2- I saw this print on Pinterest, and I feel like I have to share it here. I hope it eventually makes its way into the blog book I still need to make (a 30 before 30 goal).
3- Tomorrow starts my month of eating vegetarian as another one of my 30 before 30 goals. One of the reasons I chose that as a goal was to try to increase variety in my diet. Also, meat is an inflammation trigger for RA. Dairy is as well, but I'm hoping that at least reducing my meat intake will help. Anyone have any must-try vegetarian recipes? I plan on a lot of soups made with veggie broth rather than chicken.
4-I'll be making my first donation to Planned Parenthood tomorrow after we get paid. I've wanted to donate ever since the fiasco where they almost lost government funding, but never got around to it. After reading this today, I'm going to do it.
5- I lost 5 lbs my first week back on WW! I'm hoping to have lost at least 10 lbs by the time I start back at the library.
6- I so want to do this run. In fact, I just now showed Adam the video clip of the race, and we decided to plan our vacation around it. Neither one of us have ever been to Boise.
7- I've made a variation of this smoothie at least 4 times since she posted the recipe. I just use 1 cup skim milk, 1 tablespoon real peanut butter, 1 frozen banana, and 2 cups of spinach. It is awesome! If you like the Peanut Butter Mood smoothie from Jamba Juice, it's like that (just green and a little less sweet). I've been making green smoothies for years, but never like this one. When I go grocery shopping next, I might try to find a light chocolate soy milk or almond milk to try it with.
8- Yes, the sign above him says "Kid Use Only- adults: please don't sit on the log." In the picture, he's smirking like he knew what it said and did it anyways, but he didn't actually see the sign.Another parent and I had a good laugh about this at Gymboree.
9- One of my friends posted one of my favorite Colbert quotes on Facebook: "If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it,"
I got into into a mostly polite discussion about it with one of her friends. A discussion in which he called Christ a capitalist. I'm still laughing about it. With the help of some friends, I found this article to link him to. I especially like the ending: "In the end, though, it’s silly for anyone to argue that Jesus supported an economic system that he had never heard of or encountered—whether it’s capitalism or socialism. What Jesus did encounter was an economic society with a large gap between the rich and the poor, and at every turn he advocated one thing—that we care for the needs of others as much as we care for our own needs. Now, that’s a revolutionary economic theory."
10- One of my best friends had her fourth baby and first girl yesterday. I'm so happy for them. She had a planned unassisted birth. It's not something I would choose for myself, but if anyone is capable enough to do it, it is her and her husband.
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Wow, that's awesome. Even my family hasn't tried unassisted. :)
I, too, am still laughing about the Christ as capitalist conversation. I didn't jump in yesterday in the group because I wouldn't have had anything useful to say (I'm not a very good scriptorian) besides just laughing at the guy. I love that Colbert quote, too.
I like the idea of eating vegetarian for a month! I'm already probably 50% vegetarian just out of preference - half the time when we go out to eat, if I'm not ordering pasta, I'm wishing I could just order five or six different sides instead of an entree. Partially because I always want broccoli and mashed potatoes and seasoned potatoes and corn and rice and the squash medley, or whatever else there is. And partially because, though I like it well enough when I eat it, I could probably go the next ten years without a steak and not really miss it. But I do think full-on vegetarianism for a month would be a fantastic thing to do just for the experience. I might have to do that myself sometime, now that I'm thinking about it.
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