My wife Mollie makes sure to stock the kitchen with my favorite foods. She will bring me half a dozen big oatmeal raisin cookies and a couple containers of ice cream in a single trip to the grocery store. I do not worry about anyone else eating the cookies because everyone thinks they are healthy and taste like sawdust. I like any ice cream or frozen yogurt but Mollie buys the coffee flavor because no one else will touch it. I have no incentive to pace myself in consuming these treats because she automatically restocks whatever we run low on. So my lack of restraint is appalling. I am embarrassed that she does all the shopping but we both agree that my binge buying is even more out of control. I have always assumed that she takes such good care of me because she loves me so much. But others find that hard to believe. These last five years of reading a vast assortment of Blog postings has taught me to examine things from different angles. I have learned about surprise twists and dark turns. I have become more suspicious. The other day I was shocked about gaining two and a half pounds in a single day. What did I think was going to happen if I gorged on cookies and ice cream all the time? Liz says instead of telling her husband when she is annoyed at him, she puts strawberries in his salad. And Boyd says when he is mad at his wife, he opens a bottle of some condiment when one is already open. So I am starting to consider the possibility of a darkly delicious twist where Mollie is trying to make me fat.
It could be worse. She isn’t buying artificial meat-like-substance bacon. Oatmeal raisin cookies do taste like sawdust. My wife eats them for the same reason as you. They are even grand kid proof. Nothing is a Irish Setter proof, including jalapeños, but that’s a whole other thing.
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Irish Setter, jalapenos….that whole other thing is funny even without the details!
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Lol, being blind I read that as Strawberries and CONDOMS!
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My posts are probably funnier the way you read them!
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Lol Geoff
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It’s possible
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She is a good cook.
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There is nothing wrong with having some love handles.
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Love makes everything sound better.
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given your love of competition, perhaps she’s trying to get you ready for one of those food eating competitions…
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I should do well if they have age categories.
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and oatmeal raisin cookie eating competitions….
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Wow, I see “food revenge” many times between couples. Food can be the comfort and also the weapon, in addition to its usual function of nourishing our body. Actually I know a woman who dislikes her child so much that she always cooks the food she hates. By the way, I think the mother is suffering from depression ever since giving birth, but depression is not acknowledged by some communities as a valid thing existing in this world despite all evidence to the contrary.
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Food revenge. I have not heard that label before but it fits certain situations! I have heard and seen post partum depression and that is real.
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Is Mollie making you fat or…no…How silly…I was going to say something about personal responsibility.
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That’s okay, I know all about personal responsibility. People have been telling me all about it my whole life.
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Yeah, they keep telling me the same stuff.
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😁
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Haha! Secretly fattening you up??!!
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Well, I’m doing a lot of the work for her.
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LOL!
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I have never met a cookie I didn’t like. Maybe Mollie does this out of sheer love for you. I know that doesn’t seem logical, but it is a possibility.
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I cling to that possibility.
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You’re so thin, it couldn’t be revenge motivating her. 😇
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Not everyone likes thin people.
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I actually had the experience of gaining 2.5 pounds in one day and of course I blamed my scale. However based on your previous posts, you have enough exercise in your life to walk off those extra pounds. People in the West Coast who are so enthusiastic about hiking, mountain climbing (probably just a manageable mountain trail) etc. I wish I have the same kind of enthusiasm since I do need exercise very badly.
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Whenever a machine gives me bad news, I first blame the machine! However, I never question any good news from a scale!
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Haha. That’s the spirit.
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