nicest and bestest

....Evar! (even though I despise the "ever" comments that have been highly over used in todays society, I think this time it is fitting)

Just got off the phone with a dietician colleague and I just think she's one of the most wonderful people one can meet.

So genuine and sweet and open and kind. How lovely is that?

I don't even know her that well, nor does my work have me interacting with her that much at all, but even just a simple hello in meetings or in the hallway. I think some people are just walking rays of light and they just don't know it.

And thats just an amazing thing.

You can't pinpoint what it is, but somehow they manage exude a welcoming, friendly, humble, vibe, that is not fake, thoughtless, detached or insincere. Its not that they are walking with painted smiles on their faces, but secretly hiding a pain or over compensating for some other darker reasons. They are there in the present to everyone they interact with.

I know of a social worker colleague that is the same way and my own coworker is probably the same way but I'm used to him. I also have an old highschool friend that is similar and a long time friend I met in Italy when I was younger. Is it sad that I can count these people on one hand? Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, or maybe I focus too much on the bad around me.

Anyways, they certainly do inspire so much that I realize I should shift my perspective on those around me.....

Dressing with salad on the side...

Ordered me some Pulp Kitchen Almond Beet Salad for lunch today.
Is it wrong that I mostly look forward to the dressing than the greens?
Thought so.
Gotta kick this sugar addiction...

Dates

So I've had a lot of dates lately.


Whoo me! Bow-chuka-wow-wow !wink wink*

Just kidding.


The food, dates, that is.

(I know, just as exciting right?)

I have made these energy date balls with quinoa puffs, hemp hearts, chia seeds, pumpkin seeds, cranberries, goji berries, cinnamon, cocoa, and coconut flakes..... all healthy stuff and a good amount of sweet to substitute for chocolate bars and all the bad tasty stuff that I crave.


So my big announcement for this post is that -  I have concluded,
that dates act like prunes in our bodies.....

........AAand that is all I am going to say about that.

maya

...sometimes when things are over quoted, the importance of the quote seems to get overlooked after a while. 

None the less, still a wonderful quote:

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

kissssss

I've become a blob.

But I was down 2 lbs this morning and thought...
heeey let's keep this ball'a'rollin....
*snaps fingers and does the double gun point to you (which is to me, in the mirror)*

I got no bad food layin around so great day ahead right right??

Even brought me some veggies for lunch and goji berries to snack on throughout the day and some gluten free crackers.....

looookin goooood!


Then at the end of the day my coworker gives me a full bag of these:



From a patient of course.

Well, pat me on the back.. because I resisted!
....I said he can keep the second bag from the patient and I will keep the first bag...

So I thought,
Hey, I was good all day.... I'll just have 1.


Which became 1 plus 0.


Which obviously is 10. Right.
*blank stare*




GAHHHHHHH..... got to start all over again!!!!

bedding continued....

Been checking out Groupon for a bunch of stuff I really don't need.

And since I have a thing for bedding sets, I pay more attention to that.

but....

20 Piece sets?!?@?$

When you have more than 4 pillows on a bed for only 1-2 people, is the bed really for the people or for just the pillows themselves?

Sooo impractical.

(not to mention not good Feng Shui)

Happy VD Day

(ha, Yea, theres an extra D there, I like saying it that way, always makes me chuckle.)

I'm wearing red today, with my gold hearts.

Yesterday at dinner, I went to the resto washroom and there was a posted ad on the back of the washroom stall door. So I sat there reading.... which maybe made for some awkward extra time in the loo....

It read:

A selfie, like any photograph, interrupts experience to mark the moment. In this, it shares something with all the other ways we break up our day, when we text during class, in meetings, at the theater, at dinners with friends. And yes, at funerals, but also more regularly at church and synagogue services. We text when we are in bed with our partners and spouses. We watch our political representatives text during sessions.

Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are. The selfie makes us accustomed to putting ourselves and those around us “on pause” in order to document our lives. It is an extension of how we have learned to put our conversations “on pause” when we send or receive a text, an image, an email, a call. When you get accustomed to a life of stops and starts, you get less accustomed to reflecting on where you are and what you are thinking.

We don’t experience interruptions as disruptions anymore. But they make it hard to settle into serious conversations with ourselves and with other people because emotionally, we keep ourselves available to be taken away from everything.

These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a stop sign, at the checkout line at a supermarket and, yes, at a memorial service, reaching for a device becomes so natural that we start to forget that there is a reason, a good reason, to sit still with our thoughts: It does honor to what we are thinking about. It does honor to ourselves. 

It is not too late to reclaim our composure. I see the most hope in young people who have grown up with this technology and begin to see its cost. They respond when adults provide them with sacred spaces (the kitchen, the family room, the car) as device-free zones to reclaim conversation and self-reflection. - NY Times "The Documented Life" Sherry Turkle Dec 15, 2013. 

......as awkwardly, anti-social and introvert as I am, apart from my "alone reflections", surprisingly I always welcome a good connected conversation..... REAL Connection is key. Look for it. Maybe an appropriate topic for this day.....

water it.

If you have a flower or a plant you need to water it to make it grow.

Not new advice, in fact it is common sense.

But sometimes we forget.........as with all things.....

obsession...

I think I'm obsessed with bedding covers.
I keep wanting to get new ones, oooooo so pretty!
Yet I have no place to store these things in my itty bitty condo.

Ahhhh so pretty, its all o'r ma Pinterest!

I'll post it here too then...
(obsessed)

lemongrass tea

The nutritionist from a Raw Thai cooking class I went to said how lemongrass is antiviral and anti-bad stuff etc (as most claim everything is, I presume).
Anyhow, bought a whole bunch for the recipes she gave us, but instead used most for tea.
Yummy!
A lot of contradictory stuff online about it though, so long as I dont overdose on it I guess it should be ok...
What a great find.

Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles Tribute

Missing the sunshine right now....

I'll have to wait to get more vacay...