Cleansing

Happiness lies, first of all, in health."-George William Curtis

As I previously mentioned, I broke my ankle and foot seven weeks ago.  I attempted to execute a pirouette and failed miserably resulting in a Jones Fracture in my foot, a break in my upper ankle, and a seriously painful third degree sprain in that ankle. I was in a boot for a week before I could get into see the Orthopedic surgeon. The doctor then casted my foot for a month and then put me back in a walking boot for another three weeks. During most of this I was unable to drive (it's my right foot) and had to rely completely on my amazing roommate. However, the end is now in sight. I am a week away (hopefully) from getting a clean bill of health.

Immediately after my initial injury

All casted up

I have to say seven weeks of being almost completely stationary in addition to being stressed from starting a new job and trying to get settled after a cross country move is not the easiest thing in the world to do. Especially if you are trying to be healthy. I have lost a lot of muscle tone (not that I even had that much to begin with) and I have been surviving on a horrible diet.

In the last seven days of being stuck in a boot, I decided to try a cleanse in hopes of helping my body adjust to being more healthy and mobile. I have heard about a lot of different cleanses and I have tried a different one previously that made me feel great afterwards, but it required a high-powered blender which I don't yet have in my apartment. Therefore, I was looking for a cleanse that wasn't completely insane, but would still be effective.

Here is the 7 day cleanse I will be doing starting Tuesday:

• Tuesday: All you can eat fruit, but no bananas. 
• Wednesday: All you can eat vegetables.
• Thursday: All you can eat fruits and vegetables.
• Friday: Up to 8 bananas and 3 glasses of milk.
• Saturday: 20 oz. of lean beef and 6 whole tomatoes.
• Sunday: All you can eat lean beef and vegetables.
• Sunday: All you can eat brown rice and vegetables with pure (no sugar added) fruit juice

In addition to the foods listed above, it is important to drink at least 10 glasses of water every day and abstain from alcohol. You are also allowed to supplement any day with as much of the following recipe for soup as you would like. 

Soup:

• Water
• Onions
• Tomatoes
• Green Bell Peppers
• Celery
• Cabbage
• Lipton Onion Soup Packets

Clean Eating Shopping List 

I will also be soaking in a tub with epsom salt for at least 15 minutes everyday. Epsom salt is known for  relaxing the body, easing muscle strain, easing sprains, relieving pain, and eliminating toxins.  I personally like Lavender Scented Epsom Salt.

I will let you all know how my cleanse goes! 

Cheers xx

Fall Fashion Updates

"Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale."- Lauren DeStefano

It is officially Autumn. Autumn is my favorite season and I am so excited I'm living on the East Coast where fall announces itself with a burst of color. It has been a slow transition into the crisp fall weather, but in a couple weeks the temperatures will be dropping and I cannot wait. 

I am currently going through my closet and decided what I still need to prepare for the season so I thought I'd share my insights with you! 

1. Scarfs

Scarves are such an easy update to stay warm and look fashionable during the transitioning weather. I like to have a wide variety to pair with any outfit. I think the basic must haves for the fall are a printed scarf, an infinity scarf, a knit scarf, and a cashmere scarf. 

A stack of my scarves 

I have a ton of scarves from Nordstrom and I am really liking the following ones for this fall:

 Printed Scarves, Infinity Scarves, Knit Scarves

I also am a big fan of tartan cashmere scarfs. I have two from here: Cashmere Scarves

2. Shoes

If you know me you know that I am a shoe person. I love particularly love boots which makes Fall my favorite shoes season.

Sampling of my Fall boots. Note my walking boot, tres chic, no?

I think the biggest fall boot must haves are equestrian boots, rain boots, combat boots, and ankle booties.

I also love the over the knee boots and some good ol' fashioned cowboy boots. 

Here are my picks for this season:

Equestrian Boots- These are on my Christmas list in Bordeaux 

Rain Boots- I personally like bright rain boots (mine are bright red) and I love the yellow color too.

Combat Boots- I have these in Cognac and I wore them for 4 months in Europe and they were perfect.

Ankle Boots- I just bough these and they are fabulous. 

My new ankle booties!

I also have transitioned into my Fall heel collection. It is basically full of various black suede heels. 

I am currently advocating cap toe heels, cut out heels, oxford booties, and peep toe booties. 

Here are some options for this season: Cap Toe Pumps, Cut-Out Booties, Oxford Booties, Peep-Toe Booties

3. Chunky Knit Sweaters

There is nothing better than a big comfortable chunky knit sweater paired with leggings and boots. Luckily my office is super casual so I can wear that everyday this fall. 

I'm excited to break into my closets sweater section.

I am currently buying a couple new sweaters for Autumn so here are the ones that caught my eye. 

