Garbage | Only Happy When It Rains
I only smile in the dark
My only comfort is the night gone black
I didn’t accidentally tell you that
I’m only happy when it rains read more..
Taylor Swift | We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
I used to think that we were forever ever
And I used to say, “Never say never…”
Huh, so he calls me up and he’s like, “I still love you,”
And I’m like… “I just… I mean this is exhausting, you know, like,
We are never getting back together. Like, ever” read more..
Leighton Meester | Words I Couldn’t SayWhat do I do now that you’re gone
No back up plan, no second chance
And no one else to blame
All I can hear in the silence that remains
Are the words I couldn’t say read more..
Someone asked me to post cake I made yesterday for my dad’s birthday :) I wanted to post this next week on my recipe blog when I get home, but well enjoy it:I made Devil’s Food Cake from dear and amazing David Lebovitz.For the cake:
9 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1½ cups cake flour (not self-rising)
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon baking powder
4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1½ cups granulated sugar
2 large eggs, at room temperature
½ cup strong coffee
½ cup whole or low-fat milk
For the ganache frosting:
10 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
¾ cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter
1. Adjust the oven rack to the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Butter two 9? x 2? cake pans and line the bottoms with circles of parchment paper.
3. To make the cake layers, sift together the cocoa powder, cake flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder in a bowl.
4. In the bowl of a standing electric mixer, or by hand, beat together the butter and sugar about 5 minutes until smooth and creamy. Add the eggs one at a time until fully incorporated. (If using a standing electric mixer, stop the mixer as necessary to scrape down the sides to be sure everything is getting mixed in.)
5. Mix together the coffee and milk. Stir half of the dry ingredients into the butter mixture, the add the coffee and milk. Finally stir in the other half of the dry ingredients.
6. Divide the batter into the two prepared cake pans and bake for 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool completely before frosting.
7. To make the frosting, melt the chopped chocolate with the water in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water, stirring occasionally until melted. Remove the bowl from the pan of water.
8. Cut the butter into small pieces and whisk them into the chocolate until completely melted and the ganache is smooth. Cool until spreadable, which may take about 1 hour at room temperature.
To frost the cake:
Run a knife around the inside of each of the cakes which will help release them from the pans. Tilt one cake out of the pan, remove the parchment paper from the bottom and invert it back onto a cake plate. Spread a good-sized layer of icing over the top. Top with the second cake layer and spread the top and sides with the remaining icing as decoratively as you want.
Storage: Cake is best the day it is made, although it’s fine the next day. Store at room temperature under a cake dome. read more..
Hurt - Johnny CashWhat have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt read more..
I HAVE WIFI! I’m back yallllll! Now I can post a Photo from yesterdays grocery trip and answer questions that I’ve had sitting in my inbox for a week. I was also thinking of making a video tomorrow morning because I didn’t have wifi on my 1 year anniversary of my health blog and last night I was thinking about making a silly video in my garden and showing you my almond tree or something. Okay nobody cares. I’m going to tend to my questions now and whatnot. (: read more..
Last few days I’m feeling nostalgic and sad, I miss some of my Friends And Family. I hope you guys wont mind that i will post some photos and quotes not health related today. read more..
Stuff from yesterdays small grocery trip. I need to get paid already so I can stock up at Clark’s. The Clif bars were from a few days ago but wanted to add them to the photo. Got more Luna bars because they are still on sale for $1 each. Also trying a new juice. I don’t think I’ve had this one yet so I’m going to have it with bananas and the frozen pineapples I got. Got bread because it was on sale and I really need to get rid of the frozen patties slowly adding up in my freezer. Nothing spectacular here. Just wanted to update. I’ll have some cool stuff to show you all sooner or later. I’m going to wait a month until I really stock up because we’re moving (again) and it sucks having another extra few boxes for my food. I’ll be in a much nicer area and neighborhood (closer to where I lived last year) so I’ll be taking more walks, pulling out my roller skates, and hopefully buying a bike. Alright, I’m leavin. Be back later tonight. read more..
Gardein herb dijon “breast” (vegan) and a whole zucchini cooked in water with pico de gallo seasoning and lemon juice on it. And iced strawberry flavored tea with honey in it (look at my cute tea cup). The herb dijon breast looks really bland and weird in this photo but it looked better in person and it tastes really good. There was thick gravy type of stuff (the herb dijon) on top so it looks weird. Pretty small dinner but I’m running out of food haha. That’s okay though. I’m not hungry right now and I keep snacking on chocolate treats anyway so I should be content for the next 2 hours or so. read more..
