Hang Over No More !!

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Dayum I do believe this will be a #goldmind idea !!
As we’re getting older, for some reason us “adults” are getting more and more hungover! How could this possibly be? We look back to our glory days and think I used to go harder more days a week and all day long! ! Cheers to my younger self but fuck it  lets take another shot of Fireball or Patron!

Navigating how to resolve your hangover is your own prerogative and may take years to figure out the perfect resolution.
Some friends of mine just choose to puke it all out! Others swear by smoking the reefer. Or taking 2 advil and chugging water before hitting their head to the pillow … thats if they remember to so so! I personally think a big thing of white rice and a spring roll will do the trick … if you’ve gotta blow chunks and get your stomach to the bottom of the barrel .. do it 🙂

I have a friend whose a nurse and when she’s hungover she turns to an IV Bag of fluids! I thought to myself well first of all is this legal ?! Secondly is this genius ?! And then decide WOW obviously this makes sense!!
We’ve all sat in the hospital room with out friend that has just pushed the limit and gotten an mip … watching and listening to him or her ramble on about the zebras flying on the ceiling (note minor in possession means going to the childrens end of the hospital ). The first thing that the hospital provides the person with is an iV bag and a puke bucket.
A urologist doctor in NY saw a strong need in the market for curing hangovers and  took matters into his own hands… and the hands of others. Da da daaaa THE IV Doctor was BORN!  You pay a small fee of $250 to have the IV doc come over to your HOUSE !! Like magic You’re cured !! There are a few options to choose from …

Cleanse
Detox
Refresh
Revive
Super Complex of b12 vitamins which is injection only.

Watch his promo video here

The IV Doc is now serving NYC, Long Island , including the Hamptons and on JULY 3 my dear windy city friends… YOU!!
Get your appointments booked now because Fourth of July is only 4 days out!!
Party On !
Lshawtay

Lshawtay’s Book Club : The Fault in Our Stars

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The Fault In Our Stars by John Green 

Star Rating :  ☆ ☆  ☆  ☆  ☆

Well even though I may be  bit late to the game , since the book won  TIME Magazine’s #1 Fiction Book of 2012 ,  i’m glad i got my at bat with it ! I didn’t want to read the book at first because I was worried it would be sad, it really wasn’t totally sad. Somewhat uplifting and a bit of insight what it is like to be a teenager with cancer. Being a teenager isn’t the easiest  and being in remission or having to walk around wearing an oxygen tank doesn’t make it any easier. The story is heart warming, truly, and might only make you cry once or twice depending how emotional you are of a person. It is an extremely quick read, for me , someone who does not divulge in full fledge books too often, this book me 69 pages deep the first time I sat down to start ! 

Recommended to me by two friends : the first just wanted to read the book before seeing the movie – i personally have no desire to see the movie or how this was put into production on screen. I’m not sure if it is due to the fact that I was a communications major and picked a part films angle by angle scene by scene but I have no interest in having this text brought to the big screen. I’ve heard the movie was lovely and the characters Hazel and Augustus we’re depicted fabulously … ! But the characters i’ve imagined in my head will do for me ! 

My second friend who recommended it to me shared with me that it would be a VERY quick read, which was true! She finished the book in less than 12 hours. She is a major reading gal though – I was lucky she provided me with the copy of the book 😀 I think this is the type of soft cover book you’d rather hold in your hand than read on a Kindle. There is somewhat of a disconnect to me when you read a book on a Kindle. Don’t get me wrong I’m obsessed with the ease and convenience of Amazon’s One- Click purchase feature. 

The friend I recommended it to picked up a copy right away, the day after I had told her! She finished the book in a quick amount of time and texting me that she was hysterically crying & she said “Holy Shit!!! This is amazing” ! LOL I did not have the crying reaction, but maybe i’m not as sensitive and emotional as her. LOVE YOU. 

I do recommend this to the female audience more so than the male audience but I am guessing more of my readers are female than male ! 

I got this little excerpt from the Amazon Website for purchasing the book  ” Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.”

I’m not surprised that millions of copies of this book have been sold, I think it really is a book everyone should read !! 

The book won :
#1 New York Times Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
#1 USA Today Bestseller
#1 International Bestseller
#1 Indie Bestseller

 

Get Your Reading On !!! 

 

Chef Lshawtay : Knife Skills

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Orange Supreme !

 

 

I’d like to think of my self as a Chef or one in the making ! I have a lot of fun in the kitchen , last year I made a few YouTube Videos about What’s In My Bag : Grocery Store Edition, which i’ll post later this week. One of the great things about living in Ann Arbor is there is Sur La Table just outside of Downtown! On my Instagram account you can find pictures from the classes I have taken : Croissants as well as Macrons.  While I cannot say I’ve mastered either or could make them 100% perfect at home, I’d give it a try ! Photographed in this blog you’ll see photos from my Knife Skills course.

