Simple Yogurt Bowl
This morning my breakfast bowl contained:
- 1 c. Greek yogurt
- 1/2 c. cottage cheese
- 1 white nectarine, chopped
- Sweetener to taste
Protein-packed, nutrient-rich and completely uncomplicated.
Those of you crunched on time in the morning might enjoy this lil’ baby because it can be assembled in less than two minutes. Lightning fast!
Workout
I was craving a cold and creamy breakfast after my five-mile run with Sadie.
5 Mile Stats
We flew through our run this morning!
I blame the cupcake (or two) that I had after dinner last night for the extra energy. 😉
When we got home, I rolled out my yoga mat for some stretching…
Stretch
…Which didn’t last too long because I had some uninvited company show up.
Attack of the Vizsla
"Stretching is stooopid. Play with me, Mama!"
Since a five mile run is clearly a walk in the park for Sadie, I let her out back to play around for a while and expend some more of her never-ending energy while I assembled my breakfast and lunch.
More Playtime!
Swamp Beast
Okay, now it’s time for a serious discussion. 😉
For the past week, every time I’ve gone into our bathroom to take a shower in the morning, I’ve noticed that my towel has been removed from the towel rack and thrown over the shower curtain. I’ve been a little confused, but assumed Ryan used my towel to wash his face or something and hung it over the shower curtain to dry instead of placing it back in its proper place.
Before stepping into the shower, I would hang my towel back up on the towel rack and shower as usual.
Towel Rack
Last night as Ryan and I were going to sleep he asked me if I’ve been enjoying the new location of my towel.
I started laughing and told him I had no idea why he’s been taking it off the towel rack putting it over the shower curtain. I told him I’ve hung it back up every day before showering, to which he said I was thwarting his plan!
Apparently Ryan has been moving my towel in an effort to prevent my inner “Swamp Beast” from coming out.
Here’s the thing: When I’m done showering, I step out of the shower and walk across the bathroom to get my towel off the towel rack.
Ryan feels that I trek too much water across the bathroom when I do this, causing our bathroom to look like a swamp (Hence his new nickname for me: Swamp Beast).
I don’t like drying off in the shower because I feel like it’s muggy and not as clean as the soft rugs in our bathroom. I like to jump right out when my shower is done, pump my fists in the air, proclaim “I’m clean!” and watch Sadie stare at her naked mama in confusion. (Totally kidding, but I do jump out of the shower right away.)
Ryan thinks I should fold my towel and set it on top of the toilet before I shower, since this would allow me to reach my towel from the shower. I prefer walking the two teeny steps to grab my towel off the towel rack because toilets (even when closed and covered with a toilet seat cover) are just plain gross.
We were laughing pretty hard before going to sleep last night about Ryan’s passive little plan to tame my inner Swamp Beast, which I clearly didn’t catch on to at all.
So, now I have a question for you:
Do you dry off in the shower, or do dry off once you get out of the shower?
I know I can’t be the only Swamp Beast out there…
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I tend to put my towel over the shower door and when I’m done showering I wrap one towel around my head and then immediately open the door and wrap myself in the second towel. I stand on my bath mat and dont move for a few seconds. I HATE when my wet feet touch the floor. My fiance drys himself off in the shower. I don’t understand how anyone can do that. It’s too hot!
That is hysterical! My sister in law and I had this very conversation last night. Apparently she and I are both married to “swamp beasts”! I love that we now have two doors to our shower meaning my husband and I each have our own side to the bathroom and our own bath mat. Now he can have his side soaked in water and my side can stay dry!
Is that seriously your towel rack?? That looks like something you’d see in a home decor store! My bathroom, on the other hand is appalling. It truly looks like a swamp beast lives in it 🙂
lol Apparently I’m a swamp beast too. I always get out of the shower before I grab my towel to dry off.
I get out of the shower before I towel off, but our towel rack is right next to the shower and there is a bath mat right in front of the shower. No steps are necessary to reach the towel and since there is a mat there, it soaks up the water.
