so easy.

sure, they call me miss environmentalist. 

but for someone who would rather eat dinner off of the floor than to use styrofoam, you would be appalled at how many post it's, note cards, notebooks, legal pads (need i go on) that i use...daily. i just like to jot things down. but as i am aware of this gross habit, i have been making a conscious effort to minimize my paper usage/paper waste by being more organized (but i will never give up my post it notes....i am just praying that 3M goes green someday). Yes, this has resulted in my buying more notebooks, but i promise, it is all for the cause.

this is my most recent attempt (the vegetable theme felt appropriate and it was green).

  i have bagillions of magazine clippings, index cards, post it's, probably a napkin and some other stuff that have recipes on them. but this here, green lovely, will allow me to write all of my recipes in one place. ...with the recipe book, my planner, my notepads, reading material, snacks and a 13 tubes of chapstick- i do require rather large handbags.

i learned an amazing treat dessert. you bet your buttons it's in the book.

one bowl. one spoon. one tablespoon. one minute. fifty calories. awesome.

dessert delights

2 T   dry cake mix (any kind)

1 1/3 T water

*mix it all up.

*put something yummy in the middle.

*microwave 1 minute.

(i chose chocolate cake and vanilla pudding even though it looks like melted provolone on mud...but everything is better in an anthropologie bowl!)

* eat it all up!

satisfying, super fast AND you can burn that thing off in 3 minutes of running. that's less than one jay z song.

while in st. george...

so as i made quite clear in the last post- the weather was rather unfriendly to us during our trip to st. george this past weekend.  i had brought clothes, hopes and dreams conducive to outdoor activities (zions, tennis, golf, running, swimming, etc).  so when we arrived at what could have easily been mistaken for alaska (not really...but relatively speaking considering what i was hoping for...it was arctic), we had to adjust our plans accordingly.

one of the best things to do on a poopy weather day (or any day for that matter, but particularly icky ones):

i love to grab a drink from starbucks, a stack of magazines and books and just chill in b&n for a couple of hours.  i do not find the time to do this often, but when i do, it is a little piece of heaven. it is like a library but without all the germs and treats. i love books. always have, always will. kindles and these other reading devices are great, but i love my books. but i am also a bargain shopper. (DI, goodwill, and used bookstores rock my literary world!) i do not usually buy any books there unless they are in the discounted section. but check out this beauty that i came across in my special little cheap person section:

i love betty crocker. it was one of my biggest disappointments in life when i found out that she was not a real lady. but bc cookbooks cannot be beat when you are a cooking amateur like myself.

one of the BEST parts: at the end of every recipe it provides instruction for incorporating meat into your dish for the carnivores at your table.  isn't that fab?!

i am pretttty excited to make some Vegetarian Lasagna Primavera.

it isn't really all that healthy with all the carbs and creamy stuff...but it sure looks easy and yummy. we will see!

with the weather warming up, i need more carbs now right??? meh.

oh ps: back to books....look at the treasure that hillary found for me.

she knows me so well. gimme some snacks, a cupholder and blankie...i would never leave.