I usually think manifestos are stupid. Just kind of airy you know? There are all these lame wanna-be girls writting manifestos because it was like epic in like 1992, and they are all still thinking it’s cool, so obviously because I think I am cooler I disregarded them and assumed it was like something for all those perfectionist little brats. But then I started thinking and I googled manifesto and I realized manifestos can be totally amazing. They are actually very positive, nothing to do with perfectionisim and after writing one I feel pretty amazing. And obviously I now want everybody to write one.
It’s uplifting and totally something to look forward to and stand for. And then because I was all inspired and feeling dreamy I decided to keep going and write goals. I know sexy, I was out of control.
So I want to share my manifesto with you. I think a manifesto goes hand and hand with having goals because when you set your self some principals they totally have to remind you the overall picture.
So here is my manifesto, and stay tuned for my goals. And by the way, I am not trying to be pretentious in thinking that you care about my goals but I totally believe that reading somebody else’s goals can be inspiring. So I just do it to get some inspiration out there.
1. Remember Simple Rules. And, keep in mind that simple sometimes doesn’t mean practical. Also keeping in mind I don’t need super expensive shoes, or more furniture, or a bigger place, or a better car. I just need what I have, I actually need less. And remembering this will make me understand and really worry about the things I need to do to make a difference.
2. Eat to live jumping. Eat food that gives me energy, choosing Natural Foods over foods with “hormones, antibiotics, sweeteners, foods colors or flavorings that are not originally in the food.” I hate when I am bloated, or grumpy and feeling draggy and that happens when I over eat and eat things that my body doesn’t like, like dairy or sugar. After I eat cake I always want more and more sugar but the next day I wake up all grumpy and basically with a food hangover. So stop the bullshit! Sugar is crack and it makes me so happy, but so sick, too. So no more sugar, and be done with the cheese, for real and for all. At least my rule now is: if I don’t know the farmer that made it I am not eating it.
3. Surrender surrender surrender! Trash what is not working in my life, forgive what I and others have done wrong and let the Divine Spirit do it’s magic.
4. Open my mind. Be truly conscious, and stop ignoring big things that are happening in the United States and in the world. My goals have to be aligned with the true matters on the planet like poverty, hunger, homelessness, lack of water, etc.
5. Pray often. if I could have done it alone, I would have done it all ready.
6. Educated myself, read, read read, and listen, listen, listen. Be open for new and innovative ideas. It’s boring to always think the same way and that is just means you are getting stuck. I love when I am super stubborn about an idea and I argue with someone, maybe my husband?, for hours and then once I put my ego aside, only then I can see, understand and relate to what he thinks. Its beautiful to be able to feel and comprehend his ideas, and somebody else’s.
7. Be honest and love. This emplies to so much. It’s ridiculous.
8. Dish it. Yeah everything sounds perfect but I have to be willing to dish everything and not set this manifesto as THE rules to live by. You know I am a total perfectionist psycho so I can easily get al wild and stress the hell out of me just trying to fallow everything to the dot. Obviously this manifesto is not going to fit with my schedule and I have to be willing to just be present enjoy the moment.
I am empty of good posts. I feel like lately I been so busy with work and keeping up with my not very busy social life that I haven’t thought of anything good to write. So, I haven’t written anything, at least nothing worth posting.
But I just started thinking about recent incidents and there is a common denominator happening; it’s like a disease. It’s spreading!!!
Its easier to be a party popper and be the bitch at the party. And with party I mean life. I see it all the time. The lady in front of me at the line in the grocery store screaming frantically because the line is too slow, or “friends” making rude and unnecessary comments, people talking poorly about others, or just people being dramatic.
Maybe it’s you.
