Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 6:52PM Ok whether you have ran a 1/2 or full marathon you will relate to this hilarious video. Even if you have trained for this great running event, eaten the best you can, slept the best night, this is how you will probably feel.
Enjoy - if you can't laugh at yourself who can you laugh at,
Karen
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 12:56PM Food Label reading quiz: When looking at the sugar amount on, let’s say a box of cereal, how many grams of sugar equal 1 teaspoon.
4 grams = 1 teaspoon of sugar
Over the most recent years food companies have been ‘sneaking’ in fat, salt and sugar into our foods. So be aware some of the foods you have been eating may be higher in sugar than you think.
Diet, nutritional data, sugar, weight loss | Permalink Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 8:38AM Since I am in my new location for a week in Spain, I have very limited internet, no TV, and it gets dark at 6pm and light at 8am. So much time. I have been reading and cooking but must say it hasn’t been easy doing very little. And had too much time getting into my head with thoughts of this last year of forced change for me. Are we an entertainment-seeking nation but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one? We spend billions to keep ourselves amused with everything from theme parks to shopping, but it’s not exactly the same as quiet enjoyment. We work harder and longer and more stressful hours than anyone in the world today. But do we like it? Alarming statistics say we do. We are more happy and fulfilled in our offices (and home offices) than in our own homes. Then of course the inevitable happens, we get burnt out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, staring at the TV a mild coma. So do we really know how to do nothing? Food for thought.
Take Care,
Karen
Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 2:49PM Many of you may know that we have taken the “title” of nomads over the past months as we chose to rent out our primary residence and attempt to travel. Our travels have led us to Morocco, and we have spent the last few days in the Sahara, and last night specifically in the desert. We boarded our camels – actually dromadaries with one hump as camels are not strong enough to handle the big dunes - just before 4 and got to our bivouac camp in time for sunset. We got up at 6 am to ride out our camels back for sunrise.
We learned that we are not really nomads. Our desert guide Yussuf is a true nomad – he does not remember when his family became nomads – that is just the tribe they are for as far back as he knows. A true nomad does not move homes – they travel all day in search of food for their animals to let them graze, returning home every night. The only time they move their home is when there is no rain and there is no grass growing for their sheep, donkeys and dromidaries.
Yussuf never went to school, but speaks 5 languages (not perfect but well enough). He works with tourists a few days (cook, cleans and entertains) and then walks for hours to find his family and give them money to buy food. He knows where his family is because his father comes to town once in a while to buy food at the market – otherwise they live from what they grow. When the sun goes down they play music, sing, dance and go to sleep.
Yussuf never wants to leave the desert or his nomadic life – he wants the silence only found out there in the dunes, surrounded by nothing but sand and a sky like a screen of stars....
