninja, then I want to be an effing ninja! So gorgeous. My obsession is Brad’s vegan raw vampire killer cheesy kale chips. Nom nom nom!
di @ life of di.
Love this post!
-Coffee house people watching/blogging really is great!
-I eat the same thing for lunch every single day too and there is something so nice about the familiarity 🙂
-I want to read that book! Did you enjoy it??
Brittany
I LOVED this book. It should have taken me days to read. The story line was great, and the running was inspiring!
An Unrefined Vegan
Where’s the half marathon??
Brittany
Washington :).
Barbara Bamber | justasmidgen
Your sister sounds so sweet:) Your boyfriend as well! Congrats on finding a new race.. you must be ready to run one any day because you train so much! And.. I love that app! How cool is that?! Pennies are discontinued in Canada soon.. so that App would have to be “Canadianized” with a Loonie, a Twoonie and no penny!
evelinruns
This is adorable, thanks for making me smile!
1. Would you say Eat & Run is a must-read? I’ve been thinking of reading it (one of my goals for 2013 is to read more in English.. AHhhh!)..
2. Your pick-up-change-habit is great! Loving the app too!
Now I wish I did it too, I KNOW I’ve seen a bunch of coins laying around on the ground lately. Why, oh why, didn’t I pick them up?! At the end of the year they would at least cover.. one running sock.. Maybe? 🙂 Or like you said, a donut (or five)!
3. When’s your next Half? Exciting!
I like your blog girl!
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Brittany
1. YEs YES YES you must read this book. As a runner you will love it.
2. I shuttered at the thought of all that change being left behind! It’s never too late to collect. HAHA.
3. The next half is in May!! YAY!
Alex @ therunwithin
you just make me laugh. like I really would love to meet you in person. that app is epic. can you come make me that power bowl? sounds pretty delicious if i say so myself. but no sweets? why would you do that to yourself! I mean I guess I should you are pretty amazing with self control. I have zero over here
foods for the soul
At my favorite donut shop in town, that would buy you almost 2 donuts — they’re only $0.90 each!! And I’m super impressed you haven’t had sweets for so long. I need dark chocolate and dessert (yes, they’re two separate things) at least once a day!
Brittany
HELL yes they are separate!!
foods for the soul
Dark chocolate really doesn’t even count as a dessert… More of a necessity!
Britta
Hahahaha, man you always make me laugh so much!! The love change app – I wouldn’t use it, but Amy would 😉 So funny, she actually picked up a penny this morning while we were out for a run! Okay and urban hiking? Say what?! I feel like thats a term someone who doesn’t workout made up so that “shopping” or strolling around town qualifies?!? haha okay prob not. But anywho, if that is a thing – I urban hike a lot!!
Brittany
I SO thought of Amy when writing the part about the app. I KNEW she would know what’s up with the change collection. Shes a girl after my own change loving heart! HAH!
Brennan
Nooch is nutritional yeast? That’s what google suggested anyway. Sounds interesting! Where’s the half marathon?!
Brittany
Yesss nooch is nutritional yeast!! I don’t know where the term came from, but I ran with it cause it sounds funny! HAHA! The half is in my good ol’ state of Washington!
Manfriend
My confession for the week is that I do a lot of blog reading while I am on the porceline throne!
Brittany
Hahahaha you complete me.
Luv What You Do
I have to pay the car dealership to assist me with wiper blade changes. I’ve had my car for 13 years and didn’t change the tires for like 6 : ) I love your photos and urban hiking. What a fun way to explore the city!
pickyrunner
Hahaha your sisters response. Killed me. As for sugary sweets, GET ON THAT GIRL!
cleaneatingveggiegirl
That lunch looks amazing. I cannot blame you for eating it three days in a row!!
This post seriously made me chuckle because I literally just changed my wiper blades today. What a coincidence! 😉
Amy @ A Desert Girl
That lunch intrigues me. I’ll have to give it a try. Also, I love that your sister thinks your manfriend is great – I’d say that’s a sign that you definitely have a good one!
I’m totally a change-picker-upper. It’s in my blood. I come from a long line of penny-pinchers.
