What are you reading?

The Art of Eating In

I hate to say this because it makes me sound like such a party pooper but I'm SUPER picky when it comes to movies and books.  I always feel bad when I go on a date with my husband because there are very few generas that we both can enjoy. 

The reason I am very particular is because each story I watch, or read becomes apart of me.  I can remember details in movies for many many years even if I didn't like the movie or just saw a little bit of it, I can't help it.  There are many times that I wish I wasn't this way.  I want to go to the movies with my husband and not watch a historical or family film.  Or even when we are at home to watch a war/ action movie with him would make his day but....I really don't like violence, gore, over use of bad language or sexuality anything (which is almost every movie out there except for family films).

Books have a stronger hold.  When I am reading a book, suddenly my opinions may start resembling the main characters.  I'm now picking back up "The Art of Eating In".  It's written by a blogger in NYC who will not eat out.  Instead, you watch how her life changes from when she first decided to eat in to....well I can't tell you the end because I haven't finished it.  I started reading it awhile ago and I was driving my husband mad!!!  While reading it I insisted on eating in for our dates or if we must eat out it had to be a local restaurant and not some chain (which is hard to find if you didn't know where to look).

So, why am I picking this book back up? Because I haven't been eating my own cooking for a little over two months.  For about two months I've been too sick to even look at the ingredients in my fridge and pantry.  Can you guess why food was so distasteful? Yup, I'm pregnant, and I am finally able to think about food with out getting squeamish.  So, I'm using this book, not only for entertainment and recipes, but to help reignite my love of cooking. See I do use my super picky-ness for the powers of good (not just to annoy people).        

Do you have any problems reading or watching movies?

Nolan The Artist

Nolan is becoming the avid artist.  Most times we have to use our imagination to guess what he is drawing/painting but I find that is just as wonderful as if he painted a realistic painting of fruit. :)

He is also becoming quite the poser.  It was hard to catch him painting once he realized I was taking his picture.

Chalk and Kashi don't mix

So, something just happened that pulled me out of my "whoa is me" thinking and got me laughing. 

As of late I've been waking up starving at all hours of the night. To combat being disturbed from my sleep I eat a small cup of Kashi Go Lean cereal right before bed.
Okay, this might gross you out but I don't like milk in my cereal so I kinda end up using the same cup two nights in a row.  I keep the cup close to my bed for easy reach at night.

Tonight, was no different. I grabbed my kashi poured it in my cup and headed to bed. While eating and reading other blogs I discovered a piece of chalk in my kashi. "okay, odd. Probably nolan putting it in my cup. Good thing I'm not grossed out by this." Is all I thought. 

Little while later I suddenly came upon a big CRUNCH!  Yep, you guessed it more chalk!

I got up to spit it out and found out that it was red chalk. Oh, did I get Steve when I walked into the kitchen with red chalk juice streaming down my lip!  What fun!