Happy Saturday blog buds! 
If you are reading this post then some of the propagation changes have occurred or your subscription is working. (woohooo! and thanks for finding me!) At our house, the blog change hasn’t hit our ISP provider server yet so I’m having to use a workaround to put out this post.
Who’d have thought moving a simple little blog/website from one WordPress platform to another would be such an involved process? I won’t go into details because then a full-on venting session may ensue… I guess I take a while to ‘embrace’ change.
I spent a good part of yesterday working on setting up a new theme so that FitFeat would have a neat new look for you when you got here today. Being that I’m not someone versed in CSS or PHP coding, it was a slow process. I did learn a lot and had the whole thing pretty much set up but there was one thing that I just could NOT customize and it drove me nuts. So I ultimately decided to revert to the ‘theme’ that you are used to seeing. Maybe in the near future when banging my head against a wall for a few hours won’t hurt so bad, I’ll give it another shot. I’m going to set up a test environment first and play with it.
So all that said, this is of those days where yesterday morning feels like FOREVER ago! Lots to catch you up on.
My Friday started out with my beloved energy elixir (aka java). I think the selection of my “drama queen” mug may have set the karma for the day. I certainly became one by the time 7:30 PM rolled around when I was hungry and ready to STOP being in front of the computer. I may or may not have thrown a temper tantrum in poor MSP’s direction. 
After my jolt of coffee, it was time to head downstairs to the gym for some upper body weight training. Immediately following I had this pretty little pluot to put a smile on my face. VIBRANT is all I can say about this little cutie:
Changed and ready to start the ‘workday’, it was time for my real breakfast, an EXTRA-green smoothie. Holy-tastes-like-grass-clippings Batman! It was cucumber, avocado, sprouts, spinach, celery and only 1/4 of an apple (because I seriously sliced the rest and FORGOT to add it to the blender… didn’t notice till I went to put everything away and then took a sip of my smoothie!) It tasted green, that’s for sure! I did love the texture the avocado gave it, though.
I realized when I posted about having all those avos, I didn’t explain that normally I buy one or two at a time. I happened to be at Costco last weekend and they had bags of 5 for a bargain. So I bought a bag, and they all ripened together. I didn’t want to waste any of them so I was frantically trying to find a way to use them all and not get sick of the flavor!
Thank you for all of your comments and suggestions about things to do with avocados! Did any of you happen to read about the dryer lint smoothie in Cindy’s comment? I’m linking you to her site so that you can see it… it DOES look like dryer lint! Too fun!
One of the things I decided to make since I happened to have all the ingredients was a Mango-Avocado Salsa from allrecipes.com. I made a few adjustments: used agave in lieu of white sugar, and rice vinegar in lieu of white (because I didn’t have any white!). I don’t think it made any difference which vinegar was used in it. Got all my prep stuff lined up:
All made and ready to rest in the fridge so the flavors can “mingle”:
I also still had some leftover kale that I wanted to use. I was going to try the great recipe Alexandra wrote about in the comments section recently… only I realized too late that I didn’t have any cashews! So I improvised and mixed up about 1/4 cup of roasted red pepper hummus, some olive oil, little squeeze of lemon juice and nutritional yeast, put it all in a gallon ziploc bag, then added the kale and shook it all around. Then baked. Here’s the end result:
Wow, it was GOOD! I ate the entire batch for lunch. SO good! Thank you Alexandra for being the inspiration. When I get some cashews, I’ll be trying yours next! I also want to try the sauteed kale that Joan mentioned in her comment too.
From there it was all PC work the rest of the day. A Gingersnap Larabar mid afternoon…
That was it until I was done with the blog move. At that point, it was out of my hands. I’d done everything on my end. As I’d mentioned, I was SO ready for a glass of wine. I chose a little organic table red called “Our Daily Red” which MSP so kindly picked up for me on the way home. (When he offered to help me earlier in the day, my response was BUY ME SOME ALCOHOL ON YOUR WAY HOME FROM WORK! That’s the kind of help I need right now!) No I do not turn to alcohol to relieve my stress. Just this time, I swear!
I munched on a couple of pieces of raw goat cheddar with my glass of vino. Then this:
I just felt the need for some ‘naughty’ food. And believe it when I say I did read the ingredients and selected this because it did NOT have any partially hydrogenated gunk in it. It had other gunk, but at least it was semi-real gunk. It was time to park it in front of the TV for a bit in order to let my brain stop clicking… so I turned on the episode of “The Office” that I’d missed most of Thursday night and what happens? I FELL ASLEEP AGAIN!! Twice I’d missed this episode! Guess if I ever have a bout of insomnia again, the trick is to watch a little Michael Scott and Dwight!
Well my friends, it is a BEAUTIFUL Saturday here. Not a cloud in the blue sky, and WARM! You know what that means! Shari needs her vitamin D fix!! Have a SUPERB Saturday and thanks so much for sticking it out with me during the blog move!
Stay tuned this week for the first FitFeat Contest Giveaway!!
–Shari B. =)
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Tags: avocado, baked kale, coffee, Green Smoothie, hummus, Larabar, mango, organic wine, Weight training
