{"id":663,"date":"2011-11-04T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/11\/marshmallow-fail.html"},"modified":"2011-11-04T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T02:42:00","slug":"marshmallow-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/11\/marshmallow-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshmallow Fail!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I get into the main topic of this post, first let me say that this was a much much better day for Dave’s recovery.  He woke up in a good mood, and seemed to do well while I was briefly at a Hurlburt Spouses’ Club board meeting during mid-morning.  He even took a couple walks to the mailbox and back.  Things are looking good.  His surgery sites are still very sore, but at least he’s prepared for that pain and is coping.<\/p>\n

Yesterday (Wednesday) was pretty rough.<\/p>\n

So, marshmallows.  I like marshmallows a lot.  I always have.  S’mores are a favorite dessert at our house, which we’ll make in our backyard on summer evenings in our firepit.<\/p>\n

I made a stupid impulse purchase at Walmart yesterday while grocery shopping.<\/p>\n

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My word, these things STINK!  I smelled them in the car all the way home, then they took over the smell of my kitchen.  Some sort of artificial chocolatey chemical smell.<\/p>\n

I ate ONE. It was 90 calories.  Didn’t feel so hot afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Yeah, it’s pretty big.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The rest are in the trash, and that’s $2 wasted.  The odor was nauseating.<\/p>\n

What was I thinking?<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I found these ketchup packets for sale at Walmart and am glad I no longer have to steal<\/strike> have extras of them from Chick-fil-a.<\/p>\n

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Today I was at the same Walmart picking up a prescription and when I picked up some last minute groceries (I’m always suckered into picking up more than one item at Walmart, don’t you?) and I walked past the endcap with those stupid marshmallows.  Oh, the SMELL….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I get into the main topic of this post, first let me say that this was a much much better day for Dave’s recovery.  He woke up in a good mood, and seemed to do well while I was briefly at a Hurlburt Spouses’ Club board meeting during mid-morning.  He even took a couple … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[20,81,91,92,182],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dear-husband","tag-food","tag-processed-food","tag-product-reviews","tag-walmart"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t