May 26, 2010

Nutella

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"How is it?" I asked.

"It's good." He said.

Greek yogurt with honey and blueberries. Water. Vitamin cocktail. Nutella on toasted english muffin. Coffee. Breakfast.

In that order. Because order is tantamount. Tantamount!

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A 35 minute long one-woman monologue accompanied my morning commute. Obesity. Social Programs. Trash. Oh my god, that woman almost hit that kid! I gave her a dirty look as she drove by—oh you bet I did! People are jello molds...JELLO MOLDS! It's a perfect day. Blue sky. 75 degrees at half past eight. It's a summer camp sort of day. Kids love Nutella. Kids love peanut butter. Peanut butter and Nutella on english muffin. !Aaaaahhhhhh! Spiral. Spiral. Spiral. Is it the Nutella or the coffee? Nutella as brain food. My mind is going a mile a minute. This is your brain. This is your brain on Nutella.

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I take a sip from the 28 oz. water bottle sitting on my desk. The cozy I've fashioned (paper towels wrapped around and held in place with a green rubberband) is looking rather ghetto.

I'm putting off work by writing this post. Another seven hours trapped inside a cubicle. I don't know if I can do this. There's got to be a better way.

I wonder if it's too early to email Roberto about dinner...

30 comments:

  1. :)

    I want to run home now and have some nutella on some warm bread.

    Love the pictures :)

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  2. A brain on nutella is a very good thing. Go ahead, email Roberto about dinner!

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  3. I need some nutella. my brain needs some food. and i'm right there with dying in the cubicle. for some reason, it's extra bad this week.

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  4. Tracy, you are cracking me up with this hilarious stream-of-nutella-consciousness post!! Definitely contact Roberto about dinner.

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  5. ah, delish.

    sadly, nutella is one of the things i must not have in the house. too dangerous. i eat it straight from the jar. minus the muffin.

    hope you day brightened up!

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  6. From my cubicle to yours, I feel your pain. :-) So looking forward to getting home. Only 7 hours to go. We can do it!! :-) Love the cheery blue, btw. :-)

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  7. When I worked for a bread company (and naturally was surrounded by the stuff all of the time), nutella and toast was a favorite treat. Seeing this makes me want to bring it back into my weekend routine....

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  8. My husband takes his Nutella very seriously. For our anniversary last year, I gave him a jar as a gag gift. It was gone within days.

    Cubicleitis is running rampant here too. By Friday, there will only be two of us here at my office....and I happen to be one of them.

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  9. Cubicleitis :)

    I am working on Friday as well! Why did I do that to myself?!?!

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  10. The gods made nutella, I am convinced. So fantastic!

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  11. Pretty pretty pictures. Loved the morning commute - sorry about work - Freud said work and love are essential. Victor Frankl said yes, work and love are important, but we must have meaning. I want your nutella muffin. ( :

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  12. Ah the joys of Nutella! Of course you should email Roberto about dinner. It's never to early to think about dinner - or so my husband thinks.

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  13. wonderful photos (I am starting to be annoying repeating myself?)
    this really looks like a treat!!

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  14. Tracy I hate you. Because seriously now I am craving some hazelnut goodness. like seriously. bad.

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  15. I enjoy the thought and your use of nutella. I guess I like the thought and use of your auto-poetry stream as well. It reminds me of William Carlos Williams, and that makes me happy.

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  16. Yes please to buckets of nutella every day for the rest of my life, and no no no to being in a cubicle on beautiful days!

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  17. my nutella doesn't even make it to the english muffin...somehow it always gets lost on its way from the jar to to the bread :)

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  18. I love how you write and this stream of thoughts was so fun to read. Nutella...mmm! I hope you make it through your shift quick like!

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  19. Your writing is so wonderful, the need to break out of the monologue and the cubicle for the comfort of food. I can totally relate to that. I'm thinking of making some biscuits with Nutella, although a warm English muffin with it sounds even better.

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  20. I love that table cloth by the way. What a gorgeous blue.

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  21. Nutella is so yummy- I remember being a little girl and hearing a rumor that kids in Europe got to eat chocolate for breakfast (totally jealous!). Having my own jar of Nutella as an adult makes it all better. Thanks for the post!

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  22. Are you speaking from inside my head? Ok , I had peanut butter on my english muffin (and I take the train to work)... but pretty much all the rest is my very own morning. Which means that in my case it was my brain on coffee, sadly not yummy nutella. And another seven hours at this desk is a LONG time. But I'm visiting my mom this weekend, so have emailed her already twice this morning about the grocery list. Therefore I say, yes, of course, email - dinner is just a few hours away!

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  23. I just bought nutella for the first time today!

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  24. I adore nutella and buy it in the huge container at Costco. I never thought of mixing it with peanut butter on my english muffin in the morning-DELICIOUS!

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  25. It's never too early to e mail about dinner. I read this when you posted, but came back just now to say so. Nutella head, brilliant. I need a nutella head. Vincenzo won't let me have it in the house, the controlled drummer loses control in it's presence. I need a holiday.

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  26. um, i think about dinner before i've even eaten breakfast! love those nutella shots! and now...craving!

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  27. The best nutella dish ever is in Italy- there is this one gelato place that makes yogurt nutella gelato and I eat it about 5 times a day whenever I go there. It is AMAZING.

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  28. I love that you have chocolate for breakfast! (And that you have Greek yogurt and a vitamin cocktail first) I can't believe I'm writing this, but I don't think I've eaten nutella for a decade. Good Lord, I need to get some soon!

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