Yawn checking in.

Butternut squash soup at Rose EstB I had with some local bread (just a bit) during my radio shift. Dinner was quinoa with shredded brussels sprouts, toasted hazelnuts, and Caputo's mushroom truffle oil tapenade. I made that one up and it was the bomb. Breakfast was oatmeal and a hard boiled Clifford Farm egg.


Night. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...............


Smobergirl
Seven months on Friday.

Can't sleep

Have not had anxieties in a few weeks. Woo. Teacher training gets better.

Cleansing the caffeine

Going off coffee Jan. 1

Just do.

You know the saying "just be"? Well....Like Nike says...

The way to stop procrastinating is to put it off. I had a blast with my guitar tonight. I played a simple Spanish song, more like a repetitive arpeggio practice, but it sounds pretty cool. Then I read my yoga anatomy book. Then I did a great pm. yoga practice. I've been doing pretty much nothing but eat since Smokey was sick then passed. Now I feel that I'm back on my feet again. Last week I indulged in sugar, meat, ODed on caffeine, and had fries and plenty of them. Today I had salads, lemon water, grapes, and salmon. I found a recipe on Everyday Italian for halibut with grapefruit salsa. I got an email with a veggie chili dish. I got avos, brussels sprouts, and ingredients for tzatziki at the grocery store.

Fake it till you make it. Baron Baptiste once said that at the yoga bootcamp I went to four years ago. I was bummed because a yoga teacher student in my class was revved because our teacher is 'her' teacher, and I wished my favorite teacher was ours because that would pump me up more. However, I love the instructors even though I hardly know them at all. So I am going to go to their classes more with the pass I have (we need to attend 20, and any class we want). My fave does teach there, however it's one class on Tuesdays, and at 6am. I was up until 1 this morning so I cancelled my alarm. But I will fake it and make a rapport with the two main teachers, and try to get up at 5:15 next Tuesday.

I am doing well. I have all of my holiday shopping done and I am wrapping this week. I have a pass to Tron IMAX and that should be a total blast. My mom comes into town in two weekend for early Christmas. She needs to be home for my step-father's family. Hey early Christmas. Same with my dad this year. He's going to his Winter home in cali on the 26th. It's wacky I tells ya. But I'm not a stickler for tradition.

Good night,

Smobergirl
Day 205

Sun Day

It is nice outside! None of this -2 degree business. I didn't even wear a coat. I feel great today. I have given to some charities and it feels awesome. I gave to the Utah Food Bank, a KBYU membership for my dad, a new book (Eloise) to the Anthropologie reader's program; and I gotta thank Love Sac for their Cyber Monday $75 off sale. Unfortunately my old cat urinated several times on my old Pillow Sac and it's impossible to get all of the smell out. So I don't know if this is a good deed but I scrubbed it a little more and I'm giving it to the shelter. I think. The new one just came today and it looks like it's 1/2 the size of the condo. I thought it came in one size. We'll see if my cover fits it.

Bandit is having fun under the tree and going through all the bags with wrapping stuff and presents in them.

WOOOOOOOO. Old cover fits new Sac. Now we'll see if shelter wants the pee sac. So embarrassed.

Smobergirl

Fog Day

Eating is fun when you stay in. I had oatmeal with mixed berries and maple syrup this morning. Olive bread crostini with Beehive cheese and roasted red pepper and a kale salad with pumpkin seeds, pumpkin seed oil, cracked sea salt and pepper, and a spiraled golden beet. You have to get a spiral slicer guys. Cheap thrills galore. Then I scoffed 1/4 of Nada Moo. I may have to do a bison burger tonight. Don't worry this mourning food phase will pass. I think. Bandit is cool. He's sleeping in his leopard donught right now. The catnip outside miraculously survived the last few blizzards and I gave him a leaf.

So Dexter tonight. I do want wine but no can do. Meat will have to be a sub. Yeah I'm bumming a bit tonight. Buddha isn't too happy with that. ;) I don't know if he approves of Dexter either. I do know that I need more asana to feel better. (asana=yoga practice)

Smobergirl
Day 202

Feeling better.

Maybe my PMS is coming back. (No time of month on the Depo, and I got off of it last August) Maybe I had stuff bottled up too. You know, just lost a kitty I've had for 15 years, still worried about future work for no tactful reason. Not living in the now! Serenity now now!

Did I tell you some good news? I opened an Etsy shop and I sold my first painting! It's under "eportico". I just need to figure out how to rotate my photos. Help? But yeah that's exciting.

I'm wrapping presents and eating at home. I have spent my wine/cig money and then some on cyber sales, so I cook at home as much as I can. Bandit's doing great. We miss our friend.

Love,

Smobergirl