I feel Happy Today

I feel happy today.
Even though the fridge in the house I am renting finally broke and I lost over $300 worth of food, I feel happy. In just a few short days I will be moving out of this horrible place and back into my Love Nest.
If you look closely at the picture here you will see the tiny bird. Birdy did not want her picture taken and kept hiding in the branches. I took her photo in negative mode with my camera phone and she clearly showed up.
I am Happy today even while I throw out fresh Alaskan Salmon and Fresh Organic Cream and papaya Popsicles and sprouted organic bread and sweet peas and Organic Cheddar Cheese and Vanilla Ice Cream and sprouted tortillas and Oh so many good and wonderfully Expensive foods.. I am Happy Today.
I dont know the connection between this bird and the loss of food or the Happiness.
But.......I am Happy Today.

Like A Virgin

The point of this post is to show what a women of fifty looks like. Now I know this gal eats good and does yoga to extremes. She has never been a druggie or drinker. So this would be a women of fifty who has taken good care of herself through the years.
But this year she had some obvious work done. Yep she did. I bet she had fat grafting in her cheeks and a moderate face lift.
The first Picture shows her more as she would look in 2008. The tissue under the eyes is starting to appear sunken. The cheeks are starting to slide down the face and lips are smaller. All this is natural aging no matter how well you treat yourself.
For her to stay in the limelight and not suffer insults on her normal aging process she has opted to do a little something about it. The face is always exposed and so ages much faster than the body. Since she has been an exercise fanatic her whole life her body looks great, even with the boob job. But you cant exercise your face. I know they sell lots of contraptions you can use to exercise the face but they don't work as the face just is not set up for exercise!
The problem I have with what she had done is this: Look at some pictures of Marlene Deitrich. She tried to do the same thing and it just did not hold up for long. Madonna is starting to look just like her. The cheeks are just too severe. The old apple head look is starting. Here is a pic of aging Marlene http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1497733120/nm0000017
It must be hard to be in her position where she still wants to rock. Mick Jagger and his crew all look like crap and no one cares because they are guys.

Madonna Plastic Surgery

Friday Food Report

This is the Friday Food Report coming to live from my very own Kitchen.
OK yesterday was a good day for food. I had:
1 Mango
3 Banana's
2 Avocado's
2 Tomato's
1 Apple
handful of chives
handful of mushrooms
kombu seaweed
This is all the live fresh food I ate. This is not juiced. This was eaten in different combo's but mostly I just ate a banana or had a tomato.
Then to round it out I had about 4 cups of black or green tea and then some rice and assorted nuts.
When I asked my little girlfriend how many fresh veggies she had, well sadly she had none. Is that typical for most people? I gotta say yes. Most of us just eat so much fractionated food. Yes pasta is OK but it is not fresh. A sandwich is tasty but also not fresh. Tortilla chips,,,,yum.....salsa.....yum too, but also not fresh.
Have a banana. If you are hungry try some fresh fruit or an avocado. Oh yeah I also had my sprouted bread that I just love so much. I had it with some Miso on it.
When you eat like this you get a very mellow feeling. I think the banana has something to do with that. I am going to try to have 2 or 3 of them everyday and see if they help me sleep better. I had a very easy sleep last night. Could it be from the banana? It also helped with the restless leg syndrome I get in bed. Must be the magnesium.
Anyhoo that is my food report for today.

Back to Snow

After a few days of warmth we are now back to snow.

For me this means no more walks, until it stops snowing. That means more TEA. I am going shopping today for more cream for my tea. I really try to get organic cream when I find it. The only dairy I have with any regularity is the cream in my tea.

I don't eat much cheese anymore. If I go to a party and they have a cheese dish or a cheese tray I will have some. Ice Cream is also something I just don't really want anymore either. My love of ice cream goes way back. My Grandfather (the Spanish one) use to eat a quart a day of ice cream. Whenever we went to go visit him you could always count on having some ice cream as his freezer was full of many different types.

My cholesterol is very low and always has been even in my Dairy Queen days. There was a point when I used to have a hot fudge Sunday once or twice a week. Oh and I really loved a concoction called a Tin Roof. A Tin Roof is like a hot fudge only they put salted peanuts in it. The sweet and salty is a craving of mine!

Those ice cream days are over for me. My taste buds have changed and I just don't really want to eat a bunch of sugar stuff anymore.

Now I really like salty treats. A handful of salty nuts is just fine by me. I want to get a dehydrator so I can sprout and then dehydrate my own. There are lots of places online you can buy these kinds of nuts but seem expensive. I just love the taste of the sprouted dehydrated sunflower seeds.

Baby Carrots

Here is the video I made of my thoughts on the baby carrots. They come packed in these individual bags. They are already cleaned and ready to eat. Very portable and quick food. The thing I am worried about is the packaging. It seems like it is more plastic waste to spew upon the world.

So then I must justify my need for portable carrots against the waste. I could buy some larger bags of baby carrots and put them in Ziploc baggies that I could reuse. But I also like them prepacked so if I want to make a quick salad I just have to rip open a small bag and have what I need.

Then I wonder if it really is more plastic than one big bag of baby carrots. I reuse most of my plastic bags until they stink, so maybe I have some good plastic bag karma on my side. Meaning maybe I can pollute a little more than the average customer.

The whole plastic bag situation is very confusing for me. For most of my adult life I have shopped in health food stores and they have always advocated the three R's. Recycle Reduce Reuse. Here is a little link to that thought:http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/recycle.htm

We usually buy in bulk. That means you bring your bag if you remember! Whatever happened to just using paper bags for everything? Is that Ecologically unsound also?

Me & my Dad in the kitchen

This is a picture I found of me & my Dad in the kitchen. My Dad would never go raw or even consider it! He is a meat and potatoes kind of guy. In general I think eats healthy. He used to have us eat Roman Meal Bread when we were kids because he said it was better for us. None of the other kids ate the brown bread like we did.

My Dad can really pack away the food, I guess that is called a healthy appetite. He likes different types of food but just don't take him to a Sushi place or he will be very unhappy. Just the sight of the raw fish will cause him to get up and leave. I think he might like the Hot Sake if he ever tried it. I just Love Love Love Hot Sake.

He can cook some good dishes and when I was younger he used to make this German dish of ribs, mixed with potatoes and sauerkraut. It was all cooked up together in a pot on the stove and the smell was wonderful.

He does not approve of me eating vegetarian. He thinks you need meat to stay alive. I disagree.