My birthday and a present I did not expect

Never. Never in my life have I won something. Until the night of November 9th 2013. A great night in the history of the world - known as "The Night of the Necklace". And also as the night after my 29th birthday. 

Yes, I am 29 now. A magic number indeed. I don't know if I should be happy, having a panic attack, a nervous breakdown, get overmotivated to achieve all of my goals during the next year, when I will be...*30*... or just live life as it is. I think I will try the overmotivated thing, because I have things to achieve. And dreams should be followed. Being comfortable does not take you anywhere. Age made me wise, guys. My sister also got a little wiser, one day before my birthday. 

My mother had it all planed out - after all the fun she had giving birth to my sister on November 7th, she said to herself: That was fun, let's do it again in 4 years and 1 day. And BAM! I was born - blue, hairy, wrinkly - a little treasure!!! 

Happy birthday to us, and thank you mom and dad for everything!!

Maybe you've noticed in the pictures above - it's not a cake, it is an orange, that I have pinned the birthday candle into. You think that's weird? No, it's not. It's healthy. Birthday orange is the new birthday cake! But ok, I admit: the truth is - and if you know the calender, you can probably figure it out yourself - my birthday was almost 1 month ago. I took this picture about 1 hour ago. Do you think, that I can keep a cake at home for one month, no, even for one hour, and not eat the whole thing? I forgot to take a picture on my birthday and today here I was in front of a mathematical equation :

x + 1 muffin cup + 1 birthday candle + 1 lighter + hearty background + cartoonify = ART!

And then it hit me: x = orange. That is exactly how my brain works. It is totally not out of desperation. What do you think - I just grabbed the first thing I saw and stabbed a birthday candle into it? Please. 

Maybe editing the appearance of this blog during the last month has made me a little nerdy. Not that I wasn't before. But now I know how to edit the template like I have been doing it my whole life. I didn't like a lot of things about the layout before, so I customized some things - for example I centered the header, I removed that message - showing posts with label ..., Subscribe to Post (Atom) had to go too and I decided to make the header pink. I was back and forth with the pink, because I was thinking - this blog is about healthy eating and it should be green to promote natural eating, or blue - because it's a very common color to attract anybody. But my heart is with pink and I can not change that. 

I hope even men can appreciate this color. Print this message on a t-shirt and wear it proudly anywhere.

"The Night of the Necklace". This is how it all went down. 

My sister told me we are invited to some party, and because I'm going trough a Jim-Carrey-"Yes, man"-stage I said - Ok, let's go. I thought I will be kinda bored, because I don't like parties so much - it's crowded, you feel like everybody's half your age, nothing to eat...all that stuff. 

But then - we arrive there, and I figure out it's an event for girls - where people do your hair, your make up and you get a goodie bag. So that was pretty awesome - I only took the goodie bag though. Then surprise surprise - food and drinks for free! At this point - I AM IN HEAVEN! Try to hold me back! Sushi, here I come! And up until then I could never, in my whole, entire 29-years-life, eat with those sticks - no matter how hard I've tried it. To summarize - I learned it in 5 seconds. Result - not enough sushi for everybody else. 2-3 hours in I was so happy - I had a goodie bag in my hand, some drinks and my belly full of sushi. I knew that you could take part in some contest - take your picture with the jewelry you like and you could win it. And as half-full-glass as I am as a person, I was pretty sure that nobody will win this necklace and it's just a promotion trick. So I didn't want to take a picture, everybody else was trying like crazy. I filled out some card with my personal details. At the beginning I was thinking - data privacy and so on...but I mean these days if somebody wants to have my data, they probably already do. So I filled it out. And at the end of the night - my sister tells me, coming back from the rest room, they told her I've won this pearl necklace. Not exactly my style, but I felt happy like a child. It was the first thing I win in my life. So then I also took pictures with it. And then we stayed at the club and had some more fun. The Night of the Necklace was a great night. Best things in life come when you least expect them right?

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Where were I?

 I've been back from my trip in Bulgaria since about what feels like 6 months, but is in fact just 6 weeks.

 Sorry I haven't been too active here, but you have to understand - I came back from this

 to this

Hello depression!

Seriously, I don't care how stupid, old and cliche it sounds - without sun, I feel like I'm dead inside. I'm neither a vampire, nor am I as stupid as Bella to want to become one...uuum oops! I mean I don't even know who this Bella girl is. What is she, like a vampire or something? I've never seen whatever saga she's in. Seriously, I haven't!

