Various Other Ramblings – Page 3 – Notes From a Messy Kitchen

Things I Loved This Week.

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We’ll start with the most important: This video of Rep. Tammy Duckworth telling fraud contractor what a loser he is for abusing Veterans disability benefits. “I’m so glad that you would be willing to play football in prep school again to protect this great country.” A rock star and a hero....

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Monday Morning Meet-Up: Cinco de Mayo Celebrations and a Campus Tour

I had so much fun on Cinco de Mayo that I almost didn’t get to write this post. That’s what happens when you fall asleep on the couch at 8:00pm with your shoes on. So you will have to rely mostly on photos to tell you about my weekend. Friday night, as...

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Drink Up! The Third (and Final!) Day of My DIY BluePrintCleanse

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Day three was by far the hungriest day of my cleanse. This came as a surprise, as most of the juice cleanse reviews I’ve read have said that each day gets easier. Well, not for me. I woke up hungry. I had a few chugs of Green Juice, which powered...

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Just Keep Juicin’: Day 2 of my DIY BluePrintCleanse

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I don’t have nearly as much to say about Day 2 because, well, it wasn’t all that different from Day 1. I woke up at 6:00am grateful for generous night-time Jo, who had been kind enough to save groggy morning Jo a few sips of almond juice to drink before...

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Adventures in Juiceland: Day One of My DIY BluePrintCleanse

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I’ve actually been looking forward to starting this cleanse. I’ve been excited to try out my new juicer and find out what this juice cleanse business is all about! So as soon as Courtney made it home from Costco with my juice-to-be bounty, I got started prepping the juices for...

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Hopping on the Bandwagon: DIY Blue Print Cleanse

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I’ve always been the first to oppose cleanses and fasts. I’m generally critical of any dietary trend that isn’t maintainable long-term, and frankly I’ve always had concerns about the impact an extremely low calorie cleanse has on your metabolism. Because guess what: you’re going to have to go back to...

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Happy Hump Day! Edition

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Congratulations! We’ve made it to Hump Day, which as I didn’t realize until college, means that we’ve made it over the hump in the work week (don’t worry about what I thought it meant before that). We’ve made it up the Monday/Tuesday hill and can now just coast down the...

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Monday Morning Meet-Up: A Busy Week It’s Been

So much has happened in the past week. It’s amazing how it’s flown by, yet last weekend seems so long ago! Last Saturday, Dad arrived talking about all of the travelers with their shoes strapped to their bags headed to Boston. Last week at this time, the Boston marathon bombing...

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On Boston.

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My whole heart goes out to the victims of yesterday’s tragedy in Boston. To those killed and injured. To those whose loved ones were killed or injured. And to those who undoubtedly underwent unimaginable terror and uncertainty as they tried to determine what was going on around them and how...

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Monday Morning Meeting: Ball Games, Biergartens, Garden Tours and Flamenco

Another exciting weekend it’s been! Dad and Kippy arrived on the red-eye Saturday morning and we’ve pretty much been going non-stop, trying to pack in all the adventures D.C. has to offer (not possible). Friday we got sushi and wine from Trader Joe’s and spent a good four hours cleaning...

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