Monthly Archives: October 2013

Day 35

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Sincere apologies as I have slacked on Oreo Happiness postings. In an effort to redeem myself, I give you the following happy thoughts:

-silly kisses from children
-crisp fall days
-good times with good friends
-REAL belly laughs
-the smell of freshly baked cookies
-strangers saying “bless you” on the street when you sneeze
-football season
-making other people happy

Yesterday, a colleague was on our floor talking to one of my teammates and he was telling her how surprised he was that the neighborhood kids were choosing smarties over chocolate candy during their pre-halloween celebration last weekend. So I chimed in and said, “I like smarties!” and he peeked over to my desk and said, “AND APPARENTLY OREOS!!!” So of course he had one, which made him happy. But he also said that watching movies at home make him happy as do vacation days when there really, truly is NO work involved at all…no phone calls about work, no blackberry, nothing!

I love my parents. They sent me lots of Oreos yesterday. The mountain grows! This makes me happy.

Day 34

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There’s been a flurry of conversation about this “America’s-favorite-cookie-is-as-addicitive-as- cocaine-business.” But none of these conversations have been as amusing as this email exchange that took place between myself and my Oreo-loving colleagues. Enjoy!

Teammate 1: I heard about this article/study yesterday…Oreo cookies are as addictive as Cocaine??!?!?

Teammate 2: I know! I saw this article yesterday and sent it to Lauren but she beat us all and already had it and her commentary on the blog.

Teammate 3: I refuse to believe it and plan to continue my Oreo indulgence! Afterall, if this were really as addicitive as cocaine, there wouldn’t be any Oreos left on Lauren’s desk, aka – the magical Oreo Office (or is it possible that I am just another addict who doesn’t want to admit that she has a problem?? Hmmmmmmm).

Teammate 4: I think you are right, obviously if this were a real problem, I wouldn’t be able to stop and there would be tons of EMPTY Oreo Birthday Cake packages locked away in a desk drawer because I didn’t want the proof staring me in the face…
NO ONE OPEN ANY OF THE DRAWERS IN MY DESK AND WE CAN ALL GO ON AGREEING THAT WE DON’T HAVE PROBLEMS…

Teammate 2: Okay, this email has started some cravings, specifically an Oreo McFlurry. I plan on taking a walk of shame to the corner Mickey D’s at 2:30 if anyone wants to join. Perhaps we can go find a 12 step program after.

Teammate 1: These are hilarious! Hope you enjoyed your McFlurry. I have a confession…a couple of months ago after Lauren told me there was a Mega Stuf Oreo, I went out and bought a package thinking I would just try one and then bring the rest into work. Well, you all never saw them and I polished off the whole package in a week. Addict? Nooo….

Teammate 2: I did enjoy my McFlurry! And to prove to myself that I don’t have a problem, I got an M&M McFlurry rather than an Oreo one.

Me: Traitor.

***please note that this post is in no way attempting to make light of addiction and we are extremely sorry if we have offended anyone.

Day 33

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According to researchers at Connecticut College, Oreo Cookies are as addicitive as Cocaine.

What the what? Seriously? You mean to tell me that hungry rats gravitated more towards Oreos than Rice Cakes? And that the rats ate the creme filling first? Hold up…high fat, high sugar foods are addicitive?

Come on now…the study did not need to torture poor rats with rice cakes in order to determine what we already know – that Oreos are AWESOME, and addicitive, and delicious, and have yummy creme filling, AND activate happiness neurons in the brain. Aaaaand we are full circle, Oreo Cookies make people happy.

Here’s a link to the study’s details…
http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/10/16/study-oreos-are-as-addictive-as-cocaine

This also reminds me – I love sugar cookies too, so thanks to a friend who planted the idea, the other week I made sugar cookie wrapped Oreos. They were delish! I will make them again and bring them to work and snap pix of everyone eating these double delectable delights! There’s gonna be so many happiness neurons activiating in my collegues brains, they are not gonna know what to do with themselves!

Day 32

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Ya know what makes me happy? When people say “thank you.” It doesn’t take much effort and saying “thank you” goes a long way, in my opinion.

I am heading to the Giants vs. Bears game tonight and that makes me happy. Getting a ticket for the game at the 11th hour makes me happy, too. My friends from NY flew in for the game and I get to spend time with them so that makes me happy.

Birthdays also make me happy and its my friend’s birthday today. He’s a good person and I hope he is happy on his birthday. Once when I was feeling pretty down, he gave me card that said, “When life gives you lemons, throw those lemons back at life and tell life to make its own lemonade.” And he gave me a starbucks card to go enjoy a nice latte and collect my thoughts. I will never forget that he did that for me. It made me happy. (pause for Lemon Twist Oreo)
lemon chill
It’s a good thing that I ran a marathon last weekend because I am eating a lot of Oreos in conjunction with all of the things I have to be happy about.

Day 31

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Making Oreos to represent things that make me happy, well, makes me happy!

Da Bears…
bears oreo

And apparently this little contraption makes my teammate happy…
tortillas

She can make crispy tortilla bowls super fast and she said people are so impressed with her tortilla bowls…if they only knew how easy it was. She loves to serve guac in the tortilla bowls, salsa, salad, you name it. Mexican-food-themed night at Kristin’s everyone!

Speaking of which, Mexican food makes me happy. I am going to eat the Chicago Bears Oreo I just made.