Photographed first we have the Orange Supreme, which was actually the last thing we did in the class.  This was an interesting trick that I never even thought about. Unfortunately I have an allergy to oranges and the squirting of the juice makes me break out in hives, but thats for another day! It kind of reminds me of how oranges come in a can, which I think is vile.

I would love to demonstrate this trick for friends of mine, I feel like it is a very fancy look for an orange slice! 

We learned about the different parts of the knife and how they are made and put together. NOT ALL KNIVES ARE THE SAME! You may see a famous Knife brand on special sale, but it is for a reason!! It is not the same high quality of the original line thats full price.

Sharpening your knives is very important ! Granted the women who taught the class is a professional Chef and has gone to Pastry School, I do believe her advice. She has been going to the same guy who is like 80 to sharpen her knives for over a decade!

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All of the ingredients photo’d surprisingly turned into an amazing Pico De Gallo!! We learned to to properly chop a tomato – this was another troubling one for me as I have an allergy to them as well ! I did wear gloves which were very helpful and I would recommend any one would for the sake of cleanliness & smell. Came in handy for doing the onions as well 😉

 

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Pico!

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Not Photo’d is the Bread Knife with ridged edges !

Blue Nails, Green Thumb

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My Pot Planter from Ann Arbor Downtown Home & Garden

A have a bit of a green thumb these days, ever since I posted about decorating your desk at the office or at home! I was inspired to bring life into my life in a way other than having a baby. I have always eyed out the plants at Plum Market, and on the eve of my 24th Birthday I thought why not just buy one already. I unknowingly purchased an Aloe Plant – which has so many uses you wouldn’t believe. YES this is where the Aloe comes from to help your sun burns, if you break off a branch of your Aloe plant, you can keep it organic and not buy some weird goo from the drug store.

Meanwhile, I have been keeping this little cactus plant on my desk since the end of April 2013, a resident of my building where I work gave it to me as a gift that he brought from home in Arizona. My desk isn’t the closest one to the window, so I deprived this cactus from proper sunlight for about a full year, it looked weak. My new co-worker has an extraordinary green thumb, and advised me on how to bring it back to life, the first step being put it by the window! DUH – cacti are from the desert where it is hot as balls and filled with sunshine.

I began to feel a need for more plants and more oxygen – I traveled down to the Eastern Market in Detroit with 2 friends and we traveled from Shed to Shed ( IF YOU HAVEN”T BEEN YOU GOTTA GO …. on a SATURDAY!) Walking and walking, kind feels like you are a cow in a heard with all the people down there, we found ourselves “starstruck” by the GIANT SHiNOLA watch hanging from the ceiling, as it matched exactly to the one on my friends wrist. Conveniently this was in front of a plant booth – and I found my perfect little plant that I have NO idea what it is, but that I like its looks – I instantly purchased it for $2.25 ….. pocket change.

I was so excited by something so small, I carried around for the rest of the afternoon in a small paper bag as this little plant including the pot is smaller than my hand.

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Organic Cactus Mix from Ann Arbor Downtown Home & Garden $3.9

I re-visited the Eastern Market two Saturdays later to buy 2 more cute little plants, I will have to post photos of them later when I transfer them into more fabulous pots.

The other day I was noticing my Aloe plant was lookin’ not so haute and I showed it to my green thumb co-worker. He said that it had a big sprout popping out the top, but its tentacles were looking slim and crispy. Therefore, it was time to upgrade its home !! We walked over to the Downtown Home & Garden shop on S. Ashley in Ann Arbor. Here I found a lovely blue pot – that went along with the cacti theme & its just my favorite color. He instructed me to purchase Organic Cactus Mix aka soil bag of stuff to re-pot my plant, because in a bigger home obviously would need more and fresh soil. The bag of soil was $3.99 – pretty cheap and it can assist in all of my 5 plants getting a new home !!

You have to fill the bottom of you pot with rocks, to help with drainage of the water that you pour in once a week for your plant. I conveniently got these from the ground outside. FREE ! wahoo! Apparently, cacti family plants like to have their soil patted down firmly to them. My Aloe plant used to live in the Photo’d cactus plant’s new home. It was easy to upgrade both of their homes. I can’t wait to upgrade my other 3 plants to their new homes once I find a fabulous pot for them.

Added benefits of having plants in your home is that they are eating up all your CO2 and pumping out Oxygen. This is a great thing for yourself !!

