Hey there! I hope your morning/afternoon/evening has gone well so far. I always find it interesting when people read and it looks like yall like to read blogs around 2:00! That is fine by me, the post is up by 5:30 a.m. and I like to be able to have the chance to get started on another one if I want. I gotta say...the professional bloggers out there that post three and sometimes four times a day...how do you do it? I know that my posts are very long and have lots of photos that take time to upload and all but still....how in the world do you have a life! With a 8 hour work day, personal training, house sitting, my own work outs and a tiny bit of time to socialize myself...I can blog either EARLY in the morning, the afternoon if there is time and LATE at night. I am constantly trying to get the most out of every moment that I can and honestly no matter how small the post is...I couldn't post three times in one day...Do you have a fancy phone? Carry your laptop with you everywhere? Or do you blog for a living? My goal is to be able to do this and only this. My dream would be to travel around the world trying new products and blogging about my experience. If there was a product that I really believed in I would love to travel around the world and promote it, see what people think and show my experiences on the blog. Wouldn't that be great?!? If there is one thing that I can do it is sell...I use to work in sales and thrived in it. Top seller for 4 consecutive years in a HUGE business. The only thing that I DONT like is the pressure to sell. If you give me something (and it has to be something that I truly like and believe in) I will run with it. However, the second you say "Heather you have to sell this amount in this amount of time." I fail. I hate pressure to sell and I hate even more someone breathing down my neck. I would be a great traveling sales person, blogging about the experience and product but it would have to be at my own speed. You let me have a little time and I could show you what selling was all about. Are you sold yet? HA!
Movin on...So my vision board post the other day got a TON of e-mails! I had no idea that I would strike that much interest and excitement! Keep it up and if you send me your vision boards (PLEASE dont send me the actual vision board, thanks though Kim, just take a photo and send it my way). I would love to continue to post your hopes and dreams! It is so much fun to see what YOU want in your life!
This week is going to go by sooooo fast and I am SO glad...I am counting down the days to give back the keys to the house that I am house sitting for. Man....I am pooped from all the running around! It looks like May has almost come and gone. Man...My summer is going to flash before my eyes and I will be back in the winter months dreaming of warmer days. Lets not get ahead of ourselves though! Lets talk about food shall we! Food porn...on the way. Breakfast was one of the best that I have had in a LONG time! 
This is a usual of mine but the granola that is on top is to die for! I made it, naturally! It is Greek yogurt with granola and fresh blueberries! Yum! Fruit and summer....I love you.
After breakfast and running around like the freak that I am I was ready for lunch! I took this bloggers recipe and went to town...
Stuffed avocado! So simple! Avocado, salsa and sour cream. Dont think that I only ate this...it was accompanied by 100,000,000,000,000 Mary's Gone Crackers gluten free crackers! It was like guacamole but with a little more work. Spooning out this goodness was heaven! I haven't been eating my avocado's as much as I usually do...There were months where I ate one everyday. I need to hop back on that train...I just feel like with the raw nuts and coconut oil I might be eating too much healthy fats. Whatever.
Stuffed avocado! So simple! Avocado, salsa and sour cream. Dont think that I only ate this...it was accompanied by 100,000,000,000,000 Mary's Gone Crackers gluten free crackers! It was like guacamole but with a little more work. Spooning out this goodness was heaven! I haven't been eating my avocado's as much as I usually do...There were months where I ate one everyday. I need to hop back on that train...I just feel like with the raw nuts and coconut oil I might be eating too much healthy fats. Whatever.I had some unpictured snacks throughout the day but one that was captured was amazing too (who am I kidding...I eat amazing food all day everyday...I'm a food blogger for god's sake). Anyway, I have been eating some pretty bizarre stuff (scared to share some of it as you might think that I am weirder than you thought and stop reading....ha, that wont happen, hopefully!) So here's one of my favorite things to munch on these days and I know it wont come to a surprise to some of you that know me well....
Carrots and PB (in this case almond butter). Oh so good. I swear I should have names my blog "Everything Peanut butter" because I really believe that everything tastes better with some PB or AB. The other night I was rolling up spinach leaves with Pb and it was divine...Oh no! It came out!
Carrots and PB (in this case almond butter). Oh so good. I swear I should have names my blog "Everything Peanut butter" because I really believe that everything tastes better with some PB or AB. The other night I was rolling up spinach leaves with Pb and it was divine...Oh no! It came out! One question....Why the heck are some of my pictures AMAZING and some of them almost gross looking? So far all the pictures in this post are beautiful but I tell you what...I cant take a good photo lately for Hugh if it killed me. I think it is because these are taken all over the place and in the day...When I cook his creations and photograph them they are always in the evening and the lighting at my house is terrible. I am a lover of lamps so harsh lighting doesn't exists at home for me...Next time I am going to try my best to make his dish during the day and take it outside if I have to. The best place for me to photograph oddly enough is at work...The lighting at my desk makes things almost look better than they really are...I am still playing with my new camera so bare with me...
I have been getting questions about the computer....I haven't even wanted to think about it but I gotta give you guys the low down. Here goes. Remember my old computer that I had for blogging? 
