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This is part of my daily Good Mood Blog contest countdown (big post here) – please vote for me today to be the official Good Mood Blogger!  You can vote once a day per browser until 10/30.  To thank you for your help, I'm doing an Eye-Fi card giveaway on 10/31 – the more votes [...]

Good Mood Gig from SAM-e I submitted an application today to be in the running for a great 6 month 'Good Mood Gig' through SAM-e.  Basically, it's 6 months of daily blogging on the Good Mood Blog what's keeping me in a good mood – sooo… 6 months of me talking about what I pretty [...]

Nothing says healthy good eating like a bowl full of Quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wah).  It is a perfect food.  The Mother Grain.  A sacred Incan crop.  And absolutely delicious. With the highest protein of any grain, all 8 amino acids, Vitamins A and E, calcium, fiber and more…  it is a complete protein and a versatile [...]

So I’ve been pretty bummed out ever since being coerced into throwing away my awesome wonderful Starbucks water bottle (coughcoughEDcoughcough) – you know, the whole polycarbonate poisoning thing… But now there’s a way to not die by drinking from cool water bottles, as well as to avoid wasting your fave Nalgene — a neat solar-powered [...]

This weekend brought many interesting events and discoveries – everything from sewing class at Sew Crafty to a giant/swollen knee to fried tofu yumminess to giant cupcakes.  But what I’m most excited about as I blog are 2 new sites I ran into that I’m already using like crazy: Open Source Food (www.opensourcefood.com) – A [...]

One of the week’s nicest surprises was the addition of video to Flickr – everyone with me now:  woo hoo! However, this great news certainly did not trump the excitement of completing our Master Cleanse – 12 days of a strict lemonade fast, a mighty mighty challenge.  We came out on the other side very [...]

Did you know that Lush makes toothpaste?  Yeah, me neither.  Sounds good though (citrus, sandalwood and CHARCOAL to keep your grill nice and white). We’ve been using Burt’s Bees Lavender Mint toothpaste, but could probably use a little whitening action once in a while too.

Some ideas to help you beat those winter / long workday blues: 10-20 minute pick-me-ups to get you ready to hit the clubs (heh, yeah right) after a long day at the office All-natural herbal tinctures that give you a REAL reason to call your 100-proof brandy ‘medicine’ A simple primer to using essential oils