Up for another challenge?

After hours (ok, maybe a minute and a half) of thoughtful deliberation, I have decided to do Fat Mum Slim's Photo a Day Challenge for March. I mean, why not? February went really well and I managed to pull-off a perfect month without a single missed day. Yay me!


I don't know that I am any more motivated than I was last time, but I have found that doing everything on Instagram makes it SO much easier than having to download the pics, edit them, and then upload them to my blog. I can do everything in 3 or 4 clicks on my iPod, so there are literally no excuses* not to complete and post each day's challenge! I'm going for an uninterrupted 31 days here...wish me luck!

*Except maybe a dead battery or a lack of inspiration or a plague of locusts or two broken hands or the dog ate my list or... Gosh! I hope I didn't just jinx myself.

Day 29 - Something I Am Listening To

The first time that I heard this song was during an episode of SNL and I was instantly hooked. Two days later, I was still humming it to myself, but never actually got around to looking for it on the iTunes or the YouTubes. Then, as is often the case, it was out of sight (or sound), out of mind.

I didn't hear it again until 5:57 this morning. It was playing on the radio as I was driving to the gym and, although I knew that I had heard it before, I just couldn't remember the name of the song OR the artist. Thankfully, the radio station's website keeps a running list of "just played" tracks and, even though it was about 4 hours later that I got around to checking, there it was! Without skipping a beat (ha!), I found it on iTunes and clicked "buy". 

So, for your listening pleasure, I give you "Lights" by Ellie Goulding. Enjoy!

Day 28 - Money

The Queen might be on the twenty, but I'll bet she doesn't have a Starbucks gold card.

Day 27 - Something I Ate

Cauliflower, baby carrots & snap peas... affectionally known as the "vegelanche". Portioned-out, packed in ziplock bags and stored in the fridge for the week ahead, this has been the mainstay of my lunch for years.

Other veggies may have come and gone (I'm looking at you, zucchini), but these three have remained.

Day 26 - Night

When the mascot was little, he used to get a bath, a book and a snack before bed. Any little interruption in that routine could have spelled disaster, although I don't know that we ever tested it. (He was such an easygoing baby that I am sure we could've... but I think I enjoyed the ritual as much as he did.)

Now that he's older (and is responsible for his own bathing and reading), every night around 10pm, before I wish him sweet dreams and send him off to bed, I make the mascot a cup of hot chocolate. And, every night when he comes into the kitchen to take it from me, I get a thank you, a big smooch on the cheek and a big "I love you". Those are my sprinkles-on-top.

Day 25 - Green

My fella has what you might call a green thumb. He comes from a long line of botanically-gifted people and I think his very first email to me was about his perennials.

In the almost 4 years that we've been together, he has been very patient with my attempts at gardening, but I think I still have a long, long, long way to go. (Which is why I am sticking to things that will basically grow themselves in my 4 little gardens... Hostas, anyone?)

While I have completely given up on trying to keep houseplants alive, and switched to faux-foliage (fauxliage?), my fella is literally growing ORANGES in his living room.

This stunted orange tree has been in my fella's family for more than 40 years (remember what I said about a long line of green thumbs?) and currently has over a dozen oranges on its branches. It's a pretty impressive crop, but as you can see from today's challenge picture, they're not *quite* ready for mimosas.

Zumbathon

Three hours of Zumba madness at the Reh-Fit Centre? Yeah, buddy!

This will be me tonight:

Well, the hair, anyway.

Full report on Monday. Have a muy fabuloso weekend, chicas!

Day 24 - Inside My Bathroom Cabinet

Do people really snoop in bathroom cabinets? Apparently so. I once had an especially nosey (and frank) guest remark that I had "nothing interesting" in my bathroom cabinet. I'm not sure what he was hoping to find, but unless he was looking for overpriced face masques and abandoned hair products, he sure didn't find it.

The first thing that you might notice is the lack of medicine in my "medicine cabinet". There are two reasons for that: first of all, everyone knows that you shouldn't keep medicine in the bathroom (it's too warm and humid in there), and, in all honesty, other than some Advil and vitamins, we aren't really big pill-poppers. 

So, that leaves dental-care supplies and the aforementioned "hope in a bottle" (or a tube). If you didn't know me, the only info that you might glean from this little peek inside my cabinet is that I have cloggy pores, curly hair and somewhat less than 20/20 vision. I think the most exciting thing in there might be the baby bottom cream and I'm not even sure why I have that. 

Top shelf: Tiber River foot scrub, Rosebud Salve, countless Vichy and Biotherm samples, Yes to Carrots! eye cream (too rich). 

Middle shelf: Burt's Bees lip balm, contact lenses, toothbrush, floss, Tiber River bar soap.

Bottom shelf: Origins masque, AG Re:coil, Rusk drops, contact solution, Aveda toner, Aquafresh, Bliss masque, Vichy Normaderm face wash, Rusk Wired, Tiber Baby Bottom lotion, Tiber Pomegranate face wash, PC Unscented lotion.

And, that's it. No incriminating tinctures, potions or cures. No fungicides. No anti-psychotics. No wart removers. No nothin'. Sorry, snoopers.

Day 23 - My Shoes

Three things make this picture awesome:

1. These are my shiny black Bass Mary-Jane Oxfords (with herringbone lining). I had forgotten what today's theme was, so it was a happy coincidence that I was wearing them on "take a picture of your shoes" day. (God forbid I should be stuck documenting icky winter boots.)

2. I am wearing a curious, yet delightful combination of beribboned, slouchy black socks and cropped jeans.

3. This is a self portrait, taken with my iPod. Can you tell I did yoga this morning?

It occurred to me this morning that we've got less than a week to go in this challenge. I realize that it's a short month, but it really has flown by at warp speed. I think I am going to have to join in on March's challenge as well, if just to give my mother something nice to look forward to every day. (Hello, Mumji!)

Day 22 - Where I Work

Technically, I have two jobs, but seeing how this is where I work AND where I work out, the Reh-fit Centre gets to be my photo-of-the-day.

Plus, it's weird when I invite my coworkers at McKim to "the gun show".