I love that you guys are fans of New Girl, too!
How hysterical was Tuesday night’s episode? I know I’m a little behind since we DVRed it, but I was dying! Whenever you have a guy singing Wicked alone in a car and a drunk guy saying ridiculous things like, “The poison! Get it out of me,” or, “I have to go make the puke,” I’m gonna be a fan.
Breakfast
Breakfast this morning was prepped last night. As I was making dinner, I simultaneously cooked up a batch of steel cut oats with quinoa. We were just about out of both and I decided to mix them together which ended up being quite tasty!
I then refrigerated the oats and quinoa overnight and added them on top of a cup of strawberry banana Chobani Greek yogurt this morning.
Plus chia seeds for extra crunch and fiber!
I’ll be honest, I prefer my usual overnight oats over this combination, but it was a nice change of pace and a fun way to use up the last of our steel cut oats and quinoa.
As Ryan and I were eating breakfast this morning, we spotted a visitor.
A ginormous spider!
I made Ryan take care of it before he left for work which had Sadie all hot and bothered.
Apparently climbing on top of kitchen countertops is an activity that Sadie desperately wants to be a part of!
I’ll be honest, the whole “mouse in the house” experience at our last apartment made me much better about seeing a spider. It ain’t no thang! (Although, yes, I’ll always defer to Ryan when it comes to actually doing something about the spiders.)
Speaking of dealing with unwanted bugs, the other day when I was listening to an NPR podcast, they discussed a pretty cool little gadget.
They were talking about the announcement that the founder of SkyMall, Robert Worsley, is running for the Arizona Senate. They then started talking about some of the fantastic products you can buy through SkyMall. (I actually have an old post about some of my favorite SkyMall gems!) One of the items they discussed was the bug vac!
Pretty cool huh? I would definitely like to use that fancy little tool for cockroaches. Those things are huge and if they can survive whatever it was that wiped out the dinosaurs, I’m pretty sure I want to use something serious to get rid of them.
And now, just for fun, I must ask…
Questions of the Morning
- Have you ever purchased anything from SkyMall?
- If you had to buy one of the following SkyMall items, which would you choose:
1.) Wine Glass Holder Necklace
3.) Garden Yeti (because no backyard is complete without one)
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I bought a huge travel pillow that you blow up once you get on the plane, hug it, tuck your hands inside the pockets so they don’t fall out while you sleep, and then lean over it and rest your head on it. It’s awesome and the only way I can fall asleep on planes. And the flight attendants are always fascinated by it!
Hoodie and footsie pjs for sure!
Hahahaha I have never bought anything from SkyMall but I have certainly wanted to! It’s great entertainment on flights.
It’s a toss up between the wine necklace and garden yedi…both are so practical!!
Do you watch cougartown at all? (If not, you TOTALLY should). Anyway, they had those wine necklaces, so I love them now and want one so bad!
I haven’t ever bought anything from skymall, but if I had to choose one item it would be the hoodie footie pajamas.
Ok this is embarrassing, but I have the blow up pillow you put on your tray table. I just CANT sleep on planes without it and I bought it for when I spent a semester in Europe. No idea where it is now though.
Also Skymall sells tennis shoes and the logo is a sperm.
Hum…decisions decisions. I think I would have to choose the OBVIOUS answer and go for the Yeti. Is that even a question?
Seriously, you can buy that on SkyMall?
Ahhhh I hate spiders!! I actually don’t like bugs at all, they scare me SO much. Anytime I have a bug in my house and im alone I have to break out the vacuum 🙂
I need to tell my friend about the Bug Vac… she lives alone & hates spiders/bugs, so it would be perfect!
I would definitely go for the pjs! 🙂
I have a cockroach killing trick that usually works for me! Fill a plastic cup with water and stir in some coffee grounds. Then grease the inner ring of the cup with butter. Leave it near where you saw the cockroach. The thought is that he will go after the coffee water but then won’t be able to climb out because of the grease. It’s a bit gross I know, but I have caught several this way!
Never purchased anything from them but would totally go with #1! That’s genius in my book!
Ahhh spiders! Josh is totally the bug master in our house too. I’m loving the wine glass necklace, but these T-Rex hoodies might take the cake. http://www.skymall.com/shopping/detail.htm?pid=203693826&c=10020
wait wait, don’t tell me.
Never purchased anything but I’ve been tempted.. I’d definitely go with the wine glass necklace!
Never bought but I always enjoying looking through the catalog.
