One
latte & one bottomless mimosa. Good start to my morning with my
peeps. However I was not informed about the impromptu hike after
breakfast. If I would have known I might have ordered differently.
Hopefully I don't fall off the trail into more poison oak.
I've
been feeling extremely fatigued lately and I've just been chalking it
up to first year faculty stress. But this week I noticed I was getting
more headaches than usual and that when I was leaned over for more than a
moment I was feeling dizzy. Anemia runs in my family and is more likely
to happen to vegetarians so I decided that I needed to make a more
concerted effort to pump up my iron levels. Plant based iron is harder
for the body to absorb than animal-based iron, but if you pair it with
vitamin C it does a much more efficient job. So my love and I have been
working this week to be more intentional with our food choices. This
morning she cheffed me up some spinach, red pepper and garlic eggs and
cut up the pineapple we got yesterday. The spinach has lots of iron and
both the pineapple and red bell peppers pack lots of vitamin c. In fact,
red bell peppers have more vitamin c than an orange! Bet you didn't
know that did ya? Paired with a multivitamin and some zinc I'm hope my
vitamin packed meals are helping boost my blood and maybe even ramp up
the old immune system so it can kick this poison oak's ass!
Before
all the chaos of dog sickness my love made me pancakes for breakfast.
But not only did she make them for today, but for tomorrow through
probably the whole week! Our friend Laurie told us that her family makes
big batches of them on the weekend and then throws them in the fridge
for quick reheating later in the week. Genius! And now we have followed
suit. I do love the crap out of some pancakes!
