Healthy food isn’t necessarily more expensive than junk food, according to a new government report.
Bittman was all over this months ago and I certainly agree.
via the WSJ
And back to Chicago I go…
Tomorrow morning, I fly back to the Chi and get started on my summer jobs/projects/activities. I spent a whirlwind of a week here at home in southern California. Having limited time in your hometown where all your loved ones are really forces you to prioritize. I wasn’t able to see everyone I wanted to, and even the ones I saw, I only saw them for moments that were too brief. Even though I couldn’t indulge in my trip here as much as I would’ve liked, it was such a great trip back. I’m really lucky to have friends and family who are willing to meet up with me even for a short period of time, just to touch base, catch up on each other’s lives, and reaffirm that we care. Every time I visit, I feel rejuvenated in knowing that I have a place like this in the world that I can go back to, whenever I want. Knowing this helps to give me purpose in a life that can be overwhelming with its limitless options.
End sappy post.
Summer is for tanning, smoothies, and flippy floppies (Rainbows being the best, of course) (Taken with instagram)
The Lego store in Downtown Disney, Anaheim, CA
Today, my visiting roommate and I went to Downtown Disney where I had a serious case of nostalgia. I’ve always been a huge fan of all things Disney and unlike most people, I think a date at Disneyland would be THE BEST. Most of the reason has to do with my associating Disneyland with my childhood, but I digress.
We learned about and met a parrot in front of the Rainforest Cafe. We wandered through the gigantic Disney souvenir shop. We discovered a new kids’ store that’s basically a build-your-own toy car shop that I would’ve been ALL over during my youth/tomboy days. We chewed on rock candy and experienced what it means to eat so many sweets that you begin to feel sick. We saw the most awesome Lego’s outside and inside the Lego store (pictures to come). Overall a great, relaxing day. Reverting back to being a child is always fun, don’t you agree?
How do you not melt when this face locks eyes on you and seems to be absorbing every detail on your face? Answer: you can’t fight it. Just ooh and ah with the best of us and melt away!
aha, hahahaha.
You would have to be a helpless idiot to absorb the rhetoric against gay marriage. It will one day be totally legal, and history will not be kind to those who stood in its way.
(via longdali82)
THIS.
Ugh.
Just tried to watch Atlas Shrugged: Part I, but got so discouraged by the bad reviews that I couldn’t get myself to do it. I love that book too much to be disappointed by the movie version. Anyway, the book is too dense and complicated to be accurately portrayed by a movie in a mere hour and a half.
Let’s keep the movie versions to children’s books like the Hunger Games and Twilight, shall we?
On a semi-related note, if you have any books that you recommend (light AND heavy reading), let me know. Currently working on Wuthering Heights, which I read out in the backyard while tanning before I dozed off.
Summer is starting off pretty well, I would say.
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
—Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
