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Showing posts with label Wilmington Stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wilmington Stuff. Show all posts
Friday, May 27, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
DANIELLE FOR "OCEANA: OCEAN HERO"
She's a wife and mother of 3 children.Already carrying a huge load...
she still makes it a top priority to take care of what connects us all.
Our Oceans.
Her Blog:http://itstartswithme-
You can see the total amount of cigarette butts removed from Wrightsville Beach, NC in 58 days: 16,627. YES, 16,627 cigarette butts have been picked up by her.
She is a huge inspiration to me and our entire community!
She is working on helping Wrightsville Beach, NC by making it smoke free!
She won the "Brita: Filter For Good" for her "It Starts With Me" Video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYWBIx0I6Bk
She works hard to be plastic free... as you know plastic is a huge problem for our Oceans.
http://myplasticfreelife.com/
She constantly posts things on her Facebook page of ways to help our oceans/etc. http://www.facebook.com/
How to nominate Danielle!
Click here to nominate Danielle as OCEANA'S Ocean Hero!
Name: Danielle Richardet
Email: daniellelr55@aol.com
Age: Adult (18 & older)
Website: http://itstartswithme-danielle.blogspot.com
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Wine & Design
Click here to look at the WINE AND DESIGN website.
So Karen that I work for has gone to this a couple times and she's loved it...
I wanna try it out SOO bad just for the fun of it... I'm far from an artist and it'll probably come out looking terrible but I think it would be something fun!! :) Any girls interested??? hehe!
Next Wednesday this is the painting:
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
EATING IN Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill
MAGGIANO'S LITTLE ITALY:
Italian. Make sure you have reservations. Ryan and I ate at the one in Atlanta but couldn't eat there in Raleigh-Durham because they were so packed.
They have gluten free pasta.
I think it was the CLASSIC PASTAS... but it was a deal because if you ordered one of them, you were able to choose another CLASSIC PASTA to take home with you... so Ryan and I had pasta that night and didn't even finish it and then had an entire meal plus leftovers for the following day. Pretty neat.
CARMINE'S:
Yummy gluten free pasta but silly that they charge you $4 more for the gluten free pasta.
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Whole Foods & Trader Joe's
...are 2 amazing grocery stores that they have in the area... they're amazing! "Word on the street" is that good ol' Wilmington is getting a Whole Foods where the grocery store was to the left of Independence Mall on Oleander. Awesome! I also heard maybe Trader Joe's but I almost feel like that's too good to be true! We shall see! I pray we get both!
We went to both and I was in awe! We stocked up on a lot of stuff to bring home and to also eat while we were out of town, instead of eating out for all of our meals.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
2010 Battleship NC 5K
After the Midnight 5K for Ovarian Cancer
I guess I caught what they call the "runners high"
so, I immediately signed up for the:
2010 Battleship NC 5K
November 7, 2010
Ryan and Drew both did the half. :)
Midnight 5K for Ovarian Cancer
October 29 2010
at Midnight I ran my 1st race ever. :)
It was only a 5K but you have to start small!
Ryan, Joe Mott, and Joe's 2 friends from NC State came out to run with me.
To say it meant the world to me... is an understatement.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Gluten Free Beer & Bread
all wines are safe for celiacs... aka... they are gluten free.
For more gluten free alcohol info: click here.
GLUTEN FREE BREAD
Click here to see a website with tons of gluten free bread.
Udi's is the most popular from what I've noticed.
They have it in Wilmington at Tidal Creek.
Lovey's Market also has TONS of gluten free products.
Lovey's just remodeled their Market/Cafe and it looks AWESOME!
There is SO much more space and duh... it looks prettier!
Here is a miscellaneous blog about being GLUTEN FREE:
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Sweet Tooth @ Tidal Creek
I had a sweet tooth in Tidal Creek today... obvy.
carob covered coffee beans, agave gummy bears, sour agave gummy bears, yogurt covered almonds, carob covered almonds... :-)
The other night at Danielle's she showed Ryan and I the agave bears she got from Tidal Creek, and when I was in there yesterday getting a couple things... I headed straight to the back to the BULK SECTION :) Just an F.Y.I.... the bulk items are 5% off on Tuesdays! :)
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
It's been a while...
