Why hello from the Jacob’s family. Do not be alarmed, my wrist naturally contorts itself to look like it is broken.
It is TRIPLE TANGENT TUESDAY (you can read better one’s here, here and here) but I am typing this in a rush because I was going to type this post on the drive to Big Bear but somebody decided to get car sick and wanted to jump out of the window after the quadrillioneth turn so I spent my time adverting my thoughts to me running through meadows with a costco size bag of skittles in my hand.
1. While we were out on our daily Charlie walk today Billy picked a flower for me. You may call that a weed and maybe Billy meant it to be a weed but I am being an optimist and saying it is a flower.
I also found a quarter in the road and my first thought was that if I just find 3 more quarters I can buy a McDonald’s ice cream cone.
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2. Today we drove up to Big Bear to stay with B-dawgs gma and gpa. The decision was to stop at In-N-Out for lunch so I packed my suitcase with 4 lbs of produce.
For some reason I cannot eat french fries during the day. Call it what you want but the thought of eating french fries and then sitting in a car makes my head hurt. I did get plenty of stares eating at a restaurant with my home packed lunch. I asked Billy to write a sweet note on my napkin and pack it in my lunch but he thought that might be a little much. Don’t worry I will make up for the missed french fries tonight with a side of milkshake.
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3. Even though I am in paradise right now and loving life big time…….
I miss these little dudes way too much. Good thing I made a paper chain with the exact amount of links as days until they come and visit. NIECES AND NEPHEWS + CALI!?!?!?!? I think I might pass out from over-excitedness.
It’s the LAST DAY to enter my Workout Clothes GIVEAWAY!!!
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TELL ME TANGENTS ABOUT YOU OR YOUR DAY!!!!
Do you ever bring your own food to restaurants?
-Not usually but I didn’t want fast food and during HOT summertime day’s all I feel like is produce and ice cream.
Do you get carsick or motion sickness?
Ughh.. I get car sick if I’m in the back seat, reading – which makes for really boring car rides in the back seat!
i have horrible motion sickness :( at least i always can get shot gun in the car because of it bahahah.
Wow, your days look like so much fun! :)
I’ve never brought my own food to a restaurant but I certainly would if I felt the need to!
I get AWFUL motion sickness if I read in the car, watch shaky home videos, or play video games. I don’t mind not being able to play video games though, because I don’t really like them!
hahaha I’ve brought my own food to restaurants before. Sometimes I’m just craving my OWN wacky food combos and restaurants just can’t deliver.
I only get car sick when my dad is driving, but his driving would make any stomach turn…blah.
I almost always bring my food to restaurant
I always part of my meal that is 100%
I dont have a choice
most places have nothing for me to eat on their menus. :(
The only one here where I dont have to bring anything is Mimi’s Cafe!
I am sure there is one near where you are now
In the hot summer I am all about cool salads!!
car sick: yep
motion sickness: double yes
no roller coasters for me or anything crazy like that.
video games that have cars: no no also
How romantic of Billy to pick you a weed!
I don’t usually pack food to bring to restaurants but I usually pick healthy-ish restaurants to eat at so that I know I am safe :)
I am the QUEEN of motion sickness. Car, airplane, boat. You name it. I pack barf bags (gross, right?…but it happens every. single. time.)
When I was interning a few weeks ago I would always pack a lunch to save money. I would sneak into Starbucks to eat it… I always felt bad, but their leather chairs are just TOO comfortable to turn down.
I get SO carsick!!! Wahhh it sucks. But actually, Billy is the sweetest. Of course that is a flower.
if you were in Ohio with me, which would be so much fun, you would only have to find 1 more quarter in the streets because McDonald’s is only charing 50 cents for ice cream cones right now! :)
…and by “charing” i meant “charging.”
I get motion sickness and car sick all the time. It takes a lot of the fun out of roller coasters and boating which is just plain lame!
Yes, I get sick in the car if I’m sitting in the back or if the person driving pumps the gas when they drive…bleh! Tangent for today is that I JUST got home and its 8:45!! Longest day teaching everrrrrrrrrrrr (well, maybe in the summer!)
Billy can come pick all the beautiful “flowers” out of my grass!
I am very lucky and never get motion sickness… but the hubs does. No back seat car riding for him!
I totally took a subway sandwich into McD’s the other day when I met said hubs for lunch. His co-workers give me crap for my hippie healthy ways, but whatevs. McDonald’s will not go out of business because of me. And I think they were envious of my veggie-licious sub. Or not.
Car sick: definitely.
