Saturday Funny: November 23/13

Good Saturday Morning everyone!!

How has your week been? As most know if you've been following along I'm on day 3 of a Juice cleanse ordered by my Dr. 

The hardest part of it thus far? Cooking for everyone else & watching them eat. 

But humor is always a good thing. So let's see what was funny on Facebook this week:

The Mean Green Juice

Ok so I'll update ya'll Tia far on how things are going. 

#1. I dislike not eating. I did not realize how addicted to processed refind foods I was. 

#2. Withdrawling from refined process foods is so freaking not cool! It's a whitch. Not the good whitch of the east kind of whitch. The mean horrible ugly kind. 

#3. I have another 36 hours before the withdrawal goes away. Woohoo come on clock tick faster :)

#4. I notice all the food commercial now on TV. Thank goodness for PVR so I can fast forward them :)

#5. Now this is prolly way too much TMI, so be forwarned! I have yet to use the bathroom for a #2.  Ok that's kind of a huge deal for me since on a normal day I live in the head. "Dr. B" says this just goes to show how nutriently deprived I am. Because I've had almost 2 days of straight fruit/vegg & not gotten sick. Huh. Maybe she's on to something here. 

So that's where I'm at so far. Today I added the Mean Green to my juices. It's suppose to be the main juice you have everyday. 

Mean Green:

1 bulk of Kale

4 stalks of celery

1 cucumber 

2 Granny Smith apples

1/2 lemon peeled

1 piece of ginger thumb size

* I added 2 carrots to sweeten it up. 

All Green Lemonade- Juice

Ok so here is Juice #3 for you today, All green lemonade. Now when I saw this one I was like oh that should be good. As my brain instantly when to the processed sugary juice I love to have. 

This was so not the case! This was sour! Like wow kind of sour. I bulked at it. Was like oh hell no! Then I remembered sour triggers the enzymes for digestion. This is something I need so down it went. Success!

This is what is in All Green Lemonade:

3 handfuls of freshSpinach

6-8 Kale leaves

1 green apple

1/2 a cucumber 

4 stalks of celery 

1/2 a lemon peeled

In total it makes about 20 oz's. 

 

 

Apple-Carrot-Beat Juice

As promised I'm back!!

So this is my second Juice of the day. 

It consists of

1 apple

2 beats

3 carrots

1 piece of ginger (thumb size)

Spinage/Kale optional. I added half a bunch of Spinage.

Yup it turs out that red!

It was ok. I liked breakfast more. Maybe I should have used a bigger apple. Needed a bit more sweet. 

So I'm not feeling hungry which is good, nor have I needed my SBS meds yet. Woohoo! What I am is tired. Very tired lol. 

But that's ok. I knew that was coming. My body has started the detox process.

I'll be back after lunch to share the next Juice with you. 

Dr's Orders to get Juicing!!

Morning all! I've got a lot to share with you. So let's get started. 

First a little background on little ( I mean I. Hight only. I wish I was smaller in the weight department.) 7 years ago I was in a major car accedent. That brought on a plethora of health problems. The big few that are the trouble makers are my rheumatoid arthritis (RA), my pesky spinal cord injury, and lastly (though i had this prior to the accedent, it was just made worse) I am a suffere of Shortened Bowle Symdrome (SBS). 

Let's just put it this way I am a hot mess when it comes to my health. Which is what has brought me here to yesterday's follow up appointment. 

My awesome specialist we will call her "Dr. B" had some very disturbing news for me yesterday. Both my Intestines & Spine are degenerating faster then they should. ( So not good or cool might I add.) But never to just give me the bad news & split she had my options all ready for me. 

Option #1. Because the spine degeneration is due to my RA I could go back on an extensive round of "chemical therapy" again to recrash my immune system & hope it slows things down. 

Ok so that's not a favorite choice I've done that twice now in the last 7 years. I never really wanna go back to being that sick again. So I asked what was my other option?

Option #2. Start juicing! 

I beg your pardon did you just say start juicing?!? I must not of heard her right. So I asked again.. Pardon?

