LifeForce

Jake and I have successfully made it 4 full weeks on our cleanse, during the holidays nonetheless. Only 12 more weeks to go! Yeast is just flying out of our bodies.... well kinda. Are we crazy? Not yet. Jake has become an expert chef and we've made some pretty delicious meals-- chicken caesar salad, spaghetti, chips and salsa, banana bread.... we're still pretty normal people. Well, as normal as we started, anyway.

100,000

Our mighty Geo Metro hit the big 100,000 today. We knew it was coming so we drove around for 16.5 useless miles in order to witness the great event together. I took a video but it was kinda something you could only fully appreciate if you were there in person-- so I'm not posting it.

GO GEO!

It's the Most Wonderful Time....

Jake and I took our second annual trip to Fish Lake National Forrest to find our Christmas tree. We had a good time. I'm not going to mention that our car couldn't make it over the first hill and so we got out and walked for almost 2 hours, up a mountain, in six inches of snow, and awkward snowboarding boots. We don't need to talk about that.



Well Jake spotted the "perfect" tree across a river that was hanging off the side of a cliff. I said "no way Jose." So he found the other "perfect" tree that was still on the other side of the river and insisted on being a manly man and getting it. I wasn't in the mood to try walking across two slippery logs and fall into an icy river so I said I'd watch and take pictures from the other side.




I even took a video of Jake crossing the river with a tree balanced on his back -- hoping to get a video worthy of winning $100,000 on America's Funniest Videos -- sorry to disappoint. However, I'm glad Jake didn't get hurt. I'm proud to have such a burly, brawny husband!



After the tree had traveled a couple hours on top of our car in the FREEZING weather, it just wasn't very happy and half of it's needles fell off. The bald tree stood in the corner of our house for a few days while we decided whether or not it could be saved. Now I don't necessarily NEED a tree, but I do need some kind of decoration around the house to remind me what month we're in.



After some manicuring and grafting, I'm very happy with the final product!

Dear Mr. Jesus

So Jake and I were driving around the other night at about 2 a.m. because that's just what we do. We were listening to 100.3 FM because they've been playing nothing but Christmas music since December 1st with no commercials and I love it! Well this song came on the radio which MUST have been a joke by the disc jockey because it made us laugh sooo hard! Or maybe the DJ was a super religious reborn christian rocker. You can find some inspirational comments written about this song on the internet. Anyway, I dare you to listen to the whole thing.

You think this is good? Go ahead and google image a picture of Ray Boltz, the composer. Or better yet, wikipedia his life.... married for 30 years and then decided he was gay. Gotta love it.

Homemade Beef Jerky

Kombucha update

So I've been making kombucha for quite some time now and well, sometimes I kind of forget that it's been sitting there, on the shelf, in the same spot, for months and months. And months. This batch is so dark that I'm too scared to drink it. It doesn't smell like it's gone bad, but I'm pretty sure it has.