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Time for a little game of Love It or Leave It

I’ll start with my Leave It’s:

1. Rainy Weather.  I live in San Diego for a reason: It’s usually sunny!  I would love 78F and sunny year round, and no, I wouldn’t miss the change of seasons.  The past 36 hours we’ve had cold, rainy, dreary weather.  The kind of weather that I could see my breath when I was running outside.  One singular day of that kind of weather is all the “season changing” I need.

Green landscape with trees

Let’s get back to the regularly scheduled programming of this, please.

Palm trees and blue skies

2. Celery.  It overpowers everything.   I’ve tried to juice with celery and it makes everything taste like I’m drinking celery.  It’s so pungent and strong for my tastes.

Celery Stalks

The only way I can sort of tolerate it raw is ants on a log style doused in peanut butter and with raisins.   But just plain celery sticks, leave it.  Not to mention the stringy nature.  Nope, not for me.

Ants on a long, celery filled with peanut butter topped with raisins

3. Tailgating.  Annoying and it can be dangerous when it’s raining.   Follow closely is different than tailgating (I think most of California follows closely).  But I reserve the word tailgaiting for those drivers who could probably read your VIN number or tell if you have a zit they’re so up your trunk.

Traffic on the highway

4. Garlic.  No, I hate it.  Same with celery; it overpowers everything.  I am somewhat intolerant to it, also.  I get itchy, rashy, and nauseous from it.

Full Garlic and Garlic Cloves

5. Whistling.  Leave it goes to whistling.  Or humming.  Or loud chewing sounds.

Love It’s:

1. Coffee.  Love it and it tastes even better when it’s cold and dreary out.

Coffee can with chute of coffee leading into it

And it tastes even better yet when it’s a weekend morning and it’s cold and dreary out.   Full permission to go into coffee overload mode given those circumstances.  Jitters and all.

Bailey's creamer and coffee with the creamer in it

Time to make (another) one of these

2. Reality TV.  Some of my favorite shows are reality tv.  Okay, most anything I watch is reality tv or the Food Network.  The Real Housewives, Kendra, The Kardashians, Top Chef, Millionaire Matchmaker.  Bravo and the E! Channel are my go-to stations.  Trashy, mindless tv is fine in my book.  And when I feel like learning something, I tune into some Alton Brown or watch Ina use a pound of butter in something.

3. Marshmallows.  Love them.

Bags of Jet-Puffed Ghost Mallows

Especially in Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough & Marshmallow Stuffed Rice Krispie Bars (No Bake)

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough & Marshmallow Stuffed Rice Krispie Bars stacked

4. Massages.  Love them.   I’d love one right now.  Nothing beats a massage for me.  Back, feet, shoulders, neck, head and scalp, hands, legs, whatever.  I love feeling like Jello afterwards and all blissed out.  Ahhh.

Hands giving a massage on the shoulders

5. Pumpkin.  I wasn’t a huge lover of it until recently.  I always liked it; this past fall I’ve fallen into pumpkin love.

Pumpkin Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bars (Vegan, GF)

Pumpkin Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bars

What are your Love It’s or Leave It’s? 

Agree (or not) with any of mine?

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Have a great weekend!

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  1. Love it: massage, mani pedi, yoga, the beach, chocolate chip cookies, Thai food, Bravo
    Leave it: cold weather, commercials, totally agree with celerey, mayo

  2. I love all of those things … except, I don’t know about tailgating, because I have never done it.

  3. I love lists, and I love your love-it/leave it concept. As for me, my big love is San Diego — I was so lucky to be a 49 year resident before my husband’s career moved us south. I miss it every single day — the weather here in Alabama has been a huge adjustment from our sunny skies! Here’s my love it/miss it list for lovely SD: The beach (well, duh) Farmer’s Markets, the hills and canyons, the interesting neighborhoods — Kensington, University Heights, Bankers Hill……the Spruce Street Suspension Bridge, Balboa Park, crossing the Coronado Bridge, The I-805 bridge that spans the valley, In’ N Out, Urban Solace, Extraordinary Desserts, Adams Avenue Grill, Kensington Grill, Hash House A Go Go, Heaven Sent, Vagabond, Jacaranda trees, bougainvillea, hibiscus, spanish tile rooftops, tacos, Mt. Soledad, and our home near Mission Trails Regional Park, and the park itself. (We kept our home — my saving grace)!

  4. Is there a coffee lovers club I can join? I shouldn’t drink so much, though. They say I’ll grow a second head, or become three stories tall, or turn green, or eat all my friends, or some sombination of all those. I say I’ll take my chances.

  5. I LOVE coffee. LOVE it. Celery is all right in soup. Garlic smells good when sauteed with onion and celery, but I don’t like the way it makes me smell if I eat it. Not my favorite to eat it. I LOVE coconut water that has been frozen with cinnamon and vanilla stevia added to it and I LOVE nutritional yeast poured all over my salads and veggies. I also LOVE (not sure why I am all caps on those, but why stop now?) being inside under cozy covers when it is freezing cold outside! :-)

  6. I think we have the same taste in TV. My husband is so not a fan of those shows. He gets as far away as possible whenever I turn on Bravo.

    I love garlic though. Especially roasted!

  7. i’ll stick with LOVE IT’s for today because i am on a mission for november to do NO COMPLAINING.
    i loved our sunshine here today – it was cold but with the sun so bright, it was invigorating. i hope your sun returns soon.
    i love reality tv and that is all i watch (online, i don’t have a real tv) these days. i am with you on real housewives! such a guilty pleasure!
    i love a massage, too – if i was super-rich, i’d be getting one every 48 hours.
    have a great saturday eve, averie!

  8. Yikes, sorry about the weather. It’s been cold and rainy here too, but I actually like running in it, kind of invigorating. Crazy about celery, it has minimal flavor to me. Totally agree on tailgating, massages, and coffee. :-)

  9. Rainy Weather – LOVE
    Tailgating – Have never done it
    Coffee – LOVE
    Celery – LOVE
    Garlic – LOVE
    Reality TV – LOVE
    Massages – LOVE LOVE – went for a 90 minute massage today!
    Pumpkin – Another Love

  10. Love pumpkin green smoothies.. you can put anything in them and always taste like pumkin!

  11. I love massages too!

    I know so many people love pumpkin and I like pumpkin pie but I’m having a hard time coming around to pumpkin. But I do like squash, so maybe there is hope for me.

  12. I have to disagree with your dislike of rainy days, I love them! My husband considers San Diego to be his Heaven (his brother lived there for a while and told stories to all of us frozen flannel-clad Michigan folk), while I’m more interested in someplace like Louisiana with its beautiful humidity :)
    My leave-it? Weather that falls under 60 degrees. Give me 90/100 degree heatwaves any day over this fall/winter business.
    Is it okay if I use this love it/leave it idea on my blog? :) I promise to link back to you.

    1. go for it, of course!

      and growing up in MN, I had a lifetime of bad weather and then also lived in the Carolinas for 4 years. I don’t mind humidity all that much or really hot weather either but San Diego being so temperate is heaven for me.

  13. I totally agree with you on the garlic and the whistling!! I HATE garlic! And whistling drives me nuts! There is someone at work that is always walking around doing it – even in the bathroom- it’s just so WEIRD!!

  14. I love garlic, although I don’t love the way it makes me feel. Celery is only good with peanut butter. And whistling, humming, and loud chewing drives me bonkers. A massage sounds awesome right about now, as long as I can eat one of your pumpkin bars afterwards. Ahhhh