1. I HAVE COUNTER TOPS! Thank you, Adam. <3
They aren’t installed, the hole isn’t cut for the sink (so I have no sink), but I HAVE COUNTER TOPS. I could sit my cutting board on them and chop vegetables without balancing it between sides of the cabinets. Amazing. Oh, the things we take for granted.
2. My husband is crazy. Crazy for cookie butter.
And crazy for throwing this jar away! I know he got 99.9% of it out, but doesn’t he know I want to fill it with oatmeal? Luckily I found it when I got home from work yesterday. Don’t judge me for taking it out of the garbage.
3. I’m crazy.
For this mac & cheese. I ate all of the leftovers for lunch yesterday and didn’t think twice about it. Sorry, Adam.
4. I got my second Birchbox and I’m still not crazy about it.
Self tanning towels, bronzer, lip/cheek stain, mini Luna bar, and Taylor Swift’s perfume. Ehh. I can’t decide if I want to keep my subscription or not – I feel like most of the products aren’t anything better than you get for free with a purchase at Sephora. The lip stain I really like and I’m thinking about buying a full size version. Mila always gets cooler stuff than I do. At least the box is really adorable. If you’re still interested after my raving review, you can sign up here for $10 worth of samples per month.
5. The peanut butter cookie dough overnight oat recipe was a hit. Even Brittany from Eating Bird Food liked it, which is so cool because she’s one of my favorite bloggers. I haven’t been able to have any this week because I’m out of flax seed, but my iHerb order should ship today – then it’s game on (use referral code VAP443 for $5 off your first order).
6. Oh, I’m on Instagram (@clairetherd) now. I don’t use it often but I plan to. So follow me so I can follow you. Thanks. 
7. I basically want to make every single recipe Jess ever posts (minus the meat-related ones), but after seeing these I went to the store and got all of the ingredients. Friday night’s dinner is planned.
8. My brother’s graduation party is this weekend, and he’s invited more people than we had at our wedding. I’m making a huge batch of my almost too sweet Chex mix. Speaking of too sweet, some of my Dad’s ridiculously sweet butterscotch birthday cake has been dessert every night this week. Cakecakecakecakecakecakecakecakecake.
9. So many people commented on the chocolate Twizzlers that I have to address them: No, I don’t like regular Twizzlers. No, they don’t taste like black licorice (aka the worst “candy” ever). I didn’t hate them but wouldn’t buy them.
10. Breakfast Food Friday link up tomorrow! Grab the banner today to get your post ready. 
I’m sorry your Birchbox doesn’t make you happy
I’m not sure how they determine those… I think I might try Glossybox next, it’s full size items and higher end, so that might be fun for a little bit. Also, as of yesterday my kitchen is now a construction zone! I’m also getting granite counter tops, and changing pretty much everything else too! it’ll be a dream come true! We’re doing about 50% of it ourselves, so I’ll try to document the long summer project on the blog!
P.S. I’m not sure if you know this, but your blog no longer comes up in my Google Reader! All your blog posts used to come up once a week, but now they don’t at all.
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I was checking out Glossybox after I saw your post. Sorry about my posts! Have you double checked the address since I switched to self hosted? I’m so tech-stupid that I don’t know what else to suggest.
My bbox was ok this month, I got a lot of the same things as you, minus the TSwift perfume and stila. I did get some sweet face lotion though, which always makes me happy.
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I might give it one more month before I cancel!
Just found your blog and I love it! Really want to try the overnight oats, but i dont have any chia seeds
would you say its just as good without?
Welcome, and thank you! The chia seeds and flax both work to thicken up the liquids, so I’d recommend cutting back the milk or increasing the oats if you don’t have chia or flax. It all depends on how thick you want the result. Or you can order chia seeds from iHerb (linked in the post). Good luck!
BLECH! I agree with the Birch box. Mine had a BAG in it, like a plastic ziploc bag with some pink design on it. I held it up and said, “really? one bag?” I couldn’t get behind the lip stain, but I did like the Stila bronzer.
Boo! I got a notecard last month, which I thought was pretty lame too!
LOVE that you took the 99.9% empty PB jar out of the garbage! I would have done the same! love you even more knowing that you did this hehe
Counter tops look GREAT! And how dare he through that bottle away?!?!
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Oatmeal in a cookie butter jar sounds so, so good! Definitely worth going back into the trash for…nothing gross touched the inside of that!
Haha what is a birchbox?
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For $10 a month you get high end beauty samples and sometimes full sized products. It’s at least $5 worth of fancy packaging.
I would have pulled the cookie spread jar out of the trash too! That’s sinful!
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Congrats on getting your benchtops. That’s great news. That must make such a difference. I don’t know how I would manage with no bench tops xx
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