My mom got a computer about 6 years ago to try out on-line dating (did you know that every women in my family is single? It's cracks me up sometimes when my twin sister, mom and grandmother all go out...) anyway, she met someone! Yes, online dating can work and when she met the guy and things got serious she gave me the computer...Needless to say, she wanted it back about 3 months later but I was hooked having my own computer and told her "sorry, but you cant take back a gift =) I used that laptop everyday and started the blog with it. I typed on it until I couldn't anymore....It fell off my bed one night and the hinge broke on one side, then the charger stopped working. Once I decided that I would buy a new camera (after that hand-me-down broke) I knew it was time for a new computer. So I took a deep breathe and went in for the plunge. It was the most expensive thing that I have ever bought in my life....Sweaty hands, heart pounding and anxiety ridden I walked out of Best Buy with a modest laptop for 750.00 and a proud owner of a new laptop for my new camera! I was so happy that I had a laptop that could upload pictures in under 5 minutes (it literally took 15 minutes sometimes to upload a pic on the other one) and now I could post more often and my pictures looked better then ever! Well, I am going to give you the readers digest version....My bright and shiny new computer looks like this now...
Pretty huh? Yeah, same thing happened to this one....it fell off the bed while I was rushing to change clothes one afternoon. I could have died when I scrambled to look at the receipt and found that it was 2 days, 2 DAYS after my warranty was up. 
My life. I cried, threw things around my house and yelled but that didn't fix it and didn't make me feel any better about it. To save my fingers for later...You see, nothing brings me more joy (use to anyway) then to crawl in bed with my laptop and youtube retarded videos. Yep, that's why I am single! (Have you seen this one yet? http://deadspin.com/5535220/) WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK, May not be a good idea to watch it at work with the audio and all. Anyway, that is the sorta thing that I laugh at in bed. So the computer slid off the bed and the screen shattered. There is nothing I can do about it and I will be paying for the next 18 months for a computer that looks like the above...How am I blogging then? I bought a monitor and hooked it to my broken laptop and now have a "office" of sorts. I cant lay in bed now with the laptop...It is stationed in the living room and I now have a desk! I just couldn't bare to buy another one (I couldn't anyway) so I just rigged it up and now moving on. It is just the way that life goes (mine anyway). So, there's my story about my broken new laptop, life goes on.
My mom got a computer about 6 years ago to try out on-line dating (did you know that every women in my family is single? It's cracks me up sometimes when my twin sister, mom and grandmother all go out...) anyway, she met someone! Yes, online dating can work and when she met the guy and things got serious she gave me the computer...Needless to say, she wanted it back about 3 months later but I was hooked having my own computer and told her "sorry, but you cant take back a gift =) I used that laptop everyday and started the blog with it. I typed on it until I couldn't anymore....It fell off my bed one night and the hinge broke on one side, then the charger stopped working. Once I decided that I would buy a new camera (after that hand-me-down broke) I knew it was time for a new computer. So I took a deep breathe and went in for the plunge. It was the most expensive thing that I have ever bought in my life....Sweaty hands, heart pounding and anxiety ridden I walked out of Best Buy with a modest laptop for 750.00 and a proud owner of a new laptop for my new camera! I was so happy that I had a laptop that could upload pictures in under 5 minutes (it literally took 15 minutes sometimes to upload a pic on the other one) and now I could post more often and my pictures looked better then ever! Well, I am going to give you the readers digest version....My bright and shiny new computer looks like this now...
Pretty huh? Yeah, same thing happened to this one....it fell off the bed while I was rushing to change clothes one afternoon. I could have died when I scrambled to look at the receipt and found that it was 2 days, 2 DAYS after my warranty was up. 
My life. I cried, threw things around my house and yelled but that didn't fix it and didn't make me feel any better about it. To save my fingers for later...You see, nothing brings me more joy (use to anyway) then to crawl in bed with my laptop and youtube retarded videos. Yep, that's why I am single! (Have you seen this one yet? http://deadspin.com/5535220/) WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK, May not be a good idea to watch it at work with the audio and all. Anyway, that is the sorta thing that I laugh at in bed. So the computer slid off the bed and the screen shattered. There is nothing I can do about it and I will be paying for the next 18 months for a computer that looks like the above...How am I blogging then? I bought a monitor and hooked it to my broken laptop and now have a "office" of sorts. I cant lay in bed now with the laptop...It is stationed in the living room and I now have a desk! I just couldn't bare to buy another one (I couldn't anyway) so I just rigged it up and now moving on. It is just the way that life goes (mine anyway). So, there's my story about my broken new laptop, life goes on. And so it goes! I am in the mood for ceviche and I just may have to concur that urge tonight. You better eat all the fish that you can now, I wouldn't recommend it in a few weeks from now. The oil spill has made me cry more than once and it is going to effect us more than the news is letting on to believe. Just wait. I don't want to get into that right now but I do want to get into this!
Prep Time: 5 Hours (by far mostly inactive)
Cooking Time: none (gotta love that!)
Yield: 2-3 Servings
Ingredients:
1 Lb Small Scallops
Juice of 6-7 Limes, or enough to cover scallops
1 Red Bell Pepper, chopped
1 Small Red Onion,
chopped Jalapeño Pepper, to taste (I used ¼ of one, seeded and diced)Small Handful of Fresh Cilantro,
chopped
1 Tbsp Olive Oil
½ Tsp Sea Salt Ground Black Pepper, to taste
2 Tbsp Tequila
In a medium bowl, combine scallops and lime juice. Cover and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight. When finished, drain off most of the lime juice (you’ll instinctively know how much to leave in the bowl, but only a little) and stir in bell pepper, onion, and cilantro. In a small bowl, combine olive oil, sea salt, black pepper and tequila. Pour over scallop mixture, mix well, and refrigerate for at least another hour. Serve.
WOW! This post was all over the place! Hope you didn't mind! Get ready for more reviews this week! I got some GOOD things to tell you about! See you sooner than later!
-Heather