I dry off outside of the shower for sure!! Mostly because I whip my hair around to get the excess water of it, and I always end up banging my head on the shower wall if I do that 🙂
I dry off in the shower, and my husband gets out first. We’ve had this debate several times. But I would get out before drying off before I would put my clean towel on the toilet. Luckily, our towel rack is on the wall 2 inches from the shower door. 🙂
Confessions of another swamp beast –
I too leave puddles on the floor when I reach for my morning q-tip. I’m a drip dryer, what can I say? 🙂
I do wipe it up though, it’s sort of like mopping every day!
ahahahaha! i usually wrap the towel around me in the shower then step out and dry off…this post cracked me up.
i always dry off in the shower.. its much warmer. its so cold in the morning in our apt. and i hate getting excess water on the floor bc it takes forever to dry and i dont want to step on it later lol
Ryan’s right. Dripping water across the bathroom floor is gross.
My husband and I dry off out of the shower. We have a towel that we throw over the shower door. We put this on the floor to walk on to prevent puddles or wet bath mats in the bathroom.
Great post! And soooo relatable… my boyfriend and I have towel wars in the bathroom as well.
I have super long hair and have no choice but to towel off in the shower. Zak, on the other hand, strews water all over the bathroom and then leaves his towel FOLDED over the shower curtain, half the time tearing the curtain rings down. When I get in the shower a couple hours later, I have major straightening up to do! At the end of the day we can laugh about it, but he is definitely a “swamp beast” in our relationship 🙂
I dry off in the shower. I don’t like getting the bath mat wet. I dry off and get one foot dry, get that foot on the mat, then dry the other foot off and get all the way out. 🙂
Totally a swamp beast! And my hus does not get it at all. He likes to get completely dry while still in the bathroom. I dry my feet on the mat and then like to air dry the rest…preferably while walking around nekkid. 🙂 But I do wrap a towel around myself most days. Swamp beasts unite!
Funny! Yep, I’m with you. I get out of the shower to dry off. I have started to put my towel on the sink (reaching distance from the shower) but I still step out wet feet & all. & no, I would not put my towel on the toilet, regardless that it might be immensely clean due to all the antibacterial cleaner that gets used on it. It’s just eww by association! I wouldn’t wipe my face on the toilet, so I’m not about to put my towel there 🙂
Funny story. I definitely get out of the shower to dry off. Sometimes I will hang my towel over the shower curtain rod (if I remember) to prevent the so-called “swamp beast” situation from happening, but usually I get the bathroom soaked. It’s just water it will dry, right?
Oh my gosh my husband does what you do and I HATE it! Too funny. I definitely dry off in the shower, but to each their own!!! That Sadie is too cute, by the way. 🙂
Oh my goodness, I just read this post. I must be your twin! hahaha. I do the same thing. My boyfriend gets so upset b/c he says that I track water all over the bathroom. I hate drying off in the shower, though. Too funny!
haha Ryan is hilarious! I make sure my towel is within arms reach from the shower and I dry off in the shower. I get grossed out by a wet floor for some reason!
Oh and another quick question. How do you get those pictures that you clearly didn’t plan and are not taking yourself (ex. when Sadie jumped on you during your stretch). Do you take videos and then take stills from them? I like how your pictures seem candid but I don’t know how to do it myself for my blog!
i use the self timer!
Haha I just read this — too funny!
Hahaha I just read this after reading your post today. Too funny – you and Ryan are so much like me and my boyfriend! He totally ignores a sink full of dishes even if he stays home all day. And I used to be terrible for trekking water all over the bathroom after I would shower. I never even noticed til my bf pointed it out! Now I’m pretty good at being less of a swamp beast!! haha
mostly in the shower – but part out. i always move my towel so i can grab it after showering.
totally with you on this one! i’m very much guilty of leaving a ‘pond’ (as my family likes to call it) while i slip and slide over to reach my towel. showers are too confined (and wet!) for a warm, fuzzy towel! swamp monster i remain
It would drive me nuts if some one got my bathroom wet every day! I definitely dry off in the shower, I start with putting my hair up in a turban then I dry off my leg and foot and step onto the rug, do the same with the other leg / foot, and then hop out to continue the drying. I HATE wet rugs! Passive aggressive is quite amusing for sure!
Hey Julie! I was reading back on some of your past blogs and came across this one right before my boyfriend flew in to visit me. Its so funny because after about 5 days, he was criticizing the way I jump out of the shower (like you) and dry off on the floor/rug rather than in the actual shower. It made me laugh and I told him about how I had just read this post! 🙂 We had a good laugh….though I’m still not perfecting the anti “swamp beast”….
Ha!! Love it!