14 Day Soup Cleanse: Day 1 (UPDATED)

END OF DAY 1 COMPLETE UPDATE+NEW TALLY:

yes, i am totally the asshole who did this to the shared refrigerator at work. sorry, co-workers. (i mean, what was i supposed to do with the first delivery?):

15 fresh, organic pureed soups for my cleansing pleasure(?)

Ok so here's the end of day update. it's 8:23 pm and i've finished all of my purees for the day. i'm not hungry, per se, but kind of depressed that i can't sneak downstairs to snack on anything (even something healthy) and that i have to wake up tomorrow and eat soup for breakfast.

don't get me wrong, the soups are super yummy...i'd eat them voluntarily on a normal day. it's just that i'm missing food. the act of planning, preparing and sharing food. the power trip that comes with being able to control what i eat and when. it's like Pretty Woman said, "i say when, i say who." ok maybe not quite. but you get it.

in terms of purees, here's what i had, in the order i had them.
9:30 am - pumpkin
12:15 pm - black bean chili
3:30 pm - chilled green cucumber-spinach-lemon (didn't like this. not enough seasoning/too much lemon, maybe? i like all the ingredients, it just wasn't tasty to me)
6:30 pm - cauliflower roasted garlic
8:30 pm - carrot ginger

i loved them all except the green chilled one. i couldn't actually even finish that one. i'm glad i had it as a snack rather than a full meal. that is for sure the one i will be replacing when, on Wednesday this week, PureedLove delivers me 4 purees (instead of 5 a day) and...WAIT FOR IT...a solid meal! fish and quinoa or rice...no raw fiber until next week, but i will get to CHEW stuff. and i can eat that whenever i want. and i get to do that from Wednesday-Sunday. then next week, Monday and Tuesday it's back to 5 purees a day...and then again Wednesday will be like diet Christmas. sort of.

i.can.not.wait.for.wednesday.to.come.CANTWAIT.

THE (UPDATED) TALLY

-LBS Lost: N/A

-PUREES EATEN: 5 as of 8:30 pm

-HUNGER PANGS: 1 really long one from about 5:20 pm-6:30 pm

-NUMBER OF TIMES I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT THE HEART SHAPED CHEESECAKE IN MY FRIDGE AT HOME: elleventy.

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Welp, here it is people. I had soup puree for breakfast. It was tasty, and I'm not hungry, but now i know what babies feel like. Kinda.

This past weekend i decided to cook up a storm because
a) i love cooking
b) i won't get to cook anything for the next 2 weeks and
c) i had to use up any stuff in the fruit and veg category in my fridge that was going to go bad.

so before i get to the daily tally of foods, here's what i cooked this weekend:

croque madame cupcakes for breakfast

coeur de la creme french cheesecake with raspberry coulis 

how pretty is that?!

So, i said goodbye to normal food last night with a last-minute binge on some homemade pigs in blankets (i didn't take a photo because, well, shame.) and this morning i arrived to a beautiful bag filled to the brim with...soup purees! 15 of them for the next 3 days. FIFTEEN SOUPS. here's the skinny followed by the daily tally, which, as the name suggests, i will be doing daily. duh.

-there are a bunch of hot soups that you pick from diff categories and one cold soup, and the categories from PureedLove are located here. since i don't normally eat a huge breakfast, i thought i'd try the chilled, green option today. i took one sip and put it back in the fridge. (note to self, i DO like chilled green veggie purees; just not for breakfast. noted.)

so i decided to go for the still-warm pumpkin puree, which looks like this:

Pureed Love: Pumpkin

It was tasty, actually spicy and sweet, which i liked, and it was pretty filling. weird to eat soup for breakfast, but i just pretended it was oatmeal. 

i have to eat every 2-3 hours, so the next one i try will likely be the cauliflower or the chili bean protein one. will check back in at the end of the day and update this post:

THE TALLY

-LBS Lost: N/A

-PUREES EATEN: 1 as of 11:54 am

-HUNGER PANGS: 0 as of 11:54 am

-NUMBER OF TIMES I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT THE HEART SHAPED CHEESECAKE IN MY FRIDGE AT HOME: 3

OMG You Guys...We SO Need These Facebook Buttons!

i mean...

how many times have you TOTALLY needed this button to exist? there's a whole slew of them on this other blog right here. which one is your favorite? tell me in the comments below!

My 2-Week Soup Cleanse: Prep Work - Dun Dun Duuuuuuuuun!

