From Ramen to Raw

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Goodmorning Everyone! I thought its been such a long time since I’ve been on here, I wanted to share a super awesome recipe that my darling cousin has been so lovely to share with me! 

Om Nom Nom Alee’s Tabouli Dish

• One Package of bulgar wheat- Alee bought hers at Ocean State Job Lot, so really people this is an easy one to find. 
• One cucumber (I think she used an english cucumber?)
• A crapload of cherry tomatoes (these are good because they maintain a relatively uniform shape and look cute in the tabouli)
• Parsley
• Mint (if you want)
• Lemon Juice
• Scallions (i love scallions, but you can also use chive or any other onion, maybe sweet onion would be another good option)
• crushed garlic
• Sea salt to taste (remember, sea salt is stronger than table salt!)

Beginning on Saturday April 21st, I will be decking myself out in a new look I’m going to try to master- ‘hipster’ chic. In order to get into this look for real though, I need feedback from you guys! So when I start posting photos, I need you to let me know what you think, okay? Great! <3xoxox

I have the sneaking suspicion that those very expensive high waisted “vintage” hipster short shorts were made from men’s wrangler jeans- tomorrow i will be buying a pair at WalMart to test this theory. DIY to follow.

I broke out the May issue of Cosmopolitan (yes, yes, yes I know) and I stumbled across something that really jumped off the pages to me. Deep in the middle of ‘sex your guy craves’ and ‘cheap date ideas’ was an article called “You Can Solve Problems While You Dream”. I’ve read some literature on this subject, as well as the father of this idea- “The Interpretation of Dreams” by Freud himself; so I emitted quite a laugh and continued to read.

Though this is not a new idea- in fact, meditation uses a lot of similar ideas like quieting the mind and calming oneself in order to clearly think about things afterwards (at least the type of laissez-faire meditation that I do, as I am not heavy into it myself). According to Bethany Heitman, author of said article, “the dreaming mind is able to go down creative paths more easily, which leads to better, more innovative resolutions”. Hmmm! The article then goes on to explain that when you sleep, the prefrontal cortex of the brain shuts down- and this is the area that controls logic and social constraints. Essentially this allows you to think outside of what you normally would to fix a problem sucessfully. But this doesn’t happen naturally. According to Cosmo, there are 3 steps you can take to ‘train your brain’

Step 1: Think about your problem lightly before drifting asleep.Write down your problem is also suggested. Keep in mind this is mostly for problems that require complex answers like if to take another job opportunity, to remain with a boyfriend or continue with a living situation- not paper or plastic (reusable! for the record ;])

Step 2: If you wake up in the middle of the night, be sure you can jot down anything you remember on a pad of paper by bedside. Same for when you wake up.

Step 3: Turn that prefrontal cortex back on, and analyze the solution your mind has concocted for you in dreamland.

This seems like something I’ve done before, but never consciously. I’m going to give it a try tonight- we’ll see what comes of it.

I just found out about her passing today, but RIP Isabelle Caro. Her brave fight against anorexia shocked the public and brought to light once again a rampant disease that can and will kill you. We must continue to learn about how to fight anorexia, and battle this disease with healthy weight loss and fitness. Please, don’t support pro-ana websites and blogs… I’m sure I’ll get wonderful anonymus responses from this, but those websites are encouraging beautiful women to starve themselves in the name of ‘beauty’ which in my opinion, isn’t real beauty at all. As someone who has battled with anorexia, I find these blogs extremely upsetting. You are more beautiful looking like a human, and not at all when you look like a skeleton.