I was looking though my old photos from around my birthday looking for a picture of me when I came across this picture of my friend Sam. The man’s a good writer, and a budding blogger. Check him out.
I had taken it though the dirty glass at a cabin in the mountains, covering his working figure with a haze of mountain dirt. Somehow, I still very much like this photo.
Only thing missing is.. a pipe in his and a pistol on the table. Am I right, Sam?
Veronica Maggio’s voice is soft, a muse-like melody floating into your ears. Her gypsy-like undertones mixed with a general bump from the european lounges make for a wonderful listen. The swedes know how to make a solid chill tune.
The song to listen to is Kan inte säga nej. Check it out on Spotify.
I dream about this stuff that I shouldn’t eat.
But you bet your ass next time I’m in Fort Myers, I’ll be buying a box. :)
Jeremy and I were taking a walk in a local park last week. While discussing some philosophical topic or another, the sound of propellers fell on our ears and we looked up to see a yellow biplane making it’s way over Duluth.
Jeremy’s got a thing for old stuff. He dreams of one day renting a hangar, building a biplane and flying it places. I blame Secondhand Lions for some of the inspiration but it’s a lovely dream nonetheless.
That’ll be us one day, if we play our cards right.
It’s so gray outside. I miss the vibrant colors of fall.
I did get out this weekend but surprisingly had no desire to take more photos. Maybe soon, my muse will appear but until then I’ve got some bits from 2011 to share with you.
Since I’ve been back, I’ve been focused a bit on reining in my eating habits. Before I left for India, my eating habits consisted of no breakfast, randome eating out for lunch and whatever I could scavenge in my own fridge for dinner. Usually this was a low vegetable, processed, carbtastic quick meal.
It’s hard for a working, solo girl to have a good diet! Oh, don’t look at me like that.
After getting sick overseas, it was like my stomach and mind got a reset. It was a struggle to eat a lot after I returned, and I was sleeping TONS. I’m talking like most of the day plus the whole night.
Now I’m mostly back to normal. Except I’m keeping up a couple of the changes. One, I’ve cut back on my carbs. A lot. I am eating under 20 grams a day and sticking to my calorie budget. This is actually easy. How come?
I have discovered /r/keto! It’s a subreddit devoted to the ketosis diet. Essentially it’s very similar to the beginning stages of South Beach, or the entire Atkins diet. Previously I’ve done a very low carb diet and it worked wonders. Then I went back to eating like I’m 14 and well, of course most of it packed right back on. It took a solid year and half to pack it back on, but I did and it was entirely due to me ignoring my diet and eating whatever, whenever.
So far this diet has been amazing. I’m hooked on one cabbage-taco recipe and have eaten it for a few meals so far. Some of the best tasting foods have the fewest calories. Meat in and of itself isn’t very heavy in calories. A filet of tilapia has like 150 calories. I eat two, with salsa and sour cream and cheese on napa cabbage leaves. The whole meal is like 450 calories and leaves me -stuffed-.
I haven’t actually bought batteries for my weighing scale. I have no clue what I weigh right now. And honeslty I don’t care. Between ramping up my fitness with a boot camp and sticking to this diet, I feel awesome so I’m fine not looking at that number.
I will keep updated on here with the results of this diet plus getting right back into my exercise regimen. It’s day two of being back in boot camp after a month and my butt is getting kicked. Seriously kicked. I’m more than happy to get back into my exercise regimen though. I missed it. I’d been going to boot camp for 9 months before I left for India and being back in the room, sweating buckets.. no place I’d rather be from 6-7:15 everyday!
I’m sorry I haven’t been posting photos. I just haven’t had the motivation to care about photography for the last couple of weeks. Like everything else, I think the creative juices will slowly have to recover with the passage of time. Maybe this weekend I’ll go out and shoot some fun stuff. I’ve got some party plans and social activity is usually a wonderful creative catalyst for me.
Later gators!
It’s mobile photo Friday again, where I showcase some photos taken, edited, and posted entirely from my phone! Today I’ll post a few I took in India on my last day there.
A large temple looms on the street where I was buying fruit from a vendor.
Clothes are hanging out to dry outside an old grungy building.
Bananas on display. The fruit here was so cheap its unbelievable.
Rangoli outside a neighbors home. It is drawn to invite the goddess of learning into the home.
It looks like my friends and I are planning another cabin trip coming up in February. This time it’ll be a ski trip. I’ve never gone skiing before so I’m getting pretty excited already! I think I’m getting over my post travel slump. I even took a shower this morning and didn’t pass out! The illness made me never want to travel again… but you guys know me. That feeling wasn’t going to last! I’m a traveler at heart! I am ready for you, next illness/travel challenge!
Also I am down a pants size because of this sickness. ONE SMALL WIN at a time!
LOL.
So what have I been doing since the 21st of December?
On the 22nd, I contracted God knows what after a day out with my cousins. Three days of epic fever and amazing body aches followed and I spent most of it indoors, in bed, asleep. I haven’t actually recovered my appetite since and have been eating very little. Poor J got me from the airport on New Years Eve and instead of heading straight to a party like I’d hoped, I was carted home and I was asleep at 10:30pm. That’s right, I wasn’t even CONSCIOUS after my 20+ hours in transit overseas for New Years Eve.
I’m still not recovered. Everything feels strange and I feel like I never want to do anything but sleep ever again.
Thankfully, I have work tomorrow and I’ll have to have my wits about me again.
The funniest thing about this entire trip? I could have left both my SLR and my laptop at home considering how much I used either.