Follow Runs for Cookies, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/runs-for-cookies Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:25:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjWuqR5EjxnfkZPHFZJLI3I While I was painting my bedroom today, I was trying to think of a topic for "three things" today. I have no idea where this one came from, but I thought it would be interesting: Three Things I Wish I Knew As a Kid.When I say "kid", I'm just referring to younger days--say, up to age 25 or so. When I still had no clue how the world worked ;)1. Stretch marks and loose skin are permanent.This may]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjWuqR5EjxnfkZPHFZJLI3I https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhaT2RdfXkPrZONpYks2fGs Remember the post I wrote recently called "On This Day"? It was on November 22--that wasn't any special day to me, but I decided to post photos that I'd taken on November 22 throughout the last 20 or so years.One of the photos was of me wearing a red sock monkey onesie (pajamas) in 2015. I loved those pajamas! But they got to be too big for me and I got rid of them. I wrote on the post that I]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhaT2RdfXkPrZONpYks2fGs https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjSXhN2-9CjUOGrEXdXG_66 I've mentioned several times that I've been struggling hard with food lately--eating too much and too frequently. A couple of months ago, I was doing great! I had zero cravings for junk food and probably 95% of what I ate was unprocessed. I felt awesome, too.Over the last several weeks, I'm not sure what happened, but I started craving junk food again. I noticed that once I eat something sweet, I]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjSXhN2-9CjUOGrEXdXG_66 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOg0JELmwDaZJh-xWH3zZqEA I had another busy day working in the bathroom, and I'm exhausted! Jerry made beans and greens for dinner (which has become my most favorite comfort food) so I'm going to keep this "wordless" and just post a picture (or three).I figured out a way to hang the hexagon cat shelf thing, so I hung that up in the bedroom today. I have the holes in it pointing downward--I'm going to add a shelf]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOg0JELmwDaZJh-xWH3zZqEA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOgO2F06rsRs-qvLeqE6yv18 Finally... color! :)  A very bold choice, and I was super nervous to do it, but I *love* it!! I'm waiting for the caulk to dry and I have to hang the shower curtain rod, and then we can take a shower in our own bathroom. I can't even describe how much I am looking forward to having our bathroom back. I will never take it for granted again. (Sharing with two teen boys is not fun.)There is still a]]> Mon, 28 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOgO2F06rsRs-qvLeqE6yv18 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhbrtwkQfswSvdczOo_8W9B I made this recipe a few weeks ago and planned to post a recipe review, so I took all the pictures. Then I realized that I couldn't post it because it came from a recipe book! I emailed the publisher to ask for permission to post the recipe here but I didn't hear back from them... until a few days ago. Thankfully, they gave me the go-ahead to share the recipe. (I don't like to post reviews of]]> Sun, 27 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhbrtwkQfswSvdczOo_8W9B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOiV4GUtk3E0sSRFMxTa8z4W Yay for Friday! This week feels a little off because of Thanksgiving, but after how busy the last few days have been, it's nice that we still have a whole weekend ahead :)I've spent the last three days going back and forth between the kitchen (cooking) and the bathroom (painting). I finally decided on a paint color and I painted the first coat today. It's VERY drastic--but I love it! It's still]]> Sat, 26 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOiV4GUtk3E0sSRFMxTa8z4W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjTkSqL0Z8Q0LkdRKkm2PJP I really didn't want to write a cliché "things I'm thankful for" post. Yes, I'm very thankful for SO many things in my life but the list is the same for a huge number of people: my family, my friends, my health, etc. Of course I am thankful for those things! So I won't include the "given" choices. Instead, here are three things I'm thankful for that I may not think about every day...1. Growing up]]> Fri, 25 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjTkSqL0Z8Q0LkdRKkm2PJP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhvvVF9U0BMSZNaYRWadcX6 This picture cracks me up. I finally started priming the bathroom walls today and to prep them, I had to take off everything that was hanging in there, including the mirror. Rather than try to prop it up somehow like I've done before, I just asked Jerry to hold it up, haha.The jeans I'm wearing are a pair that I bought several months ago at Goodwill and I put them in my "to mend/alter" stack of]]> Thu, 24 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhvvVF9U0BMSZNaYRWadcX6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOitScXuUT2j_Qpx5_w21kha The post I'd planned to share today was taking SO LONG that it will have to wait. Instead, I decided to do an "On This Day" post--photos that I've taken on this day (November 22) throughout the years. These