Happy... Arbitrary time to decide to start over.
We have New everything.. all the time.
Our diets will always start on Monday.. even though it's been proven that diets started on Mondays are least effective. Followed closely by diets started for the new year.
We always start going to the gym on Mondays or right after January 1st. At the gym I managed, we called them 'New Year's Resolutioners'.
We figured them into the budget through February. After that, only 30% of them still come.
Mondays were always really busy.. all day. By Thursday, we cut 2 people from staff.
Yet every Monday, you try again. Every Monday you start out with a good breakfast and pack your gym bag in your car on the way to work. You aren't ready to give up.. and you shouldn't.
And today just seems like a day to wipe the slate clean. You're hoping that 2012 will be the year IT will happen.. and it probably can! If only you can get that fresh start...
And what is that fresh start?
Is it health? You just want to be able to say that 2012 is the year you didn't smoke.. and you needed this fresh start to say 'December 31, 2011 was my last cigarette!'
'I worked out 3 times a week, every week of this year.'
Is it more goal oriented? This will be the year you practice your Spanish Every Day.. You will take piano lessons. You will floss.
Really what we're trying to accomplish is: This is the year I forgive myself. I forgive myself for not sticking with a goal. I forgive myself for not being everything I know I can be.
It's not the fear of other people's judgement that keeps us from trying harder. It's the fear of our disappointment in ourself.
So if you want a clean slate, allow yourself to have it this time.
You're the only one who has stopped yourself from being the person you know you REALLY are.
This has to start with being honest with yourself about what you can truly accomplish.
How long have you been short selling yourself? Making small goals so you KNOW you can accomplish them? Writing 'brush teeth' on your daily checklist, just so you can check something off by the end of the day?
I know you. I do.. And you're selling yourself short.
Please let this be the year you forgive yourself.
Please let this be the year you reach so much further than you were brave enough to try for before.
I'm so excited for your New Year! I'm so excited to see what this world looks like next Christmas because you finally allowed yourself to be your incredible self!
*climbs down off soap box*
So.. uhm. Oh ya!! You guys want a recipe??
Sorry to those of you who asked for the Maple Bacon ice cream info on Friday.. My incredible family had it's Christmas party yesterday and I got quite enveloped =)
I love them... quite an awful lot =) =) =)
The ice cream starts with an Ice cream machine... but I bet you could get it done with a medium metal bowl, a large metal bowl, rock salt, and ice!! (and a whole lotta elbow grease...)
Aside from that, easy peasy!!
- 32 oz Coconut milk
- 2/3 cup pure maple syrup (ours comes in a jug that says Orange Juice.. his fam tapped it for us!)
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 strips of cooked bacon
Once the ice cream had solidified, The Caveman simply crumbled the cooked bacon into the ice cream churn and let it go another minute or two until it was mixed =)
Meat Balla... A New Christmas Tradition!
The Caveman and I had a pretty low key Christmas Eve. We rented some silly movies off Netflix and lounged around in jammy pants all day. Pretty great, really =)
But I wanted something special-ish for dinner.. so we decided on a meat ball tour of the world! Haha.. Somehow, the things we do sound even sillier when I'm typing them...
All American Bacon Cheese Balla
- Ground beef
- bacon, chopped finely
- onion
- cheese (I believe we used cheddar...)
- salt and pepper to taste
Mix your raw chopped bacon and finely minced onion into your seasoned raw beef. Form into balls and bake at 375 for 20-30 minutes until cooked through. Melt cheese in a fondue pot, double boiler, or your trusty rusty microwave and dip =) Serve with pickles and Ketsup for your all American bacon cheese MeatBalla!
Ciao Italia
- Ground beef
- Minced onion
- Mozzarella
- Parmesan
- basil
- garlic
- salt and pepper
Season your beef and work shredded mozz into your mixture. Ball it up and bake like above.. Top with grated Parm and serve with your favorite Marinara!
Grecian Delight
- Ground beef (or lamb, if you're shmancy.. which we weren't that night)
- green peppers
- onion
- crumbled feta
- rosemary
- garlic
You're catching on =)
Serve on a big bed of Romaine with cucumber and tomato or dip in Tzaziki =) =)
Cheers to 2012 my friends =)
Cheers to your clean slate <3
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