Apparently I did not hear her wrong. Study's have shown that "doing a juice cleanse" for a minimum of 10 days can help reboot your immune system. The catch you live on nothing but juice. You clean your system of all the processed junk which allows it to have a brake and detoxify. Which is huge since juicing I do not need to digest anything (I can not anyways & it's always painful) will give my insides a brake as well. 

After talking to "The Man" he said do whatever I needed to do. No questions asked. I watched a suggested video called: "Fat Sick Nearly Dead" by Joe Cross. It is a total must see!

In the end I chose to juice. I will start with the 10 days. What I really hope to do is go the whole program of 60 days. 

My Plan is to post my progress along with each juice recipe I use. 

Apple-Pear

1 apple

2 pears

1 piece of ginger ( thumb size) 

Place in juicer & enjoy!!

I'll be back around snack time to post the next one for you. But this one was a great morning breakfast. 

**Please Please if you chose to do something like this do it under the care of your Doctor.** 

Saturday Funny: November 16/13

Happy Saturday everyone!!

I'm home now from the road trip & have lots of posts to organize for you. Who knew I'd need a vacation from my vacation? I'm just so bagged it's silly. So I'm taking at least today to rest then it's back at it!

How has your week been? Anything new or exciting going on?

Well here's what I found funny on Facebook this week:

My Virsion of "Operah's Road Trip" Post #2

So the trip continues... we are all still living so score one for the good guys!!

We decided NOT to go to Gettysburg but instead to get in the car and head straight to Harpers Ferry. On our way in the mater of 30 minutes we passed through 3 states! Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. Literally you blink and you missed the welcome signs my sister was trying so hard to get pictures of.  What you do not miss and are in complete awe of is the breath taking scenery and the views.

We spent a good part of the day walking around a very small part of Harpers Ferry National Park and talking to one of the oldest park Ranger's named John who was more then excited to have two fairly young ladies who wanted talk about the history of the park as well the civil war. 

About 1:00 pm we decided it was time to move on to find lunch. That in it's self was a small adventure. This is only a town of 300 people! We found a small restaurant called "The Anvil". We decided that worked better then the 7 eleven we had seen.

 We walked in and thought ok this could really work. The place was nice and quant. All we were looking for was a good meal and to wait out the next hour before our hotel check in. We decided to seat ourselves in this little booth, where the table reminded me of a old kitchen counter.

I thought it was kind of cute. That my friends was pretty much the end of a the good experience there. I should have known this was going to go down hill from the minute we realized that every thing on said table was sticky. YUCK! It was not that busy but it took us sometime to get that cleaned up. Second warning bell: poor service and we had not even ordered yet! I should have taken these 2 warnings and ran, well the getting was good. But as I am clearly a sucker for punishment I did not.
We ordered and I was hopeful for the food. I ended up ordering a Ruben with fries. Something simple right? You shouldn't be able to mess that up. OH how I was so wrong. More on that in a moment.

Once the food arrived I was once again drawn in by the appearance of what was put in front of me.

I was like "YAY ME!! TIME TO EAT!" boy was that first bite a disappointment. the meat was almost all fat and very dry and tough. I only ended up eating half. This would be a first for me. I never leave anything behind. Lets just say I am glad I did because both myself and my sister were glad the hotel let us check in early mainly because we were sick the rest of the afternoon :-(

So word to the wise if you ever get a chance to come this way do your self a favor do NOT eat here... but DO make sure you take plainly of time to enjoy the view!

Saturday Funny: November 9/13

Gooooood Saturday Morning!! 

This weeks funny is brought to you from my hotel room in Harpers Ferry! Yup we made it!! I will have post #2 for you later today ..... I hope lol. 

So how was your week?

Let's see what was funny this week on Facebook:

My version of " Oprah's Road Trip" post #1

Hello my lovelies! I am waiting you form Frederick Maryland! For those that know that is over 10 hrs away from my original starting point! If you read last week's SaturdayFunny you will know that the Sis and  have been planing an all girls no kids vacation to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. It's a multi-fold trip mostly because we are geeks and want to see some of the civil war sites other reason is that she is getting married and they want it to be at one of these civil war sites. So when her hubby to be suggested wedding planing as a vacation I was sold! One week no responsibility and time with my Sister who is my bestie! Absofreakinglutly!, I'm in!

