Created and inspired by this ladyo’love, dinner tonight: Goddess Bowls. DEFFO a new fam fav… Mr. Fab highly recommends it!
Because all things fabulous deserved to be shared… grab your fav bowl and add the following:
QUNINOA (cooked)… a few spoonfuls of BLACK BEANS… a handful of shredded BEETS (raw)…several BROCCOLi’s (steamed, our preference)…1/2 roasted YAM, cubed, seasoned with S&P&Cumin… a sprinkling of finely chopped GREEN ONiONs…Toss on a few MIXED NUTS…And drizzle with MISO GRAVEY!
(Extras for a special touch: half an avocado or steamed edamame beans – you won’t regret it!)
Ladies & Gentleman, Boys & Girls, Friends & Foes (but can’t we all be friends now?), I’m so WiLDLY excited to introduce you to…
It’s about offline dating – not online faking. It’s about generating smiles. It’s about starting a happiness movement…and we want YOU to be a part of it!
Team NoMo – the hugest high five and big hug to each of you – you’ve made the dream come true! xo
Top 10 Highlights of our last-minute-super-fantastic-getaway to “sunny” San Diego featuring HappyDoug, SmilingShan & BlissedOutSteph:
11. Video evidence thanks to Flip, the camera. *hilarious*
10. Mexican Fiesta in Old Town – with heaps of beans beans the musical fruit!
9. Running on the worst storm day of the winter. Pouring rain, blustery winds, massive waves, broken down palm trees. Shan & I ran in tanks while the locals sported down jackets and toques. They shivered, we smiled! Hello, we are running in California!
8. Brunch at Brockton Villa. ‘Nuff said.
7. SEALS! GALORE!
6. The discovery of the deliciousness of Yogi Topi: make your own non-fat yogurt sundaes. It was kinda like produce – we consumed 3 servings/day!
5. National Yoga Day in the USA: celebrated at a jam-packed lululemon La Jolla Saturday morning Yoga Class! Followed by a run on the beach and brunch with the waves. Awe-some!
4. Cruiser bikes around beautiful Coronado Island. Best pre-race taper!
The start of our Saturday morning ride!
3. LaJolla Shores Beach with ballerina Lindsay, who reminded us of the joys of being a kid.
2. Pit Stop @Target – magazines & cheap energy bars – check!
1. Carlsbad Marathon! Decided on Tuesday to run the race on Sunday – I needed a hit of mental toughness – I needed to remind myself that I can do anything, if I want it bad enough. I wanted to break 4hrs and ran 3:52, and came home with a rejuvenated hit of TOUGH! POW!
* Huge gratitude to Mark Shorter for a) his race number, b) his offerings of salt/gels/smiles along the way and c) running the last 2miles with me!
** HUGEr High Five to Shan who ran a massive PB – 3:12 and a top ten finish, with the hugest smile on her face the whole way!
Post race: Too sore to stand; too happy not to keep smilin'!
*** Special shout out to Team Ernsting for giving Willy more love, walks & treats than he ever receives at home:)
Sometimes you need to *bam bam* run away…you’ve got to *bam bam* get away! 2010: I’m really ready for ya…
He works shift work. I work a day job. We both live in the StartUp Kingdom. I blog; he UAVs. He can stay up late; I fall asleep standing up. Among our crazy schedules, I’ve been missin’ my man lately.
He was off to work early this morning and it was all that i could do to get up for a yoga class @7AM – apparently the ride killed me yesterday! As I laid on the mat, I looked behind me to see an older couple – a man and a woman – side by side at their Sunday yoga class together…it made me smile.
And I thought about my Firefighter and what life will be like when we are old…
We will go to yoga class Sunday morning and then read the paper and sip our americanos? Will I have a garden that I tend to while He surfs every possible wave? Will we live in Hawaii or Canada? Will the kitchen have a jar of cookies on the counter for our friends who stop by and will i have learned enough self-discipline to not eat them all by then? Will I still have a group of crazy girlfriends who are balanced by his wholesome dudes? Will he golf whenever he wants, just cause he can? Will we ride bikes around town just cause we can? Or maybe we will gallivant the globe for a lil bit of all of it and meet new friends along the way? Ummm…
Whatever it is we are doing, I know we will be having fun. I can’t wait to grow old with you… xo.
My amazing training buddies from 2009 have not fallen off the wagon like me. They sweat their faces off on trainer rides all week long, run when it is raining sideways and swim diligently. I, on the other hand, have committed to running and swimming throughout the week – but only in the mornings. And hit a few yoga classes in the evenings. Note: I have refused to ride a trainer. Indoor rides simply don’t bring me joy. However, they would probably help decrease the diameter of my thighs and lower my heart rate when I try to ride up a hill, err bridge, not to mention, help me hang on to TeamAwesome!
The sun was out in full force today – blue bird skies called for a ride! It was Agatha’s first spin of 2010 – she was a lil dusty. I could barely clip in and forgot how to change gears. Oh good golly, this was gonna be interesting… Not sure how long I’d be able to hang on to TeamAwesome, I thought I’d start and not worry about where I may finish. (I think this may be a good attitude to approach the rest of life with, eh!) With a credit card and a phone in my back pocket, I had all a girl needs on a bike ride…
Long story short – these girls have the power of persuasion or am just an easy sell…but we enjoyed those blue bird skies allll day long – 100km long in fact. With one coffee stop, loads of laughs and hoots & hollar’s, I was quickly reminded of the pure bliss found in riding bikes. It’s the company of amazing (fierce!) chics; it’s the hit of endorphins; it’s the fresh air; it’s the joy in pedalling yourself around the entire city just because you can and enjoy the views along the way.
