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Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:45 pm

So I’m always on the hunt for lunch food that is healthy but, more importantly, will keep me full for the rest of the day or at least close to it. I stumbled upon this soup recipe in a tweet by xsparkage (recipe originally from First For Women Magazine). I love soup and usually have lentil soup but I was getting bored with it after having it for a couple months. This recipe, called the “New Basic Slimming Soup”, looked yummy and not too difficult so I thought I’d give it a try. I wasn’t too interested in the “slimming” aspect of it (I think you have to replace 2 meals a day with this soup for it to have that effect), but I wanted to see if it would be a filling lunch. Surprisingly, it was! I ate it around 12:30 and didn’t get hungry until 3:30/4:00. I’m someone who usually eats a yogurt and is starving like 30 minutes later haha…so the fact that this kept me full for so long is a miracle. Not only that, but its delicious (reminds me of chile) and chock full of veggies. Read the rest to find out the recipe!

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Posted on January 24, 2012 at 2:08 pm

Ever get in one of those moods where you don’t feel like doing anything? Its like the second I have something I have to do, regardless of how simple it is, I want to throw a 3-year old style temper tantrum. Not to say that I never want to do anything, but tasks that I would normally not blink twice on or care about seem like such a huge inconvenience lately for no real reason. I’m the type of person that doesn’t really need to be super duper overly passionate about something in order to get it done…I’d rather avoid any and all risk of failure rather than to go out of my way to “challenge” myself, as a lot of people like to do. Being the overly worried person that I am, I’m usually in the “things are going great if nothing is going wrong” type of mindset. Its pretty common knowledge that if you don’t challenge yourself or work towards what you want, you aren’t going to grow. Of course, I’ve always ignored that because I dislike change and I’m content with not taking risks if I can help it…screw growing! At the same time I know that its something that I have to do eventually. Procrastination has always been a strong point of mine, after all. =p I’m amazed whenever I see someone who is truly a “go-getter” and really works towards something and accomplishes it. I really want to do that, and I also really don’t want to do that. And what do I even want is a better question.

Is this what they call a “quarter life crisis”? Holy crap I’m almost halfway to 30. Might be time to wake up soon. But enough of that.

I want to thank any new subscribers I have gotten through RSS or Bloglovin’. I appreciate it so much. I’m really going to try to post more often (at this rate, at least once a week would be “more often” for me) and I would love to follow some new blogs as well. If I’m not already subscribed to you, please leave your blog link in the comments so I can check it out! I’m also going to work on updating my portfolio website. Seriously…that site has been neglected like you wouldn’t believe. Its huddling in the corner, cold and hungry and sad. It was last updated in 2010. Yes…two thousand TEN. Considering the domain is my freaking full name you would think I would keep it better updated, but no. I haven’t decided whether it needs a re-design or not…I kind of like it how it looks already.

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Posted on January 21, 2012 at 9:22 pm

Two blogs in one day? I’ve lost it.

This is just a quick note to let you know I’ve re-designed the blog again. I really like it…its very simple and I got rid of all the extra pages (links, about me, etc). I’ve also found a way to link to my other websites (my beauty blog and portfolio) via tabs on the side. I’m not very happy with the footer, but I’ll keep tweaking it throughout the week until it looks decent.

I’ve set up an RSS feed for this blog through Feedburner. If you already follow me through RSS, I’d highly suggest unsubscribing and then re-subscribing through my feedburner link if its not too much of a problem. With Feedburner, I’m able to track statistics and stuff and it makes it easy to retain all subscribers if I end up moving my blog for whatever reason.

Thanks again to anyone who reads this! I’m looking forward to posting more this year!

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Posted on January 21, 2012 at 12:40 pm

So its now mid-January, and I’ve been doing fairly well with my New Years resolutions! I’ve exercised at least 3x a week, which was my main one. I actually subscribed to this program through Roku called “The Gym Box”. It has all different categories of routines (cardio, kickboxing, yoga, pilates, etc) and they add new routines every week. Right now I’m doing the 2 month trial, but I think I may pay for it when the trial expires (it costs $10/month) since its actually helping me to workout…and that’s definitely worth $10 to me haha. I’ve also paid off one of my three student loans, and planning to pay off the second one in February. Another thing I’ve done well with is not spending too much money. The month isn’t over yet so who knows how it’ll end up, but as of right now I’m comfortably within my budget!

But anyway…its snowing today (sort of, it already snowed, and not that much but its an excuse to be lazy haha) so in the interest of blogging more, I’m going to share with you something that I found on Tumblr a little while back that I thought was interesting (I’m melieanne on Tumblr if you want to follow me). Its an article called “10 Myths About Introverts” that was written by Carl of CarlKingdom.com. Its been floating around the internet a lot, so you might have stumbled upon it at one point or another.

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Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:08 pm

Lets talk about one of the worst companies on the face of the planet that I’ve ever had the displeasure of dealing with…Hotwire Communications! Last week Shawn decided that we should switch to Comcast for our internet service. I was reluctant because I’m really not a fan of change and didn’t want to deal with uninstalling and reinstalling and all that, but our internet with Hotwire was so incredibly slow (like…had to watch YouTube videos on 240p and even then they wouldn’t load smoothly) so I decided we might as well. So I call Hotwire up on Monday night and tell them I want to cancel. They ask if I want to end service immediately, and I say no, we would like to end service on Friday. The guy tells me that I have to call back on Friday in order to end service that day. Call back on Thursday night telling them to end service. The guy asks me some questions and puts me on hold and then I get disconnected. Call their main number back and get a “number no longer in service” message. Call again and get a “your call cannot be completed as dialed” message. Continue calling and I finally get through to the automated message, but while I’m waiting for someone to answer it disconnects me again. This happened at least 5 times. During one of those times I get an actual person but they have no idea what I’m talking about and transfer me to someone else and, of course, it disconnects again.

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