MC finale

Today is the last day of the MC. Is it bad that I'm this excited? Sleeping 10 hours a day is so not for me. I need my energy. Last night I got a little less than 8 hours and today I felt like a limp noodle. I'm currently reading & loving the 811 book, yay! Can't wait to get started on that! Fresh fruit sounds amammmazzzzinng :) I went to my co-op for the first time in about a week an a half (a long time for me) today in anticipation of beginning to eat solid food again in a few days. A little premature? Maybe but oh well. I got some oranges to juice tomorrow. I'm also going to be supplementing with some organic (but pasteurized *gasp*) carrot orange juice. I know it's not the BEST but juicing that much fresh squeezed is EXPENSIVE and I'm on a college student's budget here. So yeah, in addition to these oranges I also got some slamming deals on a bag of bananas ($.99 for probably 2-3 pounds), apples ($1.99 for roughly 6 pounds) and raspberries ($.99 for a little container) because they were getting a little ripe. I also got some crimini mushrooms and a mango....yummm. I can't wait to eat them. I got all of that plus some raspberry organic lip gloss from Dessert Essence (love it!) and unrefined Shea butter which I use as a facial moisturizer for 30 bucks, sccccooorrreee. Also saw a gooorrrgeous guy in the bulk herbs section. He was very primped and pretty-boy-esque. Not the kind of guy I'd expect to see buying kombucha and broccoli....hot!

MC Day Niiiiiiinnnne!!!

Today I felt very weak and tired. Bloating and cramping pains have been minimal. I'm definitely ready to start in on some juice!

A Message by George Carlin:

"The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom."

Ain't that the truth?!

PS. Amazon takes waaayy to long to ship things. I want my 80/10/10 book and my CDs! Also, I'm hungry. Figs sound soooo good right now. Two more days!!!!!!!!!

MC Day 6: 4.4 down & .4 up

I don't remember the specifics of my detox symptoms during my first MC but mannn, I feel like I'm moodier and sleepier than I've evvvveeerrr been. It might be because I have a lot of added stresses from school that we're there when I did my summer cleanse. Last night I was seriously considering cutting the cleanse short and starting juice today but I'm a stubborn little girl and I don't give up easily. It's hard to go against what your body's telling you but I know that it's not the cleanse that's doing this to me but the effect of the toxins on their way OUT. I pH tested and weighed in this morning and I've lost 4.4 pounds and my pH has gone up .4 towards alkalinity, yay!

Another thing that's been on my mind a lot lately is PRIORITIZING. I'm making my health a priority because I want to live my life with optimal energy and health. I want to live life in a body that I am comfortable with. I want to love myself. I want to be giving, loving and accepting of others. I want to nurture my gifts and peruse my passions. I want to experience life and all it has to offer me. I want to travel the world. I want to learn new things and share (not impose) that knowledge with others. I want to meet interesting people and hear their stories. I want to build relationships with people on a deeper level and maintain strong relationships with the friends I have as well as with my family. I want to utilize my time to it's fullest potential and BE HAPPY :)

MC Update

The idea of maple syrup was making me nauseous all day so I decided that one day of water (with a little bit of lemon) fasting won't kill me. I slept a kind of ridiculous amount today but I see it as all part of the healing and detoxifying process. I don't know if it's 100% necessary and I'm sure the fact that I'm not taking in enough calories though the drinks has a lot to do with the sleepy factor but my body doesn't want maple syrup concoction, it wants long nap on the couch. I'm sure whether or not that's the best thing is highly debatable but hey, I'm doing the best I can to listen to my body and in this topsy turvy world, what else can we rely on?