You may not even notice yourself, maybe you are too used to it. But you may be the dark energy in the room. Think about it. Nobody is going to tell you. Here’s a tip: analyze yourself. Do people call you to invite you places all the time? Or do you have to call them? Do you have friends calling you or nocking on your door without any particular reason? Maybe and I am just saying maybe, you are the bitch in the room. And slowly but surely people around you are not willing to spend a minute of their time with you. Nobody wants to be around negative energy. It’s important to keep a low level on your bitchiness. Being a bitch is never OKAY. Stop the brat before you wreck yourself. Make the shift and be the lover!
If you are unsure if you are crossing the line ask family and close friends and be open to the response. LISTEN without objecting/refuting/refusing.
There you grow!
Peace.
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Spinach Lemonade
At the beginning of this week I got to know a really cool chick here in town; she is also a yoga teacher and she does all kinds of fun things. She has a blog called Bottling Health, so she is really into juicing and she inspired me to do something with the spinach I had in my fridge. I got all creative, oh shit, and made spinach lemonade. So the way I made it is the lazy way, but obviously you can make it super healthy and from scratch.
- 1 cup of Lemonade all ready made, basically whatever your find in your store. Make sure you get a good one; you know avoid high-fructose corn syrup and from concentrate. Mine was made with organic cane sugar, and a cup equals 28grams of sugar, that is like 7 tbs. I personally really don’t mind the sugar because I am putting spinach so it evens up.
- A bunch of organic spinach
- Ice
- Blender
Put the spinach, the made lemonade and the ice inside the blender and blend. Seriously it’s the most yummiest drink since they invented your favorite drink. I let one of my little neighbors try it and he loved it. So it’s something cool to do for kids since it’s tasty and healthy. I can’t wait to make popsicles out of it this summer.
Disclaimer: I know the picture shows the ice cubes, but it’s better if you blend them with the rest of the ingredients.
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Therapy Is For Crazy People
There are a lot of things in life nobody teaches us how to deal with. In school we are taught how to do the technical stuff, but nobody teaches you things about relationships; how to be a husband or a wife, a friend, how to be a parent, or how to cope with our super mega busy life. I mean unless you are majoring in psychology, you are kind learning those things on your own at your own pace.
Some of us learn some of that stuff by making mistakes. But sometimes we don’t learn the lesson it all. And we keep making the same mistakes.
There is a stigma about asking for professional help.
For me the stigma of therapy wore off at a very young age. I was sixteen and I found out my parents didn’t have money and I was starting to take on some big responsibilities in my life. I was mad about it. I lived my entire life getting everything I wanted with out deserving it. Silly reason to go see a therapist I think now, but it helped me. I figured things out in like one visit. Seriously!
Ever since then, I’ve seen therapy as something that I can go back to whenever I need it. Not because I need to fix something but because therapy is how I grow, how I figure things out, how I learn about myself, and how I access all of the parts of myself that I need in order to become the person that I want to be.
There has been times I had to go to see somebody because I was truly suffering. And I healed. There is some truly awesome help to be found out there; no matter the nature of your distress.
It is okay not to know, but there are professional people out there that can help you figure things out. We are all complicated human beings and we are a combination of millions of layers. And it’s your responsibility to be the best you can be. Your kids, partner, and friends deserve it. An of course YOU deserve it, and basically you owe it to yourself to step up to the plate.
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For The Ultimate Bitch-Totally Inappropriate To Write Bitch* In a Title
A couple weeks ago my blue-eyed man and I were browsing through the book store like we do almost every other day. I seriously think in an imaginary world we probably would actually live at book store. We love books! Anyway, the man found one of the best recipe books I have read in the last couple of years and you know how excited we get when we find recipe books with pictures. So we just had to buy Skinny Bitch, The Ultimate Everyday Cookbook. This book has me giggling and clapping in the kitchen. Kim Barnouin is the co-writer of the very famous book Skinny Bitch and last year she threw down an amazing cook book.
This book is for anybody; for people like me, a complete idiot in the kitch, or for the pros that have some mad skill abilities with the spatula and want to get inspired from another bad ass. So yeah run and get this book right now. You actually don’t have to run because you can just order online, but totally go for the run because I will be so proud of you. Actually I would be proud of you even if you don’t run.
