Hello, Monday!

Today was off to rough start. I woke up from a dream where I was living in a Bollywood movie. Enough said. I think we were doing a choreographed dance before I woke up. Odd? Yes.

The husby and went to a Bollywood themed movie/food afternoon party with some friends yesterday. We watched a 4-hour movie called "Laagan". The movie definitely had it slows parts (it's 4 hours long!) but it had the wonderful "cheer on the underdog" theme going for it. By the end of the movie we were ready to head home! We did enjoy some tasty samosas, lentil curries, and almost authentic naan. Delicious! Now you see why I was dreaming of Bollywood, right? :)

After breakfast this morning, I tried to get into some of my Bible study reading, but I was completely distracted. I decided to take a break from it for a moment and do one of the Insanity workouts (more on this in upcoming posts) to clear my mind and re-focus. This definitely did the trick! I was super exhausted and ready for my mid-morning snack. As I was resting for a moment, downing my glass of water, I googled "how to make a green smoothie". I was inspired by this blog post and decided to find out more!

Basic info: green smoothies are fruit and veggie based. Usually 60% fruit and 40% greens. I assume that the fruit content is higher to outweigh the flavor of the greens.

I chose to make a green smoothie with a pear and spinach leaves. I cut up the pear (with an apple-corer) and added the spinach to the blender. Blend! Fail. The pear definitely needed to be cut up into smaller pieces and there also needed to be some liquid. I added a dash of orange juice and a scoop of vanilla protein powder. Blended some more...and voila! My green smoothie was so tasty (and filling)! One downside...I don't think we washed our blender enough last Friday, so the taste of my exotic spice mix was lingering in the smoothie. Haha! Ah, well. Live and learn.

Friday's Persian Beef with Khoresh was a hit! We loved the exotic spices and full flavor of the meet, veggies and brown rice. We will definitely be making this again! I was in the kitchen (above), while husby was in the backyard, playing with a new remote helicopter he got for a birthday present. It landed over the fence in the neighbor's yard and he was trying hard to retrieve it. Unfortunately, it is still MIA (missing in action). We also watched Duplicity, but I fell asleep towards the end of the movie (if you know me at all, this happens in most movies I watch at home haha) so it's hard to tell whether I really enjoyed it or not :)

Saturday we spent lounging around the house. I worked on my Indie Biz homework and slowly gathering all of the "tools" that I need to start my own indie biz...super excited for this! I will share more as the class continues. We spent the evening with good friends and enjoyed tasty thai food! We also introduced them to our new favorite game, Bang! And, enjoyed some homemade cookies and coffee (thanks Jessi!).

And that was our weekend! Now, I should probably get back to doing my Bible study homework, before class tonight (in less than 3 hours!) :)

much love,
Megan