Must we do as we're told?

What is this nonsense? For some reason Flickr has blocked a good majority of my photos from the blog, although my setting is still public to everyone. :( What happened? I don't want to redo each blog post...

Israeli couscous cooked in brown sugar and cayenne pepper, cut up peach cooked with raisins and walnuts until soft, bit of corn and green tea.

Baked brussel sprouts and sweet potato fries, sandwich with cooked onion and green pepper, lettuce, salmon burger, mayonnaise, mustard, and easy over egg.

Throw together soup cooked in water and spices with tea and soymilk.

Take off those glasses, let down your hair for me.

I have a whiteboard in my room which is divided into three sections. One has a to-do: section, for tasks/chores, one is my workout regiment, which I'm going to organize by days of the week now, and the last has a daily reminder for drinking at least 2 cups of tea, 3 glasses of water and 2 servings of greens, and then recipes I've chosen to make for the week. So in that way, I will be tracking myself on those things. For here, I figured I'd just write a few easy to accomplish goals, so I could feel like I'm doing something and not make anything stressful or overly eager. There is nothing wrong with big, powerful goals, but I think I'll be more satisfied with small things I know I can do.

1) Since I no longer have a job working with my hands, I'm going to start a new care routine to bring my hands back to a better state. They're by no means horrible, but I want to nurture them a little.

2) Read a book a month. (This has always sorta been an overall goal of mine, but I seem to end up waffling on it and a month will go by and I haven't read...) So far I've read one book this year. D:

3) Cut out white, refined sugar, and start using healthier substitutes. I don't like those fake sugar alternatives. More like - muscovado sugar, brown rice syrup, agave and molasses.

In other news, look how adorable my cats are! Don't be fooled, Mr. T is just stretched out. Buster weighs a lot more.

Song of the day: "Librarian" by My Morning Jacket.

As it goes.

Many more on my flickr.

This was back in November, before Thanksgiving. My fam and I went on a hike outside of town and ate lunch by this river. The height of fall. So beautiful. I wandered on my own for a good hour or more taking photos.