I have to change my windshield wipers about once every 18 months but ironically I think it’s due to how dry it is where I live and the lack of use.
My confession is that I have not changed out of my pajamas, fluffy red bathrobe (totally hot, I know – my fiance is soooo lucky), and houseshoes all day today. And I may not tomorrow. Holla…
Melissa @ Mouthwatering Morsel
I ate the same bfast lunch dinner all week. still no tired of it! I have a problem with cleaning products too … except cat litter. I can’t do that a lot. I need to blog and stuff at a coffee shop one day. what is the app called … I could do with that too!
Brittany
The app is called MyChange. It was the first one on the iPhone, but I know you don’t have an iPhone so I don’t know why I said that. HAHA.
Melissa @ Mouthwatering Morsel
eeps darn .. guess I’ll have to wait til it comes out on android. haha
jessielovestorun
>>THIS IS AN ORDER<< HEAD TO THE STORE RIGHT NOW AND GET YO'SELF SOME SWEETS!! 🙂
Khushboo Thadani (@KhushbooThadani)
I’ve feel like you’ve let us in on a secret by referring to Manfriend as his real name :)! Love this post and my confession: I had brinner for last night and my intense craving toast with PB & banana slices means that it’s probably going to happen again tonight!
Brittany
I’m so glad you were the first to notice the name drop. HA!
Tessa at Amazing Asset
That app is pretty dang awesome… going to download it pronto! I have never in my life changed windshield wipers either, that’s what men are for 😉 I am the ultimate feminist I know.
I also can’t blame you for eating that same lunch the last several days, looks like a winnaaaa to me!
Nicole
That’s so sweet of your sister to share her boyfriend with you! One of my best friends nannies for an autistic boy and he always tells me that I can borrow his (my) dog Bentley. He always puts a smile on my face. Your lunch sounds great, I could eat sweet potatoes every day.
Patti
Keep looking for that change, something bigger may turn up! My mom did the same thing and she found a 50.00 bill folded up several times on the ground! That would really add up on your change app! Have a good week ahead!
Brittany
That is amazing..several times!? I will cry the day I find a $50! You’ll be one of the first to know! 🙂
allieksmith
I was cracking up about your sister saying her boyfriend is your boyfriend! I swear my little sister is trying to steal my boyfriend. Yikes!
Also, I want to try your lunch… that sounds so good!
erinksage
Ain’t no shame in eating an awesome meal repeatedly. If it’s good, it’s good, and there’s no gettin’ around that 🙂
Urban hikes are my most favorite weekend activity! As long as the weather’s nice, my husband and I are almost always out walking around whatever city we’re in (taking in the sights and local fare :D)
I enjoy chillin’ at coffee shops and people watching, but I find that I can’t commit to anything requiring much more focus than that. I definitely can’t do any productive tasks there (I couldn’t do homework or study at coffee shops in high school or college either) because I’m too distracted – a magazine is about as much as I can handle with all the other activity buzzing around me.
Choc Chip Uru
Aaaah your passion for running is soooo awesome my friend, excited for you!!!
And LOVE that stunning obsessed recipe 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Colin DeWaay
Ha I know all about eating the same thing over and over. I’ve been eating chicken and broccoli for pretty much every meal lately, and no I’m not tired of it! 🙂
Brittany @ DulceVie
Your lunch looks soooo good! Anything with sweet potatoes in it is amazing 🙂 I love all of your pics btw (especially of the lake)!
Matt @ The Athlete's Plate
I pretty much eat the same lunch everyday! #sandwichobsessed
Meghan@CleanEatsFastFeets
Your confessions post are such fun; I totally would have went ninja with those wiper blades, and I like the smell of gasoline and matches, but not together because that would be bad. Your bowl of green plus sweet potatoes looks great so I can see why you’ve eaten it for three days now. I’m stuck on twice baked potatoes.
Side story: I throw old bread outside for the squirrels and other woodland creatures living in our back yard, but I keep catching Max eating the bread. He’s such a pig.
Jan @ Sprouts n Squats
Hmm I can’t remember the last time I changed my wiper blades might be time to get onto that!
