It’s been a while since I’ve written a random sharing post. This post is just that – good reads, recipes, & other fun stuff. It’s also proof that I spend WAY too much time on the interwebs.
Also, Saturday was my birthday. And San Diego Pride. And we’re moving. Sooooo… while I had a recipe post planned, that sure as shit did not happen this weekend. What did happen was my baby sister surprised me with delicious red velvet cupcakes at like 10 pm in Saturday night. #winning
On to stuff that’s probably more interesting to you…
Health Reads
Do you know how many calories are in a glass of wine? Thanks to this PopSugar article, I got a reminder. Doh.
DIY shower lotion – I started making my own lotion after freaking myself out about all of the additives. I love this spray-able idea from Lisa too because you can do it right on the shower!
I’m a huge fan of hiking, but my friend Nicole is the San Diego expert. Check out her 7 Favorite San Diego Hikes… and come visit us in SoCal!
Have you guys heard of “Fat Yoga”? This girl is incredible. We can ll be too hard on ourselves. Jessamyn is a great example to us all. This is a great reminder that “healthy” has a million different looks. You don’t have to be a plastic.
Recipes
Date-Sweetened Banana Bread with Candied Bacon. Someone please explain to me why I’ve never thought to bake bread with bacon. Patrick is a genius.
Anti-Inflammatory Diet – One of the more popular posts on my blog is about my anti-inflammatory diet. I actually got that from Lindsay! She recently wrote a post with more details and recipe ideas. This will be happening as I recover from ACL surgery in a couple of weeks!
Skillet Peach Ginger Crisps for Two – I grew up on peach cobbler with peaches from my grandfather’s orchard. This recipe by Marisa reminded me of that. Plus, she has mini cast iron skillets. How cute is that?!
Salmon Tacos with Cherry Lime Chipotle Salsa – yeah, yeah… it’s my recipe. I’m loving it for two reason though. 1) It’s delicious and 2) I’m learning to use a “real” camera and am super proud of these pictures. Lots of room for improvement, but it’s the best I’ve done in a while.
Other Stuff
Breyer’s is coming out with a “healthy” ice cream that is apparently delicious.
Which personality type are you? I took this quiz, which says I’m an “intelligent extrovert” (read: I’m loud and I think I know everything).
Purple Hair Wash – apparently you can wash your hair with this shampoo and it’ll dye it purple for you (they make other colors too). I was dying my hair purple-ish most of last year, but it got really expensive. Maybe this is my solution?! It’s on order; I shall report back.
This linen duvet cover is on sale at Crate and Barrel and it shall be mine soon! I’m so bad at decorating that I had to ask my baby sister if it would match our new room.
Did I mention we’re moving? Just down the street, but I’m really excited about the house. It was a dishwasher, and ice maker, and air conditioning. San Diego will cause you to lower your housing standards significantly, FYI.
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The people being loud outside my door right now (at 11 pm) are really going to regret their Sunday Funday in the morning.
How was your weekend?
What have you read/discovered/cooked lately?
LOVE!!! And Happy Happy Happy Birthday to you – it looks like you got everything you wanted 🙂
Thank you! Close… we’ve yet to move to Italy. Maybe for my 40th in a few years. Big birthdays deserve big presents, no?
I’m an emotional introvert. So basically we’re the opposite of each other. No wonder we get along!
Annnnnd now So Emotional is stuck in my head. Thanks.
Happy Birthday, congrats on the new place, and FEED ME TACO’s!!! My question regarding the Breyers is “Will it be the same $$$ as the other light ice creams?”
Thank you!!! As far a Breyers… I doubt it’ll be less. One can hope.
Happy birthday!!! I love round up posts like this. That banana bread with bacon WHAT? Gimme
Isn’t it a genius idea?!
I just heard an interview with the Fat Yoga on NPR recently and thought I needed to add it to my book shelf. Happy new house and happy belated birthday!
Tip: Have you tried Halo Top??????? If not, you must as soon as you are able….
I LOVE Halo Top! It’s my current favorite “healthy” ice cream.
