for all of you health nuts here is a delightfully delicious and nutritious smoothie to start your day off right, we all know by now that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I pair this with a piece of Cobb's new "chia" bread and I'm good to go for hours.
1/2 cup soy milk
1/4 cup OJ
1/4 cup water
1/2 banana
1/2 cup blueberries
1/4 cup cranberries
1/2 cup spinach
2 tbsp wheat germ
2 tbsp hemp protein
you can pretty much add anything that you need to use up in your fridge, 1/2 an avocado is a good substitute for the banana or a tomato can be thrown in there.. It might not be as tasty (sugary) as Jugo Juice but it is full of protein and fibre. YUMMY.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
solicited product endorsement
Since I am now working with this incredible woman I cannot call it unsolicited as I have in the past. I love sharing with people the things that I love by way of blogging and she has come up more than a few times over the years on my blog. I have been a HUGE supporter of Jari Love since before her DVDs existed. I believe in everything she stands for and her workouts really do work. I've been doing behind the scenes work for Jari for a few months now and keep getting more and more opportunities to work for her. She really is as amazing in person as she sounds on her DVDs!
Watch this trailor. It is Jari's latest Bootcamp DVD that has just been released. All you need are your weights and a mat and you get a FULL and super fun workout at home.
Watch this trailor. It is Jari's latest Bootcamp DVD that has just been released. All you need are your weights and a mat and you get a FULL and super fun workout at home.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Animal Love
When my family traveled to Kenya this July one of our first stops was to an elephant orphanage - The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. It was a heart warming experience to see infant and adolescent elephants run to their keepers during feeding time, which is what the public can come and experience. These elephants have been rescued from situations from poaching (of their mama's) to getting stuck in the sand. Obviously, rescuing an elephant and flying it to safety is no small feat so this is a huge operation, but so worthwhile.
Soon after we returned from Kenya I thought that fostering an elephant would be a nice Christmas present for my family. I spent one evening carefully choosing which one seemed to suit us Corbett's. I ended up choosing Wasin, the youngest who was only three months old. We received (via email to save cost) updates about Wasin, pictures, journal entries by her keeper, who she bonds with and who literally sleeps in a bed beside her at night, as elephants crave and thrive off of love. It was lovely.
Yesterday I received the email below from the Trust and although it is very sad that little Wasin died, it is the circle of life, and it is comforting for everyone to know that she had such a wonderful life full of human and elephant love while it lasted and that there is an organization dedicated to such a worthwhile cause.
Dear Corbett Family,
It is with deep regret that I have to write about the very sad passing of baby Wasin. Over the years we have accepted the hard way that baby elephants can be fine one day, and dead the next and the sudden and unexpected death of precious baby “Wasin” on the morning of 8th January 2011 was a painful reminder of just that! We will automatically be making a transfer of your fostering of Wasin to her stable mate and dear friend Mutara, but should any one have a different preference of who you would like to foster in Wasin's memory please let us know and we will be happy to make the adjustments.
Wasin had never been a robust baby, and maybe this was because being so young when she came in she may not have had adequate amounts of her mother's colostrum, we will never know, but certainly she never really thrived in our care. Over the many years that we have been rearing the orphaned elephants, several have come in with heart defects which became more apparent with age, others have succumbed to blood embolisms having been confined down wells, and one was born with just one lung which could not provide sufficient oxygen once she was older. We therefore have to accept that perhaps some orphans are abandoned because they are not sufficiently robust to keep up with the herd – Nature’s way of natural selection to ensure that wild genes are strong – but that said, losing a loved one, irrespective of why, never gets any easier.
Wasin was deeply loved and will be deeply missed by us all, as well as her many foster-parents, whose hearts she stole during her short life. She had been with us for the past 2 ½ months and was apparently fine the day previous to her death. But, she unexpectedly took a turn for the worse during the early hours of January 8th 2011 and died later that day at 3.00pm, passing small blood clots indicative of severe gastro enteritis. She had weathered a long struggle cutting her first molars, which always cause baby elephants difficulty, and which obviously compromised her immune system. She was simply not sufficiently robust to come through that, despite a couple of courses of antibiotics, but she died surrounded by an outpouring of love and grief. Rest in Peace precious little Wasin, Somewhere in the Great Somewhere.
These are my shots from our time at the orphanage.
Yesterday I received the email below from the Trust and although it is very sad that little Wasin died, it is the circle of life, and it is comforting for everyone to know that she had such a wonderful life full of human and elephant love while it lasted and that there is an organization dedicated to such a worthwhile cause.
Dear Corbett Family,
It is with deep regret that I have to write about the very sad passing of baby Wasin. Over the years we have accepted the hard way that baby elephants can be fine one day, and dead the next and the sudden and unexpected death of precious baby “Wasin” on the morning of 8th January 2011 was a painful reminder of just that! We will automatically be making a transfer of your fostering of Wasin to her stable mate and dear friend Mutara, but should any one have a different preference of who you would like to foster in Wasin's memory please let us know and we will be happy to make the adjustments.
Wasin had never been a robust baby, and maybe this was because being so young when she came in she may not have had adequate amounts of her mother's colostrum, we will never know, but certainly she never really thrived in our care. Over the many years that we have been rearing the orphaned elephants, several have come in with heart defects which became more apparent with age, others have succumbed to blood embolisms having been confined down wells, and one was born with just one lung which could not provide sufficient oxygen once she was older. We therefore have to accept that perhaps some orphans are abandoned because they are not sufficiently robust to keep up with the herd – Nature’s way of natural selection to ensure that wild genes are strong – but that said, losing a loved one, irrespective of why, never gets any easier.
