Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Healthiness

Well, most of you know by now but in case you haven’t heard (drum roll, please): Balanced Life Yoga is in operation! For now I am offering classes at a couple of different places around the area with hopes of finding a permanent location in the near future. You can stay up to date on days, times, and locations by following Balanced Life Yoga, LLC on Facebook. Some day I will have a functioning website..just as soon as my techie husband stops doing unimportant things, like school work and going to his job, and finishes my site 🙄😝. I’m just teasing him. It’s actually really great for my business plan to have people do work for me for free so I guess I can’t complain 😉. The Wetzel County Museum hosted a free event for the community last Friday evening and I taught two full classes. I had such a great time! It’s also good for business to have friends who can get you the hook up 😉 (Thanks, Holly! You da best!). So now I tell everyone to come do yoga, including the tattoo artist who did my most recent ink. He wanted to go outside to smoke before he got started and after telling him that he should quit smoking (he said he had no idea smoking is bad for you so it was a good thing I informed him! 🙄) I agreed that he could if he would do some yoga poses while doing it. So I showed him tree, flamingo, and warrior 3 and he humored me and did them all. Dan at Starkey’s Tattoos is a great artist and ridiculously funny, I highly recommend him. Especially if you want a mandala, those are his favorite (no they’re not). If you get one, make sure you tell him I sent you. I told him I would be sure to send all the mandala lovers I know to him 😂😝. 

Below is a pic from my gig Friday night. I was telling them to drop to their knees if the plank was too much for them. We had such a great turnout that I believe the Museum will host another event soon so I’m super excited for that! 

I really need to get some yoga action shots taken but I’m waiting on this unbelievably-cold-for-April weather to warm up. I’m so done with it. I’m pretty sure the amount of time it takes for a dog to pee is directly affected by the temperature outside and the colder it is, the longer my two goofballs want to stay out and sniff things or watch birds or dig for moles or chew on some rocks (Sophie!) or anything besides pee. They know after they do their business they have to go inside so I’m 100% I have been outsmarted by a dog. Sophie’s still a baby so she pretty much pees as soon as she hits the grass. Sansa, on the other hand, is a master manipulator. She does this thing where she like silent barks (I’m aware that makes no sense but that’s the only way to describe it) and tells you she has to potty. So you hurry and take her out because you figure if she’s yelling at you, she probably has to pee pretty badly. Well let me tell you what, Sansa lies. She’s a big, fat liar liar pants on fire and she doesn’t even wear pants. You’ll take her out and she will just roll around in the grass and make you wanna scream but you can’t because your neighbors will think you’re crazy. I really shouldn’t worry about that though because some of them read my blog and know it’s true 😋. 

Anyway, where else was I going with this? Oh, yeah. I wanted to share my recent experience using HelloFresh, a meal delivery service (like Blue Apron only not Blue Apron). So my friend, Ali, tried it and told me about it and sent me a referral link to try it for $20. This included all the ingredients for three meals and detailed instructions on how to prepare them, all in a super insulated box that was delivered to my house, conveniently at lunchtime when I was home and able to put it in the fridge. However, had I not been home it definitely would have been fine until I got here. I had created and account and chose the three meals I wanted from a menu or about 7 or 8 options. Philip is quite the picky eater but I was able to choose meals that he would try. 

We got Pronto White Chicken Pizzas, Peppercorn Steak with creamed kale and potato wedges, and Sesame Beef Stirfry. All three were good but the stirfry was my favorite and then the steak because you make a shallot/beef concentrate sauce to top it with and that was amazing. 

Sesame Beef Stirfry

Pronto White Chicken Pizzas

Peppercorn Steak

I really enjoyed trying some new recipes. I’m so bored with normal eating routine and could also stand to clean it up some. You can choose on your profile if you have an dietary restrictions and there’s a category for “Fit Meals” or something like that, which is what I chose. I think that means just less calories, not necessarily extremely healthy