Milkshake from In-N-Out: Extra Definitely!!!
oh no! car sickness is a major big fat bummer. that’s why i turned down requests for ragnar racing this year. i’m afraid to ride in the back of a big van for that long and how well would i run with dramamine flowing through my veins?
i’m proud of you for packing your veggies AND for eating them at the restaurant. some of those fellow diners needed to see your example. i feel certain.
yes, i’ve taken my own food to restaurants. and yes, i get motion sickness.
a tangent for me today: i drove past a man walking outside today. he was without a shirt and heavily tattooed. no big deal until i noticed that he also had a bright yellow boa constrictor wrapped around his neck and draped over his shoulders. for real! dude got all angry when i snapped a photo of him as i drove by. he yelled at me. the nerve!!
YOU MAKE ME LAUGH SO HARD!!!I totally would have taken a picture too…..how dare he yell at you!?!
p.s. i have never had in-and-out burger.
When I am driving out in the country and going up and down hills I can get sick to my stomach. I agree with you, eating greasy food and then sitting in the car all day-YUCK!
I refused to eat at a Pizza Inn about a month ago, so I went in to the coffee shop next door and bought soup and a veggie wrap. Brad then convinced the staff at Pizza Inn to let me bring my lunch in while he ate.
WOW…you and Brad sound A LOT like me and Billy:)
I looooove quarters too, but usually mine are saved for slurpees. They come in handy often! I don’t bring food on purpose to restaurants, but usually have pretzels or wheat thins in my purse from my lunch and like to munch on them from time to time. My bf gets so embarrassed and says, “where did you get those?!” like I got them off the ground or something lol.
Love Big Bear!! Hope you’re having a nice trip here in Cali! Weather is perfect isn’t it?
I don’t usually bring food to restaurants but sometimes, my friends bring rice to Hooters to eat with their chicken wings. Asians need rice with everything! lol
I get terribly motionsick. I HATE IT! My cure for car sickness is to sleep.
I always pack my own lunch too – no shame!
I don’t bring my own food to restaurants, but on car trips I will definitely pack my own stuff instead of having to stop at a fast-food place. The only time I get carsick is after I’ve eaten a lot and then I start to read something.
oh my gosh cars get me so sick if i try to read or do anything in them…i hate it!
its only not TOO bad if i sit in the front seat!
and i have been to MANY places packing my ownlunch…heck im in college i am poor!
I don’t usually pack my entire meal, but I bring supplements :) Fruit or veg usually. Your wrist is kinda freaking me out.
I bring food into restaurants sometimes. If it’s somewhere I know it’ll be hard for me to eat I’ll generally brings something along. I try to be slightly discreet about it though. And yes, just in the past few years I’ve started getting carsick! I hate it!
I love that your mind works in ice cream currency. I can relate to that. And with coffee!
And I am all about packed lunches…food is expensive. no need to buy it twice.
P.S. you were my inspiration on the treadmill this evening. don’t mean for that to be creepy :)
AHHH YOU MADE MY DAY!!! I bet you ROCKED your run!! You are so right…FOOD IS EXPENSIVE!!
Just the thought of blogging in a car is making me feel sick to my stomach. I need to have full concentration on the road.
I am not a fast food person in general, so I tend to pack food! I don’t normally eat it in the restaurant… I usually opt for a milkshake/iced coffee type deal while I am there and eat my food beforehand!
I get horrible carsick if there are too many turns and/or I am trying to read. YIkes.
Love produce in the summer. WOOT!
I love your random tangents. You are too cute bringing the lunchbox into the restaurant. I wish Billy had written you a note..that would have been the icing on the cake! ;)
I get motion sickness on the treadmill! I’ve tried every trick, but nothing works. So I was the weirdo running when it was 0 degrees out and snow was five feet deep. Now I can’t even imagine running inside, well, maybe on the really long boring runs. I could use a tv then.
ON THE TREADMILL!?!?! NOOOO!!! That is AWESOME that you run through all the different seasons and weather!
Life would be rough for me if I got motion sick, thank goodness for that!
yes those flowers you have the blow all the little fluffy things off and make a wish at the same time!
or was that just what I did as a child?! every time I see one of them I STILL pick it, blow all the things and make a wish…seriously, I can’t let go of childhood habits.
I love paper chains! I may or may not make them for my coworkers to celebrate things such as weddings and freshly picked cherry days. So fun!!
Mmm… In-n-out grilled cheese!! I eat at least one a week. I never order fries… I just steal them from my husband. I always feel like that girl who steals Joeys fries on Friends. Anyone remember that episode? No, just me? Ok… :)
I LOVE THAT EPISODE!!! I need to watch that one again and BRILLIANT idea with the grilled cheese…I must get that next time!
Hahahaha – JOEY DOESN’T SHARE FOOD!!!!
