Fun day more of house organization!! I’m walking around my house with two mantras:
1) Is this worth packing, moving and unpacking to Charlottesville?
and
2) What would Real Simple do? (WWRSD?)
Both are helping me determine what is really important in the house and what I am just holding onto because I don’t know what else to do with it. I know whenever we move out of this house I am going to be SO glad I did this early! I reorganized several drawers (you know the one where you put the user’s manual for every electronic or piece of furniture you buy!?) and we tackled the guest room closet this evening. Matt is even more of a hoarder than I am! He had stuff from college that he’s just been toting from house to house. It’s been sorted 
So backing up to this morning, I met Kate at her house to head to cycle class together! We had a great hour-long class of "Songs Across America." Great way to spend a rainy day.
After class I went back to Kate’s to drink some JUICE!
Ingredients were tons of spinach, carrots, apples and a pear-
FOAM!
LOVED the juice! You can taste the veggies, but the flavors are SO FRESH. I would really like a juicer. Not sure I want to pay full price. Might start looking at places like Craigslist!
Lunch Part II occurred at 4PM. I still don’t know what’s up with my appetite, but I think sleeping late has a big something to do with it.
I had a toasted High Five Fiber bun with some butter and 2 clems! Plus tea.
I hadn’t given much thought to dinner until 5PM when I realized I hadn’t planned anything yet! So I decided to pull together a recipe I’ve been thinking about for a few weeks now:
Lentil + Sweet Potato Salad with Dates + Walnuts
And here’s its very own recipe page: Lentil + Sweet Potato Salad
Ingredients included some pretty lentils
And this Blackberry Balsamic Vinegar and Spicy Apple Mustard from Foodbuzz
I served the lentil salad in the middle so we could have it on top of the spinach
It was delish!!!
I did another hour and a half of stuff and worked up an appetite.
I had a snack of a Mussleman’s applesauce with some Bear Naked cereal and PB…..and the photo is NO WHERE TO BE FOUND!!!????? I just took the photos and then uploaded and they are not on my camera or computer. So strange. This better not become a regular behavior of the electronics!
I’ve got class tomorrow, but it shouldn’t be too painful
Nite guys!
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I don’t even want to think about cleaning all my childhood stuff when I move out officially!! GAH!! I was totally craving veggie juice today!
That fresh squeezed juice looks so nutricious. Have a great night!
dinner looks great
jenna
I know how you feel about cleaning and organizing. It can be so daunting, but so rewarding when it’s all over! Today my husband and I got a new mattress, which led to basically taking apart our entire bedroom and cleaning and re-organizing our room. Tough work for a pregnant lady, but it sure looks nice now!
Oh wow that juice looks delicious! That’s a good idea to look on Craigslist – maybe somewhere will have it on sale on Black Friday too (if you’re one to brave the sales)?
Yum, Bear Naked cereals are so good.
You’ll definitely be glad to have started packing, or organizing, early. I’ve moved SO many times and always end up throwing random stuff into boxes at the last minute, which is super annoying once you get to the new house and realize you’ve brought unnecessary things.
all the organizing/packing will be worth it because you’re moving to virginia! which is a pretty fab state, even though i’m a little biased.
That salad looks life-changing. Four of the most amazing foods atop a bed of spinach? With that amazing dressing? Droooool.
Packing up and moving is so stressful!
I like the Bear Naked granola better than the cereals.
But the real question…what do the bears think of Bear Naked?
My husband was quite the hoarder too. I couldn’t believe the amount of junk (okay, sentimental junk) that he had from college either, only when we moved in together college had been over for FIVE YEARS!
Oh my! Your dinner looks FANTASTIC! I REALLY love your recipes and need to plan them into our weekly dinner routine.
Have a great Monday!
Danielle
I just sorted through our house not once, not twice, but three times. And it does feel fantastic to have parred it all down to the bare minimum. You’ll be so happy you took the time & effort to sort through everything. The lenils/nut concoction looks fantastic.
Another good mantra for decluttering – if you don’t use it or love it, get rid of it!
I keep seeing sweet potato everywhere right now! And it always looks sooooo good!
Gotta get me some of that.
That lentil-sweet potato salad looks amazing! Only possible with amazing ingredients. Love~
I’m about to buy the Breville BJE510XL Ikon 900-Watt Variable-Speed Juice Extractor. It’s reduced on Amazon.com and looks like a pretty good buy. Here is a link if you are interested http://www.amazon.com/Breville-BJE510XL-900-Watt-Variable-Speed-Extractor/dp/B000QBFFU8/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1258952914&sr=8-3
Haha, love the latest addition to the KERF acronym dictionary:) Real Simple is a fab magazine–so many great tips!
Love your “K” cup. Think I bought the same one for a friend @ Anthropologie.
a pretty dinner! all the different colors are so appetizing!
i for real love your meals…they are so creative!!
I’ll swap you my juicer and Arrested Development on DVD for your old laptop!
WWRSD.. Love it! =)
That’s really funny that you thought “What would Real Simple do?”… because when I’m meal planning, I think “What would KERF do”. Funny how we all find inspiration somewhere
Love your energy and positivity!
Your posts often put a big smile on my face, thank you for that!
xxx Julia (Taste of Living)
I have one organizational tip for you, if you want it. Put all those manuals with your bill records! I have all of mine in one folder of our filing cabinet and while that folder is really thick it freed up a whole small kitchen drawer for us. Plus no manuals fell behind the drawer anymore! Just a thought.
Also, PB is a hoarder and so am I, but then we go on these rampages and throw tons away, but leave certain things we still can’t give up but SHOULD!
It always feels good to get organized and be ahead of schedule. LOVE the sound of that juice… you make me really wish I had a juicer right now!
On my blog I posted a juicer that I got for fifty bucks (factory refurbished, amazon.com) and it owrks great!
Your dinner looks impressive! I bet was yummy too!
Haha to ‘WWRSD’! I’m loving the State sweatshirt
Mmm that meal looks amazing!
WWRSD…love it!
WWRSD – I love it, haha
Great job at spin class – sounds wonderful
I did the sort/purge/pack/donate/recycle/toss/sell routine a few months before our latest move and what a blessing that was! It made moving sooo much easier and made life at the the new (much smaller) place even better – I didn’t have to worry about where to store or fit certain things (good-bye 14′ couch!).
That is an amazing mantra (WWRSD). So true! I always think “When in doubt, throw it out.”
Gotta love blasting the tunes for motivation!
Having a juicer would be so awesome, but I think a blender is first on my list. I want to finally try a green monster haha
Loving whoever wore the State sweatshirt!
Your house always looks so pretty in the background of your photos — but are you moving? So curious why you’d move out of that gorgeous house!
The food looks fantastic, but I LOVE that your friend is wearing a State sweatshirt! Go Spartans!
what would real simple do? i bet they’d love that mantra!
Dinner looks soo good!!
Brie,
HAHA! They love it because there is honey in it
Mama Pea,
HAHA again! Do you mean my old desktop!?
Erin,
Julia,
Thanks!
rhodeygirl,
I used to do that – but my file cabinet got too crowded!! I like to put bulky things like cords with the manuals, so I needed more space.
betty,
We’re moving to Charlottesville, VA next summer.
Kath
Shout out to Kate’s sweatshirt — Michigan State University is my alma mater! Go Green ! (That goes with the theme of the juice too, I guess…)!