Jessica's Favorite Salad

I've been having these salads for lunch the past few days, and they've been amazing. Here are the ingredients to make your own:

• "Sassy Baby Blend" lettuce -- substitute with your favorite kind of leafy greens, preferably home-grown! And none of that ice burgh junk. 
• Dried cranberries -- "craisins", if you will. These are key, and make a great snack when you run out of lettuce. They taste like Fruit Roll-Ups.
• Feta cheese -- Actually, any good sheep or goat cheese would probably do just fine. I find feta to be a safe bet, as some goat cheeses taste a bit too much like a barnyard.
• Raspberry vinaigrette -- This stuff changed my life. Well, my salad-eating life. I bought Old Cape Cod brand, but you could totally make your own -- which I plan to do.

That's it! It's very simple and tastes delicious. You may want to add a nut of some sort, maybe halved pecans or almonds. I'll have to remember to buy some next time I'm out.

Hippie Day

I'm a day behind with most of my blogs posts as of late. Again today, I'm posting pictures from yesterday. I won't do anything interesting today, in order to catch up tomorrow.

Yesterday I was dressed in one of my "hippie" outfits. Long, flowery skirt; plain, white razor back; messy hair and a head band. Oh, and my parrot earrings from Epcot. They're so cute. To coincide with my peace-loving ensemble, we decided to eat at Saladworks for dinner. (O.K., so a restaurant chain isn't exactly "hippie", but salads are. Plus, they're just an L.L.C.!)

No pictures of the food since I didn't have my camera on me -- but it was tasty. They give you a whole lot of food and the staff is friendly. They gave us extra hot peppers and olives, even though our salads weren't supposed to come with them. It's a little on the pricey side, but it's not outrageous. I got the "Tivoli" salad: lettuce, tomato, mozzarella, chicken, pepperoni, macaroni noodles and a bunch of other things. Rob got some mandarin orange thing, which was a bit more exciting.

So if you're ever in need of a quick lunch, and Saladworks is one of your options, give it a try. They even have sandwiches and wraps if you don't like salad.

Moving on... there's a lot I want to do in this blog, and just, in general. I need to paint my bedroom. I also want to sand and repaint all my furniture, since I plan on keeping it when we move. Another goal is to assemble "grown-up" outfits that I can wear once I start working in the office (instead of from home). All of this I want to document in blog posts, but I have yet to get the ball rolling.

I am doing a lot, which explains my delay. On top of working full-time, I'm designing an issue of Jagazine for two to three weeks out of every month. I've recently begun doing volunteer design work for a husky rescue. Oh, and then any free time after that is spent on my commission-based job (Garden State Apartments). It's no wonder most of my time is spent online.