Goodbye, Facebook.

Well. I did it. I deleted my Facebook account. Technically its still there for the next 14 days because they are assholes but, for all intents and purposes, it is done.

I cannot wait until someone asks me if I am on Facebook and I can say "No! I'm not!" *yay*

Wanna do it too?

*I find that I do have a slightly inflated sense of superiority now. And I haven't "lol'ed" in days. :-P

How does "Sundays W/ Sara" sound for a weekly feature title?

Week in review... nothing too terribly exciting to report
in my world.

A wedding dress was obtained this weekend and that is good news. Not for me... for my pal Heather. She is getting hitched in October and I am in the Bridal Party... which means that I need a dress in 9 months, which means I have to lose 3568871235 pounds before then. OK, maybe more like 15 - 20... This is the only picture I have to post. The others are not allowed because they include the dress in question and husband-to-be doesn't want to ever risk seeing it before the big day, so here is a picture of me taken by a 3 year old.

The boy has grown an inch in the past month I swear. Every time he wakes up from a nap he looks taller and seems smarter. I still struggle to get a "please". We'll ask him to say please when he wants something, but he will respond with "No Please." *sigh*  He is starting to look a little more like me too... so he is getting even more cute, if you can imagine that being possible.

Sorry, Its a Cell Pic. Our camera TOTALLY died hardcore. So we are in the market for a new one...






Gasparilla was this weekend and I cannot express how freaking awful it was. All I did was drop husband off and pick him up again. More than 1 hour in traffic to move less than 3 miles. I will never be putting myself through that horse-pucky again unless I have a bicycle handy to avoid the $25 parking/anal rapage fee. Beau got pretty ill too... Migraine and general ickyness.

Let see, what else...

I can see this is going to be an exercise in making my memory work better. I can't remember much else other than the brief bout of food poisoning I suffered on Friday and a little mildly cool weather.

I can also see that I am going to be using ellipsis... ellipsises... elipsi... dot-dot-dot quite a bit. Good times.


2 more days till I quit the Facebook habit. wewt.

CauliBacoMushLee

So I was experimenting in the kitchen last night for the Baked Too, Oh! projects for Baked.

We are working on a line of meal replacement muffins. They will be high in protein, low in calories and fat and made from wholesome vegetables, gluten free flours and delicious healthy fats. Real, natural ingredients; nothing artificial or processed.

My first contribution to this experiment is the Cauliflower Mushroom Bacon Leek protein muffin, or the CauliBacoMushLee Muffin. Its a mouthful in more ways than one...

141 calories. 19g fat. 12g carbohydrates. 6g protein.

It needs a bit of tweaking to get the fat and carbs down and the protein up, but its a yummy start. No, you can't have the recipe. :-)

Happy New Year!

Our Holiday Family Photo

Happy 2012. The last year on Earth... OK, I don't actually believe that, but its kinda fun to say. Referring to the madness in jest just *feels* right.

Anyhoo. So this Blog (with as few as it reaches) is morphing into a personal blog about my family, myself, my friends, my food... in general, my little life. I am cutting the Facebook umbilical cord and endeavoring to live a life free from Social Networking sites, to build real relationships with real people and do it in the real world. Not that I begrudge anyone their addictions, but this is one I just can't do anymore. I'm saving all the old pictures that I don't have copies of any where else and deleting them. This takes a surprisingly long time. By the end of January my FB account will be no more.

And with my new found freedom I find myself reading more ACTUAL articles about ACTUAL things... boy am I out of the loop. On Natural News I read this article about making it illegal to collect rainwater for personal use... which is pretty fucking ridiculous if you ask me... dirty, lying, greedy bastards. I hate politicians. Things like this are why I am an angry little anarchist.

And this one is just fun and a little gross. With interesting, though slightly incorrect fun facts like:

"Confectioner's glaze" -- a common coating on candies and pills -- is made from the bodily excretions of an Asian beetle.

which isn't entirely true; its not a beetle... its a "scale insect". Its a fun way to make yourself think twice about what you put in your mouth and how potentially disgusting may be. Some of it is lovely things that make you feel good too but beware the in between.

So... since early 2011, I have been casually attempting to live a sort of Primal/Paleo lifestyle... and have been failing miserably. It wasn't bad until November/December... naturally. I had lost about 15 pounds over the course of 5 or 6 months and in 2 months gained 10 of it back. The first week of January we were in Orlando on a mini vacation courtesy of my wonderful mother-in-law and the second week of January I was so very, very sick. I haven't much felt like blogging or putting a lot of effort into eating properly. Now we are in the Third week of January and I finally feel ready to really give this year the old college try.

Speaking of which, I am *trying* to go back to school. I have had some hiccups along the way, some very annoying, almost defeating hiccups, but I am working through the frustration. I am not having any luck at all trying to find a job, so school is my last hope. Its incredibly stupid how hard it is for a SAHM to return to the working world... you're over qualified, under qualified or you're schedule doesn't jive. People don't respect your old talents or your new ones, nor do they want the trouble of someone with kids. Its a bleak way to start a year. I am half hoping this is "the end"; aliens returning or cataclysms... anything has got to be better than this world as we know it.

But that isn't a very sunny disposition, is it now? So... This year I will try my best to:

1. Eat real, whole food and have the will power to say "No" to the junk.
2. Get my ass gainfully employed or back into school.
3. Stop being such a bitter, angry bitch.

These are not resolutions... no one ever keeps up with those. I need to be a better person, and these are the short term goals I need to reach in order to do that... I think. We'll see how it goes.

~SR~