Adding The Color Green

I have been trying really hard to add more green to my diet.  Actually quite a bit more, say, oh, two or three times a day.  I do this with the awareness that some greens contain quite a bit of vitamin K, so if you are a heart patient or on blood thinners, that would be something to be aware of as blood thinners cause, well, thinning, and then vitamin K helps with clotting.  The two do not necessarily mix!

Lovely, no?  I think it’s beautiful!  Some juices are sweeter, and my children tend to like those better.  Not really sweet, mind you, but with more a predominance of carrots and apples versus this heavier cabbage taste.

Michaela and I watched a movie together called Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.  It was centered around one man, and then two or three other people, who took on the challenge to go on a juice fast (after a doctor visit, of course), and how much weight they lost (one man started at over 400 pounds) and how they came off prescription medications and had autoimmune diseases disappear.  Now, Michaela and I are not going on a fast right now.  It is not practical at the moment.  But we are drinking more juice.  Personally, it thrills me that Michaela is taking an interest in health.  She is the one who wanted to watch the move to start with.

Oh, and I can say that adding the color green to your DIET seems to be very good as far as adding some spark to your WARDROBE!  I guess there is nothing as slimming as eating more fruits and veggies and cutting back on the buttery, dairy-laden meat  and carb dishes!

It goes without saying (but I will say it anyway), the other best weapon against that awful old waist fat is exercise.  It’s been hard for me to get to the gym lately, not just because of time but if someone changes the door code and you don’t know about it and are lazy about finding out the new one, well there you go.

I have the gym code now and I could and will go, but little Annie has been looking at me so pitifully lately, I decided to try walking outside more, Annie in tow, and alternating walking and running with her.  She loves it!

Little weathered birdhouse spotted on a walk yesterday.

Finally, in FINANCIAL NEWS (ha ha) I wanted to talk about the concept of Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do!   For now, my black leather cowboy boots are in the closet and hopefully I will resole them one day.  In the meantime, I have these tall Sam and Libby black boots that I will apply the Make It Do and Wear It Out concept to!

Tall boots like this seem to be in style anyway and I think these boots have a few more miles left in them!

I am learning lots of lessons about money in my new life.  Not necessarily things I did not already know, but things that I guess are more real when it’s just you.  It is in that spirit that I am making do with several things (not just tall boots) that I am not that crazy about.  Now, I am crazy about these boots, but I have a face cream that I spent a pretty penny for and then did not like the way it feels.  It’s sort of waxy feeling to me, but it is all natural, from Whole Foods.  I have found that if I put a few drops of almond oil in with it, it feels 1000 times better!  And my fair, freckled skin LOVES oil.  It makes me feel good to apply the Use It Up concept to this face cream that has some lovely ingredients in it but did not end up being what I thought it would be!

Finally, THE ALICE TREE.  Nothing to post today, except we are on the last chapter today:  ALICE’S EVIDENCE.  And tomorrow, Thursday, has been declared a catch-up-on-ornaments day, and then we’ll post final Alice Tree pictures on probably Friday!    Stay tuned!!

Here’s to JOY today!