Wasin was deeply loved and will be deeply missed by us all, as well as her many foster-parents, whose hearts she stole during her short life. She had been with us for the past 2 ½ months and was apparently fine the day previous to her death. But, she unexpectedly took a turn for the worse during the early hours of January 8th 2011 and died later that day at 3.00pm, passing small blood clots indicative of severe gastro enteritis. She had weathered a long struggle cutting her first molars, which always cause baby elephants difficulty, and which obviously compromised her immune system. She was simply not sufficiently robust to come through that, despite a couple of courses of antibiotics, but she died surrounded by an outpouring of love and grief. Rest in Peace precious little Wasin, Somewhere in the Great Somewhere.
These are pictures of our new little orphan baby Mutara.
Monday, January 10, 2011
music, sweet music
One of the best parts about being a student is the procrastination that comes with. I feel like I have the perfect blend of getting school work done and getting other things done like sweeping the floor (moving the couches, coffee table, etc. included), cleaning the fishy's home, spending hours on the phone catching up with friends, and this weekends clincher - a new exercise playlist! I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE music more than anything, anything, anything and absolutely cannot stand working out without it. I would rather not run than hear my breathing or my feet hit the pavement (so weird I know but seriously, I cannot stand it). Anyways, I have been 'making do' with a play list I've had since before my travels this summer so I decided what better way to put off that paper about autism and invest a bit in iTunes? So, to all of you who are working hard at not quitting your new years resolutions here is a mix of old and new with my updated "pump me up!" playlist...
p.s don't make fun of my lame songs, for some unknown reason when Tim McGraw's "My Old Friend" comes on and I'm running or what have you I never switch it.. Such an odd choice.
p.p.s my paper is completed and handed in.
p.s don't make fun of my lame songs, for some unknown reason when Tim McGraw's "My Old Friend" comes on and I'm running or what have you I never switch it.. Such an odd choice.
p.p.s my paper is completed and handed in.
- Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment
- Amy Winehouse - Valerie
- Ataris - The Boys of Summer
- Black Eyed Peas - The Time
- Britney Spears - Womanizer
- Bruno Mars - Marry You
- Chris Brown - Forever
- Coldplay - Yellow
- Coldplay - Viva La Vida
- Coldplay - Life in Technicolor ii
- Coldplay - A Message
- David Cook - I'm Alive
- Eminem - Love the Way You Lie
- Feist - Mushaboom
- Feist - 1234
- Flo Rida - Club Can't Handle Me
- Florence + the Machine - Dog Days Are Over
- Foo Fighters - Best of You
- Goldfinger - Superman
- Goo Goo Dolls - Better Days
- Good Charlotte - I Don't Want to be in Love
- Hot Hot Heat - Goodnight Goodnight
- Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
- Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life
- Jay-Z - Can I Get a...
- Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind
- Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
- Joel Plaskett Emergency - Nowhere With You
- Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
- K-naan - Wavin' Flag
- K-naan - Take a Minute
- Kanye - Heartless
- Katy Perry - California Gurls
- Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
- Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
- Katy Perry - Firework
- The Killers - Human
- The Killers - Mr. Brightside
- The Killers - Sweet Talk
- Kings of Leon - Fans
- Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
- Lady Gaga - Poker Face
- Lil Wayne - Let it Rock
- MGMT - Time to Pretend
- Michael Buble - Haven't Met You Yet
- Miike Snow - Animal
- Miike Snow - Burial
- Miike Snow - Silvia
- Mika - Relax
- Modest Mouse - Float On
- Owl City - Fireflies
- Owl City - Hello Seattle Remix
- Pink - Raise Your Glass
- Pink - So What
- Rihanna - Russian Roulette
- Seal - Amazing
- Seal - Crazy
- The Shins - Gone for Good
- The Shins - New Slang
- The Shins - Sleeping Lessons
- The Shins - Austraila
- Simon and Garfunkel - Cecilia
- Snow Patrol - You're All I Have
- Snow Patrol - Just Say Yes
- T.I - Live Your Life
- Taio Cruz - Dynamite
- Taylor Swift - Love Story
- Taylor Swift - Speak Now
- Taylor Swift - Dear John
- Taylor Swift - Stay Beautiful
- Taylor Swift - Our Song
- The Tea Party - Stargazer
- Tim McGraw - My Old Friend
- Train, Hey, Soul Sister
- Vampire Weekend - Horchata
- Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
- The Veronicas - Untouched
ch-ch-ch-changes!
New beginnings, like New Years and such, call for big changes... like a change of blog direction. So as you can see, the blog is in the process of changing direction, just like me.
I keep arguing with the voices in my head whether to keep blogging, stop blogging, open up facebook or not. Those voices are all loud and have very good reasoning. Damn the smartness!
As of now, facebook and I are back on friendly terms (I honestly never thought I'd see the day..) and I am in fact going to continue blogging.
I hope all you random people enjoy hearing about my life, don't think I don't know you're stalking me..! Shout out to Heath and Krissy, at least I know you're stalkers!
LOVE.
I keep arguing with the voices in my head whether to keep blogging, stop blogging, open up facebook or not. Those voices are all loud and have very good reasoning. Damn the smartness!
As of now, facebook and I are back on friendly terms (I honestly never thought I'd see the day..) and I am in fact going to continue blogging.
I hope all you random people enjoy hearing about my life, don't think I don't know you're stalking me..! Shout out to Heath and Krissy, at least I know you're stalkers!
LOVE.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
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