MC Day 4

D A Y F O U R

Last night I started to feel detox symptoms a little while at work but some deep breathing and you know, using the restroom while on break helped a lot. Nothing too major there. I had to get up and go to the bathroom a lot last night...ugh, irritating! Then I finally had to just get up at 6 am cuz the stomach pain was pretty bad and I was tired of getting up over and over. I took a two hour bath/nap in the tub and then got out at 8. I didn't feel too bad until about the last 5 minutes of this lecture thing I went to for my Chicano History class. I had to excuse myself for fear that I was going to maple syrup in my pants if you know what i mean, haha. Then I went home and took a 20 minute power nap before heading off to the accoustic school for my voice coaching and the farm to pick up my CSA basket (which my roommates will be enjoying this week). The stomach pain has pretty mild off and on throughout the day but nothing TOO terrible yet. I have been feeling pretty sleepy though. Well see how my 10 pm- 2 am shift goes tonight, geez. Thankfully my lovely roommate is coming to sit with me and keep me entertained while I work the desk. Thats it for now, 4 days down and 6 to go!

Socrates was one smart dude

“All I know is that I know nothing”

Amen to that my friend! I swear, the more I try to educate myself, the more confused I am. Why does everything in raw foodism, nutrition and medicine have to conflict with eachother!?!?!?

The period issue for example. Here are two articles that say COMPLETELY opposite things about it.
One says no period = return to natural state of being the other says hormonal imbalance/lack of proper nutrients = no period = cancer.

Well crap! If those are my options I guess I'll take what's behind door number one please. Is that what choosing a health plan has come down to? Selecting the truths that are most convenient and tell us what we want to hear?? That's how it seems sometimes. I just wish that people would at least stop PRETENDING to have answers and acknowledge that we're all just trying to do the best we can to figure out the ideal way to eat/live/treat ourselves. We need to be able to listen to eachothers ideas without A. Blindly accepting them as truth OR B. Dismissing them because their inconvenient.

It's hard for me because I acknowledge my lack of background information in the medical field and accept that I'm not willing to devote my life to finding answers/cures/solutions for this problem. On the other hand, I have a hard time trusting modern medicine to do this research and find answers for me. So where am I left? For now, I choose to identify myself as a seeker of truth with the ability to accept that I will never find it absolutely. Rock on Socrates!

MC Day 2

Two days of cleansing down, 8 to go! (Plus 4 of juice probably). So far nothing too bad as far as detox symptoms go. I'm sleepy but I'm not sure if that's real or just me taking advantage of this opprotunity to be a bum and catch some extra Zs.

Beans, beans the poisonous fruit.

As I'm sure I've mentioned, I've been about 90% raw for the past 3 months since my last cleanse. The number of cooked things I've eaten has obviously been pretty minimal, some whole grain sprouted cereal here, lentil soup here etc etc. So last night, after my big salad, I decided to have a TIIINNNNY little bowl of boiled organic pinto beans that my roommate made with some of her delicious (raw) guacamole. Like I said in my blog last night, I had a bit of a tummy ache after eating them and finally went to sleep around 3 am feeling just slightly ill. I woke up around 7:30 this morning feeling a lot more than slightly ill. I was burping up that terrible acidy taste and when I went to the bathroom I got horrible chills and started vomiting all over the floor...mmm, cute. "Is my body becoming hyper sensitive to cooked foods?", I wondered. "Was it the acid that made me so sick?". Then I found this online:

Beans (legumes) cause gas because they contain a sugar, oligosaccharide, that the human body can not break down. Oligosaccharides are large molecules and are not broken down and absorbed by the lining of the small intestine as other sugars are. This is because the human body does not produce the enzyme that breaks down oligosaccharides.

