So what do you with a boyfriend who is always freshly showered, smelling like soap and toothpaste? Doesn’t it make ya want to get him all sweaty and feed him onions?
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Killer roasted veggies in the convection oven
A cornucopia of fresh veggies to choose from for roasting later in the new convection oven: Japanese eggplant, peppers: red, orange, yellow and green; yellow squash, zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, a fat onion and… wait for it… brussels sprouts! I cut everything about the same size and drizzle it well with a good olive oil. I add dried basil, mustard seed and tarragon with fresh springs of thyme and rosemary, and a lemon cut into 6-8 wedges.With rice in the rice cooker and hummus already made, dinner will be a breeze. And a feast!
A killer roasted veggies and vegetarian wine mushroom gravy recipe here
Casper asks about ghostwriting
Casper writes: I have a question. I have an opportunity to ghostwrite. You have done some ghostwriting. I’ve gotten an interesting range of pricing looking at sites and reading articles on the Internet. What do you charge and how do you do your pricing? I’m trying to be prepared.
Andrea replies: Greetings! I ghost for a few friends since 1992. Mine is without royalities or credit, with non-disclosure agreement signed, etc. I lucked into doing it via publishing connections, so I’ve never had to query. The pricing is kinda wacky, sometimes a set price for the project at this point. Most of the “work” I’ve done has come out of writer friends and I emailing back and forth just ideas or sometimes readings on personal matters. Continue reading
Turn your insomnia into an hours long mindfulness session
When I entered menopause at age 42, my sleeping patterns began to change. Like everyone else, at first I fought it and tried everything to keep me asleep for my previous 8 hours at a stretch. Years later I thought, let me just go with it instead of fighting it, and see what my sleeping patterns morph into. Now I use the occasional sleeplessness to do a few hours of mindful nostril breathing for breath meditation, creative visualization and prepaving for future projects. That time I say I never have? This is when the Universe is giving me extra time! Or you can always contact Gary Leggett the hypnotist who got me to sleep. See links below for more sleep info. Continue reading
20 Things To Do When You Can’t Sleep
These are 20 things I’ve done when I was wide awake in the middle of the night:
Ride my bike
Night time gardening
Mindful breath meditation
Creative visualization, prepaving future projects
Update my To Do List
Organize the files on my hard drive and delete old files Continue reading
Oh, how we resist change and create more work for ourselves
A week ago, I got a new computer with Windows 8 on it. I’d heard the horror stories about how hard Windows 8 was to learn and navigate and I discovered that it was not. The same thing happened this week as my iPad updated itself to the new operating system IOS7. I saw several complaints on Facebook about the system, yet as soon as I saw it had a different look about it, I Googled for articles that explained it. I immediately went into my settings, gave it a dark wallpaper, and moved off the main screen the icons I never use. It took all of 20 minutes, about as long as it took me to get used to Windows 8. I’ve learned the more I embrace change, the easier and more fun my transitions can be. And I’m all about easy and fun!
I took the weekend off and watched my bamboo grow
I took the rare weekend off. Friday night I craved Applebee’s oriental chicken salad and learned they have a yummy off-menu veggie patch pizza on a toasted tortilla, made vegan by omitting the cheese. Their single portions make two full meals. I took a walk around the yard for the first time in a week, and saw that the bamboo has been going crazy growing in the rain, last week knee high, this week 20 feet tall. Don’t tell me you can’t hear bamboo grow, it is right outside my bedroom window. Continue reading
Unsolicited advice; who is my target audience? It’s a meaningful life, it just takes practice
Recently I went to my favorite restaurant for lunch. The owner complained nonstop to me about how bad the economy is. He typically does that and we’ve had “the talk” (about how we attract what we focus on) but often he’s busy so he doesn’t have time to talk to me. He asked why he hadn’t seen me in a more than a month. I told him the truth, I’ve been busy and I’ve been cooking. The only reason I was taking a break from going there in the first place is that I don’t eat where people are complaining. So yesterday, when he began to settle in for a long talk, I asked for my order to go. I knew that I was going to discard it once I got home. He prepared it in his unconnected mindset, so I wasn’t going to ingest it. I tipped him $7 on a $13 check and politely split. Continue reading
Her ex feeds candy to their ADHD kids
A friend writes that she limits the sugar intake of her two kids because they get very wired when they eat it. They are both falling behind in school because of inability to stay focused. Her ex has visitation every weekend and gives the children chocolate and soda. He says their behavior and short attention span is unrelated to sugar, despite studies that show some ADHD kids are “turned on” by sweet stuff. She’s experimented and has seen that they focus better without sugar and processed foods. He won’t listen. She is open to suggestions.
I feng shui my office
Busted!
A friend walked in my office for the first time and said, “You, the one who gives me heck about feng shui and THIS is your office???” I love when friends call me on my stuff, they are my greatest teachers. I spent several hours moving furniture out, moving furniture in, unplugging everything and untangling the cords. Making secure all the connections and arranging the cables in an orderly way. Continue reading