So I have decided to do the Wrightsville Beach Half Marathon on March 20th... I know it seems like a long ways away, but it has to be for ME to be ready... I haven't been running or doing any REAL strenuous exercise lately... so I kinda believe I'll be starting from scratch... I might do a couple 5Ks and 10Ks leading up to it just to do them, and have themunder my belt, since I haaave only done 2 5Ks EVER. I wish it wasn't so cold outside but I guess it's better than being sweltering hot outside? Right? Ek. Anywho! If anyone is interested in joining me, VOLUNTEERING, or just wants to check out more info for the heck of it, look at the links posted below.... :)
February 4-6th Ryan is going to be competing in the CrossFit Garage Games in Georgia. Oh and then it's Valentine's Day, wow first time I'm actually looking forward to it :)
But back to what I was talking about, haha... I'm really so proud of him! If you didn't know he won CrossFit Wilmington's “Not Normal / Give Yourself Abs for Christmas” contest!
Ryan dropped 22lbs… from 192lbs
BEFORE Picture:
down to 170!
After Picture:
He worked really hard for it and really deserved it. :)
Proof that it's ALL about HOW BAD YOU WANT IT! ...Seriously!
He looks good huh? Back off ladies ;)
So now that I'm looking at my calendar,
I can't believe this year is about to be over,
which reminds me... NEW YEARS... New Years Resolution...!!
Do you know what my New Years Resolution was last year?
NO MORE MEAT... :-)
I became a veggie head hehe... best decision ever I have to say.
This past year I have been blessed in so many ways... and I'm very thankful.
My New Years Resolution this year is going to be more like a promise to myself, and a goal, because who writes the rules on what you can say is your New Years Resolution?!?!
But my promise to myself is to work on how much trash/recycling I make. Confused? Don't be. Danielle Richardet that you've heard me mention before, the one that writes the blog It Starts With Me that has inspired me in countless ways to change things I never would have thought about, keeps track of her plastic use...
Mind you, I do always consider the packaging that my foods come in, and I don't use plastic bags, and I do recycle, and wash and keep all of my plastic containers, yadda yadda yadda... BUT there is ALWAYS more that I can do. I want to start decreasing the purchase of the products that DO come in the plastic packaging, because WHO needs 438957348957893 plastic containers?!
No one.
I recycle every itty bitty piece of anything possible that you can recycle and sometimes go into peoples trash (that I babysit for... please don't judge me) and I take out things that could easily be recycled that they maybe just didn't think about.
Okay, yeah and then my goal to myself is the Half Marathon... :)
Monday, December 13, 2010
Christmas Events in Mayfaire :)
http://www.mayfairetown.com/index/c/post/id/117/
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Beach Access Adoption
Going To Adopt A Beach Access At Wrightsville Beach!
Beach Access Map
Beach Access Map
The available accesses at this time are: 5, 6, 7, 18, 19, 20, and 24
I was hoping to get #35 because it is closest to Ryan's house
& would be most accessible to me... but oh well!
Hmmm... which one to adopt?!
Props to James Bain for his first "Beach Trash Run"
You may think that this isn't a lot for his beach trash run... but...
THINK ABOUT IT!
If EVERYONE picked up a couple things... we'd REALLY get somewhere :)
Good job JB!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
10-20-2010
Well I forgot to wear my purple today...
but I saw these quotes on my friends' facebooks and thought I would share them...
"Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality." ~James Baldwin *Wear Purple Today* :)" -Jana Suggs Wirtel
"I'm as straight as they come but I will gladly stand up for the LGBT youth of America, scared to stand up for themselves. This gay bashing & bullying has got to stop. We have kids committing suicide because they are bullied & taunted for being "different." I've grown up & realized that there's so much more important shit goin on, then what society teaches us, as kids. Stop the hate. Love is louder." -Mel Atoa Siaki
Can we talk about boys... who want their cake and wanna eat it too... and then want nibbles out of other cakes... no, never mind I don't even want to go there....
This made me laugh... hope it makes you laugh too... :)
"At some point, we have to learn to let go of all control that we THINK we have." -Erica Denton
"Our Daily Ocean: A Story of Butts"
I just wanted to thank everyone that has been voting for my friend Danielle Richardet and her project .... "Our Daily Ocean: A Story of Butts" ... yay! She has 827 votes as of RIGHT NOW... 9:10 AM on Wednesday :) woohoo! You should check out her blog: "It Starts With Me" ... and the name of her blog, definitely deserves it's given name... because it HAS started with her! :) So proud of her!
If you have not voted... please do! You can do it everyday up until Oct 29th!
