WOW – I can’t believe a week went by without blogging. To tell you the truth, it’s been nice taking a vacation from my blog. I wasn’t preoccupied, wondering what I was going to write about. I had more time to do things. But at the same time, I’ve noticed that my “blogging muscle” (the one inside my skull) has gotten weak. There’s something to be said about blogging daily to keep the creative writing juices flowing. SO that being said, time to play catch-up!

Last we left our “show,” I was faced with the weekend minefield – lunch with a friend on Saturday followed a family gathering on Sunday. I’m happy to report, that all went well. After walking around town with my friend trying to decide where to eat, she suggested the Whole Foods salad bar – YAY! That’s EXACTLY where I wanted to go, but thought it might be too chintzy since I hadn’t seen her in months. So that worked out great and I had a big green salad with a couple of vegetable sides and one macaroon.

Then at my family’s gathering, I thought about my recent post where I wished social gatherings didn’t center around food. So I decided to bring the game Pictionary and we all had A BLAST! Instead of mindlessly picking at food all night, we were in tears from laughter. Between my niece endlessly picking new cards until she found one SHE wanted to draw and my Aunt drawing these elaborate artistic masterpieces, we had a hoot!

For food, I brought raw walnut pesto stuffed mushrooms and my famous raw carrot cake and they both went over very well! My SAD sister loved the carrot cake and asked me if it was “fake” as in one of my raw concoctions and not a standard recipe. FAKE!?! I told her mine was the REAL DEAL with whole food ingredients that you can actually pronounce like carrots, walnuts, raisins and cinnamon and her typical store-bought cake with plastic frosting was the fake one. She laughed and even asked for the recipe – cool!

Lots more to catch up on, but I’ll leave it at that for now. I doubt I will be blogging every day as my life has gotten exponentially busy lately, but I plan on writing a few times per week. I AM still Twittering though, so if you want to know what I’m up to, just check the sidebar on the right for my Twitter updates. Ciao for now!

p.s. Thank you to everyone who was “worried” about me while I was MIA. I was really touched to see that my silly blog was missed and how my cyberfriends were concerned. You are all so sweet and wonderful. Thank you for your friendship from the bottom of my heart! xox

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No Beach Body Shred photo today. After my morning workout, I spent the entire day at my sister’s house well into the late evening. It was a wonderful reunion with all of my immediate family. I had planned on dinner being a reward meal, but the impromptu ice cream cake to celebrate my sister’s engagement was off the chart. I also fell short on the accountability score because I was unable to post a picture or support my fellow shredders with comments.

Here is a short clip of my silly niece. This is how we spent most of the day – dancing, playing basketball and overall goofing off.

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