15 Below...

Freezing, that is. That was the temperature when I went outside to go to work this morning. My hands were so numb on the drive to work that it hurt. I am seriously cold-blooded, meaning my body seems to be completely unable to regulate its temperature on its own, and I am not going to be able to do another winter here in the Arctic (or Vermont). I am not sure where I'll go next or how I'll get there from here, but I decided to just focus on my current wonderful job and eating raw right now and let my mind clear out so I can follow the path the universe has in store for me. That's what got me to this point and I trust that it's right for me so far.

I almost went to see Slumdog Millionaire with some friends from work tonight- I actually stayed in "town" for an extra 2 hours after work to wait til it was time to meet them at the movies (they all live in town, I live out in the boonies!) but there was absolutely no parking anywhere near the theater! And I couldn't walk blocks & blocks in the cold, then do it again 2 hours later. So I went home! I was able to get a good run in so it was cool. And I didn't spend $10 to freeze in the dark. I can do that at home for free! I did get a salad from my favorite health food grocery after work except I put vinegar and nutritional yeast on it - what was I thinking? They really didn't go well together at all and I could only eat about half of it. It would have been good w/ just nutritional yeast maybe, but not both. I actually really liked the yeast on the broccoli that was in the salad. I'd never had it before and it has a nice, strong, somewhat cheesey flavor. I don't know if it's raw but I'd like to buy it if it is and put it on broccoli/cauliflower. Anyway I also had a banana & lara bar since dinner was kind of ruined! After that I went to a book store and read some of "12 Steps to Raw" by Victoria Boutenko. I loved the green smoothie chapter; it was really cool to see that she and her family got such great benefits, and to relate to the great energy and sense of well-being they experienced immediately upon adding green smoothies to their diets.

Here's today's food:

-green smoothie w/ 2 bananas, frozen mango/strawberries/blueberries, kale. 3 more bananas and a little raw cacao powder (it finally came in the mail last night!!)
-banana
-3 bananas, apple, 2 clementines
-some salad w/ spinach, mixed greens, green pepper (yuck but all they had), beets, raw corn, carrots, tomatoes, onions, raw mushrooms and broccoli w/ some vinegar and nutritional yeast...and a lara bar & banana
*ran 3 quick miles*
-baby carrots!
-going to have something else, banana or apple