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It Wasn't My Fault...?

  • it was a scientific study
    • analysis of emotions at onset
    • analysis of situations  triggering onset
    • analysis of mental states
  • I was stressed
  • Mr. Survival left my treadmill in an un-usable position on the floor
  • I was trapped in a car
  • My kids embarrassed me in public
  • I couldn't go home
    • Mr. Survival had 3 conference calls to make in his office
      • directly underneath my current aka 'old' living room
    • Mr. Survival had a potential new boss coming for a presentation
      • directly below my whole house for the tour
      • the oldest two were home from school
    • Beansprout pooped at 7:30 am without damaging his daily underwear
  • Did I say I couldn't go home?
Bottom line:  it is my fault.  There are other things I could have done.  For instance, it would have cost less for me to check back into a [clean, orderly, nice] motel/hotel than it did for me to run ALL of my errands, rent 2 movies, buy Beansprout 2 new pairs of shoes, drive 45 minutes so the kids would watch the freaking movie and stop arguing,  ...

wait.  did anybody finish that paragraph entire post?

Bottom line?

The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Comments

  1. UnknownOctober 22, 2010 at 12:06 AM

    ahhh stress eating...wait, did you eat that candy corn mix in the pic? I walked real fast by that aisle at Target the other day and held my breath. Whatever works! lol

    Rough days happen...movin on. May tomorrow be much, much better. :)

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  2. JourneyBeyondSurvivalOctober 22, 2010 at 12:11 AM

    Yup. I bought it. While out for the day with the kids. In the car. Trapped togevah. Scarring me in so many ways...

    I mean, the lights of my life. Right?

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  3. MizFitOctober 22, 2010 at 5:34 AM

    ahhh I have been...fallen...FALLEN PREY to the candy of the corn more times than I can count.

    and it still makes me giggle (really) that friends and family LAUGH that I even like the candy corn.
    To them resistance is SIMPLE.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 22, 2010 at 6:22 AM

    You know, I was going to make a joke about "geez, if you're going to eat candy, why candy corn?" but really? I don't mind candy corn so much. It's so this-time-of-year festive.

    And my darling, with all the stress you're under right now, I'm thinking you deserved every stinking kernel.

    Today's a brand new day.

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  5. KarenOctober 22, 2010 at 7:38 AM

    Ah, candy corn. So in our faces right now. I can resist buying it and I had a bag at home unopened I sent to my son (who loves it), but don't put a bowl in front of me!

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  6. AnonymousOctober 22, 2010 at 1:23 PM

    I can't resist the candy corn either! I could say it's a fond childhood memory, but really? Nostalgia-shmostalgia . . . it's the pure and simple sugar [read: highly processed high fructose corn syrup] that I seem unable [read: unwilling] to resist!

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  7. HelenOctober 22, 2010 at 2:56 PM

    Besides, everyone knows that candy corn is only here NOW. And you can't eat just ONE.

    Been there, done that. No blame or shame from me to you. Hugs.

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  8. MorganOctober 22, 2010 at 3:28 PM

    See, Halloween IS an evil holiday, just like the fanatics say! It just isn't because it is the devil's holiday, but more like because it is the devil's candy. Sigh...

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  9. Leanne @ Deep Fried FruitOctober 22, 2010 at 6:02 PM

    Candy corn? Must be a US Halloween thing? Well it's halloween. I guess the monsters have got to find you eventually ...

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  10. WillpowerOctober 22, 2010 at 10:40 PM

    I guess I am safe I never have liked candy corn it reminds me of wax for some reason. No the Chocolat bars with nuts or wafers thats a diffrent story. Your going to be ok not sure how you can stand being in the car that long with all them chillens I would have started to go a bit crazy, my kids can not sit that long. And amazingly today I felt like eating something when the kids on the bus started to yell really loaudly. Got me wondering about my need to stress eat at that moment in time.

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  11. Tami@NutmegNotebookOctober 22, 2010 at 11:20 PM

    You poor thing, you settled for candy corn when there are so many other good tasting things you could have chowed down on! You are stressed!

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  12. Yum YuckyOctober 23, 2010 at 11:04 PM

    you couldn't go home? But what about your emergency underground bunker? You don't have one of those like I don't?

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  13. ErinOctober 24, 2010 at 5:34 PM

    Hey candy corn happens to the best of us every now and then lol.

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