FFF Featured Blogger (chosen from your comments): A Girl and Her Mutt – Erin blogs about her life with good food and fun ideas all in the mix.

First of all, I want to thank those of you who commented on last night’s post. I appreciate every single word and all the support you all provide to me on a regular basis. Like I said, there was no rhyme or reason to those emotions yesterday, except the fact that they simply surface time to time. I have learned I can do nothing but ride them out and fortunately, by recognizing them, they usually disappear within a day. I felt better by the time I posted last night, and woke up feeling normal and cheery today.

Although, perhaps my cheery mood comes from two of the best feelings in the world happening last night/this morning. 1) Makenzie slept through the night again for the first time in weeks! The little booger wakes up asking for water or just climbs out of bed to come say hello at least once typically. She goes back down easily, but I never enjoy the interrupted sleep. 2) When you wake up and think its about time to get up for the day, only to look at the clock and see you still have a few hours left. I love when that happens! I seriously believe it is one of the best feelings in the world. Other best feelings?

• when your kiddo looks into your eyes and says “I love you, Mommy”
• when you have a great workout
• a freshly clean house
• a good cup of coffee
• checking things off a to-do list
• not turning to food for comfort
• being able to shop in your closet because you are back to pre-pregnancy size (I cannot wait for this! actually I simply long to no longer feel like I’m about to explode from my stomach)
• the feeling after being able to “let it all out” when your stomach hurts or you feel nauseous – gross I know, but its fresh on my mind

That, of course, also made me think of some of the worst feelings.

• when you’re already running late and then hit lots of traffic
• when you get a stain on something the first time you wear it
• when you’re waiting for an important/special phone call and it is always someone else on the other end
• writer’s block
• figuring out what to buy family members you rarely see for Christmas
• that I still have 2.5 to 3 months left of this pregnancy…HOW?
• that it is National Love Your Body Day and I promised myself I wouldn’t complain about my aching pregnant body today, but already have…twice…just in this post….oops!

So, here’s to a day hopefully filled with the best feelings and none of the worst. I think I’m off to a pretty good start.

• What are some of the best/worst feelings you can think of?
• How do you plan to love your body for National Love Your Body Day?
• Don’t forget to ASK ME ANYTHING for a Q + A series I hope to do in Nov!

Bloggers of the Day (chosen randomly from your comments)

• Jogging My Memory – Julia is a newer reader and I already really like her blog. She competes in a marathon this coming weekend!
• Heather’s Dish – I love this chick and everything about her blog! ‘Nough said.
• Little Bitty Bakes – Liz makes amazing treats…including the candy corn inspired recipes she is currently whipping up. Today’s? Candy corn frosting!!

Monday again. Some Mondays I simply need to put on a happy face and go through the day with a cheery outlook. Some Mondays I need to grumble. For those of you out there enjoying Columbus Day off, you likely fall into the former category. I normally do, too. Today? Today I fall into the latter. I think its a lack of sleep catching up to me.

You know cockroaches creep me out more than any other bug. So you may also figure that when I pick up the toilet paper tube and one falls out on me during my 2 am potty break, I lose any sense of a restful evening. Suicide-bombing-cockroaches definitely irk me. Or perhaps a bigger pet peeve is the toilet paper roll not being ON the dispenser. For which, only I am to blame.

Something else that causes loss of sleep and drives me crazy? M’s digestive tract. Does it seriously have to insist on her needing to poop at 6 am every morning? This only forces her awake to try to go in the potty and not want to go back to bed. In other words, I no longer have my morning time and start the day looking pretty rough.

Then, its breakfast time. Pet peeve #3 of the morning? The child asks for one breakfast and I give it to her. Yet as soon as she sees me making oats, she wants oats. Starving, I have to wait another 30 minutes to eat so she will actually eat what is in front of her. I promise it’s with love that she fills two spots on this list.

When my breakfast time came, the pet peeves continued. How can you make something the same as always but it turn out wrong? My oats came out all soupy, despite preparing them the same way as always. Be for real, oats!

Even better? When you decide you need a cup of coffee either to aid the lack of sleep or to relax….but find this when you open the container.

I guess on the bright side it means less of these to do.

Seriously, how do they multiply so fast? How come I can never keep up? And to this day I do not know what the people who owned this house before us were thinking with the teal tile. Blech.

The morning continued with grocery shopping. I really do not like grocery shopping. Biggest pet peeve of the day? That my store recently got a new layout for no good reason and it now takes me at least 15 minutes longer to figure out where in the heck to find everything. Why did they do this? There was no need.

Now for one last thing. You know those days where you simply cannot get full and feel you could snack all day long? Of course today would be one. I don’t like feeling hungry. I know I have eaten enough. Body, please act accordingly.

Ahhhh. Lack of sleep can make me cranky, but it feels better now. Other random pet peeves of mine?

• commercials that make no sense whatsoever
• people who go to the gym and only stand around talking
• when something doesn’t taste as good as it looks
• the sound of people picking their nails or scratching dry skin
• misspellings of words like “their/they’re/there” or “too/to/two”

What are some of your pet peeves? Do you agree some days it just feels good to vent?