Reboot!

Yep.  I'm seriously thinking about it.  I may even go and buy some Green Machine today and get a day or two in (although, really, I am seriously jonesing for some cream cheese mashed potatoes.  Must find excuse for having them before I reboot.

What gave me the idea to reboot?  Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dying.  I watched it (free streamed from Amazon with Amazon Prime.  Also free streamed from Netflix.)  I'm amazed at the idea of the 60 day juice fast, although I think I'll more commit to a shorter regimine.  Like a week or 10 days.  If that goes well enough, maybe we'll bump it up to longer.  Although, the first stage of "commitment" will be working more fruits and veggies into the meals, less other stuff, and adding more juice.

Which, if the mean green juice is anything like the Green Machine juice, I'm so totally in for this!  YUM. 

There are some issues that I may have to work out, like, apparently kale is a goitrogenic vegetable -- as is spinach???  *sigh*  I may just go for it anyway, and see where we go.  (But maybe I'm just getting sick of hearing "you can't".) 

Thoughts, comments? 

I Am NOT a Mind Reader ~ OR ~ Potential for Sugar Coma Over Here...

...With 3 or 4 dozen or so each of sugar cookies (some frosted!) and gingersnaps, plus a blueberry lemon cheesecakey-type confection and cinnamon-sugared pecans.  And there is that pound cake...

Mostly, they are gifts.  (Especially the pound cake and gingersnaps -- those are for my grandparents.  They will also get samplings of the other cookies and cake.) 

The pecans were an attempt to satisfy my dad.  He has been telling me pretty much since I made those spiced pumpkin seeds at Halloween that he wanted some spiced pecans.  Okie-dokie.  No problem.

What kind of spiced pecans?

"I don't know.  Just some spiced pecans.  I've had a recipe over here for a while."

Where?

"On this computer." 

First I've heard of it...

But we print the page...and it's seven pages!  There are at least a dozen, some spicy, some sweetly spiced, etc. 

Which ones are you wanting?

"Any will do."

So I do some that are savory.  "Not bad, but not what I was looking for."

Hrm.  Okay...  Next up.  Cinnamon & Sugar.

"They're good...but not the flavor I wanted."

...

Well, what flavor did you want????

"Hot."

Hot.  Okay.  I can give you hot.  I put in at least two tablespoons of cayenne.  Black pepper.  Tiger hot sauce and Jamaican Hell Fire (which, CRAP, I'm allergic to, and I ate some of the damn things!).  Red pepper flakes.  Some other stuff.

They seem to have little flavor to enhance the pecans, but they have heat.  Lingering heat.

But it's probably not enough....

Alas...Coursing Through My Veins...

Well...I was the one who said I would always make sure to post no matter what. Well, guess what? I have not abided by my own rule. Somehow, the lure of a book is calling me, and I don't have the heart to post today. Perhaps, Thursday will be a better day.

Falling Behind and Being Mary

So, the last post here was November 11th, and I believe it was me.  Where have my two partners in crime gone?

I always say I'm busy, but I often sit back and wonder how it really appears to outsiders.  Yesterday, I ran into someone I rarely see to speak to.  She commented on how busy I am (or at least say I am) on Facebook between work, baking, crocheting, and writing a book.  What am I most impressed with?  That she reads my Facebook, to be honest.

Today, someone else commented on how I'm always baking something and asked why.  So, I started on my laundry list -- Christmas gift for a lady at work, my child's teachers (3 dance teachers and 1 school teacher, although I never think about how she has a different teacher for math and a different teacher for PE), my grandparents, and a couple of other people.  Plus, my name is permanently etched on the dessert list for pot lucks at work and I think it's better for me to bake every week or two and have some sweets made with items I can pronounce and REAL SUGAR!  I'm not one to go back over and over and over again for sweets, and that cake will last at least a week in the house with 4 of us eating it. 

I'm still dancing, although after tonight's class we've got two weeks off.  I still feel like I'm struggling to keep up with what's going on, feeling like we move forward too fast.  It's great, I'm sure, for those who have been doing this for years, but for those of us who are essentially just starting, it's tough.  I made the decision this month to miss one class per month because of girl scout meetings.  I just have to try to make sure that it's not more than one per month.

And, now, on to being Mary.  There is a thing I want to participate in called a mary-a-thon.  You can do the full maryathon (make a commitment to exercise at least 30 minutes per day for 5 days per week for 26 weeks) or a half maryathon (30 minutes per day for 3 days for each of 26 weeks.)  If you mess up, you have to start over -- it must be 26 consecutive weeks.  It can be done anytime in the year.  (But we are talking half a year here, right?)  What do we think?  Shall we do it?