Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts

Saturday, January 2, 2010

skinny love



good morning friends, we're on day two! do you know how hard it is to practice being a vegetarian while at the cracker barrel? pretty darn challenging to tell you the truth. but i ate my black eyed peas (and applesauce, steak fries, and green beans) like a good girl.


today i am feeling a little funny. well-rested on the verge of over-rested. i slept hard, partially because i didn't get a lot of sleep the night before, and partially because i did my meditation before bed; and by the last breath of it my body had almost gone completely limp. ha! meditation lightweight.


today i am drinking coffee and listening to bon iver. most likely another reason why my mood is sooooo lowkey today. i am hoping to get some things crossed off of the ole to-do list today (i cannot believe it is saturday already), plus make some time for a date with a delightful friend. i have put off so many things over the course of this breakcation but i was hoping to actually DO some stuff today. basic, practical things have fallen to the wayside in favour of making memories and being a little antagonistic to my body. but i wasn't cruel to it yesterday and i won't be today either. yay me!


one of the things i wanted to work on this year is reading all the books in my house. so i'm going to attempt to read at least two books a month every month this year. my first book of the year is called 29 Gifts (How A Month Of Giving Can Change Your Life) by Cami Walker. it is book detailing a plan that opens yourself up for positive things to happen to you by focusing your energies on helping other people. it's pretty cool and i wanted to start the year off on a positive, open, and more giving note. in fact one of my other resolutions (i think i'm up to 8 or 9 at this point) is to give more in kindness to others. it can be so hard for me to step outside of myself. i can almost always give encouraging words but feel like i just kind of fall short after that. however accurate that statement is in reality, it's just how i feel sometimes.

well, that is where i am at today...thanks for stopping by my little corner of the universe for a skinny minute. i hope your day is incredibly rad (and practical if need be) too!
adieu for now, friends! i'm off to make my bed!
lu


*top image is my backyard view this beautiful morning. i love the way the sun moves around there.
*here's me and the buddy enjoying our morning together. he was whimpering because i was keeping him from his tennis ball. love that nutty buddy.

Friday, October 2, 2009

you ain't seen nuthin'...

good morning octoberites! another beautiful day, another gorgeous cup of coffee. aaaahhhhh. (not to be confused with AAAAAHHHH!)
i tried a new culinary project last night with mixed results (and just realized i never took a picture of it to post, darnit!). i made corn muffins with cream cheese/honey "frosting", a dried apricot soaked in wine and sauteed with crispy bacon crumbled on top.
this one has a lot of facets that could go awry. unfortunately, the easiest part, the corn muffin, i didn't quite get right!
so for the next attempt i have to get my corn muffins (hee hee) more moist and delicious, then i'll master the cream cheese "frosting" and reconsider the fruit. alone the apricot was delicious but it may be too much going on. i don't know, i'm not known for external simplicity...so the apricot may stay.
i hope you guys could follow that, my coffee hasn't quite kicked in yet and i surely need it.
have a spectacular friday, friends!
adieu,
lu