Let's all go to the movies!

Seeing Gnomeo and Juliet last night has inspired me to post this....



Elton John was the executive producer, the movie was chock full of his music. I have a theory that it was done so we'd all feel a lot cooler about wearing silly looking 3-D glasses.

Hi, everyone.....I'm coming into this post a little shyly because it will be one more post without any pictures. My camera broke some time ago, you see, when I dropped it while rocking out with Priscilla to Weezer, or something like them. It was a good night, but my poor, poor camera... I DO have a camera phone, but I mainly use it for my puppy photo shoots. You understand.

If I checked my last blog posting properly, I have been meat and caffeine free for two weeks. I have had a few Sprite slip ups. Carbonation has me by the soul. The first few days without caffeine, I was in bed by 7:30pm. My body was tired. The lack of Coke has made me realize just how much the food I eat affects my energy level. No cheating and eating something sugary and gross for breakfast, because I'll be lazy all day. I basically just try to eat fruits and vegetables for every meal, but lately, I've been doing a really poor job of it. My favorite thing to eat for lunch is brown rice with some sort of vegetable sauteed with a little bit of butter and a lot of lemon juice. Yellow squash is my favorite. Luckily, I work at 10am 3 mornings a week, so I can cook a lunch before I go to work. I'm not above leftovers from the night before, though.


Something that makes this round of vegetarianism easier is the fact that my boyfriend is also participating. Eating new (to me) food that he likes and avoiding meat is better when he does it, too. I mainly just say, "Um, I'll eat what you eat." Presto! 


 By bringing my lunch to work the past two weeks, I have saved about $15/day. I'm sure you also realize that vegetables and rice cost less than beef. It has made me more frugal in other areas, too, because I'm so pumped on not spending much cash on food. I enjoy a healthy bank account (or shoebox full of cash).


I think today might be the day carbonation takes a hike. The sugar is noooooo bueno, love it though I may. I'll check in again soon, lalas, and let you know how it goes.

Day 3 of no meat or soda.

I feel wonderful.

It seems like my head is clearer. I get tired around 3:30 or 4, but I think once my body gets used to forgetting about caffeine, that might quit.

I feel guilty eating meat. I know it does not make me feel good. For some people, it might. For me, I am so much more sluggish with a meat filled diet. Meat is the wrong choice for Nessie (that's me). I substitute vegetables and fruits that I love with meat, and walk away from my meals with a full belly, but ready for a nap. Also, the thought of my body processing, secondhand, all of the antibiotics and fillers they give to the animals while they are on the "farm" does not appeal to me.  

There's more to this story. I'll tell you later. The end.

Maybe you want to listen to this song by Ryan Adams (one of my favorites) while you read or peruse or fart around aimlessly on the internet:




I feel like, right now, I should be taking advantage of the beautiful things I have found.

2 hours

Limited time before I swoop the child cousin up from school. In that time, I will visit Uncle Johnny with some pasta shells, vacuum the house (vacuuming is my favorite chore), pester Jessica into bringing her belly full of baby to my house for some hangouts and run to the store. Then, when Bella and I get home, we will set the table and start making dinner for my family and my sweetheart.

The End.

Landline

The phone at work is the same as what I had in my room as a teenager:

I love that Jenny and Jess are not above calling my house phone if I do not respond via my cellular quickly enough.

Fat and happy

Today, my body loving begins again. My poor little self, all full of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, gets so tired and cranky. It's the food, I tell you! The brown rice is cooking, the zucchini is prepped to be cooked, the protein shake for breakfast is just waiting for me. Whole foods, people- food without wrappers. I'm on board.


My goals:

Avoid having to buy a new wardrobe due to mismanagement of menu choices.

Feel better

Save dollars


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Do you feel like I make a similar declaration every few months or so? Sheesh. Me, too. Maybe I will start a separate blog for food tracking/health reporting so nobody who just wants to know about my dogs and stuff has to read about the food I eat. Or maybe I won't do that. For TODAY, though, the menu is this:

Breakfast is a yummy shake:
Soy yogurt
OJ
Strawberries
Vanilla Protein powder
-Blend it all up and drink it down!

(and maybe some toast)

Lunch:
Brown Rice
Zucchini


Snacks:
Apple
Baby Carrots
Whole, raw almonds
Whatever I can find in this house that will keep me from giving in to eating a hot dog at work


Dinner:
Mystery. I'm leaning towards a spinach salad with avocado and hard boiled eggs.


Let's see what happens!

Stole this from Priscilla ober dare at Rotten Potatoes. You watch now.

Dating Montage
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One of your favorite bands, and you never even knew it

If you have some time to watch a documentary featuring some of the best music ever written, watch Standing In The Shadows of Motown. 

