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My awesome husband made homemade taco seasoning then made me an extremely delicious lunch. Blessed!

Dying During Dead Week

Whoever cruelly named this time of the academic session "dead week" either had a sick sense of humor or they did not attend this University. In this week I will submit 45% of the work towards my final grade in one of my course. I will also be submitting a significant amount of work for my other courses as well as memorizing a few of Shakespeare's sonnets. To be honest this is not the most challenging quarter I have ever been through but I think the stress and gravity of each assignment's importance increases the closer to graduation I get. Dear me. If I get five hours of sleep tonight it will be the most sleep I've gotten in too long. This weekend I intend to sleep for at least 9 hours one night.

On some other notes I have gotten into the whole craze of pinning on interest, instagraming (is that a word?) and tweeting on twitter. Twitter has become a nice little stream of random blurbs that I anticipate no one in the cyber world reads... Yet those little blurbs... like these are nice to get out. I've also found that twitter gets me editing more regularly. When only 140 characters are available editing is essential. Unfortunately the reason I even began the twitter account was as an excuse to procrastinate for a project. Dear me. Note to self: gain some self control and get some sleep.

The AMAZING sky from about a month ago... STUNNING

Nearly Vegan and Sugar Free

Hans and I are doing a cleanse this month where we are nearly vegan and eating no sugar! I say nearly vegan because we are still finishing off the eggs in the fridge. I had read some interesting materials about how long it takes our body to process meat. Apparently meat is what takes the longest to digest of all foods.  Our body cannot digest even the fastest digesting foods until the slow digesting foods have been processed. I still do not understand all of this and I do not think that no meat forever is the way to go BUT I think it is healthy to give our body breaks from hard to digest foods. We are only on the second day but it is hard sometimes! I have noticed that I can eat a LOT more if I want to when I am noting eating the high calorie foods that seem pretty normal to me.

Yesterday for lunch we had a really yummy treat. It was asparagus with cut cherry tomatoes, avocados, and a little bit of vegetable oil baked and lightly grilled after being seasoned with Paprika, salt, and pepper. I did not take a picture but it was really delicious! I knew that Hans would not be filled by this so I added sliced potatoes for him.

The food was delicious and SO yummy. It was filling, delicious and healthy. I did use a little bit of olive oil and peanut oil would have been better but I wasn't going to run to the store when I was already so hungry! Anyways. I hope that this goes well. I'm making a nearly vegan sugar free pumpkin pie for Hans birthday right now. Hans prefers honey to sugar so I am hoping that the delicious smelling pie that is being baked right now will taste as yummy as it smells now.


Our fridge is filled with vegetables, fruits and coconut milk! It is colorful and beautiful but this healthy eating is hard in some ways. I especially miss cheese! ONE MONTH!!! I think this challenge will end positively.

I feel so classed to have a husband who is so willing to support and encourage me in this! I love that he is doing this with me! I know that it is almost valentines day and really a time of year when most consume a lot of sugar but this year even though there is valentines and Hans birthday (In the same day) we are going sugar free! So hard but great! I just feel so weirdly coupley right now! Love my husband!