That’s a tough choice. I would have many opportunities here to use wine glass holder. We have several food and wine festivals here. But I think the Garden Yeti would be a nice touch to my non-existent garden….
With out a doubt, definitely the wine glass necklace.
My sister and I always play the SkyMall game when we’re on an airplane. We both take our SkyMall magazines and go through them completely and whoever finds/picks the most outrageous item wins! I think I won last time with the “Potty Train your Cat Kit.”
I have the wine glass necklace – For my bachelorette party, we went to a huge wine tasting festival and one of my bridesmaids decided we just NEEDED them. Funny thing is how often we use them now, there isn’t a BBQ we have gone to where we both aren’t donning our classy stemwear. It was defeinitely worth the $10!!
I love looking through the Sky Mall catalog when I’m on the plane, but I always wonder if half of that stuff actually works!
Easy – dress the Yeti up in the footie pjs & throw a wine necklace around his neck. Most perfect lawn ornament ever.
I actually own a wine-holder necklace (with a Steelers emblem). It has come in handy for wine festivals and tastings!
I just listened to that episode of ‘Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me’ this morning, SO funny!!
I love looking through all the ridiculous things in SkyMall when I fly, but not gonna lie, I would buy that wine holder necklace in a second!
Holy wow, do I want that garden yeti!!!!!
HAH. I want those PJs. And stat 😉
That sounds like a great episode of New Girl! I don’t watch the show faithfully but I’ll make sure to watch this week’s episode! And interesting morning mix! I’ve been wanting to do quinoa mixed with yogurt but I’m thinking some flavoring is going to have to be added since it’s so bland! And those sky mall items are hilarious! I actually think that bug vac thing is pretty cool!
My husband and I have been flying a lot lately, and I’ve missed the Sky Mall catalogs!! Talk about an entertaining way to pass the time while flying! I’ve never bought anything from it but I probably wouldn’t say no to those PJ’s 🙂
The necklace fo sho! But there needs to be more holes to hold more than just one cup!
hahaha OH MY GOSh you reminded me of something! In my old apartment I had tons of box elder bugs all over the place. (google them if you don’t know what they are, super creepy) anyway, i had a dust buster, so i just sucked those suckers up like it was my job! my dustbuster did the trick every time. well, i am an idiot, and when i went to empty the dustbuster, i was horrified. um. yeah. the dustbuster just sucked the bugs up, it didn’t KILL them. and guess what? those bugs decided to have bug BABIES in my dustbuster. fbnwekfbkwfsd. IT WAS SO GROSS.
the end.
I love pajamas so I’d rock the footie jammies.
i spend SO much time flying and have that skymall catalog memorized.
in college, i had a friend who was impossible to shop for because she had everything and was quite the shopper. a couple of us chipped in and bought her that ridiculous credit card organizer.
i’m getting the yeti. this beats the pants off my garden gnome.
this post was too funny, i would totally look hot in the pajamas 🙂
All three. I could sit out in my yard in my pjs with my wine necklace chilling with my Yeti.
Haha, IDK if I should be ashamed or proud to say that my ex-boyfriend from high school bought one of those yeti’s for his mother for Christmas one year!
I think I would want the hoodie pajamas to wear while holding wine around my neck. Nothing beats a night on the couch in PJs with lots of wine!
I have never actually seen a skymall catalog before, but out of those choices I’m definitely going with the hooded footie pajamas!
I was listening to that Podcast too! they are hilarious! I listened to it while running and I laughed out loud multiple times
every time I look in Skymall I see a million ridiculous things that I want and can never justify buying. i want it all…for free…with 5 extra closets to store it all in…
We had a bug vac in college! 3 girls in one apartment…no one wanted to kill spiders. It worked pretty well but I was always scared they’d be able to crawl out.
I would definitely use the wine glass holder! I get tired of holding my glass lol!
Totally the wine glass holder! Do they have it in hot pink? 😉
I watch that episode last night, too! Laugh-out-loud funny!
*watched*
I’ve actuallly seen some things in skymall that I like but I don’t know that I would ever actually buy them. I don’t know where they come up with those ideas!
Oh gosh, I would LOVE a pair of hooded footie pajamas!! I love being warm and snuggly at night lol. Although I’m sure my husband would be less than pleased ;p
I WANT that Yeti!!!! 😉
I have a bug vacuum! It is life changing. I hate spiders!
I totally have one of those necklaces from a wine fest – so good for not losing your glass! Absolutely not designed to walk around with wine actually IN your glass however… no bueno.
Yeti all the way! I love that thing!