Hello everyone! Have you ever wanted to make a “free” facial scrub, body exfoliant, or better yet, make your own knock-off of a Starbucks pumpkin spice latte?!?!?
Over the past 3 days I’ve become a master mixologist – in my own kitchen!
To make a yummy smelling body scrub:
* Combine old coffee grounds with equal parts EVOO [...]
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Good morning! Can you believe it’s the last day in August?!?!? I know, I know, August ALWAYS seems to fly by but this year it seemed to go by faster than usual.
Yesterday I started my day with an iced coffee and a juice…How gorgeousis this!??!? I used swiss chard (which is both has very green [...]
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(Sang to the tune of U2’s “Get on your boots”)… Does anyone else have that song stuck in their head!?! Guess not… anyhoo, Mike and I are going to see them LIVE IN CONCERT in 2 weeks so we downloaded their new stuff. I’m so excited to see this concert!!
So here’s that juice I spoke of… kale, [...]
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I’m sitting here watching the funeral for Senator Kennedy and I’m feeling far more emotional than I expected to.
As we all know, Kennedy spent his life championing for advances in education, civil rights, health care, welfare, raising the minimum wage, mental health parity, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and others. Above all, he was [...]
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Hi there! This morning I woke up again at 6am, despite the fact that it is my vacation day… my third to last of these!! To wake myself up, I enjoyed a lovely cup of iced coffee along with a couple of these:
But instead of lime custard (which is long gone), I topped it with some soy-free [...]
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Good morning!
So going back to Thursday…. it was my first day of my “prepare my internal clock for back-to-work early wake-ups”. So, after sleepily dragging myself out of bed at 6am, I made some iced coffee. We have been Lazy Instant Coffee People for the past few months since we have a hot water dispenser [...]
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Hi friends!
I’m just starting to realize…. how very CLOSE it is getting to the 2009 Chicago Marathon!!! It’s less than 6 weeks away, which is hard to believe.
I started this blog for many reasons (to have fun, to further delve into my passion for cooking, to meet like-minded people) – but one of my main [...]
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Good morning everyone! Here’s my recap from yesterday:
After a delicious juice (unpictured), I tried some of my banana chips that I had put into my Excalibur dehydrator on Sunday evening. They weren’t bad… but I think they needed to stay in there even longer! When I was little my Grandma used to send us homemade [...]
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A sneak peak:
Hello everyone! It’s a beautiful rainy day in the neighborhood here in Chicago. At least it cooperated yesterday for my long run and Movies in the Park last night
I’m toying with the habit of posting the day after instead of the night of….. I think once I’m back at work this [...]
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Good morning everyone!
I owe you an apology for the sloppy layout of today’s post, and the fact that the pictures are out of order. But, they are still amazing pictures and I would love to share them with you all – so I encourage you to continue reading regardless!
Our home laptop is giving me grief [...]
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I'm a school social worker who is also a newlywed (and had a Big Fat Greek Wedding, no less!) living in Chicago. I am starting this blog to talk about the training process I will go through to prepare for the Chicago Marathon, while also raising awareness for Ceasefire, a Chicago anti-violence program.
