I'm Just SO Hungry!

Good morning! So yesterday (9/23) We kick started our morning with a juice I could drink and actually enjoy!! We went ahead and made it the night before so we can sleep in!! I was FaceTiming with my soon-to-be-Mother-In-Law, Denise, and she was told by her holistic doctor that the nutrients of juicing escape after 24 hours :-/ So, if you're lazy like Phillip and I, not wanting to process juice every time you want to drink it, just make enough for 24 hours!

Ok so the drink we had for breakfast and snack calls for the following:

  1 cucumber
  2 leaves of kale
  2 apples
  3 cups of grapes
  1 inch of ginger


   (Remember that it seems like a lot more in the picture because we make servings of two, so everything is doubled!)

This time we had plentiful of juice!!! I think having grapes in the recipe can really change the amount of fluid. This was just so so yummy! We had it for breakfast, ate steak with my dad's teriyaki marinade and orzo pasta for lunch, and had like two mason glass full of this juice for dinner. Phillip and I lost to the battle of hunger, so we ended up eating the rest of our steak. (It was only like 4oz. of steak each).



So now for the stuff that no one wants to talk about. I'm hesitant to put this out there but currently I weigh 155 lbs. Eeek it's a cray number because I'm so used to being about 110 to max 120... Hopefully this juice cleanse/eating right will help me get to my goal!

Now other than eating healthy and juicing, I am so super excited about this weekend! My BACHLORETTE PARTY is this weekend!! (Why has the English language not accepted the word "bachlorette" yet? It keeps underlining that red squiggly telling me I spelled it wrong or the word does not exist!) My bunch of friends and I are going to have so much fun! SO much for a diet while I'm gone! But that's why it's important to keep up with goodness before and after :) I am so grateful for all the planning that has been done by my crew and I just can't wait until Thursday!

Other than the fun stuff, it's crazy how all these different things need to get done for a wedding! Phillip and I are constantly on the go! We need to make seating assignments, table numbers, finalize music, get with photographer, make programs, and literally think of anything that we've forgotten to do!

And the day goes on....

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  Roo   (='.'=) 
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Hello 2011!!

What has been happening in the life of Roo?


It's my second year teaching at my school and it has been fabulous. In the love life aspect, not so much :) But I did have the opportunity to sit down and talk to my ex which helped me realize a bunch of things. This year my goal is to lose some poundage that I gained in the past three years!! Yikes!! But I can do this!!

I'm also going to try and blog things out more often because I feel that this way I can really clear my thoughts and get down to what I really want to say! Plus blogging is like a cheap way of therapy :)

So here it goes...

I'm living with my dad since my mother is living in Japan taking care of my 92 year old grandmother. It's not too bad living with my dad since he understands that I'm an adult and lets me do whatever I want. It's just sometimes I want to have my own place!! Not for the privacy but I look at my house and realize that the furniture doesn't match, the wall needs to be a different color, the placing of the TV bothers me...and I just want to create my own place!! Being in college and getting to choose how my "home" looked for 4 years, this adjustment is unfavorable... But I guess I can't really complain :) My dad does make my life a lot better!

I got to spend 2 weeks with my mom and grandma in Japan.
(since my job as a teacher gives me a 2 week break over the winter!! Be jealous!!) I had such an amazing time with them. It was a little heartbreaking to see how much my grandmother has aged. She is 92... She walks really slow and has trouble getting up. She says she doesn't want to go anywhere because she can't handle long walks, and she's too prideful to be in a wheelchair. I can't understand what it feels like to be that old but I can only imagine what it feels like to have control of you body one day, and the next not being able to even operate chopsticks to eat your food. I am very thankful and blessed that I still have my grandmother, I just wish everything was easier for her.

Well today is my day off from work since it's MLK day! I should really clean up my messy room and start off the week right! I get to see my 3 gal pals tonight for dinner and I'm SO excited!! Lalalalala

XOXO
Roo