Bell Pepper Bread

A shout-out to Mark's Daily Apple for alerting me to this post on The Primal Parent for using red bell pepper instead of bread for sandwiches. I read the post yesterday as I was mulling over what to have for lunch. After reading, I went straight into the kitchen, cut a red bell pepper in half, put peppercorn deli-turkey (soy), kale, tomato, and a slice of soy cheese in between the pepper halves and YUM. I have found a new favorite lunch. 

Photo from THE PRIMAL PARENT blog

Smug Marrieds: Fun Friday #2 - West Jefferson, NC

This week our Fun Friday adventure took us to the mountains. Specially, West Jefferson, North Carolina. Why West Jefferson? No real reason except Blair ran a half-marathon up there a month or so ago and said it was a cute town. So we packed Mom into the back seat and off we went. 

West Jefferson is a cute town. We arrived about 20 minutes before the shops opened at 10 a.m., so we settled into a coffee shop/art gallery where we took turns guessing the price of artwork and being astounded when we were not hundreds but thousands of dollars off in our guesses. 

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Smug Marrieds: Locked Out

Saw Jeremy, my chiropractor, yesterday and he cleared me to run. Short, easy, flat miles but who cares? I get to run again! 

Blair was already up and out the door for his run by the time I left the house at 6 am. I ran an easy 3.5 and climbed the stairs to our front porch. When I twisted the doorknob on our front door... locked. It had been unlocked when we were both out for our runs because I tested it before I pulled it shut behind me, which meant Blair had locked me out. 

I rang the doorbell and waited. Finally, Blair opened the door, looking confused. 

"What are you doing out there?" he asked. 

"Why did you lock me out?" I countered, stepping inside. 

"I didn't know where you were. I thought you were in the bathroom."

I looked at my watch. "You thought I was in the bathroom for the last 28 minutes?"

He shrugged. "Sure, why not. Doesn't seem out of the ordinary."

I burst out laughing and he it took a second but then he got it and started laughing too. "No, no," he said. "I mean, I thought you were in there showering and doing your hair or something."

Whatever. God, that was classic.  

Cheers,

Dena

Saying "Hell, Yeah!" To Life

I bought a pineapple last week and cut it up for Blair. (Betcha didn't think this post would start like this, did you? Ha! Keep reading.) This morning he mentioned something about the pineapple and I said, "Yeah, I took a bite of it. It's not bad."

"I think we need to watch how we phrase things," said Blair. "'It's not bad,' is not a very enthusiastic way of saying something is good."

He's right. And the Universe is sending me signals to watch my language. Just last night...

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