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Good Morning!
Wow last day of the weekend! It always goes so fast. It's long run day! I have a month before my 5k and 6 weeks before my 10k! Run run run.
I have been busy as can be, but I love it! Busy means new opportunities to meet awesome people. This coming week looks as busy as last week. So I find it important to set some goals for myself in order to keep motivated.
Goal 1. run 10 les this week
Goal 2. get half through my training for work
Goal 3. make 3 new recipes for my article
goal 4. Spend some quality time with Mike

It 's not much of a list but it does motivate me. Anything over this is a bonus.

Good Morning Happy Gorgeous People!

Wow, it's Thursday already! How did that happen? This week seems like such a blur! But today is farmers market day! I love the farmers market, and all those yummy veggies! The farmers market could not have come at a better time, my article is due on Saturday and I have nothing in mind for a recipe, but I am always inspired by produce, but hey, who isn't?

It's a wonderful crisp day here in the mountains, it would be a shame not to take advantage of it, so it's a run and biking into town for errands day! Usually I would pick one or the other but it seems like a waste to be in a car. Okay it's really because I hate getting gas and the car is almost empty.

It's usually yoga class on Thursdays, but I have over booked my time today and something had to sacrificed. I have also given up cleaning the master bathroom, It as a tough call, but hey that's why I am the woman of the house.

With the mayhem of the day, there needs to be a reward for diligent attention to responsibilities and my sacrifices. What's a girl to do? Bath Bombs!

Bath Bombs
1 cup baking soda
1 cup citric acid, (found in most health food stores)
1/2 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup oil (like the chocolate scrub, what you have on hand)
4-6 drops of scented oil of your choice (I like vanilla, it drives the honey nuts!)
cupcake molds and cups
Mix ingredient together until it's a crumby dough. Pack in the cups and molds let dry for 24 hours and pop one of those babies in your next bath. Yummy! This and your chocolate scrub, you'll be your own dessert!

Have an awsome possum day!

Good morning!

Happy morning to you all! Wow what a amazing morning! Let's get moving! I am is such a fantastic mood today! Being chemical free works for me. ( Dr. Seussed it up there.) The first couple of days with out OTC meds was hard. I had a headache for a few days. This might have been no caffeine, but I made it through and feeling fine as wine. ( Without wine.)
I know that working out and eating right can be really hard. So I always treat myself with a little something when I have reached my weekly goal. Yesterday was SHOES! I love heels, I found a great pair at a cute little store for $6!
I don't always buy shoes. My spouse refuses to move all his stuff out of the closet to make room for all the shoes I want, sheesh! Sometimes it's just a new nail polish,book, flower for my hair. It's just something that makes me feel pretty.
Pampering ourselves is a must, I tend to take care of others until I just freak out from the pressure, I am just learning I need to take a little time for me. Even if it's just to take a bath and read a bit. Just do it to recharge your batteries.
I believe if you can't put it in your body, don't put it on your body! Want a yummy treat for your skin? This is my favorite pampering treat.
Chocolate body scrub:
1/2 cup of sugar (not powder)
1/4 cup of oil (I use olive oil, but grape seed, almond, even canola will work)
2 T of cocoa powder.
Mix all the ingredients together, put goop in air tight container, this will keep for a month! Scrub a dub dub! What a way to treat yourself!
I am off for a run. Have an amazing blessed day!

Happy Tuesday morning! What are your plans for this week? I am in a creative mood, and since I have no artistic talent, I will cook. New recipes! Wonder what I will come up with? Any suggestions?
This weeks is very active, I have meetings, luncheons,yoga class, town meetings, training, and a deadline for my article. Also Farmers market! I am not complaining, I realize I am very luck to have such an active life, but I think this week calls for some serious exercising for energy. Time to run my little bunny butt off!

Safe and Sane Holiday

Happy Memorial Day! I wish everyone a safe and sane Holiday. How are you spending it? I have recently decided to quit all chemicals for a year! This includes alcohol, medicine and over the counter medicine, so my holiday will be sane.
I made this decision for a few reasons but the main reason is I am tired of the market world, that insist that we can not have fun without booze and we can not feel better if you don't take this drug. I know there is a need for some people to take medicine, I am however, a perfectly healthy woman who is able to be medication and alcohol free, so the other day I decided to do it.
After making the oath to do this for a year, (there was no formal oath, I just said I as going to do it.) I thought I would count how many advertisements I saw in one day for alcohol and drugs. To my great surprise, I counted 36 from the time I woke up until I went to bed, this is amazing to me. We are so conditioned to take pills or have a drink that it has become a life style. Oh I have a headache, I'll take a pill or ugh today has been so tough I deserve a drink. Not for this green bunny! I am just as guilty of this lifestyle as anyone else. I too have succumbed to quick and easy fixes, that don't really fix anything. IT IS NOW TIME TO RISE UP AND TAKE CONTROL OF MY OWN BUNNY BUTT! Little too dramatic? You get the point. So four days ago I stopped any over the counter meds. (Just a note, I am not on doctor prescribed meds, so if you want to do the same and stop chemical and you are under a doctors care, please consult your doctor first.)It's been a lot longer since I have had alcohol, and I on a mission to find other methods for curing what is bothering me. This also includes figuring out why I am feeling the way I feel. For an example, if I have a headache, why? Am I drinking enough water? Am I not working through what's bothering me? Do I need to exercise more? Am I talking to myself too much? This does not work with bruising, scrapes, and cuts. If I have to question those, I need to go back to my oath of no alcohol.
Don't think I have forgotten about finding homemade items for health and beauty, this too is included in my bunny project. On a final note, I think part of being healthy physically, is also mentally, for this I am going out and being of service to my community, exercising of some sort EVERY day, and meditation. The latter is a bit of a challenge for me. Let's get started on this wild ride.