Very interesting....hmmmm, no more beans for me. I guess when I was on the SAD, my body just wasn't as sensitive to these things because it was numbed with all the other processed junk? I also think I'm getting better at listening to my body and it's needs. I still have a long way to go though. As far as other cooked foods go, we'll see. I really want to start reading 80/10/10 while I'm cleansing and see if I can hop on that after the cleanse is over. The book is like 30 bucks though which I'm sure it's completely worth but at the moment I'm completely broke and living off credit cards and a loan from my roommate until my student loans are disbursed in mid October. I might just have to bite the bullet and get it now though. As for M. Cleanse day one...I've actually only had one glass of lemonade and didn't even start off the day with the lax tea today because of the abrupt way in which my day started plus some lovely other circumstances (our upstairs tub leaking through the roof in our garage). My roommate and I handled that and then I took a nice nap on our living room floor to compensate for the lack of sleep I got last night and on Friday. Tonight I'll definitely be taking the tea though and hopefully I'll feel better in the morning. My stomach is still a little queasy.

Feminine issues and the joys of modern medicine

"The white pills aren't kind"

So, you ask, who are these ugly little guys? Well my friends, it's a long painful story all beginning back in high school when I had horribly messed up periods. I'll spare you the gory details but irregular doesn't even begin to describe the pain. And of course my uninformed teenage self decides that I NEED hormones to fix my body because that's what everyone else is doing and it's the "ONLY SOLUTION". So basically last summer I finally decided that I was though messing with my body. I got a little more info on the SIDE EFFECTS of these pills and wanted to go all naturale. Well, now it's been almost a year since my last period and my roommates reinforce what I already know and tell me I need to go get it figured out. So, partially to appease them, I go to the heath center and wow, shocker, they wanna put me on MORE hormones. Now, I've been brought up to trust (to some extent) modern medicine so even though I feel like I know better now, it is still very hard to go against something that a doctor is telling me I HAVE to do. "You need to menstruate at least once every 3 months or else the lining of your blah blah blah blah blah blah... cancer". The C word is something that I don't take lightly. I have a history of it in my family so getting it FREAKKKKS me out. I tried to explain the raw foods thing to her but obviously it fell on deaf ears. So here I am with my little bottle of ugly white pills which will continue to sit on my counter, unconsumed. They did blood work to try to figure out what's wrong with me so I'm kind of hoping that it's something clearly defined that I can just solve in my own way with raw foods. I know raw foodists don't usually get a period but my only concern is that they ended before raw began. We'll see though, hopefully I can get it all figured out.

ALSO, as previously mentioned, I have a strong inclination to believe that my stomach acid levels are ALLLL messed up. I've had loads of digestive problems as I've mentioned on numerous occasions. I thought these were directly linked to the binging (which in a way I'm sure they are) but I haven't BEEN binging and still I have SUPER bad stomach aches and am burping up nasty ass tasty acidy flavor (too much information for ya? haha). Okay so also as previously stated in other blogs, I'm TRYING to learn more about alkalizing and start eating as many alkaline foods as possible. Problem is, there's so many discrepancies with the alkaline VS acid forming list. Why can't people agree on this stuff??? It seems to me that the science of it would be pretty concede and there wouldn't be a lot of room for disagreement. Shows how little I know. I bought some little pH test papers so I'm gonna start testing myself and see how that goes. In the meantime I'll be handling the tummy aches as they come (IE- right effing NOW!) and trying to do the best I can. No toxic thoughts or energy though. We KNOW those are acid forming, no discrepancies there. DETOX starts tomorrow by the way. Twenty dollars with of lemons are juiced up in my fridge and revin' to go! :-))

Recipes, Plans & Count Down to Cleanse Time!

First things first, here are two recipes for ya...

1. Hemp Pesto!

5 cups of basil
1 cup hemp oil
3 TBSP Hemp Seeds
1 TBSP garlic powered or one-two clove(s) of fresh pressed garlic (preferred)
1 TBSP Brewer's yeast (I used raw Parmesan from Eat in the Raw)
Celtic Salt to Taste

2. Easy Avo Dressing

1 avocado
2-3 TBSP lime juice
1 tomatillo
1 pressed garlic clove
Celtic salt to taste

Now onto some exciting things, I'm about to start Master Cleanse #2 on Sunday!!! I think I mentioned that in a recent post. One of my roommates is going to do it with me. The other one was but is a little worried because she already has a really stressful ahead of her and doesn't wanna add another thing. Anyways, I'm pretty excited to go on another cleanse. We'll see how my detox symptoms compare to last time, should be interesting. Right now I'm putting together a plan to use all of the fresh produce in my fridge without buying any more groceries in the next three days. Here's what I have in mind...