Weekly confession I’ve had yonanas ice cream – ice cream made entirely from bananas every day this week 🙂
Ally
Your lunch looks scrumptious! No wonder you’ve had it a few days in a row.
I ate 3/4 of a (albeit, small) pack of choc chips last night- blech! It was good for the first 1/4 or so! The bad news? Now I can’t make Starr’s peanut butter choc chip cookies!
🙂
thoughtsappear
One of the best parts about having a boyfriend is not having to do my own car stuff.
Megan
For as long as I have been reading this blog you have never told us Aarons name, at least that I have noticed. Woahhhh. AND I just have to say it… when you talked about your dessert friends I was thinking, hm isn’t it spelled desert? Because 2 s’s means you want seconds and you always want seconds for dessert not for desert. I heart you though and think you should leave it.
I have been driving around with a wiper blade that is flapping around for the last week or 2. I don’t understand they were perfectly fine one day and the next the rubber was all floppy around, obviously some one attacked my car in the middle of the night.
Brittany
This was the first intentional name drop of Aaron! HA! I felt it was time. OHH DEAR lord my grammatically correct mind is so ashamed of the mistake. Can you tell what was on my mind!?!
myhighonlife
OOo that app is awesome! Except I always just lose my change-unless its a quarter. Those are gold to me for parking meters.
I agree.. there is nothing quite better/relaxing than sitting at a coffee shop with a good booki/blogging. Through Tyler in the mix while he’s reading the sports section of the paper and I am a happy camper 🙂
Windshield wiper story. Imagine a bad bad blizzard. I am driving to downtown Milwaukee for drill. Wiper ices up. I tried to de-ice it while driving and instead breaks the wiper. In a blizzard. I stuck my head out the window until I could get to a gas station. Where I proceeded to walk blocks IN A BLIZZARD to an auto shop. Who demanded me pay them 10 extra dollars to put them on my car. A) i’m a lady. B)i’m in my Army uniform. C) I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO. That is my story.
missymiller
Finding quarters is like…..
so so good.
With you on that.
Alex @ Cookie Dough Katzen
Haha love the urban hiking term. I’m going to start calling it that too. I went urban hiking yesterday actually. It’s always the best in hilly cities. Your veggie meal looks really good.
Life After Swimming
Can Aaron be my boyfriend, too? I mean now that I have a fiance, the boyfriend category is empty. And he seems to be a pretty fantastic guy! Even your sis agrees! haha
katalysthealth
baahahaha your sister is too cute. true story, growing up I used to sit between my sister and her bf (now hubby) and I would tell him that if my sister didnt marry him then I would!! Haha we are 12 years apart so I was the annoying little sister 🙂
natalie @ will jog for food
Love your sister’s answer when you asked about a boyfriend, HAHA!
Rach @ This Italian Family
Haha! I picked up change all the time in college. I found so much, haha! I pick it up less now because I’m so paranoid about getting sick again after being so sick this winter. Maybe once flu season is over, I’ll go for it again. 😉
EverdayLivingPNW
Wow I would not want to mess with you when you are caring those ninja sticks..seriously i want no trouble!
GiGi Eats Celebrities
I must confess that… I get high off of Clorox bleach wipes.
And I have a blog crush on you.
And I eat the same thing every day.
And I laugh far too much. LOL!
Alisha's Appetite
okay I love that you pick up change in general but the fact that you downloaded an app to see just how much you are picking up just me me fall in love with you. bwahah 😉
consciouscravings
That is cute about your sister. I don’t have any sisters, so no competition for me (Just kidding because my brother is gay, but I don’t think we like the same type of guys). I would be eating that meal for three days in a row too. I get on the habit of eating the same thing over and over again if it is really amazing.
Brittany Trentham (@batrentham)
I love this post!! That is too cute about your sister! 🙂 I changed my wiper blades for the first time in 5 years today! Crazy how long we both went!
P
Yay on finding your next 1/2! Must be keeping you motivated 🙂
That bowl looks awesome by the way. Are the sweet potatoes in fry form :D?
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