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Bloggy Mini-Rant

Dear fellow bloggers,

I love reading your blogs! I really do! I love commenting on them too, sharing my experience in the trials or joys you're sharing with all of us. Unfortunately, I run into snags many times, trying to comment on your blog and show you some love.

Many, many bloggers whose posts I find interesting have settings enabled that prevent me from leaving a comment. Having to sign into Wordpress, or another service, in order to leave a comment, instead of a name and website, means I won't be leaving comments.

Perhaps that's just super picky of me. I know a Wordpress account is free. I actually have a WP account...but I don't remember the password, and I'd rather not link to the dead blogs that hang out there. I understand spam can be, and is, a problem...but with a simple capatcha add-on, you can weed out the bots and still let rockstars people like me comment.


Please, check your settings and let us mortals, who are a little too lazy to figure out the mess that is Wordpress, leave you some comment love on those awesome posts you're putting out!

Love,

Quinoa For You, Quinoa For Me

I don't cook often, and when I do, it's selfish cooking. Last night was just such an endeavor - quinoa for my lunches!!

Quinoa salad!

This is light, refreshing, with delicious texture and quite filling. All I did was cook an entire box of quinoa in chicken stock for about 15 minutes. I chopped some tomatoes and cucumber to toss in when I'm ready to eat it, and set aside some Parmesan cheese to top it. Then I got out my skillet and "wilted" some spinach in water and butter. I cooked about 2 cups of spinach, which cooks down into a very small amount, just enough for two days' worth of salad.

Here at work I warmed up the quinoa with a sprinkle of Parmesan for about 30 seconds, then tossed in the cucumber, tomato and spinach. It's delicious, the cucumber gives it a great crunch, and aside from the chicken stock, it's a "clean" meal. I just need to find a recipe to make my own clean chicken stock, and this is a perfect meal.

If you're not familiar with quinoa, it's small grain that packs in the protein, similar to beans. Combined with veggies, you have a great meal that gets all the things you need into your belly!

BONUS - my ridiculously picky 9 year old LOVES this. I will be sharing it with her after school today.

September Goals

It's my first blog hop! *throws confetti*

I'm all about goals, so this really grabbed me.

My September goals (in no particular order, and frankly small, but I do best with small goals):

• Run 3 days a week
• Eat 1 serving of veggies per day (fresh or cooked is OK)
• Clean and organize the vanity counter
• Make good on our vow to purge our clothing
• Organize and shoot the burnout building idea that has been brewing for too long

Join the hop and share your goals!

Wordless Wednesday

Striking sunrise on my way to work



Early morning run over Labor Day weekend

 

Labor Day camping with dear friends

 

Beautiful wood bowl on display at Wild Goose West over Labor Day