Monday, October 31, 2011
adventures of skeleton cat
what have you done to me?
Hey Sam, can you help me?
Oh. No. I just. can't. I don't. understand.
Ugh. I give up.
We are not talking.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Halloweekend Sunday!
Here we are just one day before the final day of October, and the day that is Halloween, and I haven't shared my sweet {and scary!} decorations yet. So here we go...
dining room: table v1 / spider web table runner / buffet / table v2 / spooky window / glittery skeleton
living room: fully decorated shelf / basically what it looked like before / indian corn
porch: aaaah! scary cat / spider / spider web
It's a pretty great time of year!!!
Look at that color.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Anniversary Retrospective
Our anniversary was at the beginning of October, but since we were busy with festival Matt waited until the next weekend to pull this celebration together.
{blurry} dinner table overview / lots of planning / demolished sushi / oreo stuffed chocochip cookies / books* / the most important part of the fort that wasn't. forts are hard. what's the secret? / pumpkin margaritas
all of the things Matt did for this night were things that we'd enjoyed together over the past year. i absolutely loved it. good job bebe.
*I asked Matt "what would David Foster Wallace have thought of this combo?" He said, " I hope he would be proud."
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
daily values...
I ran a 5k, then another. I swam/biked/ran a triathlon. I bear crawled my way through a fit camp. Then I stopped. I wasn't getting active 2-3 times a week but I kept eating like a champ and enjoying summertime brews and late night glasses of wine. Finally, I got on the scale at the beginning of this week and I'm up 10 pounds. Weight can be just a number, I know that. I barely lost anything during my six months of fitness and I was looking fierce ;), but my clothes are not fitting as well as they should be.
Instead of pledging to track all of my eats every day, like I wrote out as a goal at the beginning of the October and tend to be inconsistent with, I'd like to challenge myself to eat the recommended servings of vegetables and fruits per day. Maybe it will curb the over eating, or at least I will have a good, solid, nutritious base.
Here they are, the daily goals from the USDA for women 19-30 years old, as you know I am 26.
vegetables 2½ cups / fruit 2 cups
(make half your "plate" fruits and vegetables)
grains 6 ounces (1/2 of which are whole grains) / dairy 3 cups / protein 5½ ounces
Today I've had a banana, pomegranate juice, a handful of spinach (purple green monster!), Oatmeal with fruit and nuts. I'm on the right track, two fruits and one veg with vegetables in mind for lunch x2.
ps. This is how this post started.... a long time ago, over two years. So random.
I read about the One Dollar Diet Project. I appreciated their efforts for surviving on one dollar a day as so many people do in this country. One of the sacrifices they noted early on was a lack of the daily nutrients that we need.
It got me to thinking about how many people actually eat the recommend daily fruits and vegetables. I know I don't. I eat more fruit than I used to and definitely make efforts to get in yummy veggies, but my carbs and fats tend to be higher than needed.
Instead of pledging to track all of my eats every day, like I wrote out as a goal at the beginning of the October and tend to be inconsistent with, I'd like to challenge myself to eat the recommended servings of vegetables and fruits per day. Maybe it will curb the over eating, or at least I will have a good, solid, nutritious base.
Here they are, the daily goals from the USDA for women 19-30 years old, as you know I am 26.
vegetables 2½ cups / fruit 2 cups
(make half your "plate" fruits and vegetables)
grains 6 ounces (1/2 of which are whole grains) / dairy 3 cups / protein 5½ ounces
Today I've had a banana, pomegranate juice, a handful of spinach (purple green monster!), Oatmeal with fruit and nuts. I'm on the right track, two fruits and one veg with vegetables in mind for lunch x2.
ps. This is how this post started.... a long time ago, over two years. So random.
I read about the One Dollar Diet Project. I appreciated their efforts for surviving on one dollar a day as so many people do in this country. One of the sacrifices they noted early on was a lack of the daily nutrients that we need.
It got me to thinking about how many people actually eat the recommend daily fruits and vegetables. I know I don't. I eat more fruit than I used to and definitely make efforts to get in yummy veggies, but my carbs and fats tend to be higher than needed.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
good people.
As a generally happy girl it's surprising that sometimes I can have such an annoyed, grumpy disposition. It's something that I struggle with. All of the sudden I'll realize, oh, I was really short with that person. I wish I could have been a bit more patient. Why did I have to respond so negatively? I mean, obviously, I'm better than all of these people. So why can't they just get it? Then we'd all be happier Seriously this is how I feel I act. Do you struggle with this?
On the flip side, I have a story about people who were gracious and friendly. On Friday I was running to a local market to pick up some things for our family get together. Matt was making brussel sprouts with bacon and maple syrup. mmm. As I'm heading to check out a woman and I arrive at the lane at the same time and I let her go ahead, her angle was better. When she saw me, she was very concerned that she'd cut. I assured her she had not. She explained that was shopping with a friend and wasn't sure where she was. When she realized that the friend was still shopping she insisted I move ahead of her in line. Thank you, thank you.
As soon as I got in line I realized I'd forgotten the apple cider I was craving. I asked the check out girl if they had some in stock, yes they did, but at that point I was blocked in on all sides of the aisle. I was going to have to leave with out my cider. Then the boy ahead of me, checking out with his mum, offered to go get me a gallon. Yes, yes please, I would love if you did that.
It was a good afternoon.
On the flip side, I have a story about people who were gracious and friendly. On Friday I was running to a local market to pick up some things for our family get together. Matt was making brussel sprouts with bacon and maple syrup. mmm. As I'm heading to check out a woman and I arrive at the lane at the same time and I let her go ahead, her angle was better. When she saw me, she was very concerned that she'd cut. I assured her she had not. She explained that was shopping with a friend and wasn't sure where she was. When she realized that the friend was still shopping she insisted I move ahead of her in line. Thank you, thank you.
As soon as I got in line I realized I'd forgotten the apple cider I was craving. I asked the check out girl if they had some in stock, yes they did, but at that point I was blocked in on all sides of the aisle. I was going to have to leave with out my cider. Then the boy ahead of me, checking out with his mum, offered to go get me a gallon. Yes, yes please, I would love if you did that.
It was a good afternoon.
& just because
Thursday, October 20, 2011
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