Loving this

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. 

 - Buddah

Reorganizing my life

Every once in a while I feel like I need to just bring it back to neutral and do some re-organizing of my life. Today was one of those days. This task also pertains to my blog, so here are some things I've been meaning to post but have just been waiting until the "right time." Well, there's no time like the present...

My mom got me BossyPants for my birthday and I've laughed out loud numerous times. But I do have to say, that as an author, Fey feels a little..."on" all the time. I think that because of this, she loses a lot of vulnerability that makes authors believable and likeable. Regardless, she is funny.

The best Lemon quote from last weeks episode: "Where does Liz Lemon go for a Saturday night on the town? The bathroom at Barnes & Noble!" I know why people say there are similarities between her and I.

I keeping with the NBC TV theme...last week's Parks & Recreation was honestly one of the funniest episodes of a television show that I've enjoyed in a long time. Too many great quotes to highlight.

 

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Delicious Coconut Scrub. For Christmas, my Step-Aunt Brenna made all the ladies in the family some homemade coconut scrub. 

 

To me, it is the perfect gift. Thoughtful, homemade, and honestly, amazing. It leaves me skin feeling so soft and with a hint of coconut scent. I can't get enough of it and she was kind enough to share the recipe...all you need is: 

Extra virgin organic coconut oil
Organic turbonado sugar(kinda coarse), or evaporated cane juice(finer grains)
And vanilla bean

The coconut oil will get soft at about 75 degrees - you just want to be sure its not boiling hot (like from the microwave) or it will melt the sugar granules. The vanilla bean can be cut down the center to scrape the tiny seeds - she even minced the pods into small bits and threw them into the mix. Stir all together and either put back into the original coconut oil jar if its for you or smaller clean dry jars if for sharing! 

Seeing my friends this weekend made me miss them even more and also made me realize that we could easily be these ladies...

Though my stomach still feels a bit queasy from Saturday night...

Saturday night's alright

I think I'm ready to celebrate my birthday with some pretty awesome people tonight. Bring on the sake! Bring on the talking so loud to make sure we can be heard over one another. The (hopefully limited amount of) embarrassing stories told about me in front of my boyfriend. The laughing so hard you can't breathe. The debauchery. The thinking we know where we are going but invariably getting lost. The "remember that time..." The coming together of old and new friends. The "so how does it feel to be this old?" conversation. The "what time is it? I think I have to go home now" declarative statement. The dizziness you get when you're surrounded by people you love.