Memorial Day 2012: Beach & Blueberry Bread

The first day back is always hard, isn't it?

Poor Tuesday. I usually like her, but weeks when she follows a blissful Monday off I can get especially loathsome of her presence. I know it's not her fault, she's just doing her thing while I do mine, but after reminiscing of all that I did and didn't do this Memorial Day weekend, I can't help but wish Tuesday could take a little vacation of her own.

Here are some snippets from a perfectly productive & yet very relaxing, holiday.

A Friday for Farms

Farms? Yes. I'm kind of all about them at the moment.

After reading this and watching this, my perspective on farms has been drastically enlightened. What we allow through sheer ignorance in our country simply astounds me, and I consider myself right on up there with the uninformed. Even as health conscious as I am, I'd be lying if I said I had really taken the time, up until now, to investigate current farming regulations and how it effects me as a consumer. I've always known that big business plays a key role in the nutrition of our country, but to the extent our government welcomes and supports this? Wow. It should be headlined on all the mainstream news channels. (Oh, what's that? Those news channels need big business advertisers to pay their commercial spots? $hoot. I won't get my hopes up.)

News, a Psychic & a Rebel

The blog's looking a little different. Namely...the name. I've been thinking for awhile now that "life as a wife", though as charming and catchy as it is, it isn't exactly personal or as me as I would like. So I've gone ahead and allowed myself the freedom to change things up.

Now introducing: Ziza Vita!

Aside from a name change though, everything else around here is pretty much the same. I'm still a wife, not planning on changing that anytime soon, and we're still up to the same silly adventures that are really just life situations I happen to document on my blog. For example, recently we were prompted to take personality tests together. I can't say it was too revelatory, but it did provide much needed confirmation of a few things. Like: