So I had kind of a rough day yesterday, and ended up blanking on the fact that I was supposed to give my brother’s girlfriend, Stephanie, a ride home from work. I had just gotten home from grocery shopping–glad that I had beat the storms, and was talking to Jeff about developments with our wedding when my phone rang and Steph’s number came up on the screen.
My heart sank and I answered the phone “Please don’t hate me, but I forgot and I’m on my way right now.”
She, of course, is a complete sweet heart and was totally understanding and chill about the whole thing. I called back and invited her to grab a bite to eat with me–my treat. We went to Broadway Pizza and split a burger. It was easily enough food (a burger is 1/2 lb standard these days!) but we ordered cinnamon sticks anyway. We were having fun talking and laughing but knew that we were eating the sticks just because they were there.
I decided to introduce Steph to my alternative form of will power. I still wanted to hang out for a bit and chat because we were having such a good time, but I did not want to continue eating the cinnamon sticks… I explained this to Stephanie and said that the best way to stop eating something if you have no will power is to make it unappealing. She was game, so I asked her to grab a condiment from the table. She choose mustard. I choose ketchup. We squirted the ketchup and mustard all over the cinnamon sticks! She even squirted some on my hand. We were laughing and having a good time.
Steph: “It needs sprinkles!” *dumps red pepper on it”
She’s a pro sabotager, let me tell you. By the time we were done, the cinnamon dessert was covered with ketchup, mustard, red pepper flakes, salt, pepper, water, and ice. On the one hand, we felt bad wasting food, but on the other–they would have just thrown it out anyway, or we would have continued eating it for no good reason.
We left a good tip and a fun note… with no guilt, and our tummies just right.
MegsFitness 