Resolutions (or, at least, aspirations) for 2012

[anotheranon]

• Eat more salad - met the zen master of all things leafy who gave me some ideas for making roughage tasty. Time to act on them.


• Stretch daily, no matter how time consuming or painful - if I want to look and feel less stiff on the strip, I've gotta.


• Be more generous - don't know how, or with what, but try.


• Be less cynical - the hardest, as I've done a good job of building a crusty shell around myself to compensate for the "kick me" sign I wore for the first 20 years of my life. I'd like to figure out how to let it go when it's not warranted.

How I did on last year's: had regular smoothies through March and am not quite sure why I stopped (or why I didn't eat them like crazy during the August heat wave). Did expose myself to new music, partly through RA and best through NPR's All Songs Considered. Meditation....kinda didn't happen. Maybe I can combine this with stretching this year.

Comments

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

Making roughage tasty? EXPLAIN HOW. (Please :) I'm not a big fan of vegetables, especially raw, but need to change that.

tastier salads

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Here's what I picked up:

Use something other than iceberg lettuce - butter lettuce, arugula, spinach etc. all have better flavor/texture than iceberg.

Use crunchy and sweet together for contrast and texture - like cranberries and shaved almonds, or sliced pears and walnuts (tangential - use fruit! This would never have occurred to me).

Avocados, but this is a personal bias.

Let some ingredients marinate in balsamic vinegar to room temp before adding to cold lettuce.

Re: tastier salads

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

I like the marinate in balsamic vinegar idea. I don't think I'll ever develop a fondness for arugula, but butter lettuce and spinach are doable. Now to remember all these ideas...Thanks!

Re: tastier salads

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I'm seeing spinach pushed as one of the newly acclaimed "superfoods", up there with blueberries and tea. If you like it that might be a good place to start.

[maehymn.livejournal.com]

Juicing is a great way to get raw veg into your diet too. I just started doing more juicing and it's a nice contrast from epic chewing all the time!!

[maehymn.livejournal.com]

That last one is awesome. I love the way you put that. It's definitely something I need to do as well.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Don't know about you, but I LIKE my crusty shell - it's kept me safe all this time. But damn it's exhausting!

[maehymn.livejournal.com]

I had a really good crusty shell that I liked, then it morphed into a crusty form of entropy and is making me depressed. And yes, exhausted. Maybe we just both need a new crusty shell!! Haha.