The point is - I'm human and I need sun and light to photosynthesize. Wait what? This last one may not be true - only fish photosynthesize. Duh!

And since I'm in the dark 24/7 I've noticed I do some pretty destructive things - like staying always in front of the computer, eating whatever I find, not doing any sports, not being able to concentrate on my work, not even writing here...a total winter depression.

I would've posted some more pictures from my vacation in Bulgaria, where I felt alive with every fiber of my being, mainly to cheer myself up, but unfortunately they were all on my sister's computer, which all of a sudden experienced the seven beeps of death (must be some patent of dell, it's very famous) and couldn't recover. So Summer 2013, I don't have you in pictures.

We did find one very nice beach though - with crystal clear water and no sharks. You couldn't get me out of that water for hours even with a tsunami. But it's all over. Now I'm back to crappy reality, which doesn't seem real at all.

In the 6 weeks I've been here I also did one week of a food picture diary, that will make you very sick when you see it. So yay! You have something to be looking forward for tomorrow.

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Ahoy! I'm A Whale!

Well, well, well!

If it hasn't been over a month since I posted here for the third and last time.

I admit for over a month I've been neglecting diet, sports, going to the doctor, cleaning, washing my hair, brushing it...but to be honest drinking coffee, beers, eating sweets, mostly not doing any movements besides chewing was kinda fun...But starting next week I will be back on track, because now I feel somewhat disgusting.

Not that I'm trying to make excuses for my failed diet and fitness goals, but the weather here was horrible. Although I could definitely feel my pollen allergy, it seemed up until 2 weeks ago like it's been winter for about a year and I needed some sun and some warmth.

And on top I want to finally wear something different - summer clothes would be nice. I'm a little sick of my down jacket. I've been wearing down jacket for about 7 months, sometimes even at work in the office. And it's not the most comfortable clothing in the world. But it keeps me warm at day and at night.

But enough complaining! Now some happy stories. Are you ready??? Go!

During may I was on a vacation in Gggggreece for about a week with my sister and it was hot (most of the time). Exhibit A - the picture below (and all the pictures in this post actually).

Oooh I miss this beach. It's just so empty, sunny and huuge! Almost like my soul. Wow. I'm a real poet...Nooooot!

And what about diet in Greece? Are you kidding me?

First of all I said Greece. You might have heard that a large part of the population of Greece is overweight. And there's one very simple reason for that (in my opinion) - greek food is delicious!

Second: I was eating from a buffet. You don't watch what you eat when you eat from a buffet - there must be some kind of a law about it in any country. You just stuff everything you can on your plate and in your mouth, feel like you're blessed because you have taste buds on the one side and cursed on the other because you only have one stomach and it's already pretty full, but you just have to try that creme brulelelellele! I don't even know why they serve creme brullelelelele in Greece. But it was deli-li-li-li-cious.

And about my other goal during my vacation - staying active and doing sports - this one was not too hard as I was swimming, jogging and playing table tennis (it's still better than no tennis).

On the one day in we made a trip around the island and took some very esthetic pictures. 

As Jennifer Lopez named one of her albums - this is me...then. And no, the goat feces on the ground were not from the buffet. Although when I was a child, there were these candies that kinda resembled goat feces. So what I did then was collect goat feces, give them to adults, and say it's candy and they believed me. I don't think anybody ate them though. Wonder why. I KNOW - I'm probably not going to win the peace nobel prize for this. But I was 2 or 3 years old, sue me!

Oh yeah. Here's who produced the "candy".

Some of the goats were very active and did some hiking...

...others were relaxing next to the car they probably rented.

Aside from the food and the goats, I really enjoyed the nature in Greece.

If I weren't really scared and didn't almost pee my pants and if the water wasn't freezing, I think discovering this cave would've been amazing. But that's too many ifs. It looks nice from far away though ;). Thank God I have good zoom on my camera and my eye.

And of course the olive trees. It was full of them. DuH! Olive oil? I forgot to take an olive branch 

back home to be at peace. Now look at me. Complaining all the time like a 70 years old grandpa.

So this was the story of how I stopped posting here for a month. Let's raise our glasses of healthy drinks to this not happening again. Cheers and have a nice weekend!

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