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.

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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.

How do...

Mm. Life is a bit...weird, lately. I'm unemployed again... I suppose this gives me time to work on other things. I've boosted my workout regiment again, as of the last two months, and it feels wonderful. I'm hoping to look a bit into non profits around the country, and see what they have to offer/if I find one in which I'm interested/qualified to work for.

I think I should start using this space to help me get more organized with my life. At least, a little bit. I'm going to write a few goals I have each month, and then hopefully at the end of the month, I will have done a few of them or be in the process of working on them. Since it's the last day of this month, I'll wait until March to begin those posts. In the meantime, since I worked with dogs for so long, I've been somewhat daydreaming of owning my own. I wouldn't adopt a dog until I were financially stable and had a place with a yard. These are my two favorite types:

Australian shepherd/blue heeler mix:

Dutch shepherd:

Morrow Mountain pt. 2

On another trip to the mountain, my friend and I were completely rained out. It'd been pouring pretty hard on the drive up, but we thought it might clear up upon our arrival. It did, but only off and on, so I only was able to snap a shot of the top view. We began hiking in a light drizzle, heard thunder and smelled the subsequent burning of a lightning strike, and it began to pour again, so we essentially ran back out. On the drive back, we stopped by some interesting buildings.
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Morrow Mountain pt. 1

Apparently I disappeared from the internet last year. I had an apprenticeship which is now a job (though the hours were severely cut) working at a doggie daycare place and training dogs. It's fun, but exhausting. I like it, though. I'm going to attempt to make Fridays photo-dump days again, like I used to. These are some photos from a hike I took. It was super beautiful. I love the east coast fall. I'll probably marvel at it each year. I don't want to ever get used to it.

I really need the deed...to a platinum mine.

I went out for a really short walk today...my fingers were starting to get super painfully cold without gloves, and collected a bunch of pretty fall leaves. Originally I was going to make a garland, but I don't have much room for something that long, so I just taped them to the wall in a gradient pattern. I really like it. Fall is by far my favorite season. I have loads of photos from a few hiking trips to upload soon!