Archive | December, 2011

Eating Healthy on A Road Trip

23 Dec

Ryan and I headed off to Richland, Washington yesterday for Christmas. It was a ten hour drive and I was determined to eat healthy on the way there instead of stopping for junk like I normally do.

Here is what I packed for a healthy road trip.

celery sticks

instant coffee and green tea

chicken sandwiches

cut up dragon fruit

Lots of fruit

Greek Yogurt

Pomegranate Seeds

Bottles of water

Two bags of snacks

Eating a pear on the road

Pomegranates on the road

Now, we didn’t follow my eating plan to a tee. We did stop for coffee at Timmy’s and got a cheeseburger at Wendy’s in Cranbrook.

Tmmy's, Ryan and the mountains. Three of my favorite things

But other than those two little slips we ate well and enjoyed a beautiful (but super long) drive through the mountains.

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Books, Movies and Artists to Experience in 2012

22 Dec

I wanted to beat everyone on their New Year Resolutions posts! Everyone makes New Year Resolutions and they are always the same; lose weight, eat better, save money, do better at work, travel more. I have stopped setting resolutions as I don’t think you should wait until the beginning of the year to make a positive change. I have a rolling list of things I want to do and accomplish and I remind myself of that often throughout the year.

However, I decided to set a challenge for myself instead of a resolution in 2012. I want to grow my mind. I want to read the classics, watch Oscar winning (or nominated) movies I would never have thought of watching, listen to music I would not normally have listened to. I’ll keep on with the getting healthy and the ‘experiencing life’ goals that I strive to live every day. But I thought this would be a fun experience and I would like to share it with all of you.

Here is the plan:

  • Read one classic book a month (12 total)
  • Watch one classic movie each week (48 total)
  • Listen to one classic album each week (48 total)

Thanks to the local library this should be an easy task to finish and to make it brainless I am listing what I have to read, watch and listen to over the course of this next year. Follow me on this journey as I not only push myself physically through adventures, but mentally as well.

READ

  1. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens,
  2. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller,
  3. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  4. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
  5. Tender Is the Night  by F. Scott Fitzgerald,
  6. Streetcar Named Desire, A   by Tennessee Williams
  7. Age of Innocence  by Edith Wharton,
  8. A Farewell To Armsby: Ernest Hemingway,
  9. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  10. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo,
  11. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe,
  12. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Watch

  1. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  2. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  3. The English Patient (1996)
  4. Out of Africa (1985)
  5. Gandhi (1982)
  6. Chariots of Fire (1981)
  7. The Godfather (1972)
  8. The Godfather Part II (1974)
  9. Oliver! (1968)
  10. West Side Story (1961)
  11. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  12. Ben Hur (1959)
  13. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
  14. From Here to Eternity (1953)
  15. An American in Paris (1958)
  16. Gentlemans Agreement (1947)
  17. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  18. The Way We Were (1973)
  19. Marty (1955)
  20. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  21. Cleopatra (1963)
  22. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
  23. The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
  24. Terms of Endearment (1983)
  25. A Passage to India (1984)
  26. Roman Holiday (1953)
  27. I was a Male War Bride (1949)
  28. Citizen Kane (1941)
  29. Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
  30. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  31. Duck Soup (1933)
  32. No Business Like Show Business(1954)
  33. Goodfellas (1990)
  34. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  35. On the Waterfront (1954)
  36. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  37. One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest (1975)
  38. High Noon (1952)
  39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  40. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  41. Vertigo (1958)
  42. Platoon (1986)
  43. The Jazz Singer (1927)
  44. Cabaret (1972)
  45. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  46. North by Northwest (1959)
  47. Red River (1948)
  48. Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Listen

(Top 50 albums of all time according to Rolling Stone magazine)

  1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band- The Beatles
  2. Pet Sounds- The Beach Boys
  3. Revolver- The Beatles
  4. Highway 61 Revisited- Bob Dylan
  5. Rubber Soul- The Beatles
  6. What’s Going On- Marvin Gaye
  7. Exile on Main Street- The Rolling Stones
  8. London Calling- The Clash
  9. Blonde on Blonde- Bob Dylan
  10. The Beatles (The White Album)- The Beatles
  11. The Sun Sessions- Elvis Presley
  12. Kind of Blue- Miles Davis
  13. The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground and Nico
  14. Abbey Road- The Beatles
  15. Are You Experienced?- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  16. Blood on the Tracks- Bob Dylan
  17. Nevermind- Nirvana
  18. Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen
  19. Astral Weeks- Van Morrison
  20. Thriller- Michael Jackson
  21. The Great Twenty-Eight- Chuck Berry
  22. Plastic Ono Band- John Lennon
  23. Innervisions- Stevie Wonder
  24. Live at the Apollo- James Brown
  25. Rumors- Fleetwood Mac
  26. The Joshua Tree- U2
  27. King of the Delta Blue Singers- Robert Johnson
  28. Who’s Next- The Who
  29. Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin
  30. Blue- Joni Mitchell
  31. Bringing it All Back Home- Bob Dylan
  32. Let it Bleed- The Rolling Stones
  33. Ramones- The Ramones
  34. Music From Big Pink- The Band
  35. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars- David Bowie
  36. Tapestry- Carole King
  37. Hotel California- The Eagles
  38. The Anthology- Muddy Waters
  39. Please Please Me- The Beatles
  40. Forever Changes- Love
  41. Never Mind the Bullocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols- The Sex Pistols
  42. The Doors- The Doors
  43. The Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd
  44. Horses- Patti Smith
  45. The Band- The Band
  46. Legend- Bob Marley and the Wailers
  47. A love Supreme- John Coltrane
  48. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Wishing on a Shooting Star

14 Dec

Last night marked the start of the geminid meteor shower and I was determined to see some shooting stars. According to the news it was slated to start at 10pm soat 10 Ryan and I bundled up (it was about -11 out) and drove to Northern Lethbridge to a park to try to see some shooting stars.

As usual, my camera battery was dead and so I had to rely on my phone for pictures which obviously couldn’t get much.

Yeah stars!

When we got to the park, we realized that we didn’t know what direction Gemini was in so we had no idea where to look. I texted my sister to Google its direction and when she texted back north-northeast we turned in that direction and BAM! Shooting star! It was beautiful, very bright and literally gone in a flash.  We hung around for another half hour and saw about three total. As we were directly under the spot they were shooting and my car doesn’t have a sunroof, it got very cold very fast.

I am still a happy girl that I got to see a few, and made a few wishes.  Sorry this blog has been so dead lately but I have not been on any fun adventures.  Christmas should be a blast and after Christmas I plan to go cross country skiing and hit up Fernie for some snowboarding so expect some fun posts soon.

NOTE: I DID finally sell my Jeep this week! Yeah! Now that I no longer have double car payments I am going to start saving up for a trip to Hawaii this winter. :)

Here are some beautiful photos of past Geminid Meteor Showers

This is what the first one we saw looked like

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