post the ninth

 lemonade and iced tea in a twist

 Recipe


handful lemon balm
handful apple mint
8 cups hot water
4-6 tablespoons honey
juice of 1-2 lemons
ice


Pour water over lemon balm and apple mint, stir in honey, let the tea steep 1 hour. Strain the tea and add lemon juice and ice.

Enjoy!

post the eighth

 Here's a little tasty something to spice up your summer -> Mango and Black Bean Salsa with Cilantro

 simple, healthy, and oh so YUM!

 recipe 


15 oz. can 0f black beans
1 mango
a handful of cilantro
1 cup peppers (green, red or if you want spicy jalapeno)
1/2 cup red onion
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
garlic and salt & pepper to taste

Dice peppers, onion, mango, throw all together and mix the rest in. Serve with tortilla chips.
Also delicious for breakfast with eggs or just by itself. Hope you like it!

Pasty Cline -> 'Crazy'

I have discovered Pasty Cline! How could I not have found her until now? Such  a beautiful voice! I love the way she scoops and this song just seems to suit her perfectly.

Found via this Zooey Deschanel cover which is pretty cool also. 

post the seventh

ah, Saturday you blissful lazy day...

 I spent today bumming under the sun

writing,thinking, dreaming, planning and listening to this....

How did you spend your Saturday?

annoying critical ogre:  dirty toes! 

Post the Sixth

Today was a stressful day. I'm at a crossroads it seems in my life. I don't know what God wants me to do and I am afraid to find out. What if its scary, what He has planned for me? This may sound silly but it is the truth. 

I'm afraid of the future because it is unknown. All I know is things will be changing and change terrifies me.

But, I also hate to look back. Work is becoming increasingly uncomfortable and I think its time for a change but something inside me clings helplessly to this job. Its my first and only job and it took me a long time to be comfortable. Even now with my recent unease when I think about a new job, new people, new things to learn, possibly a new home my heart starts to race. 

But when I look back I see how its best that I leave. 

Listening to this song by She & Him and thinking how yes I may not like to look back at my mess-ups but I can learn from them and maybe just maybe I can do better in the future.

(The real) Post the Fifth

So I have been thinking about this blog thing for years now. I've tried to take the leap several times, I've failed several times. I have thought of posts, and thrown them out. I have posted post which I have them deemed to dumb, immature, or uninteresting to be publicly displayed. As if some one was going to murder me in my bed because I wrote a bad post on a silly blog that they were FORCED to read. Not going to happen.... hello! I have compared myself to other writers, scrutinized my grammar, tried to be unique but the same (btw that doesn't work). I've tried not to be laughed at and I've tried to be funny. What I haven't tried though is just being me and blogging about what I love, my every day life, and random things that pop into my head. I want to try this. I want to have a sort of journal of my life that I can look back on when I'm old and wise (hopefully), something that I can smile at, or re-learn, or re-enjoy. I might get haters and judgers but maybe just maybe I'll get followers.  Who knows? I'm just going to do this crazy thing and see what happens.

Annoying judgmental ogre in head: Are you seriously going to post this? This is garbage? People are going to barf when they read this!! Don't do it! STOP!!!!!

Post the Fifth ?

 My first ever PicMonkey edited photo. I think this is the beginning of a whole new era. Be excited!