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YAY ! My Cactus from my tenant & my Aloe plant from Plum Market

Breathe in the light around you and breathe out the darkness inside of you ❤

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Hey ! Me in front of the stacks of Hay at the Ann Arbor Downtown Home & Garden Space on S.Ashley & Liberty St

 

Tunesday Tuesday!

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tiaPoppin’ back into the scene we have TI ft Iggy Azelia “No Mediocre” released YESTERDAY June 16th.  Talk about a dynamic duo, we haven’t heard much from TI recently but the best way to segway back into the scene is with the haute new rapper from Australia Iggy Azalea !!

Talk about a HOT track to bump all summer long !!

 

 

Giggle of the Day

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fatboyIf you haven’t yet heard about the legendary Fat Boy who got arrested in Florida early yesterday …. listen up ! Down in the sun shinny state of Florida , Biggie was pulled over for not wearing a seat belt. He says nervously  officers I’m just to fat to wear a seat belt … sitting at 450 LBS. The officers were wary of his shakey vice and sweaty face , they instantly though mhm we should call the dogs over on this one  – the dogs sniffed around the car & they asked Biggie to get out of his car. They check his pockets & nothing was to be found. Thinking a little bit harder the officers asked Biggie Sir, please lift up your stomach fat rolls and out popped 33 grams of Fresh MARY JANE & 1 g of cocaine!! whoa.  Talk about a hiding place !!

When sharing this story with a friend she thought Maybe he’d even be able to hid stuff in his neck rolls … now wouldn’t that be a trip !!

I heard this story on the radio this morning on my local favorite station Channel 955 with Mojo in The Morning !! They then began a call in about what could be the biggest thing that someone could hide in their personal fat rolls. One guy called in and claims he could fit half a chair in his belly rolls ! OY VEY.

Another nurse called in and said that one time she had a patient come in and they are doing an exam on this 400+ lb guy and they knew something wasn’t just right. They lift up his belly rolls and find a remote control !! The guy instantly takes off his oxygen mask and says “DAYUM IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT” !!

Giggle on and walk 10,000 steps today 😀

Work It – Snack Break – LMFAO

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tumblr_n63y9fznRs1qewacoo1_500-1So only in an American kitchen would this be seen ! Unfortunately I cannot take the credit for this being my fancy new fridge !   The idea of quick tips and helpful hints to curb your appetite have been circulating for ages on all sorts of platforms. The FRIDGE is where many eaters find their trouble … taking too many trips to the fridge when you’re bored & knowingly consuming food when you are not really hungry.  Spotted in some of my friends apartments in college I’ve seen photos of Sports Illustrated or Victoria Secret Models or other Haute Betches hanging scantly clad  FRONT & CENTER on their Fridges! Like honestly looking at this photo shopped babe is gonna stop me from getting to that Thai Food from last night – if there even happen to be left overs 😉

To each his or her own on where your will power lies ! But I sure as hell know that If I walked into my kitchen and saw this lady on it with the quote “Ya’ll Best Not Be Snackin'” that I would most def refrain from eating and would be caught cracking up !!

The idea that laughter benefits health has been around for many years, possibly because it reduces muscle tension, increases the amount of oxygen in the blood, exercises the heart and produces happy chemicals in the brain ( endorphins ) It certainly makes sense that laughing would burn more calories too, as a result of the extra movement and increase in heart rate linked with laughing.

You don’t burn a bunch of extra calories – it’s little changes that make big differences. Plus, having a laugh usually makes most of us feel more positive about life – and ultimately, this can help us feel better about ourselves and make us more motivated to lose those excess pounds.

If you laugh for 10-15 minutes a day, you’d burn enough calories to lose 4.4 pounds in a year – it may not be the quickest way to loose weight but surely one of the funnest !!

 

Giggle On !!

Hello Doughnuts!

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Featured somewhere in Asia  this doughnut is edible !! Hello Kitty Inspired clearly. My Grandma Spoils once told me ” If you eat a doughnut you’ll look like a doughnut” therefore I do not eat doughnuts too often. I do on the other hand LOVE Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty is a global sensation , a familiar face wherever you go  !

 

Tunesday !!

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Image Bump the volume because its TUNESDAY !! Via my YouTube Channel you can find my personal picks of hot tracks for the Month of May 2014. If you have a tune you’d like to share with me feel free to comment or shoot me an email at Lshawtay@gmail.com !

 

 

Direct Links to my top two picks of the week:

Clean Bandit – Rather Be feat. Jess Glynne (The Magician Remix)

Chris Malinchak – So Good To Me

This song debuted about a year ago in the UK ! Can’t believe I didn’t learn the actual name of the song until this weekend.

 

Vibe On

Lshawtay