Fifty Plus (50+) - Guilty Pleasures

I saw a thread in another forum with this title and I thought people who have been around for a long time must have perfected this concept so I thought we should start our own thread.

Here are a couple of mine:

Kit Kat bars (spontaneous purchase of one bar but only if I happen to be in a drug store)
Listening to Fergalicious (Fergie)
Training on a carbon wheelset

ABBA's Greatest Hits

Peanut M & M's...

Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters
+1

Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies with organic skim milk. It's almost good for you with skim milk:p

Mary Anne

My Ducati 998

In no particular heirarchy. . .

1. Endorphins honestly earned.
2. Flirting with somebody's grandmother.
3. Talking earnestly with the dog and watching her face as she tries desparately to extract meaning from it*.
4. Knob Creek sour mash whisky.
5. Getting away of a week day into the mountains deep enough to listen to the ravens' voices echoing off the granite.

* - Of course, in this she's not much different than most of the folks around me.

Leaving work early to get in an extra-long bike ride.

Mary Anne

The Skipper

A bowl of Stewarts Peanut Butter pandemonium ice cream.
I find it is the ultimate carbo load the night before a long club ride.
I did this before last weekends club ride and stayed with the pack leaders,
65 miles with an average speed of 18.8 mph and only one rest stop.

No order of ranking:

-Lost in Space. (First season, black and white episodes only, thank you)

-All those Monster/science fiction movies that were made for the Drive-in format, back in the 50's.
I'm talking "Brain From Planet Arous" type stuff.

-Fudgee-O's. (From Canada. A friend smuggles a few bags across the Nuetral Zone for me, when he makes periodic trips up there. Too bad they won't sell them in the U.S. )

-My own special chocolate Ice Cream Soda. Cures any and all problems you might have, no prescription needed. I'll post the recipe here on request.

Ginger

-My own special chocolate Ice Cream Soda. Cures any and all problems you might have, no prescription needed. I'll post the recipe here on request.

Spill it, trackhub--the recipe, not the soda.

Mrs Howe -

Approximately one ton of hot peanuts roasted in their shell.

Talking earnestly with the dog and watching her face as she tries desparately to extract meaning from it*.


:lol: Yep, I do that too - and people give me the same look too.

I was raised Baptist. All pleasures are guilty.:D

Sleeping in on a rainy Saturday.

A jar of Nutella, a spoon, and a Harry Potter book.

Skipping the weekly office meeting for a tough, rewarding training ride.

Buying clothes I don't need because they make me feel good (and they look good on me, too :D)

A glass of Madeira and a good cigar, recapping a particularly-satisfying ride.

A nap when I should be doing anything else but.

I was raised Baptist. All pleasures are guilty.:D

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

>>> Mrs Howe

NOW you're talking, 'Red!!! She was definately the hottest of the three. . .AND she had the best thing of all. . .READY MONEY!!!

Dark chocolate and red wine.:love:

ice cream :)

GOLF, GOLF, GOLF, GOLF and MORE GOLF. And I'm still a hacker!

Spill it, trackhub--the recipe, not the soda.

You got it.

You'll need a large tumbler, say about 20 ounces or bigger. To this, add:

-Two tablespoons of Hershey's Chocolate syrup. (more or less, to suit taste)

-Fill up tumbler up about a 1/4 of the way with light cream. (Not half and half!)

-Stir until mixed, then add some club soda. (I prefer Canada Dry, but this is your choice. I think All club sodas are about equal) Stir a little more.

-Add two to three scoops of your favorite brand of chocolate ice cream. I use Brigham's but it's a New England thing.

-Fill the tumbler up with club soda. Be gentle here, as it could spill over if you pour the club soda too fast. Sit back with spoon and enjoy. Depressed? Got the blues? Nope, this will make it go away. Everyone finishes one of these smiling. Maybe I'll put the prozac people out of business.

This is the only place (http://www.kimballfarm.com/) I know of that can still make a decent ice cream soda.

Trackhub,

Thanks for the link! I will be in New Hampster for the seacoast century in mid sept - traveling right by the NH location on my way from NY so I will try to stop in. Not sure which day I will ride - I will keep my eye on the weather.

Chocolate chip cookies
Cheesy monster movies. We love to predict who is going to get it. (Wooo - that guy dissed the hero, shark bait!)

Looking at the face of a geared up racing cyclist after he has tried to shake me off , when he gets knackered I pass him..... he can not hear the silent electric hub motor and concentrates instead on my Shih-Tzu in the front basket of my mountain bike.

I do let them catch up for a chat and explain I am not superman....... well most time's anyway if I dont see more "racers ahead" waiting to be overtaken....

Looking at the face of a geared up racing cyclist after he has tried to shake me off , when he gets knackered I pass him..... he can not hear the silent electric hub motor and concentrates instead on my Shih-Tzu in the front basket of my mountain bike.

I do let them catch up for a chat and explain I am not superman....... well most time's anyway if I dont see more "racers ahead" waiting to be overtaken....

You should feel guilty for that! You know some of those racer types probably went back and in despair became Freds - or took up golf.