TOMORROW:

Breakie- Green Smoothie
Lunch- Shredded squash with tomatoes, sesame oil & spices
Dinner- Some Version of Garlicky Yummyliciousness . I'll try the REAL recipe when I have more of the ingredients in 2 weeks but for now it's gonna be more like eggplant with EVOO, salt, garlic & dried herbs. We'll see how it goes...

FRIDAY-

Breakie- Green Smoothie
Lunch- Gazpacho with avocado
Dinner- More Garlicky stuff??

SATURDAY-

Breakie- Another Green Smoothie :-))
Lunch-Squash noodles with some type of pesto that I can scrounge up, haha.
Dinner- Salad with whatever is left in my fridge, haha. Hopefully there's SOMETHIN' in there :-)

Okay, I'm officially tuckered out now. GOODNIGHT!!! :-)

A new way to look at the "slip-ups"

As I've mentioned in previous blogs, my inclination to try to make a strict routine for myself has caused me to have a lot of "slip-ups". For years I had such an all or nothing attitude. I'd make a rule for myself (drink 8+ cups of water every day, go for a job every morning, make a green smoothie every day etc. etc.) and I'd keep to it for a while but eventually I'd forget one day and then the routine was completely ruined and I was so down on myself for "failing". Even going 100% was like that at first. I was 100% for 3 weeks then I binged like crazy at the end of it because I had been so restrictive. Now I'm finally starting to figure some things out about myself and my life. Some days I'm NOT going to be able to get up and make a green smoothie. Some days I won't have time to exercise and some days I won't be 100% raw. I want to look at those times as an opportunity to notice the differences my choices are making for my body. For example, if I'm exercising regularly and then one day don't have time time, I'll take that opportunity to notice the difference it makes. Am I more tired or hungry on days when I can't work out? Then it'll make me more motivated on those days when I can do the things that are best for me. It's just a way to turn the negative into a positive and not be so hard on myself.

Alllkallllliiiiizzzzzeee

I'm learning more about alkaline foods and trying to alkalize my body. I'm learning about my own low levels of stomach acid. Just ordered some wheat grass powders and looked up some alkalizing foods. I found this chart on www.essense-of-life.com by just goodsearching it. Check it out and think about it...

...ALKALINE FOODS...		...ACIDIC FOODS...
ALKALIZING VEGETABLES Alfalfa Barley Grass Beets Beet Greens Broccoli Cabbage Carrot Cauliflower Celery Chard Greens Chlorella Collard Greens Cucumber Dandelions Dulce Edible Flowers Eggplant Fermented Veggies Garlic Green Beans Green Peas Kale Kohlrabi Lettuce Mushrooms Mustard Greens Nightshade Veggies Onions Parsnips (high glycemic) Peas Peppers Pumpkin Radishes Rutabaga Sea Veggies Spinach, green Spirulina Sprouts Sweet Potatoes Tomatoes Watercress Wheat Grass Wild Greens ALKALIZING ORIENTAL VEGETABLES Maitake Daikon Dandelion Root Shitake Kombu Reishi Nori Umeboshi Wakame ALKALIZING FRUITS Apple Apricot Avocado Banana (high glycemic) Berries Blackberries Cantaloupe Cherries Coconut, fresh Dates, dried Figs, dried Grapes Grapefruit Honeydew Melon Lemon Lime Nectarine Orange Peach Pear Pineapple Raisins Raspberries Rhubarb Strawberries Tangerine Tomato Tropical Fruits Umeboshi Plums Watermelon ALKALIZING PROTEIN Almonds Chestnuts ALKALIZING SWEETENERS Stevia ALKALIZING SPICES & SEASONINGS Cinnamon Curry Ginger Mustard Chili Pepper Sea Salt Miso Tamari All Herbs ALKALIZING OTHER Apple Cider Vinegar Bee Pollen Green Juices Although it might seem that citrus fruits would have an acidifying effect on the body, the citric acid they contain actually has an alkalinizing effect in the system.		ACIDIFYING VEGETABLES Corn Olives Winter Squash ACIDIFYING FRUITS Blueberries Cranberries Currants Plums** Prunes** ACIDIFYING GRAINS, GRAIN PRODUCTS Quinoa Spelt Wheat Wheat Germ ACIDIFYING BEANS & LEGUMES Chick Peas Green Peas Kidney Beans Almond Milk ACIDIFYING NUTS & BUTTERS Cashews Legumes Peanuts Peanut Butter Pecans Tahini Walnuts ACIDIFYING FATS & OILS Avacado Oil Corn Oil Hemp Seed Oil Flax Oil Olive Oil Sesame Oil Sunflower Oil ACIDIFYING SWEETENERS Carob