Yesterday, I had planned on going to the gym, doing P90X, etc but it was SUCH a beautiful day out that I decided to get some exercise outdoors... so I decided to go to, well... ONLY my favorite place in the entire world... yes, yes, yes, DA BEACH hehe... well I started at Stone Street (near Wings/Trolly Stop) and ran a little ways, until I found a Starbuck's coffee cup in my path just skirting around on the sand, feet from the water... and of course, I picked it up... had a few words (with myself, hehe) and then proceeded to run, with it in hand... well I continued seeing trash and it started to make me kinda angry... so I decided to turn my "beach run" into a mini "beach sweep"... and spent the next 3 hours picking up trash AND cigarette butts. I honestly should've put cigarette butts first, because that was definitely the majority of what was out there. I have to say, I never doubted Danielle's findings, or that there was a lot... and you probably don't either... but until you really go out there and LOOK for what has become so COMMON that we don't even notice anymore (so ridiculously sad) you probably won't understand... because I didn't realize JUST. HOW. SAD. it was/is. I spent the 3 hours seriously like talking to myself. Cussing to myself and then praying to myself... weird right? It's something so incredibly simple that could literally make the world of difference.
I picked up 541 cigarette butts, 6 plastic filters, tons of plastic straws, tops to bottles, bottles, glass beer bottles, numerous birthday balloons... I mean I was like in complete shock. I'm a nanny as I'm sure you know... and I brought most of the stuff I picked up with me to work, after Girls on the Run, I talked to Sonja (10) and Charlie (6) about Danielle's project again (they've been hearing me talk about it) and we sat outside and counted the cigarette butts. Sonja (10) couldn't believe how many I found, but I told her that it was NOTHING compared to what was still out there. If I compared it to the ocean, I told her it's like I only was one drop. Sonja was upset that I had gone without her, but I assured her that there will definitely be more times for her to participate.
I really think that I may start just picking up trash everyday, wherever it may be... of course, as many of you know, I was already "environmentally friendly" and what not... many of you call me a "Tree Hugger" or whatever, and that's okay... I don't take offense to it. It's honestly a compliment. Driving around yesterday afternoon with the kids to all of their activities, you should've seen me looking out the window at the side of the road, looking around and scoping out all the litter. arg. Danielle has made a Nazi out of me! hehe!
Random Interesting Facts/Info-ish
Did you know 12% of college students consider themselves vegetarian?
If vegetarian were a college major, it would be the largest!
I also heard on the radio that Psyche majors are the least
satisfied once they are placed in their jobs... grrrrrreat.
Cancer survivors who increase soy consumption are less likely to face disease again.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Future 5Ks
Okay, so... I've become obsessed with wanting to do all these races... these are the ones I plan to do....
Oct 23rd - Rock the Joint
Oct 23rd - Rock the Joint
Oct 29th - Midnight 5K Run for Ovarian Cancer
Nov 6th - North Carolina Holiday Flotilla 5K Run
Nov 21st - Seaside Shuffle 5K
Nov 25th - Habitat for Humanity Turkey Trot 2.4 mile
2011:
April 16 - Run for the Red 5K
April 30 - Wrightsville Beach Farmer's Market Eat Healthy, Eat Local 5K & 10K
(Hopefully by this point I can do the 10K no problem :) hehe)
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
After all that rain!
I thought the sky was so beautiful last night.
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
Sonja being goofy whenever we went to go pick strawberries @ Lewis Farms!
Flaming Amy's
in my opinion is a good place to eat... with kids too!
I get the "Big Ol' Bowl"
I honestly have gotten a different mixture everytime.
But I always get WITHOUT cheese/sour cream... WITH black beans.
Caroline Mulligan and I at the beach :)
Saturday, September 4, 2010
There's still enough of the good stuff to go around
^^Yumminess from Tidal^^
They have a salad bar type thing!
You can drop by and grab your lunch quick :)
M: "u yelled at me for no reason, & then u walked away. & now u show up here."
D: "Of course I showed up. Why wouldn't I? u don't trust me?"
M: "I do."
D: "Ok, well this is how it works. u fight sometimes & somebody apologizes."
M: "Well, how am I supposed to know that?"
D: "u've never done this before."
M: "No, I've never done this before."
D: "From now on, u can expect that I'm gonna show up. Even if I yell. Even if u yell. I'm always gonna show up. Ok?"
M: "Ok."
-Grey's Anatomy
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