Cook quinoa as directed (and if you want you can use sprouted quinoa or regular I preferred regular in this one), if you haven’t already chop all the goods up now would be the time (while you’re cooking the quinoa that is) and mix together in a nice big bowl. I let my quinoa cool for a little while just because (I prepped my salad a good four hours before I was even going eat it).
And that’s it. How easy could it get? And the combination of flavors! Yum.
A few other things you can add that I can’t eat would be goat cheese, mozzarella, bacon, hard-boiled eggs, sun-dried tomatoes, sunflower seeds, the one thing you wont need is any kind of dressing.
This is a new personal favorite. Enjoy!

If you don’t feel letting getting a load of TMI don’t read the rest of this post.

The Doc thinks he found out what has gone on deep, deep inside. There are a few ‘phases’ we’re going through for ‘treatment’. Basically he found that I have Fibromyalgia (which we already sort of knew), and an autoimmune disorder (which has been left nameless), which has caused a jumble up of problems. Currently (phase one) we are taking care of Candida (mainly because The Good Doc says the Candida is leaking into my bloodstream {which doesn’t sound good to me} so that is first on our list of ‘To Dos). Next (phase two) we are going to take care of Crohns (which from my understanding and I could be totally wrong, caused the hole the Candida is getting through), hopefully not through surgery, but we’ll see, and then maintaining it (since you’re never really cured from Crohns). Then (phase three) we will address the cause of these problems, figuring out how to keep them from recurring, finding a balance in life and making sure this disorder doesn’t go after something else.
So if I post recipes they are more than likely going to be all crunchy and green organicness. Super Duper Healthy.
Whoopy.
And there you have it folks. I’m done for the day.
Hopefully soon to follow a nice handy-dandy DIY project.

When Jenn loses the game,
She screams at the top of her lungs.
I hope she doesn’t hate me,
Just because I’ve won.
She says I don’t belong here,
She says I’ve got to go.
But she has never pushed me out the door,
And never said ‘goodbye’ forevermore.
I think she likes loosing.
I think it’s her favorite game.
I’ll just continue making her loose the infamous Game.
~ Eva

Sometimes I have bad moods.
And today’s was one of those nothing was going right so I was in a crappy mood.
The weather has changed like five times a day and I haven’t been on pain meds which means my daily pain levels are through the roof, which makes me not a fun person to be around, and it seemed like rude customer day to top things off.
As the day kept going the mood was getting worse in leaps and bounds.
And all I could think was ‘I need to shake out of this as soon as possible’.
How does one shake a mood in the middle of the day when you  have to keep going? Besides the obvious answers? (prayer, Bible, coffee, laughter…)
The one thing I have found that works best for me, almost without failure is Dundundun….
Planning and doing something nice for someone else.
There is nothing like the incredible feeling of making another persons day better.
Do something nice for someone. It’ll make you feel better.
End of story.

Do I Anna McCarthy take myself seriously as a writer?

And the rabbit trail began.
Of course I don’t.
Well then why don’t I?
Ummm Gee maybe because I don’t take myself seriously?
Maybe I don’t take my talents seriously?
Why don’t I take my talents seriously?
Why don’t I take myself seriously?
Is it because I’m young?
Or view myself as too young?
Well maybe because there’s too much talent out there?
And no way to really measure how large your talents is.
Well man what do you do to find out?
How can one ever tell?
What causes insecurity?
Why do we let it control us so much?
Why do we let insecurities create fear in ourselves?
Yammer yammer yammer goes my brain as I try to wind it down so I can sleep…

There is just too much dang talent out there for our own good, is the conclusion.

And this was my frustrated ramblings at the weather.

‘Well, I know what I’ve been told
You’ve got to work to feed the soul
But I can’t do this all on my own
No, I know
I’m no Superman’

And that pretty much sums up how I feel half the time,
Yes there are days I feel accomplished, and on top of my world.
But most days I feel like I can’t keep up.
Can’t keep my head above water with everything that comes at me.
We all have our own struggles in life,
And we all have our ups and downs (some more than others).
Right now I feel like I’m in that stalled out stage.
Just waiting.
I’ve taken big steps in my life to carry out my goals.
But now I’m waiting for the light to turn green so I can start plugging along to the next phase in my life.

Getting personal.
My Dr.’s have been at a stalled out point on my medical treatment, which was extremely discouraging.
You aren’t supposed to be tired and in pain, not wanting to do anything all summer. Lame.
So I had to go and make some changes.
Needless to say sometimes I feel like I’m supposed to get more done in a day, do better at being a wife,
try harder at being productive in day-to-day activities.
I have to remind myself,
I’m not of the superhuman type.
There are limitations in life that keep you from being your perfect self.

You aren’t required to be Superman.