Sometimes life is like a jump shot.  It’s all about the form.

Good form: I managed to get a thirty minute run in this morning before the hubs left for work.

Bad form: Though I’d planned on lifting weights and doing some ab work, I simply stayed in my workout clothes for the next four hours with nary and outing nor a respectable degree of work to show for it.

Good form: I had a green smoothie for breakfast.

  • 1/2 c. frozen strawberries
  • 1/4 c. frozen mango
  • 1/2 a frozen banana
  • three handfuls of spinach
  • stevia
  • 1/2 c. almond milk

Bad form: It looked like pond scum.  Pond scum that I managed to spill on my white “avoiding a workout” jacket.

Good form: My very kind husband put a bunch of my clothes on eBay for me so I can afford a Vitamix.

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Bad form: The Vitamix still costs $400 clams at Costco, and I don’t have 400 Volcom tank tops.

Good form: Lulu entertained herself by reading books when I finally got around to showering.

Bad form: (You mean besides the mullet?)  She brought me a copy of Pinocchio, which implies that I am either a liar or a jackass.

I’ll plead guilty on one of those counts.

Good form: Eating an amazing lunch.

I had some steamed broccoli and carrots topped with tempeh bacon and tahini dressing, alongside a cup of butternut squash soup.

Bad form: Gigi trying to feed Lulu her sandwich so that she could skip ahead to dessert.

Good form: Taco tongue

Bad form: Estupido molars

Good form: Entertaining Gigi with my new method of putting laundry away.

She told me after I missed, “Don’t worry, Mom.  If you keep throwing panties, you’ll get better!”  I’m willing to go to a John Mayer show and try.

Bad form: Lulu parking herself on top of the laundry basket, impeding my progress, but more importantly obstructing my view of the target.

Good form: Homemade Black Bean Burgers for dinner.

  • 1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1/3 c. red onion, minced
  • 1/2 c. mushrooms, chopped
  • 1/2 c. oats, ground to a coarse texture
  • 1/2 t. salt
  • 2 t. cumin
  • 1 T. vegan Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 1/2 t. minced garlic

I mashed the beans in a bowl with a fork until they made a nice chunky paste.  Then I stirred in the remaining ingredients and formed the mixture into four patties.  I fried the patties in a skillet sprayed with cooking spray, over medium high heat for about 7 minutes per side.

Along side, I had carrot fries and Brussels sprouts.  I’m convinced carrots make the best fries out of any root vegetable.

Bad form: I’ve almost singlehandedly eaten 1/2 the huge bag of carrots that I bought at Costco on Sunday.  That’s 5 lbs. of carrots and a lot of orange poo.

Even worse form: Talking about the color of your poo on a food blog.

Good form: Daddy luring Gigi to the garage to douse her with silly string.

Bad form: Daddy thinking that a still teething, still cranky Lulu would be down for the same thing.

She may look happy there, but she’s not.

Good form: I finally got to lift weights after the silly string debacle

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Bad form: I had to watch Special Agent Oso with Problem Child 2 (aka Lulu) while I lifted.

Good form: Reading bedtime stories to my little ones.

Bad form: Realizing that I’m wearing the same pajama pants I had on in the almost three year old pregnancy picture I posted the other day.  Hey, I know!  I’ll put them up on eBay…any bidders?