The Best Thing Ever?

So yesterday I was hanging out with a friend and she suggested that we go to an organic grocery store that she knew. Having seen her talk about it on Facebook before I was all for it. The store is Blush Lane Organics.

It was awesome! They had produce, meats, cheeses and a bunch of gluten free products. While there I picked up some raspberry jam. d'arbo raspberry jam to be specific. Seriously the closest jam I've had to homemade jam. It only has 4 ingredients: Raspberries, sugar, concentrated lemon juice and pectin. No funny sounding ingredients here! Really, really good jam.

But that's not the best thing ever. Nope. This morning I discovered the wonder that is the Grilled PB&J sandwich. OH MY GOD. Seriously amazing. Warm gooey peanut butter, crispy bread. Why, oh why did I wait so long to try one? I see another one for breakfast tomorrow.

Catch up

I think I'm getting over this cold. I hope so as I miss having energy.

On Saturday I went to the Star Wars Identities exhibit at the Telus World of Science.
It was so cool! Not only were there props, costumes and artwork but you also got to create your own Star Wars character. If you're interested this is mine. Some of my favorite items were the Han Solo in Carbonite prop and the Darth Vader Suit. If you're in Edmonton I recommend going. It runs until April 1.

The great unfucking of my house (see previous post) has recommenced. Saturday morning saw me and the other half move the mattress and boxspring off of the bed frame and I vacuumed under the bed. It was unbelievably dusty. I will be cleaning under there a little more frequently.

Stripped off the sheets, mattress cover and the duvet cover and washed it all. It will be nice to crawl into a super clean bed tonight.

Also washed out our big garbage can that sits in the garage. It had developed a nasty odor. I didn't want to do it but it had to be done.

The great paper shred happened today. I now have a big bag of confetti!

More unfuckery will be happening later this week.

My goal for the year is to get my house clean and then keep it this way.
Also to deal with any paperwork as it comes in and get it put away promptly.

Blargh. Sadly Sick.

Warning some swearing ahead.

So I got inspired to get my house clean yesterday by a site called Unfuck Your Habitat (seriously: http://unfuckyourhabitat.tumblr.com/) and got the bedroom sparkling clean (aside from under the bed. I need my other half's help to move the mattress and boxspring to vacuum it's dusty down there). There are some great ideas and inspirations there as long as you don't get sucked into reading all of it LOL.

I thought I'd continue today but work up with a sore throat and feeling tired so the cleaning is on hold today.

Instead I went to the drugstore and grocery store and picked up some stuff I needed for some home remedies.

This one is for a homemade cough syrup. Seriously the last time I had a cold it did wonders for me. That and using my neti pot twice a day.

This one is for a detox bath. If nothing else sweating it out will help.

I also enhanced my beef noodle soup with green onions, a couple cloves of garlic and some freshly grated ginger.

Every little bit helps right?

Google Can Make You Fat?

Well if you work for them...then yes. Or at least they used to anyways.

This is an interesting story about how the food offerings at Google was causing their employees to put on weight and what Google did to reverse the trend.

Seriously more companies could take a lesson from Google about caring for their employees health.