Guilty Pleasures

Let's be friends.
NOT the "oh you have a happy life and cute pictures" friends. (Although, I love you too! Trust me, I do.)
I mean the you-know-what-gets-me, I-know-what-gets-you, we-can-talk-about-ridiculous-things-together kind of friends.

Let's start with stuff we like to hide: guilty pleasures. You can judge me all you want (feel free, but I KNOW you have some too).
Then we can get past that and talk about all our ridiculousness for hours and it will be glorious.
Here we go.

1. Celebrity gossip.
  Why yes, I do read People magazine/people.com. And very often. (usually every day) You guys, I'm way past the whole "they look perfect" issue people have with magazines. I read them because I like feeling normal and seeing gorgeous dresses/outfits, and for the GOSSIP. Seriously. Celebrity gossip is quite possibly the BEST non-committal, non-serious conversation topic ever. Why talk about weather when you can talk about so-and-so's divorce/who dumped whom/who said what?

2. Sleep
I regularly sleep in. No, I don't get up early to exercise, read my scriptures, breathe in the quiet silent world. All that quiet makes me sleepy. So  I go back to sleep until 10, 11, noon..... No regrets, people.  I love days when I am up early and get lots of things done and feel accomplished and superwoman-ly. But folks, my days are OPEN right now. I can sleep in and still get every thing done by the time David comes home. People, I AM A BETTER PERSON. Trust me. Mean Nattie comes out when not enough sleep is in the equation. Some days I'm in pajamas until 4. Comfiest days ever.
(*Disclaimer: I know this will all change when I have kids/start working. Which I'm okay with - why else would I be willing to have them? - but until that happens and nothing requires me to get up, I'm sleeping in.)

3. TV shows
I watch lots of them and enjoy the ridiculous-ness of them all (gasp!). Ridiculous/cheesy/awful plot lines? Perfect. I'll take them all. I'll even think about them as I wash my face or make dinner. Let's see - any cop show is great any time, comedy-dramedy makes for great laughs (and sometimes ugly cries, ahem, Parenthood), reality TV makes me realize I'm not as crazy as I think, and any tension-filled love story gets me hooked. Clear eyes, full hearts, CAN'T LOSE.

4. Target
I'm addicted. It is really, really, really hard for me to not buy anything every time I walk in there. They have things on clearance I never knew I needed! I can spend hours walking around this store picking things up and putting them back down. I pretty much love everything they have in their store. I also try to hide things I buy. But David is unusually good at noticing new/different things. So sometimes I hide them and then don't use them for a couple weeks to try to ease them in --- doesn't usually work, FYI.

5. Baby 
No, I do not have a baby nor am I pregnant. However, that has not/will not stop me from consuming birth stories from everyone and anyone and bawling over them, reading every "things I wished I'd known" list known to Pinterest, shopping the baby section at Target, making a list of things to buy when we do have a baby bean.  Just planning ahead, people.... right?

6.  Pop Music
I like the "dumb stuff". There I said it. Most recently, the mash-ups from Pitch Perfect. But I also love the stuff by One Direction, Selena Gomez, blah, blah, blah. I like the other "cool" stuff too, but man, dumb upbeat cheesy songs make me sing along and dance in the car like an idiot and who doesn't want to do that?

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7. Sugar binges
 Sour gummi worms, black jelly beans, red vines, peachies, tootie frootie tootsie rolls, etc. Sometimes on my work break, I would go buy a bag of [fill in from above list] and EAT IT ALL. In the car. By myself. Wouldn't look at the calories or ingredients. And sometimes I'd get a stomach ache afterwards. Oh well. Live in the moment, right? And those moments are just so good. (Ice cream is also an acceptable substitute.)


Seven is enough right? If you're completely overwhelmed by my openness and don't want to talk to me again, that's okay. Come talk to me when the new season of the Bachelor starts. I'll just be over here debating whether or not to get some high-calorie sugar item but knowing that means I probably have to get dressed for the day.

What are your guilty pleasures??
You know you want to tell me. Getting it off your chest will feel GREAT, I just know it!