Hot Yoga. Dinner with the Ladies and Rob at Rivoli. Dream Team with my lovely Karla. Audition. Improv. Sister Sunday. Leftover Pizza Party. Making of the Classic Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies. Massages. Sprinkling of Rain. Emails. Rehearsal with 50's throwback tunes! Hot Yoga with Michelle! Group Power with Nat. "She's a Lady..Whoa Whoa Whoa...She's a Lady. Talkin about that little Lady and the Lady is mine." :) Dancing with the Stars/Say Yes to the Dress admist dining! Congrats on your Graduation Ms. Barker! Soo Proud! Food Diary:
Sunday:
Breakfast: Steel Cut Oats with Banana and Blueberries, Vanilla Rice Milk and Cinnamon - AND YES - I am getting sick of it! I'm going to check out my friend's blog www.bsmartcookie.blogspot.com for inspiration!
Lunch/Snack: Low Sodium Stone Wheat Thins, Herb Cream Cheese Topped with Cucumbers. Crackers with Blue Menu Peanut Butter.
Supper:Leftover Thin Crust Vegetarian Homemade pizza with Zucchini, Peppers, & Tomatoes!
Dessert: Homemade Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies AND Lots of Pomegrante Green Tea!
Monday:
Breakfast: Mixed Oatmeal, Steel Cut Oats and Cream of Wheat with Banana and Vanilla Rice Milk
Lunch: Paupers Pub: Butternut Squash Salad: Butternut Squash, Cranberries, Pumpkin Seeds, Tomatoes, on Top of Spinach with Crumbled Feta and a Herbed Balsamic Vinagrette Dressing.
Supper: ANOTHER QUICK USUAL: Sweet Potatoe Rounds, Oven Roasted Eggplant, Zucchini, with Amy's California Veg Burger Topped with Sauteed Onions & Mushrooms Side Ketchup!
Dessert: Peppermint Herbal Tea with Agave Sweetner and Leftover PB Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies :)
Gratitude:
I am grateful for my dear dear mother and her priceless faces in candid photos taken by my dad.
I am grateful for going to my sisters and being a younger sister on Sundays.
I am grateful for our Easter & Continued Wedding Planning! Summer Dresses!
I am grateful for the wonderful, intelligent, genuine and fun ladies that I work with at the club!
I am grateful for my health and energy.
I am grateful for Natalie's help in editing!
I am grateful for working on my Spanish Dialect!
I am grateful for the scent of Vanilla!
I am grateful for clean laundry.
I am grateful for my health, family, friends & safety. Perspective. Always Perspective!!!
Joy Blast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYH5zdfPes4&feature=related
"I could definitely see myself doing this to someone. Massages are the best!"
Reflection/Inspiration: As I was cleaning out old documents in my computer. I came across a document I created after reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. An Old Favorite and forever timely!
The Alchemist:
1) It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
2) It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
3) At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.
4) The Soul of the World is nourished by people’s happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy and jealousy. To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation. All things are one.
5) People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that’s why they give up on it so early, too. But that’s the way it is.
6) The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
7) The principle of favorability, beginner’s luck. Because life wants you to achieve your destiny.
8) Never stop dreaming. Follow the omens.
9) When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it.
10) The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.
11) Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there.
12) In alchemy, it’s called the Soul of the World. When you want something with all your heart, that’s when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It’s always a positive force.
13) All things are the manifestation of one thing only.
14) This Soul of the World allowed them to understand anything on the face of the earth, because it was the language with which all things communicated.
15) When he looked into her eyes and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke – the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.
16) It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, ones dreams would have no meaning.
17) If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.
18) You must understand that love n ever keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love…the love that speaks the Language of the World.
19) Wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.
20) People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.
21) Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one ‘dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
22) Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
23) When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you, and even men can turn themselves into the wind.
24) That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
Challenge of the Day: Reflect on your daily, weekly or monthly successes & Celebrate Them! Be good to yourself!