At least, that's how it sounds in my head.

hey y'all. ok so, in brief, we have this wellness fair at work every year and it consists of a bunch of booths, and you walk around and pretend to listen to whatever schpiel and free samples each vendor is evangelizing about for one sole purpose: so that you can get a raffle ticket from them. (oh, and free samples).

so when you are done making the rounds, you have a handful of wonderful, little yellow tickets that you then painstakingly fill out with your info, and then stand in front of a bunch of prizes and decide which jar to stuff the majority of your tickets into.

i've never won anything in previous years. in fact, i rarely win anything in life when it comes to drawings, prizes, the lottery, etc. but this year, i WON something that i REALLY wanted...a 2 week pureed soup cleanse!

ok, so maybe i'm the only one who's excited about it. but still. so on monday, the fine chef kelly from PureedLove will start delivering my 5-a-day soup purees (i get to pick the flavors) and then on Wednesday, i get 4 purees plus some protein and rice/quinoa until sunday. then, the following monday, i go back to 5 purees a day until wednesday, and then do it all over again. here's her website (to which i have no other affiliation other than the fact that i'm doing her cleanse!)

wish me luck! i have a feeling i will be blogging a lot about this journey, so i may need some encouragement and tips along the way!

here's to a detoxified, better rested, healthier-feeling and hopefully thinner me.

cheers.
GG

BuzzFeed Saturday

welp, in honor of what the nation celebrates as "Small Business Saturday," (click here and here for more information on what it is and how you can help small businesses in your area in the fight back against the man), i've decided to follow up #BlooperBriday with #BuzzfeedSaturday (#BFS). you guessed it...it's a selected buzzfeed (a place where i find my most treasured memes, gifs and other internet nonsense) post purely for your enjoyment on this Saturday morning. enjoy!

Click HERE for buzzfeed's "The 6 Worst Local Business Ads of the Month"

example:

bonus BFS link: click HERE for "The 10 Best Local Business Ads of the Month"

cheers!
daria

Happy #BlooperBriday: 'Friends' Edition (Blooper Reels from the TV Show)

a while back, my staff at my day job and i came up with an awesome, simple, and always joyful way to celebrate the onset of FRIDAYS... by assigning one of us to find an AWESOME and HILARIOUS blooper reel on the web, and sharing it like viral wildfire via IM to anyone who felt a full blown TGIF coming on.

in honor of that tradition, i present to you, dear friends, a blooper reel that always makes me laugh: one from the 90's sitcom Friends. happy #BlooperBriday to you too. :)

oh, and as a bonus, here's a post that i did in honor of Gene Roddenberry's birthday last year containing none other than some of my favorite Star Trek bloopers. double happy #BlooperBriday to you all.

cheers!

daria

NerdAlert: My name is Daria, and I am a Domain Name Hoarder.

that's right, i said it. for a long time, i've had this secret problem with coming up with what i deem to be clever URLs/domain names, and when i look them up on godaddy and they are available and reasonably priced, i buy them. and then, sometimes i do something with them, like i did with this blog and my SundayLA site, and other times, well, i just have these names sitting there.

but this, my friends, is not a case of that! this post has dual purpose: first and foremost, i bought a new domain name for this blog. i've never LOVED the fact that "knows" is at the end of this blog url, because when i say it out loud to people sometimes they think i mean "nose". and of course, just plain geekgirl was never available to begin with, so recently, i purchased geekgirldotcom.com, and with the redesign of my blog to a full blown site in the works right now, i wanted to come to you guys for a gut check. vote in the poll below and let me know what YOU think!

which URL do you prefer?

and the second purpose of this post was to give you guys a sneak peek of what the new site will look like. i was so stoked at finding this amazing new web design tool that is TOTALLY free, that i was inspired to redesign GeekGirl. so in the meantime, here's a tiny sneak peek at what the new site will look like, and i promise that its inaugural post will be about this rad website design software is, and how easy it is to use!

until then, cheers!

Coldplay+Electronic Wristbands=Most Amazeballs Concert Ever

Video I shot of #Coldplay concert in Chicago, performing "In My Place." 

Complete with awesome electronic wristbands that light up to the music.

And yes, that's me screaming. But look at the wristbands. :)

So, recently i went on a work trip to Chicago, a city which i ADORE. I realized that while i was there, one of my fave bands, Coldplay, was playing at the United Center. It was kismet. i HAD to get tickets.

Now, i've seen Coldplay live probably at least 2 times on each tour (so about 10x total). to say that i'm a superfan would be to understate my excitement for their music and performances. but this concert was different; it contained something i had NOT seen before. and now, concert has forever changed for me going forward: the electronic wristbands.