Breakfast: blueberry Greek yogurt
Lunch: grilled chicken with steamed broccoli
Snack: Mango
Dinner: Grilled King salmon with wild grain rice and sautéed asparagus
Dessert: Grenada’s organic dark chocolate
I should have been a nutritionist.
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31May
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31May
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If love were to be handed to us
We would just use it until we are tired.
Obstacles, problems and fighting for love,
Makes love more appreciative.
If we take love for granted,
We would just toy.
Realizations of being worth it,
Brings us so much joy.
If earning is hard,
Why does it feel good in the end?
Receiving it without obstacles,
Lets us know its nothing special. -
30May
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It’s crazy how a few mangled words, can create such a potty mouth. Over the years, lots of individuals have wandered into our apartment, and here is what they’ve said:
magnetic poetry, it's addicting
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28May
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UPDATED 12/6/09
I am a big fan of Etsy, a place to buy and sell hand-made items, but sometimes you stumble across vintage things. Recently, I found a vintage Kodak camera from the late 1940′s, and I thought it was cool. So, I did my research and found a working vintage camera on ebay. Currently, I am bidding on a Vintage Kodak Duaflex IV Camera with a working Kodet Lens. My highest bid is $25, but the bidding doesn’t ends for another 2 days and 22 hours. Sam has assured me that I will get it.
pretty cool, huh?
A great collection of Doisneau’s photographs are the book titled
The photograph below is called“Three Seconds in Heaven.” I love the photo of this kiss so much that I have a poster hanging in my bedroom.
photo by Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau is a French photographer born in the early 1900′s, and he is definitely my favorite. Maybe he used the same Kodak Duaflex camera?
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27May
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I love these words, especially when someone throws away four perfectly good chairs. Trash days comes but once a week, and you would be surprised what people discard. Sam and I have been looking for chairs to put on the back deck as extra seating, and our new neighbors have obviously no imagination. Sometimes objects destined for the landfill just need a little TLC. Total cost of our plastic chair makeover: $15.
What's wrong with a little dirt?
sandy yellow and pale Caribbean blue?
just like new
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26May
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Before we planted our seeds, I did my gardening research. We planted most of our seeds at the end of April, which is normal. Unfortunately, you are not suppose to plant seeds if they are old. Who would have thought seeds have an expiration date, but then again, I guess everything does. Most of our seeds we obtained from the Community Garden organization, all of which were donated probably five to ten years ago. Needless to say, our old seeds did not grow, but the carrots and broccoli seeds that I bought this year are flourishing. In order for our garden to succeed, we needed to cheat a little bit.
I did some more research and found an organic nursery called George’s Market in Latham. They took some of the dirty work out of gardening by growing the seeds for us. So, what’s new on the menu?
chives
eggplant
parsely
green peppers
Arugala and lots of other green lettuces
fennell [Sam thought he was buying dill]We also bought thyme and pineapple sage for our potted herbs on the front stoop. Hopefully, we can make back the $70 we spent on our planted veggies by not having to buy any of them at the grocery store!
Before
After we planted
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25May
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Throughout my life, I’ve always tried to eat healthy, but when I moved out of my parents house nearly four years ago, my immediate thought was “crap…I have to cook?” With that said, I found a fabulous guy who does the cooking for me. Sam is in charge of the grocery shopping too, as I am not a fan of this either. The majority of our shopping cart is fresh produce. Produce that has most likely been sprayed with harmful chemicals and shipped from far ends of the earth. So, what’s a girl to do?
Grow your own.
After a year of being on the waiting list for the Community Garden on Irving/ Myrtle Street, Sam and I will be growing our own FRESH produce. What’s on the the menu for far?
Cherry, yellow, and steak tomatoes
Spinach
Red and green lettuce
Sweet Basil
Beets
Green Onion and garlic
Yellow carrotsWe inherited a poppy flower plant, an iris, and few unidentifiable herbs. I also planted a bunch of sunflowers seeds. Fortunately, the organization provides us with donated tools and mulch, so our investment was only a $20 donation. Oh, yeah and everything in the garden has to be organic and natural.
red poppy flower
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12May
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In the four years that I’ve known Sam Critton, I’ve rarely seen him hold a vacuum. Even when Sam lived as a bachelor, I’m pretty sure I was vacuuming both his dust bunnies and mine. After Sam did his research, we purchased a Miele, a neat freaks dream. Today, we upgraded from this:
To this, a German creation and a perfect marriage of form and function:
a top of the line vacuum
two hours later and Sam is still vacuuming
If only I could get him to make the bed.