A long, hot shower

A thick, chunky, chocolate chip oatmeal cookie from a local bakery (as good as the best homemade cookie I can imagine, spoken by a homemade chocolate chip cookie connoisseur), AND a huge ice cream drumstick from the ice cream store down the street, eaten on the same night. Oh yeh.......

A 3-scoop hot fudge sundae from the local B&R ice cream chain store...

Popcorn for dinner.....

Spending too much time visiting this forum........

A jar of Nutella, ....

Oh yeh, that stuff is good. Have you spread it between graham crackers, or on a pancake rolled up and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar? We have an opened jar in the pantry that I haven't touched in months... what is wrong with me!!!!

A Raspberry Napoleon at Franz's Bakery after the Sunday show and go

I was raised Baptist. All pleasures are guilty.:D

Just the opposite - many pleasures, no guilt. Life is too short.

But, OK, I'll play along:
- watching my recorded episodes of Young and the Restless in the wee hours of the morning while riding the trainer with my coffee in my water bottle cage
- flirting

Enjoying tail winds and descents just a little too much...

Any man more than ten years younger than me...

-snickers ice cream bars - butter pecan ice cream in a waffle cone - moose tracks ice cream from Mayfield Dairy - a single oreo with vanilla ice cream piled high. Key lime pie from Bally hoo's in Tarpon Springs Florida. For some reason I am still having problems losing that last 10 lbs.

-snickers ice cream bars - butter pecan ice cream in a waffle cone - moose tracks ice cream from Mayfield Dairy - a single oreo with vanilla ice cream piled high. Key lime pie from Bally hoo's in Tarpon Springs Florida. For some reason I am still having problems losing that last 10 lbs.

You CAN eat it and still lose weight. Just eat less of it, less often. Soon it will become a well-earned treat. Trust me -- I've lost almost 40 lbs. doing so. But what I eat in between is nutrient-dense, high fiber, high quality carbs, lots of healthy stuff, frequent small meals, lots of water, and regular activity (cycling, walking). So, when I indulge in my guilty pleasures I really have no guilt at all. :) You don't have to give up the good stuff to lose weight -- just less of it, less often!

Oh! How can I forget..... half a row of Oreo cookies w/ milk.:o I haven't had even one for the past few years.:cry:

Oh yeh, that stuff is good. Have you spread it between graham crackers, or on a pancake rolled up and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar? We have an opened jar in the pantry that I haven't touched in months... what is wrong with me!!!!

I've had it on vanilla ice cream, on waffles, but not as you described. I rarely get past the spoon 'n' jar phase.

And yeah, what *is* wrong with you???? :D

Oh! How can I forget..... half a row of Oreo cookies w/ milk.:o I haven't had even one for the past few years.:cry:

You really should try Fudgeeos, a Canadian treat we simply don't have here. Betcha can't eat just one. :D

Malcolm in the Middle reruns. I love NPR and am a card-carrying, dues paying local PBS member. But when I get NPR-ed out, my guilty pleasure is a little right-wing talk radio.

You really should try Fudgeeos, a Canadian treat we simply don't have here. Betcha can't eat just one. :D
I'll have to look for them next time I'm up there. I betcha I can't eat just one too..... :o

Hey Yen, Do I remember correctly that today was the big "C" day? Or was today the prep for the big C? Hope you are doing well. I went through mine a few months ago.

Hey Yen, Do I remember correctly that today was the big "C" day? Or was today the prep for the big C? Hope you are doing well. I went through mine a few months ago.


what on earth are you talking about?

Hey Yen, Do I remember correctly that today was the big "C" day? Or was today the prep for the big C? Hope you are doing well. I went through mine a few months ago.

My goodness you have a good memory! Yes, today was the big "C" day. Yesterday was the big C-prep day. :) I feel good but VERY tired tonight since I didn't sleep well last night. I awoke at midnight and couldn't get back to sleep until around 3:00 AM then had to get up at 5:00 to make it to my appointment at 6:45.

Good for you for getting yours done, I hope it turned out well.

Yeh. When you mentioned that you planned to go for a bike ride afterwards, I didn't have the heart to tell you that you might not feel up to it. Yes, mine turned out well. Thanks for asking. Hope yours turned out well, too.

what on earth are you talking about?

:roflmao:

Big "C" is the big cookie I ate today. She ate one a few months ago. I'm still feeling guilty, but otherwise doing well. ;)


Oh wait.... she meant the colonoscopy! :D

Yeh. When you mentioned that you planned to go for a bike ride afterwards, I didn't have the heart to tell you that you might not feel up to it. Yes, mine turned out well. Thanks for asking. Hope yours turned out well, too.

Mine turned out well, no polyps (full story is in the Colonoscopy thread).

You're right, I did not feel like a bike ride today. :)

:roflmao:

Big "C" is the big cookie I ate today. She ate one a few months ago. I'm still feeling guilty, but otherwise doing well. ;)


Oh wait.... she meant the colonoscopy! :D

:eek::o:o

Good luck on the "big C."