posts are always fun to do (or not, depending on how many photos I have) because I never know what I'm going to find. It's a fun trip down memory lane! And apparently, November 22 was a]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOitScXuUT2j_Qpx5_w21kha https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhtVdVq0iC0gZONpYks2fGs I've been kind of at a loss as to what to post recently, since I quit doing 75 Hard. I always take pictures of my food when I try new recipes just in case I decide to write about it, so I have a ton of food photos on my phone. I always like to see what other people are eating (is that weird?!) so I figured I'd just post them all here.I do want to mention that the color of some of these makes the]]> Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhtVdVq0iC0gZONpYks2fGs https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhO-3TWzyXBmJu9CxXrVx4c Okay, Friends... remember way back when I started this series of vegan recipe reviews, and I said that I wasn't going to use "weird" ingredients or make "weird" vegan food? Well, as the weeks and months have gone on, I've been more and more adventurous. And some of the weird ingredients have become staples in my house!But as far as weird vegan food, I made something last week that I never]]> Mon, 21 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhO-3TWzyXBmJu9CxXrVx4c https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOj1QECL6YalaVw3HFUzDTIP I'm not going to write a post today; I was tired of working on the bathroom, so I decided to work on the FUN part of the remodel project. I miss woodworking! A while back, I bought a solid oak dining room table on Facebook Marketplace for uber-cheap (I think it was $50?). It's been sitting in the garage, waiting for me to mill the boards, so I worked on that today. Now I have several pieces of]]> Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOj1QECL6YalaVw3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOim2phE2KtQiSoxzwoq1nFt Wow, it is really starting to feel like winter here. The last couple of days it's been freezing cold and super windy. It's the kind of weather that makes me just want to curl up under an electric blanket and read a good book.Oh! That reminds me--I don't know if I ever even mentioned this on my blog. But you all know how much I love my heating pad and electric blanket--being cold 100% of the time]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOim2phE2KtQiSoxzwoq1nFt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOj4aL4YGfYHbsfGo0LrnZNO For Three Things Thursday, the random writing prompt that popped into my head a couple of months ago, I thought I'd write about three things that made a huge impact on my life (aside from getting married and having children--those are a given).It's interesting how there are certain moments in life that suddenly draw a line--before you get married and after you get married, before you have kids]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOj4aL4YGfYHbsfGo0LrnZNO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjg2lO4Yao6BNaXKMm36c-X These are my "work clothes" for when I do things where I'm going to get messy. I've accidentally ruined so many clothes! The pants in this picture are from Lululemon (although I got them at Salvation Army) and I *loved* them. They were so comfy and quality was the best of any yoga pants I've owned. Then I got white silicone caulk on them and that doesn't come out of ANYTHING. Since they were]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjg2lO4Yao6BNaXKMm36c-X https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhSWttsU7ruveQEmsPXZ5C9 It's been a while since Jerry shared his "deep thoughts" here ;)  I had a big experiment going on in the kitchen--I'm attempting the most stereotypical vegan "weird" mock-meat there is--tofurkey! Hahaha, I'll share about it this weekend--so while I was doing that, I asked Jerry if he'd want to write a deep thoughts post. I never know what I'm going to get from him, so it's always interesting to]]> Wed, 16 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhSWttsU7ruveQEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOiCF7k8_GQGL1e5jCclomp- Something I'm starting to get better at over the years is admitting when my plans and/or goals don't go my way. The biggest example has been my Wednesday Weigh-Ins. While I was losing weight over the past year and a half, I continued my weigh-ins every single week, regardless of whether I'd gained weight or not. Previously, I would just stop posting them because it was embarrassing to share that]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOiCF7k8_GQGL1e5jCclomp- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOh0UKqkMXuMM7kdRKkm2PJP Sums up the last three days... or months. 😂]]> Mon, 14 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOh0UKqkMXuMM7kdRKkm2PJP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOgsvmejvdjchyuZukmJ4mr4 This isn't a recipe review, but rather a recipe I adapted from a cookbook called 'How it all vegan!" by Tanya Barnard & Sarah Kramer. (In the book, it's called Kieran's Favourite Rice.) I found the book, which was printed in 1999, at a thrift store and even though there weren't pictures--I don't like recipes without pictures!--I figured it was worth a look-see for $1.Well, let me tell you... if]]> Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOgsvmejvdjchyuZukmJ4mr4