Soy Sausage...

I like to call it eating well. If I say it's a diet it won't be sustainable {or healthy} and I'll get all grumpy inside - two things that completely defeat the purpose of a diet. I've been eating well lately and for the most part it's been a pretty easy ride. I drink lots of water, eat more things that are green, and add protein powder to my fruit smoothies. Easy. But I got a little ballsy a few weeks ago and thought it might be nice to mix up my morning routine with some extra protein. I bought the soy sausage thinking it would be a nice gesture and an apology of sorts to Colton for no longer keeping ice cream, chocolate, or 2% milk in the house. What I didn't realize is that for the next week the log of ground sausage style veggie protein {ewww!} would haunt me every time I opened the refrigerator door. While I thought I was being creative it turns out I was only being optimistically naive. I have no business trying to mess with the world of soy protein masquerading as meat.

If anyone has any suggestions as to what I'm supposed to do with this stuff, I'll gladly take them all. I would have thrown the entire lot of it out had Colton not insisted we use it for breakfast yesterday. I'm learning...but I'm also taking baby steps.

Happy Monday,

Michelle

{P.S. I just bought Skinny Cows. I think they'll be a better compromise than soy sausage. They even come with a name that's motivating!}

My Daily Struggles :: Life

I really, really just don't think I can do it. Here we are, the first day of the second month of the year, and I've yet to actually put pen to paper. Sadly it's something I do quite often. I buy pretty, shiny, wonderful new things and refuse to de-tag them for fear of making them any less shiny, pretty, or wonderful. At the end of last year I found the most fabulous 2011 daily planner. Made from brown bonded leather and thick ivory paper, her pages were bordered in gold plating and the index included a beautiful display of world maps. Essentially she's an exact replica of my bible in calendar form. But for the life of me I cannot bring myself to write on her pages. For one, I'm type of person completely incapable of writing in pencil. What may look nice in a charcoal shade of gray always, without fail, looks pathetic once the side of my hand insists upon smearing the lead footprint across the entire page length - and the next. But using pen presents a challenge of its own in that everything I write is, well, written in ink. Forever.

So today I face a fiery battle. My spring + summer schedules are filling up at a daily rate and yet the universe seems to be begging me not to ruin the gold plated leather book that is my planner. What do I do, friends?! The conflict raging in my mind is unbearable yet I fear that if I don't start writing my 2011 appointments down now I'll be setting a precedent that can never be broken.

Seriously, people. My life? It's SO HARD!

Help...

Michelle

The Good Fortune :: Life

Colton and I went out for sushi tonight and celebrated the end of our dinner per usual, with fortune cookies. My fortune was completely unoriginal and promised something like a lifetime of talent and lots of babies - two things I find hard to believe. Colton's fortune, however, read as follows;

I'm infuriated by the fact that I didn't choose the other cookie and I'll, for obvious reasons, be pre-screening future fortunes.

Happy Wednesday,

Michelle