Showing posts with label green smoothie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label green smoothie. Show all posts

Saturday, June 23, 2012

magic bullet, why you not so magic today?

when we woke up this morning, i decided to take the boys out for an early walk because we didn't get out last night (it was still 90' when we went to bed. boo), so the temp had dropped to 83 by the time we were ready to go. there was only one other person on the trail, so it was a great walk-apart from the beginnings of sweat beads. and then we ran into jessica on our way toward the office, so we went ahead and stopped in to chit chat.

while i was there, i grabbed one of these, because things just haven't been the same without mandy and shannon.
my opinion counts!
komo and jessica are great, but it just isn't the same. i was thinking that as i drove by to get my mail just the other day...and you can just feel a difference in the personality when you walk in. well, we left the office and as we were walking past the pool, i looked down and saw what looked like an egg or a marble or perhaps a large bead...
when i picked it up, it was a fruit or seed from a tree-the size of an eyeball...weird, but very cool-looking!
when i got home, i threw all of my ingredients into my magic bullet, and pushed down to turn it on, but there was no response. hmm..maybe the plug. i replugged it. nope. reset. nope. so i threw the ingredients into the blender (which was fine, but it just didn't blend as well). so i called the customer service # and they said to cut the cord and throw it away, and they would send out a new base-3 to 5 days...so i have to use the blender until then.
i use it daily-every morning, this is my breakfast.
so i decided to pull it apart and see if there was anything keeping it from starting...perhaps kink in the wires...i don't know, but i took it apart...most people would just throw it away, but i am not most people. funny, i never really considered myself one of those look at everything tinker people, but i hate to just throw away and waste things. boo.

then after i had a really good tasting (albeit not-so-smooth) un-smoothie, i sat it down on the foot rest and accidentally bumped it over-all over the carpet. i had only gotten about 1/3 into my belly...grr. what a mess. i'm going to have to break out the steam cleaner for this one.

i think i might still have some nerve problems because there is still a bit of discomfort..hopefully we can get some good news when i go in to the doctor this week. it's GOT to get better than this.

oh, and that sprinkles cupcake i was going to treat myself to...i forgot all about it. but that's probably ok.
julie

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

good thing the screw in my knee was plastic!

so, when i went in on monday to have the mri on my back, i kept hoping that the screw they put in my knee when i had the first acl surgery was plastic...a scene from ncis was playing through my head of a dead man in the mri and something under his skin started moving and a needle that had broken of in his skin flew out of his neck and stuck into the mri machine! bad scene to have playing...

so i lay there motionless with the headphones on (i don't know what purpose they served because i couldn't hear a thing that was playing), and the machine kicked in with some sharp pounding noises-sounded like i was in the middle of a construction zone wit jack hammers around my head. then it switched to a strange mating call of some sort of goose. from there, some more jack hammers and then it went into a techno-tronic beat...strange. the best part was that the screw in my knee must be plastic!

then yesterday i started a steroid pack...i think it started to kick in today because today wasn't so much painful as it was simply discomfort. progress.

today i decided on salad for lunch, and made a dressing that i really loved!

2 Tbs oil
1 Tbs apple cider vinegar
a pinch of dill
a few shakes of crushed red pepper
1 tsp sesame seeds
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 Tbs dijonaise
1 tsp truvia

shake it all up and love it! the dijonaise has about 5 calories, no worries.

one more day of staar testing. boo. good luck fifth graders! good luck me. today i was so going to take my bathroom break and take some nail clippers with me to the bathroom to clip my nails because i forgot to this morning...i looked through every pocket in my purse and i couldn't find one set of clippers-i usually have two! grr. so i just went ahead and did what everyone else does...business.

oh, and i have been enjoying my green morning smoothies...this morning i tried a little peach, some banana with grapes, kale and red chard-one of the better ones so far...it's what's for breakfast these days.

good day-
julie