I'm failing...

at giving up soda.

Coke why do you trouble me so?!?!

There are a few days where I stay strong and drink tea instead (mind you it is Sweet Leaf, so still lots of sugar) but I am really proud at the end of that day to know I didn't ingest soda poison, as gluten free/paleo/clean eaters would probably call it.  I ran across an infographic the other day about what soda does to your body and just skipped right over it.  I think I shall go find it and post it here.



Stupid soda.  I hate you.

P.S. I think it's ridiculous that there is a whole website dedicated to creating these infographics on a daily basis! I guess I feel like many issues or subjects of these infographics are way more complex that their portrayal on a "one-pager."  I do like some of the fun ones, however.

Day Eighteen: Something I crave a lot...

The above are MY cravings.

According to The Mister.

Thanks for the honesty, honey.  He answered my question, "what do I crave?" in 5 seconds and without hesitation.

The Clan of Cave Bear

I just finished The Clan of Cave Bear!

My mom bought this book for me on my Kindle (nice gift!) and said it was a series she read when she was younger, the first of which was published in 1980.  It looks as though there are six books total!  I have some serious reading to do if I want to keep up with Ayla.  (the main character)

Ayla is a cro-magnon human girl who is orphaned in an earthquake and ends up being saved by a neanderthal clan.  So this is set in an ancient era and explores her communication, differences, and struggles in growing up completely immersed in a culture foreign to her own.  I don't want to give too much away and I do feel like the first book was fairly slow but it was setting up the plot for more drama in the next books!

I'm going to set this series aside for a bit and switch gears into Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller.  I haven't read many any books related to Christianity in a long while so I'm overdue, BUT judging by the remarks of friends who have read this book I'm excited to get going! 

No coke today so far...but I almost stopped on my way home from yoga.  yikes...I was ____this close!  Sweet Leaf Half and Half it is!  (the Arnold Palmer of SLTeas!)