Dandelion Picker

Mmmmmm now that’s a good smoothie!

I’ve been drinking these green smoothies for about 2 weeks now, one for breakfast everyday. I haven’t had one the last two mornings cause I’ve been up late and didn’t have time to make one. I definitely miss them in the morning! They fill me up and wake me right up, no coffee needed

This isn’t my usual. My usual is found on the Happy Foody blog. This is a spin on that recipe. This one has:

*a bunch of kale
*some beet greens
*a regular lemon and a Meyer lemon
*a banana
*4 really small apples
*about 1 tbsp. of agave nectar (you could probably leave it out and wouldn’t notice)
*a small piece of ginger
*about 5 oz. of coconut milk
*and enough water to make it smooth

Its delish! And soooo much easier and tastier than eating kale in a salad or cooked. My blender is a cheesy one, so you can actually chew my smoothies. I don’t really mind, I’m kinda used to it, but it does suck when I drink them at work and get kale stuck in my teeth and don’t know it So I will probably be getting a new blender from work soon. We have those super-duper crazy horsepower restaurant ones that are made to chew up anything. After making my smoothie, my current one has to rest and I have to open the door to the balcony to let it air out cause the kitchen smells like burnt-up motor LOL that can’t be good!

So once again, I have been seriously lacking in the knitting department. But I did get a little done on the sweater:

I still have no idea if its going to fit. I suck at getting gauge.

I got a new book too and its awesome

I’ve made a few things already and they were really good. I especially like the chickpea patties for lunch, a spinach wrap, some sprouts, tomato, hummus, yummmmm.

So that’s it! I’m going to Toledo for the weekend. My Aunt Maryanne and I are going to a fiber festival in Bowling Green, so that should be fun!

And I have nothing to say. Well, I do have things to say, but I’m not going to turn this into a political blog, so I will just leave this nifty little thing I saw over at Lick My Sticks:

1. Why did you start your blog? Cause my grandparents moved away to California. Most of my fam is out of town now and its a good way for them to keep up with me when they want to.

2. How did you come up with your blog name? I wanted something cute Its named Dandelion Picker because my Pop-pop used to take all my cousins and me a field full of dandelions every summer and we’d pick bags full so that he could make wine out of them. In return, we got Taco Bell or ice cream afterwards…it was fun!

3. Do your friends and family know about your blog? What do they think of it? Yes they know, and most of them think I’m a nerd LOL

4. How do you write posts? Usually if I’m at work or at home I’ll keep a little posty note of things I need to blog about so I don’t forget. Then I run around taking pics of the stuff I need to post. I hate posts without pics. I think they’re boring.

5. Have you ever had a troll or had to delete unkind comments? Not that I can remember. But if you leave me mean comments, I will delete you. Its my website and I’ll do what I want with it since I pay for it!

6. Do you check your stats? Do you care how many people read your blog? If you do care, how do you increase traffic? Yes, I check to see which of my family, if any, is reading my stuff! It also lets me know when fellow knitters are stopping by to see if I’ve updated. So, its nice to know that people care what I’m up to.

7. What kind of blogs/posts interest you? I read mostly knitting and vegan/vegetarian, but also Kara’s (when she actually updates!), news stuff, and political stuff. I like funny ones and ones that contain pics! I also read some sewing ones, atheist ones, pro-choice, and gay rights ones.

8. What do you like and dislike about blogging? I hate the feeling that I have to blog. I feel guilty when I don’t do it for a long time…but sometimes there’s just nothing all that exciting that I feel that I need to write it down. What I like about it is that I can go back and see what I was doing a month ago, a year ago, etc. I also like that my fam can feel like they’re keeping up with me even though we don’t get to talk or see each other that often.

So there you have it.

In knitting news (and I’m sorry, there just isn’t much of it), here is Jodi’s sweater once again:

I hate stockinette in the round, it’s so BORING! I guess that’s why I haven’t gotten very far, but as you can see, I’ve started the twisty-cabley part, so I’m getting motivated again. I just hope it fits her, it’s looking kinda tiny to me. But it’s my first sweater, so I’m going to cut myself some slack. Not planning on doing anything for Easter this year. Easter’s never been all that exciting to me, so I think I’m just gonna hang out here. Matt has to work all day, so it will be nice to be home alone! I may make some Easter coffeecake or something if I feel inspired

I got a juicer last week and I’ve been playing with it non-stop (which explains the lack of knitting). I’ve been into the green smoothies lately. Matt says they smell like the apple orchard had an accident, but they taste pretty good! This one is my fav over at Happy Foody. She’s awesome, I love her site. Try a green smoothie they taste great (much better than choking down a salad - you know how I feel about salad!).

Well I spent the past weekend in Toledo with Wy. I went in for my Grandma’s birthday party. Here’s a pic of me and my cousins (some of them anyways!). Oh - I got new hair! I *love* it so much! Its dark dark dark brown (as close to black as I could get) with red and copper streaks!

I didn’t get any knitting done. I was too busy playing Rock Band with Wylie (I suck at drums…but then again, so does she!) and catching up with my friend Sarah from grade school. It was good to see her again, we had lots to talk about and it was fun! And I grabbed a quick bite with my Aunt Kathleen before I came home on Sunday.

Other than that, not much to report over here. The snow keeps coming and its cold…but that’s to be expected, its March in Ohio. I really wish I had some knitting pics to show you, but I’m just not motivated lately. The endless stocking stitch of Jodi’s sweater is driving me to tears of boredom, and the beret I was working on is going to be too small, so I really need to frog it and start over.

I finished two books this week. They were both very good if anyone’s interested…

First I finished “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, then “What the Dead Know”…both kept my attention…which isn’t easy!

I broke down and bought a juicer, so there will probably be lots of juice pr0n pictures soon!