It is about The Funk Brothers. They played on the following number one hits (thanks, wikipedia) :

• "Please Mr Postman" The Marvelettes
• "Fingertips Pt. 2" Little Stevie Wonder
• "My Guy" Mary Wells
• "Where Did Our Love Go" The Supremes
• "Baby Love" The Supremes
• "Come See About Me" The Supremes
• "My Girl" The Temptations
• "Stop! In the Name of Love" The Supremes
• "Back in My Arms Again" The Supremes
• "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" The Four Tops
• "I Hear a Symphony" The Supremes
• "You Can't Hurry Love" The Supremes
• "Reach Out I'll Be There" The Four Tops
• "You Keep Me Hangin' On" The Supremes
• "The Happening" The Supremes

• "Love Child" Diana Ross and the Supremes
• "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Marvin Gaye
• "I Can't Get Next to You" The Temptations
• "Someday We'll Be Together" Diana Ross and the Supremes
• "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Diana Ross
• "The Tears of a Clown" Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
• "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" The Temptations
• "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" The Temptations
• "Touch Me in the Morning" Diana Ross
• "Let's Get It On" Marvin Gaye
• "Midnight Train to Georgia" Gladys Night and the Pips
• "Keep on Truckin' (Part 1)" Eddie Kendricks
• "Just a Little Misunderstanding"
• "Shop Around"
• "Shotgun"
• "How Sweet it Is"
• "The One who Really Loves You"
• "The Way you Do the Things you Do" The Temptations
• "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"
• "Road Runner"
• "Ain't too Proud to Beg" The Temptations
• "I Wish it would Rain" The Temptations
• "Heat Wave"
• "Hitch Hike"
• "What's so Good about Goodbye"
• "I Was Made to Love Her"
• "It's the Same Old Song" Four Tops
• "You've Really Got a Hold on Me"
• "Standing in the Shadows of Love" Four Tops
• "If I Were your Woman"
• "Going to a Go-Go"
• "Heaven Must Have Sent You"
• "Dancing in the Street" Martha & The Vandellas
• "Mercy Mercy Me" Marvin Gaye
• "Cloud Nine" The Temptations
• "What's Goin' On" Marvin Gaye
• "Do You Love Me"
• "Get Ready"
• "Function at the Junction"
• "My Arms are Empty Without You"
• "The Tracks of my Tears"
• "Can I Get a Witness"
• "Nowhere To Run"
• "Here Comes The Judge"
• "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours"
• "Beachwood 4-5789" The Marvelettes
• "Bernadette" Four Tops
• "Two Lovers"
• "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted"
• "My Cherie Amour"
• "I Second That Emotion"
• "Losing You"
• "First I Look at the Purse"
• "Ooo Baby Baby"
• "I'll Be Doggone"
• "Pride and Joy"
• "Ball of Confusion"
• "It Takes Two"
• "This Old Heart Of Mine"
• "Uptight"
• "Devil With a Blue Dress"
• "Jimmy Mack"
• "Since I Lost My Baby" The Temptations
• "War"
• "Stubborn Kind Of Fellow"
• "Don't Mess With Bill" The Marvelettes
• "You Beat Me to the Punch"
• "Shake Me, Wake Me" The Four Tops
• "Mickey's Monkey"
• "Ain't That Peculiar"
• "Shoo-be-doo-be-doo-da-day"

Doesn't reading that list make you want to go search for and listen to every single song on it? Me, too. It blew my mind that I had never heard of The Funk Brothers. Lucky for me, some handsome guy insisted I watch the documentary with him. 

Here's a link to Joan Osborne singing with them.

Today is Thursday

Maddie woke up scratching at around 6:00am. Actually, she wasn't scratching, she was licking. Licking sounds disgusting, though, so I censored it as if somehow, you would think I had anything to do with the licking. It is one of my least favorite noises....dogs licking. Ugh. I also woke up to the sound of Molly rearranging my laundry basket contents so that she could have a cute little bed to lie in. I suppose hopping up on mine like she usually does wasn't an option for some reason. Actually, I changed the story again. She doesn't hop up on my bed as much as she sits beside it and whines at me to lift her up and set her on it. You know why? Maddie blows a gasket if Molly jumps up. Maddie thinks she has to protect me from her on account of Molly always yelling at Maddie.

Maybe that weirdness, plus odd dreams, plus my evening last night contributed to me waking up uneasy. I have a gross feeling. There is nothing I can do about it, but I feel doomed. This happens sometimes. Someone, somewhere in my life will have a rotten day. Or I will. Or I have caused some situation that adversely affects someone I care about. I'm off balance. Maybe I need to take a walk.

In other news, perhaps you have read about this. The WBC has said they will protest Gunderson's production of The Laramie Project. Do I believe they will show up? No. However, I have seen declarations of retaliation pop up on facebook, and I wonder.....what is there to do that hasn't already been done? I am not one to say, "Give it up, kids. Pack it in and forget about it," but let's be reasonable. Showing them signs of your own isn't going to do much... I've seen groups against the WBC pick an organization that they protest, then set up donation buckets so that people can walk up and drop a twenty in to support what the WBC is trying to tear down, while they watch and yell hateful things. I don't think there is a solution, I'm just talking. Maybe someone else will have a better idea. In the meantime, I'll be wondering why we don't drag ourselves out to support that high school we love so much more often. How many of us go see a basketball or football game, ever? How many of us were raring to go see The Laramie Project at GHS before we read about the protest that may or may not occur? What I'm getting at, is if you are one of the people heading out to support Gunderson on the opening night of their play, maybe set something up that has nothing to do with the WBC. Something that you can stand outside and put your heart into even if they don't show up (and I don't think they will). I dunno. I'm on a break at work. This won't be proofread. Hope you all still love me.

Digging on this

Give it a whirl, poopsies.