Here it is, my new article. I kind of like this one. I love the farmers market! There is nothing better than finding wonderful veggies some you know and better some you don't! I urge anyone lucky enough to have a farmers market near you, to make it part of your weekly routine, it will be well worth it, I promise, and if you don't like it than it really doesn't effect me. If you don't have one near you, make a special trip to one, I know your going to love.

10:30 am!

Here is what I tried so far! I had a healthy breakfast of berries and almond cream, yummo! Made a hair rinse of lime and kiwi, this by the way is the only way I will use kiwi! Blah, little fuzzy nasty thinks. And I am about to take a shower using chocolate sugar scrub!Did I post that recipe yet? Hmmmmm, aparnetly I have not found a recipe to help my memory. Oh well I will repost it tonight. It's soooo great. Off to a meeting at noon and I feel ready for it!

Rise and shine sunshine

I don't always know what to blog about. Today, I thought I had a great excuse not to blog. I am friggin tired! I am emotionally and physically exhaussted. I sat here freezing, because I thought it was too far to walk to turn up the heat. It took eight steps there and back. So yes, I have an excuse right? Wrong! I can always find an excuse, playing catch up is one of the reasons I am tired. Instead of making lists of why I can't, I found the reason I can.
I like to think the universe revolves around me, ask me tomorrow and I might say it does again. I can not be the only person who is feeling completely overwhelemed with everything in life. I am sure there is no magic cure for this, however there are natural remedies that I have read to eleviate some of the tiredness and stress in life.
During today, I am going to try a few out and blog later what worked and did not.
It's not alway's possible to take and entire Laurin day, however I am going to take a few hours to get my head back on and thinking clearly. I think this is the first remedy I am going to try. I am just not sure what that will include.
If you have any suggestions please post, I am willing, ok needing, any and all idea's!

If by some grace_________ insert your higher being, have a clear mind when you are older you are clearly responsible for your actions.

When you get older, so do you parents! When do you earn the right to be nasty and mean just because you are older! I don't think you doi!

WAy tired to day, did't sleep well. For the first time,we are having a family event and I am not cooking. Going to order take out. I did't even make gift baskets.
I am sure it won't kill me though.

I can not believe this weekend is over so soon! With the weeks activities being increasingly demanding, it's time to plan the week ahead. Oh who am I kidding, I going to wing it. What I will plan is making sure I get in at least 4 runs in and I am starting a Thursday yoga class.
As for nutrition, I am going to increase my water intake to a gallon a day,this means a lot of bathroom time.That's okay,it give me time to plan what color I am going to paint the bathroom. I am giving up white flour and sugar (ugh,I do love bread!). I have put my car on restriction, I have opted to walk or ride my bike when I need to errands in town. This is working, except for the above plan to increase my water intake.
I will be making three new recipes this week, and my deadline for the paper is on the 22nd. I have an appointment for our business on Tuesday and Wednesday is dedicated to calls. Thursday is training on the direct soft PLC and the tree cutter will be here, thus the working from home. And what starts this week? Tomorrow is the Lancaster sewage plant. Someday I shall be queen of the waste water treatment plants!
Ah the life of glamour, I wouldn't trade it for anything!

What's new!

Since my last blog in January, a few things have happened. I now have an article in the local paper about vegan cooking. I put it up here in a little bit. We have found several ways to make our lives more green. And I have been exercising almost every day. I said almost!

I would like to do this a little different, I am hoping that this is a bit more interactive. Post to me also! other wise I am just talking to myself, and I don't need help looking crazy!

Hey ladies, oh and men, I am not judging.... If you want those well manicured mitts but don't want all the chemicals, ask your local manicurists if they have natural products. I did! My manicurist did not have it at the time, but ordered it and called me. Not only do I have proper looking paws, she is going to advertise these new products! Who knows, it could bring her all new clients. Here is the down side. You can not get fake nails, that is all chemicals baby. And there are very limited colors to choose from. This works for me, I like the French tip look.

While looking at my blog, I found out I can blog from my phone. No excuses not to blog, well none that I have made up yet. Let's get

started.

This is crazy!|
A friend of mine called me on not keeping my blog up. Guess it's time to get serious. No really, I can be serious! I can!

If this works it will be way cool!

Monday

2 weeks until my 5k and trying yo find the motivation to get up and run. Who's idea was it to cut back on coffee?......Oh yeah, mine. Busy week ahead and not a lot of motivation. Perhaps I should rethink this coffee issue. Plan this morning is to yoga then run, and then in the afterglow of my great exercise high, I shall be triumphant in my endeavors of the day. I have found some wonderful podcast that are mp3 friendly for running, I think I will give that a try and see if I get my gremlin engine going.

I am Back!

After a long, long, long sabbatical I am back! Hmmmm wait, sabbatical sounds to restful. After a long, long, long, manic adventure in life, I am back! Too dramatic? Well you get the picture.
In the time I have been gone, We have moved, bought a house, moved into the house, and increased our work load. It has been a flurry of activities; but I think things have settled down a bit and I can get back into the fitness and healthy living goals I loftily set for myself and of course Mikey!
I have decided to add a few new things to this blog and also my website. I do want to continue to find natural and inexpensive health and beauty recipes you can find in your home. ( Or if your neighbor's house if theyare out of town. ) But I would also like to add more recipes and less daily eating habits. I think this will help me to stay focu............ What was I saying? Anyway, I am back!