Raw Challenge: Day 1

I've decided to try to follow a raw diet for a month (who know if I'll even last that long), hence the blender and dehydrator.  Today was day 1.  I succeeded!  I ate a smoothie with coconut milk for breakfast, a Waldorf sans dressing for lunch, lightly dehydrated mushrooms tossed with olive oil, garlic, celery, lemon juice, and topped with a raw marinara sauce for dinner.  I snacked on almonds, raisins, a banana, an apple, and coconut milk.  I'm sooooo hungry.  And I really really want some bread or cheese, or a pizza, or a burger or juicy stake...mmm...stake....

Breaking Bad series finale

Spoiler for Breaking Bad series finale

Look what I found...dehydrator recipes!!!

Dehydrator recipes!!!  Pizza, bread, onions, chips!!!!
http://www.nourishingtreasures.com/index.php/2012/10/25/101-dehydrator-recipes-raw-corn-chips/

Blender

I bought the Ninja blender today and made a smoothie.  That thing is loud!!  But powerful!  And I can knead dough too!  It's got a blender, food processor with dough hook, and 3 travel size mugs ^v^

Dehydrator...found and acquired!

I finally bought my dehydrator!!  Looking forward to using it!

Chicago Pizza

Chicago pizzas should not be made in such a way that you can easily, without mess, pick up the pizza with your hand without it falling apart.
http://www.thefrisky.com/2013-06-11/the-8-stages-of-eating-chicago-style-deep-dish-pizza-for-the-first-time/

Dehydrators

I've been thinking about getting a dehydrator for a while now and I think I'll finally take the plunge.  Here's a useful article in case you too are thinking about purchasing one:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/six-top-food-dehydrators-for-every-budget.html

Sleepy Hollow

I watched the first two episodes of Sleepy Hollow today.  Briefly, the show takes place in the present day.  Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horsemen were both asleep since the Revolutionary War and woke up in our time.  Ichabod must stop the Headless Horseman, aka Death, one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, before he and his brothers bring about the end of times.  In the process Ichabod and Abbey, a present day lieutenant in the Sleepy Hollow Sheriff  Department, must stop a slew of other witchy and supernatural creatures from fulfilling their role in the prophecy of the Apocalypse.

So far the series is exciting and entertaining.  It's a pleasant mix of horror, mystery, the supernatural, and comic relief.  It reminds me of Supernatural, though I'm not sure it has Supernatural's staying power.  Honestly, I was hoping the show would suck so that I wouldn't need to add yet another show to my list of Fall shows, *sigh* but I, somewhat begrudgingly and somewhat excitedly, add it to my ever expanding list of shows.  I'm going to have to go back decide which ones I want to stream weekly and which ones I want to stream at the end of the season or during mid-season break.

Breaking Bad: Granite State

Spoiler Breaking Bad: Granite State

Hell on Wheels: It Happened in Boston

Spoiler, Hell on Wheels: It Happened in Boston

Fall 2013 TV Schedule

This is getting out of hand!  I had to make an Excel spreadsheet for all my shows!  I was looking back at my early posts on my TV schedule and I used to only watch CW shows and now look what it has become!!!!!!  Breaking Bad will end in two episodes as will this season of Hell on Wheels, so those days will get a little better.  Not sure if I'll watch Lost Girl, I still need to watch season 3.  I think I'll watch the following shows on Hulu: Once Upon a Time, New Girl, and Once Upon a Time-Wonerland.  Nice, not a lot of overlap this year!  It really helped that quite a few shows ended or were cancelled: Gossip Girl, The Office, Don't Trust the B-- in Apt 23, Happy Endings, Whitney, The New Normal, Go On, Spartacus, Burn Notice, Breaking Bad, Ben and Kate.

Here's the schedule:

Interesting article about the world´s "ugliest" animals

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/12/whats-the-worlds-ugliest-animal/

Follow-up article: Male birth control gel

I found another article on the male birth control gel, it's on the scientific article I was looking for, but it's much detailed from the one a couple days ago:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_vasectomy/all/1

Another interesting article: Male contraception

http://feminspire.com/male-birth-control-easy-effective-available-and-totally-unheard-of/

Unfortunately the link within the article to the source study about the gel does not work...I'll have to do some digging to find out how exactly this gel works for 10 years and is reversed.

Interesting article: Cleaning up the world's oceans in 5 years

http://vr-zone.com/articles/19-year-old-inventor-finds-way-to-clean-up-the-worlds-oceans-in-under-5-years-time/19381.html

Breaking Bad: Ozymandias

Spoiler Breaking Bad Ozymandias

Hell on Wheels: Season 3: Cholera

Spoiler Hello on Wheels: Cholera

Legend of Korra: Book 2: Spirits

So far I'm not impressed with Legend of Korra.  I enjoyed Avatar: The Last Airbender but, aside from getting rid of a lot filler found in the first series, I'm not liking Legend of Korra.  Korra is just not very likable, at least to me.  She's also very stubborn, very much the opposite of Ang, and has repeatedly made stupid decisions as a result of her stubbornness.  I'll give Legend of Korra until the end of the season before I write it off my list of shows, I'm hoping that as this season goes on her character will grow into a more likable and less pig-headed one.

Burn Notice: Series Finale

Spoiler for Burn Notice Series Finale

Yes, yes, cats again

My cat met me at my car when I got home!!  She's not mad at me anymore for giving her medication :)  My other cat still just really likes annoying the crap out of the other one and will do anything to get me to stop petting the other one.

The jokes on you!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2013/09/10/watch-jimmy-kimmel-reveals-twerk-epic-fail-video-was-actually-epic-hoax/

Life as Plain Jane Jones

Warning this post is filled with the mundane, overflowing even.  Read at your own risk.

Breaking Bad: To'hajiilee

Spoiler for Breaking Bad: To'hajiilee and a lot of cursing.

Hell on Wheels: One Less Mule, Season 3

Spoiler Hell on Wheels: One Less Mule

Twerking gone wrong video

Hilarious!!!!

Burn Notice: Final season, episode 12

Spoiler for Burn Notice: Final season, episode 12

Futurama series finale

So Leela and Fry finally got to spend a lifetime together...but then they were rebooted to the beginning of the series.  I liked how the series pilot was seamlessly worked into the end of the series finale :) Very cute touch!

Nooo

Always cracks me up :)

Adieu

Well, I no longer have anymore grandparents.  I feel like if my advisor knew that my grandfather just passed away s/he would say "how many more do you have left, you used that excuse earlier this year!"

Breaking Bad: 5.12 The Rabid Dog

Spoiler Breaking Bad: 5.12 The Rabid Dog