Day Fifteen: Karen Knowler’s EXCELLENT Teleclass

Man, if you have not ever heard of Karen Knowler, or have never looked into her stuff, please do so at your earliest convenience!  I am TOTALLY going to start taking her classes and home-study courses to make sure that I get my raw company off the ground right.  She is AMAZING!!!  She had a call today about starting your own on-line raw business, and I was pleased to see how many things I’ve been doing right as I prepare to launch Go Raw, Not Crazy … but I was even MORE excited to find out the top 11 things that on-line entrepreneurs do wrong, so that now I can build a game plan for how to avoid them.  Check her out.  Great recipes.  Easy-to-understand videos, the cutest accent THAT side of the Atlantic, and just an all-around nice gal.  Can’t WAIT to get more info from her.  Oh!  And did I mention that the teleclass (75 minutes long) was FREE?  Yeah.  She’s just wonderful!  I’ve gotten a great taste and can’t wait for more.

Dietarily, not a really exciting day.  Ate up the rest of the raw crackers and pesto, even though it had the unsprouted nuts, but kept it to a minimum (didn’t want to waste the food — I mean, at least it tasted good!)  Breakfast was chocolate pudding (young Thai coconut, but almost none of the water), banana, cacao, maca and agave.  YUM!!!  Lunch was the crackers and pesto mentioned above, a chocolate-cinnamon piece of candy and lemonade (lemon, agave, water).  Then dinner was bananas with chocolate syrup.

I spent most of the evening taking notes and relistening to Karen’s amazing call.  Then I wrote the outline for FOUR, count them F-O-U-R ebooks that I will be giving away for free when the site launches.  Great ideas I had for helping people start raw and stay that way.

How in the HELL did I ever live any other way?  I truly can’t believe it.  I am so excited today about the prospects for my new company, I’m about ready to pop!  Have as marvelous a day as I had (or better!)

Day Twelve: The Yard Sale (Part Two) and Lasagna Gardening!

Well we certainly felt like we got caught up on a bit of sleep last night.  We got up this morning at 8 a.m. and were ready for yard sale business by 9 a.m.  We didn’t get that many customers, but we made $20 and took the rest of our stuff to Goodwill.  We’ve actually found a few more things we wanted to get rid of, (isn’t that the way it always goes with yard sales — AFTER you’ve had them?) but our neighbor just across the way is having another this coming Saturday, so we’ll be able to probably off-load a few more things.  Yippee!!!

So we got a GREAT, almost brand-new, looks-like-it’s-fresh-off-the-showroom-floor couch off of craigslist today, and we only had to pay $85 for it!  I love that we are finally starting to make our first house look like a home (and not a college student’s apartment).  The furniture in the living room and bedrooms is starting to look like we meant to put them together that way and not like we found it on the side of the road.  ;o)  Gotta love when the place looks nice!  I’ve never really had that before (since I’ve been on my own, anyway), and since I’ve been on my own longer now than I lived with my parents growing up, I say it’s high time!

Jay came home with a book from our friends Dave and Laurie called Lasagna Gardening.  I’m pretty excited about it, and we’re going to start our own garden, probably using the techniques outlined in the book.  We’ve gotta save up a bit, but we’ll be starting something small this year, and based on how that goes, we’ll add to it next year.  Our eventual goal is to grow almost all of our own food in a biosphere of Jason’s design.

But none of this is about chocolate, is it?  For breakfast I had chocolate frosting of all things!  More of a ganache.  It was cacao powder, maca, mesquite, agave and just a touch of coconut oil.  Lunch was non-existent.  Just couldn’t get hungry.  At night I made a new batch of pizza dough that I invented last week (it will be ready in the morning), and while I watched The Holiday, I pulled basil leaves from their stems (there were a LOT of leaves).  Then I made a quart of pesto, and Jay and I will probably have pesto pizza tomorrow with nutrional yeast on it.  It came out a little too sweet, but by tomorrow it should be perfect.  I don’t do so well with garlic when it’s freshly chopped, but the next day it’s usually ok for me.  I tasted the pesto, having forgotten about the garlic sensitivity, and it made my stomach hurt.  I ate a strawberry, and for some reason that calmed my stomach.  Don’t know what drove me to do that, but it worked.  So I had a few more with cacao syrup, and that was dinner.

I cannot believe how quickly weight is coming off me, btw!  I mean, if I had been told 3 years ago that I would, or even could lose weight AND HAVE MY SKIN SHRINK as I lost weight, I would’ve thought they were crazy.  But it’s working.  Jason and I are taking pictures of each other every two weeks, and I’ll be showing how we looked and how our bodies changed when we publish the ebooks.  We have the eventual goal of printing them, as well.

Well, I’m tired now, so I’m off to bed.