Day 4: “It’s Not About Competition, It’s About Completion”

My heading is true in so many ways.  Why is it true this time?  Because there is almost no competition left!  Okay, there are some hardcore awesome people still in the game (Rachel, Hank, Monique, Paul and ME), but we lost a few more today (Stephanie, Mark, Geneva, Remi and Andrew).  Wow.  I never thought I would make it to the fifth day (20 more minutes), but I have.  I have never gotten this far in any of the challenges, yet!  However, if I wasn’t so busy, I might have failed already. Thank goodness for work, all the appointments, and everything else that has gotten in the way of my boredom.

I’m not going to list my meals, because honestly, today I didn’t have time to actually prepare anything, so here is what I ate: half a cantaloupe (yep, I said half), huckleberry smoothie (same as yesterday), a carrot (thanks to G Rachel at the Fresh movie), and an apple.  Yeah, I suck at eating.  Tomorrow I’m going to actually make something.

I can’t wait till it hits midnight tomorrow night!

Locavore 7vs7 Challenge: Day 3 and I’m still in it!

I had a very busy day today, so I didn’t eat as much as I would have liked to, but I did make myself dinner tonight.  In fact, I’m still trying to eat it and it’s creeping up on the 22nd hour of the day..too late to be eating dinner.

I was able to stop by the Farmers Market today for about 10 minutes and pick up a variety of squash, cantaloupe, and some watermelon-looking fruit from Elithorp Farm and Nursery (Deer Park, WA). 

Breakfast: Peach

Snack: Apple

Mid afternoon lunch: Emmer cereal with some whole milk and honey.

Went work and came home with three ziploc bags of frozen huckleberries!  Yum!  My coworker picked them in the Priest River area.

Because I have these awesome huckleberries now, I had to make myself a smoothie!

Made from huckleberries, milk (I’m trying to love you right now), and honey (although it didn’t really need any honey).

Dinner I had this:

Same as Mondays dinner (wheat berries, tomatoes, bell peppers, garlic AND onion..I semi-forgot the onion on Monday..from Eleven Acres), with dried roasted potatoes and garlic.  I got a little impatient with the potatoes and knew they were going to suck.  That’s the reason they are in the background being blurry.  I don’t know what to do with the wheat berries, still.  I’m trying to figure it out.

But anyway, I’M STILL IN IT!  Hands down favorite to be the next person to crash out?!  I haven’t yet Spokane Food Blog!  But other people have…Bart and Crystal…who knew (Bart? Obviously. Crystal? Didn’t see it coming).

Now that people are falling, I can’t wait to see who comes crashing down tomorrow…

Ahh yes, another one!

August 31st – September 4th.

Stay Tuned!

Promession

Promession: “an ecologically-conscious method for disposing of human remains by freeze drying. It was invented and patented in 1999 by the Swedish biologist Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak.”

The body is frozen using liquid nitrogen. Then the body shatters into a powder and is shallowly buried inside a small biodegradable starch coffin. Within 6-12 months, the body is composted.

So, when I die, promessionize me (I just made that word up). Grow a tree on top of me to humor me. I think this whole natural burial thing is a lot cooler than being buried in a coffin and wasting land, and/or being cremated and polluting our fine air. So, there you go..I just told my parents about it too so if it doesn’t happen, yell at them for me, please.

Note: I just realized this sounds a little suicidal, but have no fear, I have at LEAST 78 years ahead of me…goodness.

Day 3…

It looks like the day has come.  I hate to be the first to let everyone know that I’m out..but it’s true, I’m out.  I’m not the first to go.  I didn’t go out by myself.  I’m going to wait till they admit it themselves to tell you how it went down.  My arch nemesis had nothing to do with this, but it was definitely peer pressure (and by peer pressure I mean: 3 text messages, 1 missed phone call, 1 voicemail, and a few emails…all from the same person).

Anyway, here’s what I ate:

Breakfast: Apple

Snack: Banana

Lunch: Leftover stuffed pepper, orange

Dinner: ???

Dessert: ???

Anyway, my blood sugar levels spiked, and my body is not agreeing with me. I am, however, extremely excited to have a coffee tomorrow!  Good luck to everyone who is still on it…I know at least two of you will go all the way!

Day 2 and I already have an Arch Nemesis!

Yes, you heard me right. I already have an arch nemesis. And to make it worse, he is my own flesh and blood. This evil evil man, you might ask, is my father!

It all started last night when I heard from the kitchen, “what’s with all this squirrel food” (he was referring to my pistachios, sunflower seeds, cashews, rice, and beans)? Now, this might not sound like an insult, but you have to understand that my dad and squirrels do not mix. It was actually quite offensive of him to say that.

Flashback:

About a year ago, a squirrel found itself in our house. My dad comes home from lunch, and finds this squirrel in the house, and tries to get it out. Instead of getting it out, however, it attacks him. Here is a visual reenactment:

Today, he told me that if I was going to eat non-processed foods for a week, that he was going to eat all processed foods for a week (and then proceeded to the kitchen where he opened up a bag of chips and stuck a Krispy Kreme donut into the microwave). Tonight, he thought it would be funny to eat chocolate-covered pretzels in front of my face:

and pretended to barf on my awesome stuffed peppers I made for dinner:

This…is what I have to live with. This also gives me an incentive to beat the crap out of this competition (also, because I’m on everyone’s Loser lists, thanks Geneva and Remi)!

