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I call this one untitled

Yeah yeah I know – I don’t write, I don’t call… If I had a dollar for every time someone asks why I’m not on facebook much anymore, well I wouldn’t have enough to retire but more than if I had collected quarters.

So what have I been up to? Do you care? No but you’re bored so you’ll read on? Fair nough…

Well a quite a bit of this…

And a LOT, and I mean a LOTTTTT of this…

Still doing this…

More and more of this…I may be addicted

Loving this…

With this…

And usually this…

And recently this…

Some new toys that make me a dork is this….

But I want this…

And the humidity is on its way so I may need a new one of these…

So I don’t end up like this…

Which is what I look like when I don’t get enough of this…

 

Because of this!…

So I stay up and do this…

Life has changed a bit though, NO MORE of this….

Which all makes me…

In Honor of National Margarita Day

Well I missed this post by a day but who cares right?

One of the best things about making your own juices is you often stumble on some pretty fantastic creations. Like this “Margarita”

Scottish Oatcakes

Ok so it all started when I was reading a book set in mid evil England, and the character mentioned oat cakes with honey, and I thought to myself “I must have these!” Then I thought more on it and realized they would make a great breakfast item to keep in the house.

So I scoured the internet and came up with about 50 variety of oat cakes – sigh – damn you internet why can’t anything be easy. And they all ranged from a pancake consistency to a cracker consistency – neither of which I wanted. I wanted a cookie/shortbread consistency.

So I made up my own – let’s now say there are 51 varieties to oatcakes on the internet.

Crumble in your yogurt, eat them as cookies, have them before you go workout – very versatile little snacks – very low in sugar and high in fiber.  Also I make some of them somewhat bite sized to keep as quick pick me ups.

Hearty Irish Wheat Bread

Hearty Irish Wheat Bread

So back in December I decided to start making all of my own bread, no buying in the store. Why? Cost mostly and waste. As much as I love artisan healthy breads they are expensive ranging from $4-$8 a loaf, then halfway through it’s just meh and I waste it.

I’ve made some great ones, apple walnut was a hit, cranberry, healthy grain and nut breads etc. But the biggest hit came with this baby. And where did I get the recipe – well 85%  of it at least as I tweak just about every recipe. My mom found it in the back of her fiction novel.

It’s some of the best bread I’ve had – and was SO easy – took about 10 minutes to make and an hour to cook. No yeast, no rising and so good!

Juice of the Day – Beets Beets I Love Beets

No I did not take this photo, I drank my juice before it dawned on me, but it’s beet juice so it pretty much looks like this.

This is random – because I haven’t posted anything about the fact that I’m juicing, but I have for about a month and it’s great and I feel 100% better and I love it! Minus the disaster “V8″ juice I made – it’s been spectacular.

So juice of the day goes to beets – will I post a juice every day – no – cause I simply know myself, but this is the first one that was so good that I promptly wanted another.

Be My Guest

If you’ll remember – this room used to look like it was sponsored by Tang…and a shelving company.

Now it’s my lovely serene and calm office / guest bedroom. No pictures of the office side because photos of the back of monitors and cords make me break out into hives – plus that side of the room is minus many decorations as of right now.

I was inspired by this photo

And this was the result – with my own flare added – you may recognize that chair from my post on things you should buy on CraigsList so I won’t – well I did anyway – dammit!