Things I Dig: Cacti

Feeling blue? Like you have no purpose in life? Like everything is falling down around you? Never fear, just buy a cactus!

Water these babies once a month and you're good to go. They look pretty all year long, they're extremely low maintenance and there are more than 2,000 different kinds!

Don't want one? Fine. More for me.

These cuties were being sold for just $8 - make that $7.99 because every penny counts - at my local grocery store! The deal was too good to be true so I happily bought one and welcomed it to the family. I really should have taken full advantage of the deal and bought more than one.

This is love.

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Little Inspirations

I'm feeling really inspired lately, probably because spring must be on it's way eventually...although the forecast says snow and more snow. I've been reading blogs that I'm interested in, pinning on Pinterest and writing in my journal nonstop. Even with all of this, I think everybody could use a little extra nudge sometimes. I could use that nudge right now. I figure there's no better way than to share with the internet world that I am going to stay good to my body - eat well, exercise well, sleep well. Then I will feel well. :) Let's count this as a pact.

Story time:

I went downstairs to search for ingredients to make a healthy lunch just 30 minutes or so ago. Being at my parent's house, they don't care quite as much about living a fully healthy lifestyle as I do. I searched the fridge and the pantry and with nothing really healthy and appetizing in sight. Then I laid my eyes on an unopened box of Valentine's Day chocolate. Dun dun dun...

I'll let you imagine what happened after that. So yeah, I really need this extra nudge of motivation.

First we have this little quote. Tres inspirational. I'm a top notch procrastinator so let's try to remember this one. Ya got that, Isabelle?

No more giving power to the Valentine's Day chocolates. They didn't even taste that good and Valentine's Day is so three days ago. Let's not forget that one either.

Here's a little warm weather inspiration. I think Candice might be from a different dimension with that bangin' bod but a girl can dream, right?!

'If you don't trust yourself, no one else is going to, either.'


More inspirational pics are coming your way so stay tuned, folks. Enjoy the snow and keep in mind that hibernation is coming to an end!

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Impromptu Coconut Rice Bowl

Canadian weather doesn't fool around. It's barely 30 degrees here and snow has been falling all day long. The sad part is, I think it may be colder inside my apartment than it is braving the great outdoors! For dinner I knew I needed to make something that would keep me warm. I planned on making a simple but delicious chickpea curry (I know you must be dying to read about that, so recipe coming soon *wink wink*). After a series of unfortunate events and a sad realization that my can opener had broken, I decided that chickpea curry was not an option tonight. I didn't realize this until after I started making the coconut rice. So now I had some rice boiling while I sat on my kitchen counter in a slump. Cue inspiring pictures of food and a lot of disappointment when I realized a good chunk of the recipes required a can opener. No worries, this story has a happy ending. After about 10 minutes of feeling uninspired by food inspiration, an idea was born! A coconut rice bowl with a fried egg and avocado. So easy, ay yai yai!

I'll save you ten minutes of your life by giving you the blatantly obvious recipe below. No uninspiring food searching for you, my friend!

Coconut Rice Bowl

Ingredients:

~ Coconut milk - 1/2 cup

~ Jasmine rice - 1/2 cup

~ Avocado - 1/2

~ Egg - 1

~ Salt

~ Pepper


*no duh* Instructions

1. Begin cooking the jasmine rice with 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup coconut milk.

2. While the rice is cooking, fry an egg.

3. Cut your avocado.

4. Put the rice, avocado and egg into a bowl. Add salt and pepper as you wish.

Take your first bite...WOW party in your mouth! I bet you weren't expecting such deliciousness to come out of such a simple recipe! Ah, the beauty of laziness. This bowl will keep you satisfied for a long time after you've finished eating as well.

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