Hi blog buds!

It’s Wednesday!  Happy Humpday!  I’m becoming more fond of Wednesdays now thanks to ABC’s “Modern Family” — which means we get 30 minutes of cracking up.  MSP and I love that show!  I hope it’s one of the new shows that actually stays on TV this season.

So…. lookie what I picked up:

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For some reason I thought buying a sprouting jar was going to be pricey, so I never looked for one.  But I happened to find this one for only $4 and change at the local Vitamin Cottage!  Wahoo!  And a small baggie of some organic mixed seeds for sprouting.  It has some fenugreek, mung, sunflower in it, plus some others that I can’t think of at the moment!

My next step is to soak the seeds.  Maybe tonight.  :)   Baby steps.  I have some “Sprouting Intimidation” going on after the last attempt at sprouting millet. 

I’ll keep you posted on how it goes this time.  If I can’t grow sprouts in a jar made specifically for sprouting using seeds labeled specifically for sprouting, I’ll know that I (specifically) am not meant to grow sprouts! 

Sadly I don’t have much for you in the way of Feats & Eats for yesterday like I normally do.  A certain little pupster (Rascal) decided to inhale something at 2:00 AM Tuesday morning.  That dog has THE most sensitive nose.  He sneezes if I put on hand lotion.  He usually goes out to tinkle around 2:00 (thank goodness for doggy doors) and must have been sniffing around  and breathed something in because when he came back in he had the Neverending Attack of the Sneezes.  Then he’d breathe funny.  Another sneeze fit.  Wheeze a little.   At that point, I was wide awake – for the rest of the night.

Needless to say, it was an unproductive day on the exercise front.  Outside of running errands and writing the blog, I was pretty much useless.  I don’t know how new parents function on little to no sleep.  I spent 2 years struggling with chronic intermittent insomnia which was finally resolved in April of this year.  I’ve been sleeping so great now that I must have forgotten how hard it is to get through the next day after very little sleep.  I didn’t even make a green smoothie yesterday!!  And luckily MSP had leftover dinner from the night before. 

I did get a lot of book reading done though, thanks to our cable modem being down 2/3 of the day.  :)   MSP and I commented last night on just how addicted to the internet we actually are.  Being forced to “unplug” for even part of a day seemed to induce anxiety and shaky hands!  ;)    

Looking at the silver lining, I was able to enjoy a wonderfully relaxing day.  So it just made sense that this morning’s workout should be a good hour of Iron Yoga to keep that ZEN going.  After which I took each of the dogs on their own wog, so I got about in about 30 minutes per dog. 

I can already tell my shoulders will be sore tomorrow - I like combining the small weights with the yoga. 

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Thanks everone for the great book suggestions you gave me in response to yesterday’s post.  I appreciate it!   I’ll return the favor by recommending a DVD for you to watch.

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Food, Inc. was recently released on DVD (wahoo!)  This documentary sheds a lot of light on how our food supply has become BIG BUSINESS and the affect it has had on small farmers, obesity, disease, meatpacking employees, treatment of animals, etc.  It discusses how much of our food supply is genetically modified (engineered) not only for things like ‘bigger better tomatoes’ but to be PEST-RESISTANT.  Not to mention the fact that we could be consuming meat from CLONED animals and not even know it.   Check out the issues with industrialized food at the Food, Inc. website.  Or read about the 10 Things You Can Do to Change our Food System.  

I could ramble on about the issues covered in this movie, but I think you’d get more out of it if you check it out for yourself.  If you are familiar with Michael Pollan who wrote The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, you will enjoy that he is featured in the film. 

One of the biggest points MSP and I took away from watching this film back in July was that every time we make a purchase, it is a VOTE.  If we purchase local organic products it is our VOTE on behalf of those products.  The more we support organic and/or local products, the more mainstream they will become.  It has definitely made an impact on our shopping choices.  We are now happier to spend a little more for organic food because we want to support those companies.  And minimize our purchase of (read: vote against) industrialized food when we can.

Here’s the movie trailer – I guarantee it will pique your interest!

You can bet that I have the DVD even though I’ve already seen it in the theater. 

Today’s discussion: 

Have you seen Food, Inc.?  What were your thoughts after seeing it?  Did it change the way you shop or eat?

Let’s talk about it!  Drop a comment!

– Shari B. =)

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