I can only ready for a minute in a car and i get sicky…sucks! The only on road entertainment is convo and music for me. I love In-n-Out!
Ugh, I LOVE Big Bear and an super duper oober jealous that ya’ll are going there. Soak up some California weather for me!
Haha, I have totally brought my own food to restaurants…guilty as charged! Never fancy restaurants, only little places – like I often take mini hummus pots with me to cafe’s to put on baked potatoes, or smuggle in a vegan sandwich etc…little things like that :-P I try to do it very surreptitiously and make sure we have a seat in a very inconspicuous area cause I’m always afraid of being told off, lol! :-) I totally get car sick, I can’t read or blog or play with the Tom-Tom or I feel proper nauseous. It’s all good though – I just fill up car journey time in other ways – talking a million miles an hour to the BF, singing along to cheesy hip-hip music, or getting excited about the view outside the window! ;-) xyx
PS: Is it lucky to find a quarter? In England we have a saying “find a penny pick it up, all day long you’ll have good luck”…I am so happy whenever I find pennys and sellotape them to good luck cards for people, lol! :-P xyx
I love finding money in the street, even just a penny will make my day.
I used to get terrible car sickness when I was little. (I still do at times) My parents used to drug me with 1/2 a benedryl pill when we would go into the mountains. Problem is I would be completely wiped out and then when we would arrive they thought it would be a good idea to go hiking. I of course just wanted to stay in the car and sleep. Family vacations were not the most fun for me.
Sitting in a car after eating fries really does sound gross…all that grease!
We have a restaurant here where they provide you with the meat entree, but you bring your own sides, so we always bring delicious stuff there!
Carsick…….yes!!!! My in-laws live in the mountains & the hubs will drive until we hit the curves and then I have to drive or I’m miserable the rest of the day. Ugh!!! No backseat, no reading, no texting, no games in he car.
We don’t have in and out here. I pack food all the time and take it in places especially for my kids. No one has ever complained. I always order something though(drink).
All I can think of looking at the ‘flower’ is weeds!!! Guess that means I’m old with a yard to take care of. And I really hate pulling weeds!!!
Love the dandelion that Billy picked for you- hope you made a wish :)
Awww so sweet that Billy picked you a flower!
I usually don’t take my own food to places except for football and basketball games. I coach cheerleading, and I spend a LOT of nights at games, and I cannot eat concession stand food that much. At restaurants I don’t take food, but I do usually have crystal light packets in my purse to add to my water and sometimes low calorie salad dressings.
Tangents about me:
1. In exactly 8 days from right now, I will be flying to Cancun. I am PUMPED!
2. We are getting a new roof put on our house right now, and the noise is driving my dogs insane – they are constantly barking at the roof.
3. I bought some peaches at the Farmers Market this past weekend, and tonight when my husband gets home, I am going to have a hot peach cobbler waiting for him. :)
i can’t eat anything fried or super heavy during the day either…makes me feel gross and like i need a nap. all i really want in the summer is fresh produce and ice cream too! i just had a side of kale with my breakfast…yum.
I always complain about stopping for fast food. Bringing my own would probably be better for both me and the people I’m sharing a car with. I agree – eating fast food then sitting in the car for hours is awful!
I get motion sickness often, even in the front seat. ick.
I don’t bring food into restaurants… I’ve found that most places have a salad available, though that’s not enough for me I usually will have other snacks on my person to fill the gap. My favorite is when a place has a salad AND they have baked potatoes. then I can get everything I need. I just plain don’t eat fast food these days. I don’t mind eating burgers and fries and stuff, but i prefer it to be from a proper restaurant – it’s just so much better. Though I’ve never had in and out burgers, I find maccy ds burgers to be ick. And I like Fries that are thick cut, no fast food places seem to do that. thick cut fries with skin still on bits of them.. heaven.
I too don’t like to eat greasy things in the middle of the day. At night is fine becuase then you just go to bed! hahaha
I lived in Cali for 3 years and I’m not a fan of In & Out Burger. I just don’t get what all the fuss is about. I have done similar things. When we were on vacation this past week, we spent a TON of time outside in the heat and all I wanted was a farmer’s market fruit stand on the property so I could have an endless supply of fruit.
I love IN & Out!! Do you ever dip your fries in your shake?? It’s the best!!
I’m really craving a neopolitan (sp??) milkshake from In-n-out now. If you haven’t had one, go get one. Its all three flavors mixed. You’re welcome.
I sometimes bring protein bars to Starbucks to enjoy with my lattes on lunch break, but other than that usually not. You go girl! I usually get too self-consious and end up ordering something small on the menu instead. But great idea! :)
I am vegan so I typically bring my own tupperware dish of vegan butter so I can eat baked potatoes!!!