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An Easy Recipe Share

September 1st, 2010

Here’s an oddball post for you all. Happy hump day :)

I’ve been doing VERY well with my intentions from August’s New Moon! I’ve been much more active in the food my family eats. Something that I’ve started doing a lot more is cooking breakfast. This technically wasn’t part of my official intentions, but it’s related and has been born out of that New Moon.

In honor of my pride in myself, and breakfast, and growing even more than intended, I want to share with you a recipe for the fastest, easiest, yummiest, healthiest pancakes ever. And the thing I love most about it is, it’s a SMALL yield. If I’m throwing together pancakes on a Wednesday morning, I don’t want to make a dozen of them.

This recipe makes enough to feed Mike, Michael, and Eddie. I don’t like eating heavy food in the morning, and usually stick to fruit, nuts, yogurt, or a smoothie. But these men of mine need something substantial to keep them going!

So, without further ado, I give you:

Weekday Quick-Cakes

1 Cup whole grain flour (I use whole wheat usually, but oat four is awesome too!)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

1 egg
1-2 TBSP melted butter (to taste… I use 2 because we don’t put butter on top.)
1 Cup milk (I use almond milk ALWAYS, but I don’t see why you couldn’t sub.)
vanilla (a little dribble… precise huh? lol)

Blend dry ingredients.
Blend wet ingredients.
Pour wet mixture into dry mixture and stir briskly for about 5-7 seconds then walk away. Yeah, I know there’s some lumps. Leave it. Heat up your pan (I ♥ My Griddle).

I like to make little cakes. Make big if you want. When your pan is ready and hot (1-2 minutes) give your batter a last turn or two with your wisk or spoon or rubber spatula and then deposit your desired amount, into the pan and cook.

So easy and fast, I just wrote all this from memory. Now THAT’S an easy recipe!

A wonderful morph of this recipe is; Cut the milk in half and add half a cup of applesauce. Then, replace your dribble of vanilla with 1/2 tsp cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg. *drool*

Have a great hump day everyone!!

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My affirmations until ….. ? I LOVE these 3!!!~
I AM a miracle in motion~ Only more miracles can come from me*
My words have power~ I will choose them wisely*
Wonderful new experiences give me wonderful new ways to express the divinity that I am*

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Attraction in Action, Conscious Living, New Moon Update, Recipe

Seeking Life

August 29th, 2010

Happy Spirit day, my friends :)

Last night we attended Mike’s boss’ annual pig roast… And I got drunk and sang karaoke!

Some people really love to sing karaoke, and do it on a fairly regular basis. I am not one of those people. I did it last year at the boss’ party for the first time. Once I worked through the terror and the feeling that I was gonna throw up, it wasn’t so bad.

This year I was just as anxious. I had to keep pep talking myself into it.

“You’ve done this before. It’s no big deal. You LOVE to sing. No one booo’d you off stage. They’re drinking too and don’t care. Besides, you sound better than half of them. At least you keep tempo and KNOW the songs…”

So with that, I got up and opened with The Beatles, When I’m Sixty-Four.

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I’m trying to live… as a verb. Not live as a passive bump-on-a-log like I’ve been doing for 12 years now.

I’m trying to get out there and do real things…. new things. Inside these walls, I have more experience than I really know what to do with. Out there, I have none.

I want to do more things that make me anxious and want to throw up… In a good way of course.

I want to feel that high, tingly, anxious, exhilarated, terrified like when you’re on a roller-coaster feeling! I want this feeling to be a part of my, maybe not everyday, but normal life.

I am bored because I am boring. There is so much out there and I long to find and experience it.

I want life to experience ME… authentically, as I am. I want to share ME with the rest of the world as readily as I want to soak up the experiences of all of It.

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I’d intended to take guitar lessons with Michael this fall, and I still intend to do it, but I think we’ve had a minor change in plans.

Michael has just started a band class in school that will go on for six weeks. At the end of the six weeks, the kids who want to actually BE in the band will stay, and the rest will return to normal classes. I’m going to wait until the end of these six weeks to start guitar with him because I want him to learn everything they have to teach him about music.

Because I don’t want to wait that long, myself, and because I don’t want to start guitar without him because we won’t be in the same place then and won’t get the discount, I think I’m going to start taking piano lessons in the meantime.

I have always loved piano music and have wanted to learn to play piano for as long as I can remember. Yep, just typing it out makes me a little anxious and a little nauseated. LOL

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I am learning that it’s that exhilarated feeling that creates.

It’s that feeling of overflowing joy beyond verbal expression that connects me right to the Universe. When I cultivate that feeling within me as I’ve been doing for a few weeks now, I feel as though I’m sitting right in God’s lap…. Like God is actually Santa and whatever I throw out there while on the lap will readily come flyin’ at me.

Doing things I love to do is good. I mean like, writing, riding my bike, walking in nature, playing with my dogs, etc…

These are all great feeling things that help me to create happiness in my life. But I’m also finding that, when I get the shot of super high exhilaration, it creates faster.

So I will. I will seek things that scare the crap out of me. I will seek things I’ve never done. I will seek things… feelings, experiences… all of it.

I am a seeker.