Is it normal to set the thermostat to 60 degrees when it is freezing outside? My roommates think so. My goosebumps do not.
Is it normal to turn on your blow dryer for 10 min. to warm up your room?
Is it normal to get excited about eating off of a leaf?
Is it normal to garnish everything with pecans?
Is it normal to want to eat yogurt everyday of your life?
Is it normal to eat chocolate after breakfast….when breakfast is at 11 AM?
Is it normal to eat almond butter by the spoonful outta the jar?
Is it normal to crave veggies?
….when you’re a college student?
Is it normal to think the macro setting on a camera is so cool because it can capture every nook and cranny of a piece of foil?
Is it normal to be giddy with excitement to go grocery shopping?
What if it’s with a fellow blogger/classmate?
Is it normal to stop in at a Great Harvest Bread Co. just because one of your favorite bloggers‘ husband works at one?
Is it normal to photograph your [omgosh sooo delicious] samples while still in the store? (Cinnamon Raisin Walnut and Pumpkin Walnut Bread)
Is it normal to enjoy spending over an hour at A Southern Season looking at crazy cool food, kitchen gadgets, and cookbooks while gabbing with a fellow foodie?
Is it normal to speak as if you have a love affair with Trader Joe’s, affectionately known as ‘TJs?’
Is it normal to miss Waffle Mountains after 2 days off?
Who cares if it’s normal or not? It’s what makes me special!
Happy Halloween Eve!!!
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I LOVE this post – especially after I spent the evening trying to explain blogging to people and ‘why I would ever want to do that?’
I crave veggies allll the time – perhaps that’s why when I do hit up salad bars I buy 1.5 pounds of salad & eat it all?!
Happy Halloween! (almost!)
SO normal. I crave veggies all the time too.
I think everything but the 60 degrees sounds pretty good to me!
I crave veggies, too!
haha love it! Yes it’s “normal” if you’re a food blogger!!!
In my world, you are completely normal! I love Southern Season and could literally spend hours in there.
I get super excited about grocery shopping and I do occasionally like a lil AB or Naturally More right outta the jar. If I lived alone, my thermostat would be set to 70 degrees. But, I don’t live alone
so the ’stat is at 66 all winter. Brrrr! I wear shorts under sweats and T’s under hoodies in the evenings!
It looks like a fun day! I get more excited to go grocery shopping than clothes shopping. I love the spider bread! I am making some fun Halloween treats for a little partay tomorrow and one will be chocolate spider desserts. Have a great weekend!
Absolutely love this post–you’re such a clever chica. I’ve long since come to terms with the fact that I am NOT normal…but you make me feel like I’m not completely alone in my ways;)
OMG Your lunch looks fabulous! What kind of tortillas do you use?
I wish you didn’t live in NC so we could have days like this together! I could spend HOURS wandering a grocery store…
Seriously. I spent a day off wandering the new Wegmans. Life was good.
Thank god we foodies aren’t normal. I like being like that. Not average. Not normal. Crazy about little things
60 degrees?? that’s freakin cold to us southern californians. i swear today in anaheim it was 70 degrees and i was in my uggs and a scarf. we went to newport for the afternoon and it was 73 degrees there. warmer inland than at the beach? say what?
i love this post and can relate to have spoonfuls of almond butter right out of the jar, and the trader joes addiction.
i’m so happy that you get break in less than a month. i loved my week off for thanksgiving.
As I was reading your blog I was looking at my hair dryer lying on my bed contemplating whether I should turn it on to help heat my room! Glad I’m not the only one and yes it is normal
these might not sound normal for a normal person… but we’re bloggers! and these are the convention instead of exception
The answer to all your questions is…YES! Well, except for the thermostat.
Cute bread bowl!!
I think most things are pretty normal, but I’m 100% sure that they are really delicious!:)
Have a great weekend!
xxx Julia (Taste of Living)
well, if it’s NOT normal, then I am happy to say that I am abnormal
Cause I do most of that stuff…bar the breakfast at 11am. Whaaaaat? I eat by 6, lol.
what kind of camera do you have? I am looking into getting a new one (scrap that- begging for a new one for Christmas).
perhaps not quite ‘average’ but decidedly awesome
those great harvest people are hard-sell with their sampes! oddly enough it actually turns me off a little. i mean, i don’t want to insult the guy if i don’t want something he is offering!
(PS: not a generalization for all great harvests — just that particular one in chapel hill
i know brew & bake matt would make my great harvest experience a dream come true!)
60 degrees is NEVER normal! I’m lucky though – my current roomie is from South Africa, so she never let’s the temp get too low
And… grocery shopping is super exciting!
I think you’re asking the wrong crowd homegirl. We are all a little off center from “normal.” But that’s relative anyway. I think you’re fantastic!
I would definitely spend at least an hour in Southern Season! So awesome. And that ant/bug (?) soup bowl!! Love it.
TOTALLY normal!!!
Fun post, Allie!! I would have to say, IMO, the first 2 things in this post were the only 2 not normal things!! You must be frozen!!!
I am always freeeeeezing in my dorm room! Last year I bought a mini heater and it has been amazing and really helpful! Also great harvest bead company is MY FAV! havent been there in soo long though! your samples look deeelish!
I think this is my favorite post that I have read of yours so far. I couldn’t relate more – if if not’s normal, than I need help too : ) I think we’re long lost twins. Happy Halloween!
YESSSSSSSSS
i totally relate!
have a happy halloween!
Pshhh that stuff is all normal! Hehe, is it normal that I tried all those TJ products that you bought? Or that I know their locations in the store and price range by heart?
Cute spider (the only spider I will ever like!). Happy Halloween, girlie!!!
hah I think its totally normal that you crave veggies as a college gal
especially with a beautiful salad like that!
Totally normal!
That sandwich looks super awesome.
Have a great Halloween!
Great Harvest is worth many many stops just for its amazing bread. I LOVE them. And they give out pretty hefty samples…always a plus!
And is your roommate a vampire? 60 degrees?!
hahah YES using a hair dryer is oh so normal! I will sit at my computer and have it blow in my face when I’m cold (so, most of the time).
Awww Allie, Yes to EVERYTHING. I think that everything you’ve mentioned is absolutely normal! Particularly wanting yogurt every single day of your life – i can’t imagine life without it!! And grocery shopping is the highlight of my weekends, particularly if I get to go somewhere new, and somewhere BIG!!! (it also helps if it’s cheap) hahaha
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Happy Sunday hun!!
Actually, more than half of those things are VERY normal to me and friends of mine!!
I could name countless girls who end their lunches with a spoonful of peanut butta-straight out of the jar, and to me…grocery shopping, TJ’s, the macro setting and daily yogurt messes are all VERY normal obsessions of mine
Such a cute post! All of the above are completely normal of course!
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