Anyway, when I was reading some of her recipes I could totally sense she wrote the book thinking about all of us diagnosed with huge cooking-mental blockages. Every recipe is explained to the most minute detail and the ingredients are all things we are familiar with. My favorite part from every recipe is the break down of what each portion has; like the calories, fat, sat. fat, etc. I think that is pretty darn cool.
You got to love the first 69 pages of just pure fun information. I love facts. Give me some accurate facts and I would believe you, and then I would love you, because there is nothing sexier than a smart persona.
The first recipe we made was the Orange Scones, and then for breakfast The Man made Crepes with Raspberry Sauce. Both dishes are very easy to make and so delicious, so it’s a win-win. I will be making some more of her delicious food, so keep posted for more recipes or maybe just go get the book so we can try to make her dishes together.
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The New Los Douglas Obsession
My personal cook and lover made some amazing Crepes with Raspberry Sauce for breakfast on Sunday morning. He got inspired from the Skinny Bitch The Ultimate Everyday Cookbook. The recipe is very similar to Kim’s but he used less sugar and a bit more almond milk to thin the batter. This recipe is great for anytime. Seriously, we have made them even for a snack before bed.
Ingredients:
For the Raspberry Sauce:
1 cup fresh or frozen raspberries, obviously you can use whatever you have; strawberries, bananas, etc.
1/4 cup water
1/4 sugar
Blend all the ingredients. I recommend to do the sauce first.
For the Crepes:
1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons evaporated can sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cup almond milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Whisk the milk and the vanilla extract until smooth. In a separate large bowl combine all the dry ingredients and then when everything is all well mix add your liquid mix. Heat up the skillet and spray it with one of those non-stick sprays and then coat the bottom of the skillet as evenly as possible with the batter. Cook until the edges are lightly browned and then then turn them gently until you see a color you like, we liked them a bit brown. Fold them and keep cooking the rest of the batter. Then pour the raspberry sauce over the crapes and EAT all of them.
Fantastic things will happen in your mouth, I promise!
The Man and I made this recipe from the Skinny Bitch, The Ultimate Every Day Cookbook during the Valentine’s weekend. It was a super sexy-fun night because we made it together and I love cooking with my man—he gets so excited that it’s contagious. We wanted to go all glam and make them 100% organic, but we couldn’t. Our closest stores did not have a ton of organic produce; we even went to three different stores looking for organic oranges. We tried.
This recipe is super easy and so tasty. You can pretend to be English and make some black tea with it.
Ingredients:
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 cup evaporated can sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup orange juice
1 teaspoon orange extract
1 tablespoon orange zest, grated
1/2 cup Earth Balance at room temperature
Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl, leaving the butter out. Once everything is all well combined add the butter. Lightly flour a flat surface and knead the dought for a bout a minute. Form the dough into a ball and then shape into a small pizza crust shape, lightly flattening down the dough into the desired thickness. Cut them in squares, triangles, or whatever you wish. Since it was the Valentines’s weekend we made them heart shaped, soooooo ADORABLE! Yeah, I am screaming! Place them all in a baking sheet and using a brush, cover the dough with some orange juice and then sprinkle some sugar on top of it. Bake for 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
And then you got some amazing mates for your favorite tea!
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the most important meal of the day
I sometimes feel I am an experiment. Like some other dudes from another universe are experimenting with my life, and yours, too. I don’t think this all the time, just sometimes when I start thinking about why am I here on this planet. My mind goes to trippy thoughts. I sometimes think the planet Earth is like a lab and there are some “scientists” that we obviously can’t see, testing things on us just for fun. Like we do with rabbits and mice.
Every negative incident that I had in my life I think somebody is testing me. Some people call it God, maybe it is him or her. I don’t know yet.