For dinner I went to this place called Martha Green’s and one side is a bakery type place (where I got a chocolate chip cookie) and then there’s the Sitting Room and it’s a little restaurant. It’s really neat. I got a Veggie wrap and asked for no mayo or cheese. Of course, like I do with everything, I took a photo of it (well, I took 2). I was looking at them earlier and noticed one of them, around the avocado, kind of looked a bit too creamy and lighter than the avocado. My first thought was…. I hope that was not mayo. I hate mayonnaise, I can not eat that disgusting stuff. It’s funny, because in 9th grade, a girl in my health class hated mayo and I was like WHAT. I used to just have mayo and bologna sandwiches. Gross, right? And now I hate it. Sometimes, even after shows, I’d feel really gross and greasy feeling (even though I wasn’t even oily or anything) and I explained it as feeling like I was slathered in mayo. So yeah. The point of this story…. There better not have been mayo on my veggie wrap. read more..
Excuse my ugly-ish self. This was me about 3 years ago (10th grade) when I ate heaps of unhealthy foods and weighed about 118 pounds. I now weight 10 lbs less than that, at about 108 lbs. I didn’t intentionally lose weight. It happened from eating less in general (but still more than enough and still plenty of junk), then from eating less unhealthy and fast food, then from accidentally not eating enough for a week or a few last year while trying to get my IBS under control (I didn’t notice it until being weighed at the docs), and I am now at a healthy weight for my body, eating a plentiful, healthy diet. After seeing this, I realized why there seems to be more concern for my need to eat more cheeseburgers. I see why I get more comments about how thin I am now, as opposed to before I’d lost the weight and got healthy. I mean, I knew I slimmed down a bit. I lost a bit in my thighs and in my face, but that’s all I could really notice. I did wonder where all that weight went. 10 pounds might not be much for some of you but it’s different for my body. I’d be in the double digits if I lost another 10. Seeing this… I definitely see the change. I didn’t realize how much thinner my stomach had gotten. Yes, I am sitting slouched over in this photo so it makes my stomach look the way it does (I feel like someone would have something to say about that so I’m explaining before I hear about it). But sitting like that now, I have tiny “rolls” and a much smaller pooch, my stomach is thinner from the side now, in my arms a bit, and I can see the bits of fat even on my sides in this photo (like underneath the bikini strap). It’s just a bit crazy to think that was my body. I can’t imagine myself looking that way now. All I see in that photo is how unhealthy I was. I am much healthier at this lower weight that I am at, even if some of my bones show more and I have a lower body fat percentage. All of the fat in the photo above came from nothing but junk food. So, I just thought I’d share with you all what I used to look like before I was healthy and at my highest weight, and talk about it a bit. read more..
It was just released for Android so I am still trying to figure it out and stuff but I’m sure I will post some yoga and/or food pictures and stuff so feel free to follow (; read more..
Woke up to a swollen foot so I guess I’ll make the right decision and not jump rope outside on this nice day. I could probably do yoga but wouldn’t be able to put much pressure on it during down-dog so maybe I’ll just stretch a little after I work out my abs. I can still walk so I’m good. Could be worse. read more..
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To see if the manager was there and had read my application that I turned in the other week and noticed 99% of the people in there were all doing cardio. Treadmills, bikes, whatever else was in there. Then I looked over at the weights areas and didn’t see anyone. I don’t have a Gym Membership and have never even been to a real gym, but I pictured how weird it’d look, me being the little tiny girl pumping iron while everyone else is running. It made me giggle a little on the inside. How cute that’d be. I missed class today to… go do a job thing which was a one time thing so I made up my lost work out at home for maybe about 40 minutes. I usually feel less motivated to do a lot when I’m at home, but I did the first half in my ugly backyard in the 65 degree warm winter weather, then went inside to finish when my neighbors dogs came out to bark at me. I started with jump rope, did a few workouts like push ups and bicycle crunches, lunges, then back to jump rope, and did that a few times between my other workouts. Did some more work with weights and tried to get in a lot more core workouts since I’ve been neglecting my abs and paying more attention to the little bumps forming on my arms. I tried doing a little bit of yoga but I didn’t feel like it so I did one Sun Salutation, a mix of a and b, with the warrior and without the seated position in b. Then stretched my legs, did camel, and drank the last half of my odwalla mango protein drink. Then I had an accident with my 2 day old expired (which I knew) vanilla chai drink and now I hope I don’t get sick from it (because I freak out over this stuff.) Just thought I’d share. I don’t know why. Now going to clean up and stuff my face with food and shower in no particular order (but I’ll probably clean first). read more..
