as far as i’m concerned the only way to play settlers of catan is dressed as a settler of catan
whitney, this is for you
(cute boys)
So, since I haven’t been updating this properly, you guys missed my obsession with Matt Smith of Doctor Who fame (it has not completely burnt out, but I’ve been properly distracted). Here’s a little eye candy for you:
And, just to keep you up to date, the new cute guy running around my head, distracting me from my responsibilities:
Joseph Morgan, from The Vampire Diaries (yes, I love TVD):
(drools on keyboard and then quickly sops it up).
IN OTHER NEWS!!!!
Finished my second quarter of my Master’s in Literature. One quarter and two semesters (they’re switching right in the middle of my degree) to go! And I really liked my final papers, so there’s that. I got to write one on Buffy!!!
Also: I applied for, and received a teaching assistantship! So starting in the fall, I will be teaching English 101 or 102!!! Like a legitimate semi-professor-in-training! I am stoked!
In healthy diet news:
We are holding strong and doing very well. Usually we make it all week long without meat, and then on Saturday or Sunday have chicken or something for dinner. Occasionally it’s bacon with breakfast, instead. I am feeling a lot better! Other than all the stress of teaching (that is, subbing) every day and going to school full time and all of that coming to a head in the last two weeks, I have felt amazing. All of that pressure has really drained me, though, so I know I either need to start taking vitamins every day (I should anyway) or really concentrate on getting all the nutrients I need, and not just cutting out certain things. It’s definitely a process, and a lifestyle change, but we’re committed to seeing it through. I should be better about updating and giving pictures now that school has slowed down.
And finally, in hair and beauty (because you weren’t getting away that easily):
I give you Elizabeth Olsen (yes, of those Olsens). This will be my hair! This picture is my motivation to keep it growing! I will NOT cut another pixie, no matter how cute it is. I want ponytails and braids and buns (oh my!)! It will never be blonde, however, so think more style/cut than color. Mine will be my more natural chocolate brown with, perhaps, ombre-d ends into a caramel brown.
More to come!
Healthy breakfast (mostly)! Parfait with lowest strawberry yogurt, raspberries, and almond-vanilla granola, and whole wheat blueberry waffles!
Getting Healthy, Part 1: Research
Three years ago, at work, we were all discussing things we wanted to give up for lent—candy, chocolate, laziness, etc.—and my now-boyfriend said that we were all wimps; it didn’t count if you only gave something up for lent! If you wanted it to count, you had to give it up for life! Cold turkey, he claimed, was the only way to give something up.
So that day, to show us all up, he claimed he would give up caffeine for life. I didn’t really think he’d make it, because he drank Mountain Dew literally all day long. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. He emptied his cup that day, filled it back up with lemonade, and hasn’t looked back.
In three years.
Admittedly, there have been a couple of mishaps: he was drinking vanilla cream soda for a while, thinking that since it was made by the same people who made root beer, he was safe, but vanilla cream soda, it turned out, had caffeine. And he does occasionally drink hot chocolate. But the point is that he has not, since that day three years ago, sought out caffeine—and in an age when we all seem addicted to the stuff, that’s pretty impressive.
Two weeks ago he decided we needed to eat healthier. This coming from a man who ate burgers and fries twice a day 3-5 times a week. But, like the caffeine, he’s doing it. Plant-based, he decided was the best way to go. It can reverse heart disease, he read, and ought to help us live longer.
So that is what this blog has become: our efforts to make healthier dietary choices. We are not vegetarians (though I fear things are swiftly turning that way) and we are not dieting to lose weight: we are simply trying to improve our lifestyles. There will be ups and downs, and I’m sure we’ll slip occasionally. But here’s hoping that, three years from now, we can look back and say we feel better because of the choices we’re making right now.
(Click Title for information on a plant based diet)
shipping shirts
mine was apparently shipped nine days ago and I STILL haven’t gotten it! THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME!!!!!!!
went shopping for Hotch and came home with these bad boys
(in black of course!)
Merry Xmas Hotch!
(Source: gibsonthomas)
I’m not sure how normal people (i.e., everyone who is not Me) get inspired, but, as a budding, and unprolific writer, I get inspired by a range of things: little slivers of conversation I overhear, faces that just stick in my brain, melodies or lyrics of songs. I find that much of life is very much an in-one-ear-and-out-the-other kind of experience, so when something stops, between my ears, it normally stays for a while, and you’ll find between five and twenty pages of a scene in a story that perhaps I will never return to.
Or maybe I will.
Here are some examples of things that are currently stuck (some of them won’t surprise you).
Thanks, Siri.
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now i wish i had the 4s instead of the 4. you never know when you’ll need answers like these. lol
Mabel!!!!!
