There's a new fairy to upset the Bloat fairy's plans!!

[lmhall2000]

Someone help me think up a name for this fairy...here's how he/she interfered....err...I mean HELPED me tonight!!

Took the family to see 'Finding Nemo'- LOVED IT- thought it was very sweet! Anyways, all the posts of that movie popcorn temptation went running through my head. I had all the excuses....I walked 3 miles this am (thanks Alex for the self-imposed challenge) I ate a nutritious breakfast- slimfasted for lunch and my once really tight pants were feeling nice and roomy- so I figured "Hey, a little popcorn for dinner won't hurt" But I have my boundaries - NO SODA for me!

I bought the extra large tub to share for the five of us and one large soda for the kids to split- yeah, yeah I know germs but it's easier to carry. I even made a pact with myself- just five handfuls. I was even good and let the kids get it half finished before I reached for my first handful. Just as I was reaching into the bucket which my 5 year old was holding- her folding chair began to fold in on her (funny this never happens to me) and she dropped the WHOLE bucket.....You'd think this would end it- NOPE- FREE REFILLS!!! So I made dh go get another refill. The kids were a little upset about dumping the popcorn so AGAIN I let them get their fill before I reach for my first handful- YUMMY it tasted so good and dh even sneaked in a squirt of butter on it (I never do that!). My 4 year old decided she should hold it because her sister had dropped it and her sister agreed (so sweet seeing them help each other). As I was going for my 2nd handful my dd reached in with both hands (uh, wait you need to hold the bucket with one hand sweetie) before I knew it it was UPSIDE DOWN on the floor.

I looked at dh, and he said he wasn't going back for a third refill- we'd look like pigs. And I couldn't tempt fate one more time. So some fairy is out there flying around keeping us from what we "THINK" we want rather than what's good for us. I was very pleased when I got home- because I weigh in tomorrow for my end of the month total. If I had had five handfuls it most likely would have turned into 10.

Bad popcorn, bad....Good butterfingers fairy, good!! Come on there's got to be a better name!!
Tara

 

[KathyTX]

Tara, will you let your friends borrow that fairy occasionally? I have been avoiding movie theaters *just because* of the popcorn, but I HAVE to see Nemo soon!

(The only time we've dropped the popcorn is when DH falls asleep at the movies. Good thing, too. It gives us a chance to wake him up before his snoring gets us kicked out of the theater!)

 

[TinkerPixie]

How about we just call her the Guardian Angel...
She helps us guard against ourselves!

 

[karebear1]

I agree!!! Buttrefingers is NOT a good name for a fairy on this board!!

 

[John In Illinois]

Orville Droppin-Butter?

 

[tlgoblue]

That same fairy visited me last night, too. Instead of spilling the popcorn though, she made Nemo impossible to get tickets for! What was I thinking? (Trying to see a movie In Ft. Wayne on a Friday night. There's just SO much else to do!) We went back home and made our own popcorn (customized, for your health benefit of course), and watched Young Frankenstien. She must have been a very busy fairy!

Keep the Faith! (in the good fairies)
Tracy

 

[cindala]

Boy, I would like to borrow that fairy too!!!

 

[geetey]

LOL, Tara!! You really weren't supposed to have any of that popcorn!!! Good thing too. It is simply too good to resist. I have tried the 'only' a little trick. It doesn't work for me, so when we went back to the movies the next time, DH and the kids got the big refillable bucket while I brought 2 pts worth of popcorn in with me, as well as 1 Tootsie Pop. For 3 pts I was satisfied, and the movie theater still got their money from us.

 

[anniet]

I don't know who this fairy is, but she visited me this morning!!!!

My sister, bil and niece go to breakfast after church every Sunday morning. Occasionally I'll join them, so this rainy Sunday morning I decided to go with them. I ordered one poached egg, and english muffin the corned beef hash (hey I only get it when I go out which isn't often) and USUALLY I say hold the hash browns. Well I must have been half asleep because I forgot to tell them to hold the hash browns- And hash browns are usually my weakness

But the Goodfairy sent me a plate with burnt hash browns on it, so there was NO WAY I would eat them! I don't know how she knows, but she knows and she is AWESOME!!!!!