Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been?

I know, I've been quiet. After the relentless 'pressure' of posting daily photos last month, I've allowed myself a little rest from the blog. I've also decided to start doing this...

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I've started practicing almost daily yoga, or have been hiking through the park. I've doubled my water intake, forced myself to actually EAT an apple a day and have been getting some ruddy work done. Finally!

I have also started drinking this wonderful juice.

One of the mums at school makes juice. Each day, after dropping Poppet off at school, I wander up the road to Vicki's house, grab my jar from the cooler (esky) on her porch and toddle off home to do my yoga. Juice is a wonderful thing, but who can be bothered with all the mess and nonsense?! Thankfully Vicki can, and I'm more than happy to pay her to do it for me. Fresh juice daily. I have mine for 'afternoon tea' which forces me to NOT snack on carby rubbish and makes me feel like I'm actually doing some healthy for my body.

Today's Green Goodness features Organic Collard Greens, Organic Sunflower Sprouts, Mango, Pineapple

and Filtered Water. And it's actually delicious!

The current health kick inspired me to make this for lunch today...

 

Although, tonight we're heading out for cocktails and tapas. It was my birthday this week after all. Health be damned!

Feb Photo A Day - Day 29 "something you're listening to"

 

The last two pics have been a challenge. Yesterday's topic was 'money' and I obviously wasn't remotely motivated to complete it. Today's topic sees me repeating a pic from Day 7.

My Ipod plays a very big role in my daily life. Working from home, it would be a very boring day without it. Ipod also accompanies me on my (almost) daily walks. For the walks, I listen to music but during the day, I choose either audiobooks or podcasts. I have a membership with Audible.com and get a book per month but can always purchase more if I want to. I find this to be an incredibly good investment. I can't think of a single book on my list (mostly fantasy novels, but also lots of autobiographies and the classics) which I haven't listened to at least twice. And when insomnia strikes (many times a week) I put myself back to sleep listening to Mr Fry's wonderful rendition of the Harry Potter novels. Very restful and preferable to Temazepam...

And then there's the podcasts. You're best bet for a good variety of listening (which you can listen to via your computer, you don't need to download them) is the BBC.  There's a heap of them to choose from, but I particularly like Desert Island Discs and Kermode and Mayo's Film Review (and the kids' stuff is good too). Aussie Dr Karl's science show is also available online and you can google any topic you like, most likely a podcast will turn up. Craftypod is another favourite of mine...

I'm going to skip the March photos as I have a tonne of work to do. Just finishing up an enormous wholesale order and then I will get onto opening up the Etsy store and doing a giveaway on the blog. Over 20000 hits on the blog calls for a celebration. No?

 

Feb Photo A Day - Day 27 "something you ate"

Last night saw the return of the homemade pizza to our house. I haven't made the dough since we moved. Thankfully, I haven't lost my 'knack' so I'll share the recipe with y'all one of these days...

Feb Photo A Day - Day 26 "night"

I'm re-visiting this photo from December. I love the look of wonder on my daughter's face as she watches people ice skating for the first time...

Feb Photo A Day - Day 25 "green"

This one is more about being green. Green with envy that I never had a Wonder Woman costume as cool as this. I think I had a showbag once...

 

Here's to living vicariously through ones' children.