So here we are, what we thought would take us more then a day to drive and we are about an hour and a half away from our goal of a detonation and check in to our actual hotel isn't till after 3 PM today. My sister convinced me ( much to my not wanting to might I add) to pull over last night and grab a room because after so many hours driving I've got to be tired... I kept saying no way man I'm totally fine! But she was right we did need a place to crash for the night so he we are in Frederick. We are actually 20 min away from  Gettiesburg. So we have decided that will be our first stop of this trip. Mainly because who knows when we will get to do that ever agin?

We grabbed a room at the Comfort Inn here in Frederick. Let me just say I'm not really a hotel kinda gal. But when I walked in and realized this room was better then mine back home, things were totally looking up in that department. This place has the"Oh-so-comfy-never-ever-ever want-to-leave-beds". Like really I fell into it and was like Oh My Goodness this is a slice of heaven! 

Here have a look at our pretty room:

Let's just say it was a very awesome sleep for me last night. Many thanks to the late night clerk who was awesome at check-in. She gave us a discount just because we are that awesome!

Will have more topmost later.... Till tell how has your week been?

Saturday Funny: November 2/13

Happy 1st Saturday of the month!! So how was the last month for you? Us... Totally & utterly crazy!! Have we finished the renos? Nope. Does this stress me? Oh you got no idea lol. 

To top all that off my Awesmazing sister & I are taking a "sisters only" vacation starting Thursday! We will be leaving early Thursday & driving most of the eastern side of the country. Mainly because we are looking for the best place for her wedding to happen. So I hope to be blogging the whole way about where we stopped, what we ate, and how we survived each other in a car this long lol. I guess you can say this is our version of the "Oprah's Roadtrip!" So bring it on!! Now to only start packing. :/ 

It's also The Marine Corps 238th Birthday while we are gone. Not sure I'll make it to the ball. But there's hope yet. 

So with all that this is what was funny on Facebook this week:

Saturday Funny: October 26/13

Afternoon all!! I hope you had an awesome week. We are still renovating but taking a much needed brake this week. Trust me I will be so gland when we are not eating takeout so much.

We have all  the hallway panted most of the living room except where the white accents need to go (which there are a LOT of accents) as well there we had to do some major wall repairs. Then we can paint the bathroom finish painting the kitchen and finally finish up the boys room. Good gravy and I want this all done by like next weekend!

So on one of our many dinner brakes I came across this out and out funny video floating around face book. I think it wins the funnies thing this week so I just have to share it with you.

If you find anything funny floating around Facebook that you wold like me to share send it to me!

Saturday Funny: October 19/13

Hello everyone! How was your week this week? Ours well we are all scrabbling to work more on the renovations prior to the end of the month. Yay us. Will it get completed your gess is as good as mine. 

So with all the chaos this week lets see what was funny on Facebook this week:

Saturday Funny: October 11/13

Good Saturday everyone. 

Let me start off the week by saying I'm a new addict to IKIA. There I said it. I can admit it. What was suppose to be a quick trip to IKIA no more then an hour tops turned into 5 hours later. Yup 5 hours. At that point I wasn't even don't looking & plotting for these renovations we have going on. So more to come about IKIA I'm sure. 

So until then let's see what was floating around Facebook this week that was funny:

     ^^^ I so have had this happen!!^^^

Pick-me-up-Pancakes... Every Coffee Lovers Dream

Yes it is that easy to get your coffee in your pancakes! These are a Family FAVE. They are so much of a family fave that when my Sister took them to work for her lunch and gave some to her boss said boss ran off with the whole container including the fruit to be served with them. I recently made them so Sunday brunch and the above mentioned boss was very upset with my sister that non were brought in for her..

So take warning once you make and try these, it will be the ONLY pancakes anyone will want you to make. Which is good considering this serves 12, so there should be enough to go around.

Oh one last thing is that they are sweet on their own, so not a lot of syrup is needed.

