Ok, before I start with what made me happy today, I want you to go and watch this:  Dove Evolution

Kind of amazing huh? This will be a post for another day.

Day 2 – Thursday – April 30, 2008

I don’t know how many of you know this about me and my family. My husband is self employed and I am pretty much run the back end of the business. I used to handle all his billing, but since he has his laptop he does things right on the spot – but I handle all the finances – household and business.

Since we were married, I have this “thing” about making sure that he always has enough supplies and a working vehicle, without those two things, then we are pretty much up the creek.  It irritates me to no end when he “runs out” of supplies because to me that is just lost work.  And if his vehicle isn’t in top notch order then he can’t go to work.

A few months ago something started happening to his vehicle.  It wasn’t major but it stopped him from making longer trips (yup, and losing money) and I kept asking him what it would take to get it fixed.  I knew that I could some how finagle things in the finances to get it fixed but he kept putting it off.  He kept saying it would cost a couple of hundred dollars and we just didn’t have it.

He finally went and got it looked at yesterday and VIOLA – it’s only gonna cost around $100 to get it fixed, and so he made an appointment for it this morning and we dropped it off to get taken care of – YEAH!  That made me EXTREMELY happy!

The other thing that made me happy today, is that I am THAT MUCH CLOSER to the important announcement for tomorrow.  The butterflies are going full force today, but the happy thing is that I am breaking through the barriers.

What made YOU happy today? – Day 2

Finally was trying to catch up on my blog reading and I came across this blog and she was writing about how one of her blogging friends was starting a meme on posting daily for 8 days on things that made you happy for that day.  I have been feeling very positive as of late on a whole lot of things so I thought I would join on the happy train and let you peek in for the next 8 days what makes me happy.

Day 1 – Wednesday – April 29, 2008

I am in the middle of a very special project and it’s coming together very nicely. This project is causing massive butterflies in my stomach, but I am happy that daily I am spending time on it even though those little pesky negative mind talk demons keep trying to rain on my parade.

This project will culminate in a very big announcement come May 1, 2009 – so all you readers, be prepared.  It’s exciting.  It’s nerve racking, but it’s causing me great joy – cause as the most famous leader of the A-TEAM would say (this is the 2nd time I have used this inference today – what is up with retro???):

I love it when a plan comes together.

So that is what made me happy today – my plan is coming together.

What made YOU happy today?

Got lots of excitement on the Raw Cookbook announcement yesterday!  Thanks for that.  Just want to share that I will be working on this with a fellow HTA Member – her username is DebbieK if you want to look her up on the forums.  What a sweetheart she is.  She has lost 80 pounds on hCG with the tried and true method of Dr. Simeons, although she is basically Raw Vegan.  When she found out I did a round using all RAW she decided she would try another round to see how it went doing Protocol RAW, and I am happy to say she is having STELLAR losses (just like regular Protocol).

This woman is great, she is very detailed and is keeping excellent records of her protocol and so we will be sharing the results of the experiment in the upcoming RAW COOKBOOK.  I decided to give you a sneak peak of one of the recipes she tweaked so that it would fit with RAW PROTOCOL – so those of you out there trying RAW, give this a shot and let us know how you liked it!

This is now directly from Debbie – ENJOY!!!

Marinara Over Zoodles

This recipe is good for P2 – only if your doing “RAW PROTOCOL”

This recipe was inspired by Alissa Cohen’s recipe in her book, “Living on Live Food“.

I didn’t know how this would turn out given that I wasn’t adding much oil and I only used a few sun-dried tomatoes because of their high calorie count. But it turned out great ~ I’ll definitely have this often on P2.

Zucchini Noodles (Zoodles)

I use this gadget* to make spiraled zucchini. We’ve actually been doing this for years as former Somersizers. I do up the zucchini in the morning and leave it for several hours to air dry, on a tray with a cotton kitchen towel.

Marinara Sauce

200g fresh tomatoes (I love using Campari tomatoes from Costco)
35-40g sun-dried tomatoes, soaked
1 clove garlic (leave skins on if you use a high speed blender)
handful of fresh basil (to taste)
2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt (to taste)

Put sun-dried tomatoes in a bowl and cover well with water, which you’ll use to thin the sauce later, so do not discard.

After the tomatoes are rehydrated, place everything in the blender with a bit of the soak water. Blend and add more water until desired consistancy.  I added quite a bit of water as I wanted it on the thin side. Taste – if you’d like you can add a bit of stevia. I added it, but I don’t think it was needed.

Here are the numbers on the batch I had for dinner

• zucchini noodles 308g = 49 calories
• sauce using 2t evoo, 210g tomatoes, 38g sun-dried tomatoes = 218
• total = 267 calories

This actually made more sauce than I needed, it can be cut down.

*I bought mine at QVC. This is the cheapest price I’ve seen for this – other sites are easily twice this much. If you use if for nothing more than zoodles, it’s money well spent. I’ve also ordered one for my *** for her birthday and another I just ordered tonight for our friend who is on P2.