Hi friends! Happy Friday!
Oh and happy day it is. Vacation is SO close now I can almost smell it! 
(Actually I think Cindy’s been sending me scratch-n-sniff stickers of seaside air…) 
I am SO excited to meet her and go for our run! It’s been in the works for so long, I can’t believe it’s finally almost here!
Random observation: So I log in this morning to WordPress to start this post and just since yesterday I already have 12 spam comments. Thank goodness for the Akismet plug-in. I am always shocked at the amount of spam that comes through the blog. Do you bloggers get that? I can’t even imagine what it must be like for someone who has a lot more traffic than I do.
Another (not-so-random) observation: My calves are BEAT! They have been working very hard this week, in the final week of the Spring Slimdown.
They feel like they should look like this:
Maybe someday!
I ran 4.5 miles yesterday with my friend Sue at a local reservoir in the foothills. One word: HILLS! I sound like a broken record on this blog – I’m forever looking for flat trails on which to run, but they are hard to come by when you live a mile above sea level!
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I found the best eggs at Whole Foods last weekend and finally tried them for the first time yesterday. These are the most “eggspensive” eggs I’ve ever purchased. I hope my mom isn’t reading this post or she’ll think I’m crazy. (Hi mom!) I know that sometimes generic eggs are on sale for like 88 cents a dozen. But because I don’t want to think that the poor hen who laid my eggs was shoved in a cage to live ONLY for laying this egg, pumped full of who-knows-what kind of antibiotics and meds, and had her beak seared off to keep her from pecking the hen smashed right next to her, I am willing to spend a lot more for eggs. (These were $5.99.)
Enter VITAL FARMS.
Their package says “Antibiotic Free, Hand Collected, Free Range, Grass Eating, Pasture Raised” and organic. I hope it’s true because this is really the only way I can feel good about eating eggs any more. Notice the little newsletter that came in the package: “Vital Farms News”.
I will say what I know to be true is that they TASTE AMAZING! They really did have ‘darker richer yolks’ and the flavor was just better.
Three delicious eggs, scrambled for my dinner last night with a side of Ezekial toast. They were DEFINITELY worth the extra money, both in taste and in their kindness to their hens.
If you’re new to the blog since November, check out my post about why I eat the WHOLE egg: Are You Yolking?
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Well blog buds, if I want to get a workout in before I have to go to work, I better get crackin’. Today is the LAST day of the Spring Slimdown (wahoo!) so I’ll get the last few days’ worth of food pics & my final weigh-in posted hopefully tonight after work!
Enjoy your Friday and I’ll see you back here soon! Make it a FANTASTIC day!
– Shari B. =)