 

What you need:

 

4 cups unbleached flour

1 cup white sugar

1/4 cup powdered sugar

3 Tbsp. baking powder

1 Tbsp. salt

4 eggs

1/2 cup butter, melted

4 cups coffee (weak)

2 Tbsp. vanilla extract

 

Putting it together:

 

Combined all dry ingredients in one large mixing bowl setting it aside

Flour

Sugar

Powdered sugar and
Baking Powder, salt

In another large Mixing Bowl combine all wet ingredients

Eggs

Vanilla

Melted Butter

Coffee

Slowly add dry mixture to the wet. Mixing till there are no lumps and batter is smooth. Doing it this way will make sure you pancakes are fluffy

Pour out 1/3 cup of batter on your griddle per pancake. (Note a turkey baster works well to portion out pancakes.)

 

Once cooked Serve with fruit and Enjoy!

Saturday Funny: October 5/13

Evening All!

Well we finally got the cupboards painted.. now on to the rest of the kitchen... so with that it is the main reason there is not much cooking going on at the moment... I do hope to have a few posted this week of things I mean to get up. There just may be few less pictures to go with it.

This week I found these funny stories floating around Facebook and thought it would be a nice change for the Saturday funny. Hope you laugh as much as I did.

My wife and I were watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed.
I turned to her and said, 'Do you want to have Sex?'
'No,' she answered.
I then said, 'Is that your final answer?'
...
... She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying, 'Yes..'
So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend."

And that's when the fight started...

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I took my wife to a restaurant.

The waiter, for some reason, took my order first.

"I'll have the rump steak, rare, please."
He said, "Aren't you worried about the mad cow?"
"Nah, she can order for herself."

And that's when the fight started.....

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My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school
reunion, and she kept staring at a drunken man swigging his
drink as he sat alone at a nearby table.

I asked her, "Do you know him?"
"Yes", she sighed,
"He's my old boyfriend. I understand he took to drinking
right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear he
hasn't been sober since."

"My God!" I said, "Who would think a person could go on
celebrating that long?"

And then the fight started...

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When our lawn mower broke and wouldn't run, my wife kept hinting to me that I should get it fixed.
But, somehow I always had something else to take care of first, the shed, the boat,
making beer.. Always something more important to me.

Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point.
When I arrived home one day, I found her seated in the tall grass, busily snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing
scissors. I watched silently for a short time and then went into
the house. I was gone only a minute, and when I came out again
I handed her a toothbrush.

I said, "When you finish cutting the
grass, you might as well sweep the driveway."

The doctors say I will walk again, but I will always have a limp.

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My wife sat down next to me as I was flipping channels.
She asked, "What's on TV?"
I said, "Dust."

And then the fight started...

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Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my lunch, and slipped quietly into the garage. I hooked up the
boat up to the van and proceeded to back out into a torrential
downpour. The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather
would be bad all day.

I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed. I cuddled up to my wife's back;
now with a different anticipation,
and whispered, "The weather out there is terrible."

My loving wife of 5 years replied, "And, can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?"

And that's how the fight started...

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My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.
She said, "I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds."

I bought her a bathroom scale.

And then the fight started......

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After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply
for Social Security. The woman behind the counter asked me

for my driver's License to verify my age. I looked in my pockets

and realized I had left my wallet at home. I told the woman that

I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later.

The woman said, 'Unbutton your shirt'.
So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair.

She said, 'That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me' and she processed my Social Security application.

When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office.

She said, 'You should have dropped
your pants. You might have gotten disability too.'

And then the fight started...

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My wife was standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror.

She was not happy with what she saw and said to me,
"I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you
to pay me a compliment.'

I replied, "Your eyesight's damn near perfect."

And then the fight started........

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I rear-ended a car this morning...the start of a REALLY bad day!

The driver got out of the other car, and he was a DWARF!!
He looked up at me and said 'I am NOT Happy!'
So I said, 'Well, which one ARE you then?'

That's how the fight started.

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One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot
as a Christmas gift...

The next year, I didn't buy her a gift
When she asked me why, I replied,
"Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!"

And that's how the fight started.