 

Cable Knit Sweater  and Oversized Boyfriend Sweater and Fisherman Cardigan

Anyways, there are some of my picks for this Autumn. I hope you enjoyed!

Cheers xx

   

27 By 27

"Someone should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of everyday. Do it I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."- Michael Landon Jr. 

I apologize for the significant amount of time that has passed between now and my last post. I moved to a new state to start a new job, and on my first full day I ended up breaking my ankle and my foot. Needless to say a lot has changed in the last couple weeks. I am still recovering from my injuries, but should be back to 100% in a couple weeks. I am living in a new city and have been working at my new job for 6 weeks, and I am now twenty-two.

While at work this past week, I realized that I have so much I want to accomplish and only so much time to do it all. I decided I would make a list of 27 things to accomplish by the time I'm 27. In the next five years I plan to have made it all the way through my bucket list. I will post my list here and be posting about my progress.

Here is my list of 27 Things to Accomplish By the time I'm 27:

Travel Goals:

• Completely fill up my passport with stamps. (I have had this passport since I was 17. It currently has 20 stamps and 43 open spaces.)
• Go on at least 1 trip every year
• Go to a foreign country completely alone
• See the Aurora Borealis
• Go to Hogmanay for New Years
• See Stonehenge 
• Go to the Isle of Skye 
• Go on a trip to another country with a significant other
• Safari 
• Go to Egypt
• Go to New Zealand/Australia 
• Go to 3 Major World Festivals 
• Mardi Gras, Oktoberfest, Carnival, etc.

Work Related Goals:

• Make at least 80K a year
• Have at least 100K saved 
• Be promoted at least twice

Fitness Goals:

• Run 6 miles three times a week for a month
• Be proficient in inversion yoga
• Learn to belly dance

Random Goals:

• Write a book
• Take a class for a hobby 
• Live alone 
• Own Christian Louboutins 
• Learn the basics of another language 
• Learn to like whisky
• Read every play of Shakespeare's 
• Here is my list of Shakespearean works I still need to read: 
1. All's Well That Ends Well
2. As You Like it 
3. Comedy of Errors
4. Loves Labour's Lost 
5. Measure for Measure
6. Merry Wives of Windsor
7. Taming of the Shrew
8. Tempest
9. Twelfth Night 
10. Two Gentlemen of Verona 
11. Winters Tale 
12. Henry IV, Part 1
13. Henry IV, Part II
14. Henry VI, Part II
15. King John
16. Pericles
17. Richard II
18. Richard III
19. Antony and Cleopatra
20. Coriolanus
21. Cymbeline
22. Macbeth 
23. Timon of Athens
24. Titus Andronicus
25. Trolius and Cressida
• Read every book on the 100 best book list. 
• I have already read some of the books on the list but here are the titles I need to read over the next 5 years.
1. Beowulf
2. Robinson Crusoe
3. Last of the Mohican's 
4. Giovanni's Room
5. Moby Dick
6. Madame Bovary 
7. Atlas Shrugged 
8. A Death in the Family 
9. Go Tell it on the Mountain
10. Waiting for Godot 
11. Adventures of Augie March 
12. The Stranger
13. Death Comes for the Archbishop 
14. The Cherry Orchard 
15. Heart of Darkness
16. The Red Badge of Courage
17. Crime and Punishment 
18. Narrative and Life of Frederik Douglass
19. An American Tragedy 
20. The Mill on the Floss
21. Invisible Man
22. Selected Essays By Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. Tom Jones
24. The Good Solider
25. Faust 
26. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
27. A Farewell to Arms
28. Their Eyes Were Watching God
29. Brave New World
30. A Doll's House
31. The Portrait of a Lady 
32. The Turn of the Screw
33. The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
34. Ulysses 
35. The Metamorphosis 
36. The Woman Warrior
37. Babbit
38. The Call of the Wild
39. The Magic Mountain 
40. One Hundred Years of Solitude 
41. Bartleby the Scrivener 
42. A Good Man is Hard to Find
43. Doctor Zhivago 
44. Selected Tales-Edgar Alan Poe
45. Swann's Way
46. The Crying of Lot 49
47. All Quiet on the Western Front 
48. Cyrano de Bergerac 
49. Call it Sleep 
50. Pymalion 
51. Frankenstein 
52. Ceremony 
53. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 
54. Antigone 
55. The Grapes of Wrath 
56. Treasure Island 
57. Gulliver's Travels
58. Vanity Fair
59. Walden 
60. War & Peace
61. Fathers & Sons
62. Candide
63. Collected Stories-Eudora Welty
64. Leaves of Grass
65. The Glass Menagerie 
66. To the Lighthouse
67. Native Son
68. Anderson's Fairy Tales
69. Aesop's Fables
70. Grimm's Fairy Tales
71. Le Morte D'Arthur 

So I clearly have a lot to do in the coming years. Wish me luck!

Cheers xx