Snowman Soup!!

I woke up this morning with piles of clothes on my floor and the over whelming feeling of "I'm leaving on vacation tomorrow and my packing skills seem to be lacking because nothing is packed yet it's all over the floor." This happens every time I go somewhere.

After I scarfed down my pita bread and mango and lime salsa for breakfast (I know, probably not the best choice, but it seemed right at the time) I felt I needed something more winter-e.

Dave's mom gave me this adorable little package for Christmas so I'd thought I'd put it to good use.

Here are the ingredients so you can make some yourself.

It's also a great stocking stuffer and kids will love it if you want to make it as a craft for Christmas.

Enjoy!!

xoxo Meila

P.S. I assure you that it is absolutely delicious.

Discovery Channel in IRL

I made an amazing discovery. that ginger powder and cream cheese on whole wheat pita bread tastes soooooo good! I had a similar discovery about 2 years ago. I got really sick so my doctor put me on steroids. No, not the kind that gives you a mustache and huge muscles... the medical kind lol. Unfortunately, one of the symptoms is that it gives you cravings like a pregnant woman. Fortunately for me I could still eat sushi.

So there I was. Sitting in my kitchen. I had eaten my sushi so fast that I still had left over wasabi and ginger leaves. I wanted to eat them still so I decided to put them on crackers. I took one bite and wanted to puke. I realized then why you paired them with something.

As I looked along the shelves in my fridge I was Philadelphia Whipped Cream Cheese and a lightbulb went off in my head. I made two separate snacks. Crackers + cream cheese + wasabi ... and ... crackers + cream cheese + ginger leaves. The latter was my favorite. It was awesome.

Enjoy a great snack idea over the holidays.


xoxo Meila


P.S. I may or may not be posting for the next week as I'll be on vacation. But I will have my phone so I'm sure I can squeeze in a few photos and posts about my vacation.

I Tried... Now I Smell

If you read my self summary on the right side there, I said I try to do something new every day. I have to admit that I haven't quite kept my promises.

Today, I was thinking about this so I decided to try something new. That brought on the curry. I've heard about curry and always wanted to try it, but apparently it smells, or actually makes you smell.

I went to the Hale and Hearty right by where my appointment is today and they had Curried Chicken Chowder. It was so amazing. Not kidding. I could go back right now and eat a large bowl. Maybe I'll take it with me for the train ride home from New York.

Long story short: Mission accomplished.

Feel free to try some at your nearest Hale and Healthy.

No this is not a commercial.

xoxo Meila

Present Wrapping

Ah. The joys of Christmas. Lighting the Christmas tree, seeing the snow fall, having hot cocoa by a fire place.

None of that will be happening for me this Christmas. Not that I'm complaining by any means. I'll be getting my tan on.

One thing that never changes wherever you are, wrapping presents. It's great when you get the perfectly square box and the perfect amount of paper, but what about everything else? Have you ever tried wrapping a candle? Fail. You can try to make it look like a giant candy thing with ribbons on either side, but all that's going to get you is a torn present where they can already tell what it is.

Like I said: Fail.

So as I procrastinate from wrapping presents I will instead join my friends for a beer tasting at the local brewery. Yup. That sounds about right.

xoxo Meila

If I could fly, I would still drive.

There is nothing better then a road trip. Even if you are only driving 3 hours into the middle of Pennsylvania to go see your friends and you have an excuse to wear a fancy dress, that seems good enough for me.

The decorating and getting ready, that's all well and good. But there is nothing like drinking is a pretty dress, gorgeous heels, feeling beautiful, and having no one to impress but yourself when you look in the mirror.

I mean I like it. I don't know about anyone else though. :)

So if I could give you advice; it would be to take a road trip, long or short, as often as humanly possibly. Your friends will love you and your family will thank you.

Xoxo Meila

P.S. - I would not suggest eating fast food if you are going on a long trip. Instead, pack a healthy sandwich that won't make you feel the need to... Stop at a rest area. If you catch my drift. Hence my sad face. Especially if you don't like stopping to begin with.

Working Out Woes

No matter how hard I try, I've noticed that working out is never as good as when you're in a gym. You think to yourself, "Well, I'm already here and wasted gas to get to this building with machines in it so I might as well use them." Then, when you get inside you don't want to make yourself look like an idiot so you pretend like you're actually working out... which in turn causes you to actually work out.

Long story short, I'm going to Key West for the Holidays and I need to get back to that bikini body I had in the summer. The problem: it's December and my body is saying, "Umm... what do you think you're doing? It's freaking cold outside and I just had hot chocolate. I worked hard for you for those 3 months of beautifully warm weather and now it's my time. I know you think you're about to work out... but you're not. You're going to get that mat out to the living room and then stretch for an hour."

I'm glad I know what my body would say if it had a mouth... other then the one run by me.

ANYWAY. So I've been meaning to workout all day and then I came upon this picture and said... "If this banana can do it, I can do it."

So here I am blogging about how I'm going to workout... while I'm not working out. I'm stretching. On the yoga mat in my living room.

OkTimeToWorkOut.Bye.

xoxo Meila

P.S. I found this picture here. =)

Go Go Gadget... Camera Arm!!

I'm on a mission to find cute things and take pictures of them. Since Thanksgiving I haven't taken many photos and I feel as though I should... or have myself an adventure. One of those adventures is applying to internships, but I'm going to need to have a goal at the end of all that to drive me to do them and actually finish them. Let's be honest... no one likes paper work.

Here's my idea for inspiration. I'm already getting a pedicure with my friend Meghan tonight so I'm thinking I can look for something to put on my little piggies. Actually, to be frank, they are not very little. I was born with swimmers feet. They aren't gigantor or anything... just long lol. You catch my drift.

If anyone has any ideas for cute pedicures let me know. Also, keep in mind... I'm going to the Florida Keys for the holidays. I'm thinking fun colors are a must.

xoxo Meila


P.S. - Kudos to my pledge sister, Kera, for taking this picture of it. I'm ironically in everything favorite. Shirt, shoes, jeggings, and of course my camera.

Netflix Doodles

I was always jealous of people who could doodle. Well, ok, let me rephrase. Everyone can doodle. I'm jealous of people who can doodle and doodle well. As many times as I have tried I always just ended up with checkers all over my pages. This was also, almost always, in math class. Math just never sat right with me unfortunately.

ANYWAY. I was on Stumble Upon (.com) and came across this blog that featured doodles on Netflix packages. Pure genius.

I wonder if the owner of Netflix wanted people to do this and therefore said, "Make the package as plain as possible. I want to see if anyone draws on it."

If so, thats awesome.


xoxo Meila