Green Smoothie Recipe

This is my favorite Green Smoothie recipe:

8oz of milk (any kind. cow, soy, almond)
1/2 cup (or so) Dole Frozen Mango Chunks
1 Banana
Baby Spinach - Handful
-add some water if it's too thick

Yummy! It's simple and taste great! I swear they are addicting.

Sunday is only 1 day from Monday :(

I've been terribly busy for well over a month now. I feel like I will never ever NOT be busy again. I had to work on an off all day yesterday. It's crazy!  Yes, I am just complaining to complain.

Ah....That feels better!

My Ninja

I finally did it!

I bought a Ninja Pulse. For the past few years I've wanted a Vitamix. They are really cool and are like a food processor and blender mixed in 1, but they are $500. I just can't bring myself to buy one if I am not 100% certain I am going to use it and use it often.  I do however still want a blender that can make a green smoothie that isn't chunky and wouldn't mind some food processing ability too.

Then one day I was watching TV and an infomercial came on for the Ninja. It seemed to do almost everything the Vitamix did for less than half the price. I don't normally trust things I see on TV and in my experience cheaper is NEVER better so I just put it in the back of my mind.

Well...My husband and I were at Bed Bath and Beyond and I see all the Ninja varieties available and they are even cheaper than the were on TV. I decided to give it a shot. If it can do most of what the Vitamix could do, but slightly worse; i'd still be thrilled.  The coolest thing and the reason I picked the pulse was because of the 3 16oz portal cups that you can make smoothies in. I guess similar to the Magic Bullet. This allow me and Eric to make different types of smoothies without having to wash the blender in between. It's SOOOOO much easier.  It's really freaking awesome to be quite honest.  I can now make green smoothies that are perfectly smooth. That's all I really wanted it for, but now that I have it I am going to have to give food processing a try.

This week I am going to make hummus and I'll post a review with pictures with how my Ninja Pulse handled it.

If you are looking for a good blender that does job and does the job pretty well without breaking the bank...Try out the Ninja. They are on Sales at Bed Bath and Beyond for $80.00 right now.

To be or not to be....

...a vegetarian.

I am dumb. I watched a video on animal slaughter and was ready to become a vegetarian. I understand that we have billions of people to feed in this world and it's hard to kill an animal in a nice way, but we have to change something. It's just life long suffering and then we kill them in the most brutal way. It's like the people doing the killing forget they are living things. It should be a quick and swift death, not long drawn out and painful. I don't know I just was disgusted with what I saw.

I thought to myself...Hey I was vegan for quite a while when I was younger! It's really not a big deal to not eat meat. I like it, but I like vegetarian food too. I can do this! I use soy milk in my coffee already. Then I looked down at my prized possession...My Coach purse is made of leather!!!! Not just that, I have leather seats in my car, the gummy vitamins made with gelatin that I eat every morning, and much more. How can I say to myself...I won't eat meat because of animal cruelty, but look at my new Coach purse! :-/

I feel I try to do my part. For the most part all my body products are not tested on animals. I used body wash that is from the Body Shop. My face creams and shampoo's are Aveda. I use mostly 7th gen products for cleaning and I try to bring reusable bags grocery shopping.

Does every little bit truly help?

My manager said to just do my best. Whatever made me feel better is what I should do. That's what Eric said too. I just don't want to be labeled a hypocrite.  I don't eat meat, but by golly I wear it! Dammit....

TGIF

I'm awesome.

I don't really have a lot of time during the week to play Rift.  When I finally get around to it I just don't feel like leveling my main. I tend to reserve that for the weekends.  I don't mind leveling alts or playing in warfronts though.

Eric and I hit level 40 last weekend and now I am a lowbie. I still rocked it out as #1 healer in a warfront and held the fang the longest :)

My Chloro Azzy

Then I got bored and decided to play my baby Defiant Chloro.  She's too cute.  At like 9:00pm I was wiped and went to bed. 

I normally don't post about gaming. I have in the past, but try to keep it very nonchalant. None of my friends in FL are geeks. They know that I game, but I wonder if they truly know how geeky I am. I guess I've always tried to keep that side of me hidden from them, but fuck it. This is who I am. I love gaming. 

Yup, most people will call me a loser or a dork (even at work), but I really don't give a shit.  I am a geek...not a dork. I like playing games and watching SciFi. I really like going to DragonCon too. If I had the money I would totally go to Comic-con also. I don't dress up for the con's...I have my limits. I work on Linux for god sakes if that doesn't scream GEEK I don't know what does.  

Friends that read this.... I'm a geek. If you already knew that and still love me YAY! For those that didn't know how geeky I was, now you do. I play games in a Virtual world and totally love it. I also like Star Treks, Gates, and most stuff on the SyFy channel.

I can even make the "duck face".

Love her voice

I'm not a huge Glee fan. I definitely like the show, but no more or less than any other show.  I do however love love this performance.  Lea Michele is so talented. I absolutely love her voice. Even if you aren't a big Glee fan; you should watch this performance.

New eyeshadow

I got my Coastal Scents eyeshadow's yesterday.  I used them today.  The pigment is pretty good for $0.28 per eyeshadow. I have zero complaints.  I use MAC primer so my eyeshadow will normally last all day. Hopefully this one does too.

I really love all the options I have now. I used the mirage palette this morning. Tomorrow the warm and with 176 to choose from I am completely satisfied.

Coastal Scent Mirage Palette gets about an 8 from me. They are not as great as MAC eyeshadow's, but for the price and what you get they are well pigmented with A LOT of options.