Suz (mother of two: Oscar & Nellie), Steph (mother of Agatha), Alli (mother of Carlos) & Shan (mother of Bernie)!
Agatha’s Back in Action - Honu, here we come! Thanks TeamAwesome…you bring me bliss:)
The morning cereal trend was getting boring lately, so I decided to bring back the morning dose of bliss: Good Morning Fabulous Muesli. I forgot JUST how delish it was! The most recent batch includes some ground flax seeds and almonds. I highly recommend it!
But, if you feel so inclined to indulge a lil, I did also come across THE best french toast recipe I’ve EVER had – Coast Toast from La Jolla, CA. (Available at the one and only Brockton Villa – worth the wait in line – you can watch the seals and triathletes!)
Thought it may be a perfect rainy weekend brunch option for you:
1 loaf soft French bread (slice diagonally, about 1 1/2″ thick)
1qt whipping cream (yep it’s true!)
10 eggs
3/4c orange juice (pulp free preferably!)
1/2c sugar
a pinch of salt
2TBSP vanilla
2TBSP orange rind, optional for some additional flavoring
Combine liquid ingredients. Pour over bread slices. Cover and refrigerate at least one hour. Remove bread and discard liquid. Spread butter on flat grill. Cook bread until golden brown, then bake at 4450 for 5-7min or until bread is puffed up like a souffle. Dust with powdered sugar. Serve and enjoy immediately!
…and then go for a run for the remainder of the day to pretend you just didn’t consume a quart of whipping cream for breakfast! HA!
I watched dragon’s den for the first time last week. In fact, i came home late from work, ditched my evening run, picked up a box of pizza and sat in front of the tv with my Man. (Shocking, but i really wanted to see this first hand!) He warned me that they were harsh. I love him for thinking that — because to him, these ideas of entrepreneurs were so sacred, they were their own after all, and he didn’t like someone else picking them apart. I on the other hand felt like it was simply yet another meeting in a board room…it wasn’t that scary. Bring it on, I thought!
I later sparked the conversation with Someone Remarkable who has ‘been there done that’ with venture capital and start up dough. She told me only once your own skin is in the game — you’ve racked up credit card debit, you’ve taken out a second mortgage, you’ve delayed paying off student debt and the list goes on, would any sort of financial backing event talk to you about your idea. Hummmm…it got me thinking…
I want to land on dragon’s den…but i more badly want to land on Oprah’s couch! And one day, I want to fund dreams — the angel investor who doesn’t want to support the “starving” entrepreneur. But rather, I want the person who wants to come alive! Who has more passion for their pitch and fire in their belly than everyone who appeared on the show last week. I’m only starting on embarking upon the dream….and as soon as I say NoMo….i feel more alive. I stand taller, i smile bigger, i talk louder and no ONE can knock me down.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman
One day, i will fund the dreams of others. Till then, I’m gonna fund this dream and make it BIG!
Step #1 – admit it.
Step #2 – embrace it.
Step #3 – do something about it!
Oh for the love of friends and belly laughs! After an evening full of both of those things, the conversation somehow drifted over to our daily routines – what we do in the mornings & the evenings around the hours that we “work” (in quotations because being at home is work too at times!). My man and I are classic DINKS (with a dog). Our best friends have 1 lil guy who is 20months old, a new one on the way, a condo that is now sold, a potential new family home on the radar and more responsibility than I would know what to do with right now…talk about two completely different lives.
This “schedule” conversation was also rather timely as I had just finished getting quite the lecture for having “no time management skills” and “wasting hours on Facebook, blogs, blablabla“. But it was all totally deserved and frankly, true.
I sit at work and do Work. But I craaaave insane amounts of information. I’m as curious as a cat and the world of social media feeds my soul like water feeds a plant. It’s true.
So while my fav Mama proceeds to tell me the structure in her day that goes along with being a Mama/Wife/Career Women/Home Maker, I feel the blood flow to my face and think “but what about your daily twitter feed?” And her husband then quickly announces that he has DELETED his Facebook page… GASP! What about those 800 friends? You are just no longer in touch with them? And then Mama tells me she has 3 blogs she reads daily (bless her – this is one of them, so i don’t think it really counts!)…but still, t-h-r-e-e.
In my state of raised hair follicles, a red face and the gitters…i take a deep breathe and admit it. I’m addicted. I’m addicted to the flow of info, insight, junk, pics and perks of social media. I check my iPhone and my crackberry before 6AM (almost daily), have a routine “social media hit” at approx (but not really approximately at all, more like bang on!) 9AM, 1PM and 7PM, I sit on one phone or the other for my entire commute to/from work and usually am head first into the blogosphere till 9:30PM. WOAH. Is that redonkulous or WHAT? I’m not totally sure. I have it down to an art — I can usually get a full hit of info in 12min flat! Gmail/Hootsuite/ Google Reader/ LinkedIn/DONE! (repeat) That being said, my plate is pretty full at the moment…so one of these hits needs to go – i’m wiening myself down to twice a day, EXCEPT for the blog world – that is unlimited.
Riddle me if you would be so kind…are you too addicted to this online world? Does the curiosity of another nugget of wisdom keep you glued to a monitor or am I some sort of freak? And Mama’s of the world — HOW do you do it??
Every morning you make a choice: will it be a good day or a great day? You've reached my daily dose of gratitude where I celebrate all things fabulous! Welcome.
Not sure how long I’d be able to hang on to TeamAwesome, I thought I’d start and not worry about where I may finish. (I think this may be a good attitude to approach the rest of life with, eh!) With a credit card and a phone in my back pocket, I had all a girl needs on a bike ride…
