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Friday 5 [Wenatchee photography + design]

A few days past Friday, but not too big a deal, I'm thinking.

  1. Instagram comes to Android devices. So happy to have this now, been waiting a long time. I'm posting shots daily, so if you wanna' follow along, please follow me at "TonyaDoughty." I'd love to follow you too!
  2. Did you know you can grow your own green onions from the ones you bought at the grocery store? After you chop the greens off, set the bottom white part into a glass of water. Keep them in a sunny windowsill and they grow SUPER fast. My daughter used a dry erase marker to mark the height on the window and we regularly mark it, go to bed and wake up to 1/2"-1" taller onions. I've heard of some people keeping them going for months, but for us, we usually get about 3 full "uses", ie: Cut them all down to use (we freeze them if we don't need them immediately), put them in the water, wait for them to grow a good length, repeat until they dont seem to be growing well anymore. Not that green onions are expensive, but every little bit helps, right?
  3. A certain cool magazine might be using a piece of my art in one of their issues. Cool!
  4. Totally Rad actions used one of my "recipes" (I named it Peechy Keen,) on their site. I've talked about them before, they truly make post-processing not only easier, but more fun.
  5. I am doing really well right now. I can only attribute the new found success to the change in my diet (the word diet meaning the way I eat, not a short term thing,) which is about 80/20 paleo. I TRY for 100% paleo, but don't always get there. 80/20, plus my normal exercise routine, is really working and I am loving the results. I am already close to 50 lbs as I write this, hoping to be able to say that next week.

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Friday 5 [Wenatchee photography + design]

  1. We visited DJ's brother and his wife in beautiful Carnation, WA for Shade's 21st birthday. They have a beautiful home on 5 acres of very "pacific northwest" property. So much green you can't believe there IS that much green in one place. I took a quick walk before we left for home and this is one of the images I love from that. A beautiful tree reaching for the tiny patch of blue, as seen in a puddle reflection. I love reflection shots. They're magic.
  2. Took the above photo with my new little walking around baby, the Nikon P7100. A point and shoot, but with some definite pro benes (RAW files, decent response time.) A late Christmas present to me. It's not pocketsize really, but pretty small and easy to throw in a purse. I have it with me always.
  3. Found, and fell in love with, NOOSA yoghurt. Absolutely the BEST yoghurt I've ever had. It's called "Australian" (I guess, as opposed to Greek?) and it has a velvety smoothness I can't adequately describe. This was a product that purely led me to try it by it's beautiful design and marketing. Obviously I am a sucker for good design and this does not disappoint. The bad news is, I have discovered I do much better, health-wise, on a mostly Paleo lifestyle (diet) and so all dairy is out. I might work some of this back in after awhile, but for now, I can not believe the difference in how I feel after cutting out all dairy, grains and sugar. Like superman good. I am the girl who got sick with every bug that comes in the house, and since I've been exercising and eating clean (mostly clean) I've had 1 cold (that was really short-lived and not very bad) and nothing else that has run through family or friends has gotten to me. It could be coincidence, but I don't think so. More on this later. But I digress. If you love yoghurt, this is a MUST TRY.
  4. I blew past 35 lbs shortly after 30, but never posted it. Since then, however, I have been bouncing between there and 40 lbs for a couple weeks so can't claim that one yet. I will get there. The clean eating is helping and I have restructured my workouts a bit. Less is more style. Quality over quantity. I realized it's not realistic of me to think I will spend 400+ minutes doing cardio every week for the rest of my life. I'm working in some high intensity intervals and will see how that goes.
  5. Are you one of the 80 bazillion people who have downloaded Draw Something in the last couple weeks? I am. It's a fun drawing game/app, like Pictionary, you play against others online (via tablet or smartphone.) Pretty fun and much better for your creativity brain than Angry Birds. Or so I'm guessing, since I haven't played Angry Birds...

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Twenty-one years

This pretty amazing person is turning 21 today. For real, twenty-one YEARS have passed in the blink of an eye. I say something along those lines every year, but 21? Really? I know my world was significantly made an infinite amount more awesome, more incredible, more MORE, when she came into the world and I know the world is a better place because she's in it. How could it not be? I could just say how beautiful she is, but that's obvious just be looking at her, and not even the important bit. What's awesome is she is determined, courageous, smart, funny, sarcastic, sassy, talented, strong, creative, talented, opinionated, stubborn, shy, helpful, compassionate, loyal and just plain ridiculously wonderful. That's her. All 21 years of her! I love you baby girl.

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