I love the birthday picture. I also want that bacon cake. That’s genius! I might sweeten it with Swiss whiskey chocolate instead of dates. More fun 🙂
Come visit and I will make you the bread. You have to bring the chocolates though. 😉
Intrigued by the Breyers ice cream. I have not been a fan of some of the other newer brands that everyone seems to love. Hope you had a fantastic birthday!
Halo is my go-to right now. But the rave reviews on the Breyers cookies and cream have me curious!
My husband and I were JUST talking about needing more hiking info for San Diego. He took the boys yesterday, but didn’t really know where to go. I feel like we know about the “BIG” ones, but not smaller, more local ones.
Nicole is a great resource! I really need to get out and explore more.
When’s the move happening? At least you’re only going right down the street & are excited about the new place. That’ll make all the packing less painful!
Great job on those food pics! I’m forever honing in on my photog skills and working to improve my pics. Sometime it turns out fabulously, other times not so much. I think I need to invest in a small lighting fixture. One of my clients makes them, so I’d like to convince them to give me one…
And thanks for the link love lady! Now I know you can still kick ass in spin class, but can you hike with that bum knee of yours?? Now that the current temperatures are conducive to hiking anywhere inland.. we’d melt!
NOT* that the current temps
Moving down the street is harder and easier… you don’t have to be organized so it’s a bit of a mess. BUT we moved with a total of 8 boxes. We just kept reusing them!
I can totally hike! I can basically do anything but lunges and sports. I don’t have the side to side movement at all.
Random posts are fun, now that I’m thinking about it, I haven’t written one of those in awhile. I”m going to stop drinking for a couple of weeks. I have this sneaky suspicion that my increase of drinking has also increased my weight so I’m going to lay off the booze and see what happens. I ran across Jessamyn’s Instagram page a few months ago and just saw her in an advertisement in a magazine. She is inspirational, impressive and beautiful. You salmon tacos are making me hungry. Congratulation on your move!!! Schramsberg Blanc de Blancs is my favorite, if you guys ever make it up here I’ll take you to the Schramsberg caves.
I was SO angry when I stopped drinking for 3 weeks and din’t lose anything. When I stopped drinking beer last year is was big though (now I basically only drink wine).
I have been to Schramsberg! We’re actually members. I need a steady supply. LOL! They have such a gorgeous setting – my favorite in Napa.
I’m absolutely flabbergasted that you shared my recipe! Thank you so much!! I can’t wait to check out the other things you have here! Thanks again! I feel truly honered.
I’m flabbergasted that you came up with this! I can’t wait to get settled in here and try it.
so excited for you both with the new house….its been a hectic weekend but i did absolutely nth yesterday and slept..so feeling really good right now.
A sleep day sounds heavenly right now!
So glad to see you had a fab birthday!
We are moving in a couple of months (only about 10 mins away from where we are now), currently trying to find somewhere to move to in the area we like. Luckily david and I both know how to compromise so it hopefully shouldn’t be too hard! Then it’s time to pack – urgh!!
Packing is so hard for a short move. We only used a few boxes – just kept unloading and bringing the empties back to repack. It mostly worked… Good luck house hunting!
Hope you had a great birthday, Laura! And good luck on the moving deal… 🙂
Thanks Heather!
(sorry if this is a repeat – I don’t think my previous comment sent)
Happy belated birthday!! I hope you treated yourself to all those cupcakes, all the wine, and then some crisp with ice cream. For me, I’ll help myself to that bacon banana bread thank you very much. Dear lord. GENIUS.
Moving! I hope that is exciting?? Great thing about moving down the street is there can be so much less stress trying to do one big load and pack everything up super super well.
Not a repeat! And thank you so much. The cupcakes didn’t stand a chance. 😉
We did a million small loads… which worked until the last few days. Then stuff seemed to explode!
I’m excited for you!! Congrats on house! And bacon bread is calling my name!! Ant inflammatory right? Lol
Errrrr… bacon is totally anti-inflammatory! *crosses fingers*
Holy shit, how am I this far behind on your blog? My bad. Love you and can’t wait to see the new digs.