Anyway, there is a lot of information out there about eating breakfast, so I decided to be my own scientist. There are a ton of benefits if you have a healthy breakfast every day. I usually have a small some-some but my biggest meal of the day is dinner. Traditionally it should be lunch because in Mexico the biggest meal is lunch. But I am totally copying the Americans and I am digging those french fries a couple hours before going to bed.
There is a saying eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper. But does it really work? I know I usually have breakfast like a pauper and dinner like a queen, but reading different articles all over the web may have me changed my mind.
Since there is a ton of information about the positives of having a big breakfast I decided to test myself and have the biggest breakfast ever for 3 days. I went super healthy, you know, my mind was thinking fiber, fiber and more fiber. And I was looking for any positives or negatives in my mood and my eating choices throughout the day.
First day: about a cup of brown rice, two cups of blueberries, two cup nuts and 1/2 of a cup of vanilla light soy milk (I wouldn’t usually use so many nuts, instead I would probably do half of a cup).
Second day: a mega sub from Winn-Dixie (like subway-but better) loaded with veggies, I think it was about 8 inches long (I will usually just eat the vegetables with out the bread).
Third day: a peanut butter sandwich with a smoothie made from one scoop of Vega protein powder and two cups of vanilla light Silk soy milk (I unusually will just have the smoothie).
So I had my big breakfast around 8am and for the 3 days I did not need any snacks between breakfast and lunch. I am usually eating lunch by 12 and this time I was eating lunch almost at 2!!!! WOW, I was just not hungry. For lunch I had a normal meal, but for dinner I was fine with just making a smoothie or a pb&j.
I think I like eating a big breakfast better because I didn’t feel as hungry through the day and when I was going to bed I felt light like a feather. Not really but I always wanted to say that.
So if you are not so sure about going big in the morning, just test your self for a couple of days to see if that would work for you. For me it definitely worked. I guess my grandma and my mom where right after all “a big breakfast will keep you smiling through the day” AMEN!!!!
Every time we talk about Veganism we think about vegetables and other thoughts may come to your mind like “those people have pale skin and yellow teeth, they look sick.” I know this because when I first presented the idea of becoming vegetarian to my parents, my mother was like always very accepting when I presented a new idea, but then once she has time to think and analyzes the idea and with out any research she would make random comments, like:
Mother -“You know Aidee, my friend Manue had a friend that was vegetarian and her skin looked yellow and she died three weeks after becoming Vegan.”
Sarcastic me – “Oh really mom?”
Mother – (very secure and affirmative voice with out a clue about my sarcastic ways) “Oh yeah, and your dad’s cousin, the one that was really thin, was vegetarian, too, and her teeth where very yellow, almost brown.”
Purely random. I think my mother doesn’t like the color yellow.
Now my mother has a better understanding of the reasoning of becoming Vegan and she has seen a positive influence on me since I stopped eating meat. Now she is trying to stop eating beef and she is also trying to stop eating dairy. Very impressive. I must say, I am proud of her.
I have found that the word Vegan or Vegetarian can bring negative thoughts to most people. When we think Vegan food, we think vegetables, vegetables equals healthy, healthy equals not fun and tasteless. I get it, but whatever! A vegetarian meal is good and good for our planet.
Do some research and come up with your own conclussions and have a veggie special meal. These days there are a ton of great Vegan and vegetarian products that you can find anywhere. Vegan food is healthier and also very tasty.
Shoot me an email and I can tell you what to make, what to buy and where to go for the best prices. All you need to do is ask. I sound like a cheap commercial now. Fuck, I was just trying to be nice.
My man and I are foodilingos or foodies or whatever you call the people that adore food. We just purely love food. We are those people that clap at a restaurant when our food comes to our table. We would not eat it if it wasn’t blowing our mind. It has to taste amazing. Vegan food does, I promise. So let’s give a crap about the planet and your body and embrace one meal. Come on! You don’t have to make it Vegan, I know that sounds crazy. Just go Vegetarian. I promise it would be fun.
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