So here we go! Day 2, I had:

* Breakfast/Lunch: Scrambled (cage free, grain fed, organic) eggs with onion, apple

*Snacks: Cashews, pistachios, banana

*Dinner: Stuffed green pepper made with brown rice, tomatoes, garlic, and onions

It was delicious! A little on the al dente side, but still good. I ate one tonight and am saving the other one for lunch tomorrow.

Tomorrow…that’s going to be interesting. One thing I know about librarians is that they love their food: cooking it, baking it, sharing it, and eating it! I’m going to be surrounded by temptations! We’ll see how it goes…

Because I’m Crazy

I’m doing another Food Challenge! However, this challenge is different than the first one (7vs7). On Sunday, the 7vs7 crew (Bart, Paul, Mariah, Remi, Geneva, Mark, Andrew, Myself) and a few new ones (Mark G. and Jordy) will only eat non-processed foods for 7 days straight! That means nothing packaged, canned, bottled, pickled, etc. Awesome.

On Sunday, I will begin my adventures in the non-processed food world. But for now, check out Spokane Food Blog and the rest of the blogs for any new updates!

Big Things…

No, no..not big things…Big Things. And yes, there is a difference. What are Big Things? Big Things are all over the world, I’m sure…but there is one country/continent that has an abundance of Big Things..and that is Australia. Just look… they have a Big Koala, Big Peanut, Big Prawn, Big Ned Kelly, a Big Banana, and a Big Rock! Yes, a Big ROCK!

This is what a Big Rock looks like:

My favorite Big Thing that I have seen on the internet (in Australia) is this:

How awesome is that?! A Big Freakin’ Pineapple.

Anyway, the Big Things are not some new thing (or Thing, whatever). I have always wanted to see the Big Dinosaurs from Pee Wee Herman’s Big Adventure ever since I was a lil’ one..

(although I’m a little sad it went all Religious on us)

Also, there are few more Big Things in the United States:

(only picture I could find of the Big Ball of Yarn…)

And most importantly….the Big Thing that is basically in our backyard:

Anyway, that’s my new goal in life…to find a bunch of Big Things (especially in Australia) and to take a picture of with them like the tourist that I am (peace sign and all)…not very original, but I don’t care. I need something to take my mind off the fact that I will never find those sugar packets with the Monuments on them ever again (please tell me somebody remembers them).

Also, I would like to go on a search for unusual statues, such as this one:

But that’s a completely different post…

I’m bad at updating.

I’m not very good at updating this.  Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my awesomeness and really don’t have anything to say.  Sometimes I’m too busy working two part-time jobs, taking online classes, babysitting, housesitting and sleeping to update.  Anyway, this is going to be a brief and a not awesome post…unawesome?…which reminds me.  Last April, I taught a kindergarten class.  If you know me, I try to avoid teaching kindergartners because 1. I hate tattletalers, 2. I hate when people are not self-sufficient and 3. I have no classroom management when it comes to five year olds.  That being said, I had a student tattle tale on another student by saying, “Mrs. H (apparently I’m married and my last name is too hard to say), he called me NOT AWESOME!”  I tried not to laugh…and I didn’t…I proceeded to say in a teacher-like voice “oh..but we are all awesome!”  Anyway, this has nothing to do with my original post.

What I originally was going to say is that I need to start reading young adult books, since you know, I want to be a high school librarian and all.  I found a list of books here that I will try to read in alphabetical order (unless it is a series).  Here is the list: http://www.teenreads.com/features/ultimate-reading-list.asp

On that list is James Patterson.  Now, if you know me you know how I feel about this.  It’s going to be hard, and I’m going to suffer, but I will get through it.  Nicholas Sparks is on that list too.  And Mitch Albom. BUT there are a few good books on there as well, such as Flowers For Algernon, Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar, etc.  So, we’ll see how that goes.  Anyone want to recommend me young adult books to read?

Technology Freaks Me Out

This is so freaky! You buy a t-shirt that has your very own logo.  You then, somehow, add your websites such as facebook and myspace to your logo.  You then download an application on your camera phone and when you see someone wearing a W-41 t-shirt, you can take a picture of their logo, which will then link you to their myspace, facebook, or whatever else they decide to put on their logo. THEN, you can stalk them, message them, etc.  I still don’t think I fully understand this.  What happened to, ya know, just talking to someone?  I personally like to know someone’s name before I start messaging them on facebook or myspace.  I don’t know.  I thought this is what 1984 warned us about.  But people are choosing to do this to themselves.  Soon, will have scanners in our wrists or our brains and everyone will know all our personal information the second we walk into a door, so why not just do it to ourselves, right?  Make sure everyone can find me on the internets.  I would love getting myspace and facebook messages from random dudes who are looking at my back.  Yes.  Yes, I would.  I also love attention…

In other completely unrelated news, I just watched the movie, “Iron Jawed Angels” and if you are female you need to watch this.  All women should understand the suffering that women went through in order for us to have the right to vote.  These women were almost beaten to death in prison. They were fed disgusting food with worms. One of the leaders, Alice Paul, was force fed because she refused to eat while in prison.  President Wilson tried to accuse her of being insane, and had a psychiatrist try to diagnose her as insane (so she can be permanently locked up in a mental institution).  The psychiatrist knew she wasn’t and said, “courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.”  Anyway, all women should watch this movie.  If not, you should vote.  Duh.