got (almond) milk?

Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies

1 cup macadamia nuts
1 cup prunes
1 cup majool dates
1 TBSP coconut oil
1 TBSP - 1/4 cup cacao (depending on how choclatey you want them...they're gonna be good either way)

-Blend dates, cacao, prunes and 1/2 cup of nuts in food processor
-Cut the other 1/2 cup of macadamia nuts in half and throw them into the mixture
-Form the batter into little cookies (about 10)
-Massage cookies with coconut oil
-Refrigerate for at least a few hours

enjoy :)

Easy Gazpacho Recipe

Gazpacho is a Spanish cold soup traditionally made with stale bread. My raw version was inspired by a Seafood Gazpacho recipe from www.worldshealthiestfoods.org



Ingredients: Tomatoes, tomatillos, cilantro, Italian pepper, bell pepper, cucumber, lemon juice, paprika, chili powder, garlic powder and celtic salt (in the amounts shown in the picture above)

Chop up the bell pepper, 1/2 the cucumber and about 1/2 of the tomatoes. Put aside a little bit of cilantro and few slices of the Italian pepper for garnish and blend the rest in a food processor.


Wah-Lah, super easy, refreshing & delicious raw gazpacho...enjoy!

8 Daily Essentials

L u n c h F r o m H e a v e n . . .

...Not that I would recommend eating a chocolate bar for lunch every day but it can't be SO bad to indulge now and again, can it?

The past few days have been happy ones. I think I'm done with stress, I'm giving it up. Ok, so I might not ever be able to COMPLETELY give it up but though I might have some days that are more taxing than others, I don't want to loose sight of the joy in my life. I want to relinquish the things, people and activities that cause me more unhappiness than happiness. I want to simplify and purify my life. I want to ENJOY what I'm doing and not feel rushed and overwhelmed. If I'm busy I want to be busy doing things are care about and find worthwhile. I'm excited for my next cleanse (September 21st) and even more excited that BOTH of my roommates have decided to join me! They really are awesome.

Today I had a one hour break between classes so I decided to walk to the co-op where I bought some coconut water and the most AMMMAAAZZZZZZZiiiiNGGG raw chocolate bar. Sweet mother of god I think I just found my new weakness. ohhheemmmgeee, it was so decedant and satisfying. Then I loitered in our local bookstore for the rest of the hour where I bought a housewarming card for my momma to congratulate her on her new place in New Mexico. I also sat there and read some of Kris Carr's Crazy Sexy Cancer. Man oh man, I can't even say enough great things about that woman...what a story. Her book is beautiful and full of so much positive energy and tips that ANYONE...let me correct that, EVERYONE should read and incorporate into their lives. When I'm not so broke I think I might buy it.

After my daily commitments were over I hung out with my roommate on campus and we walked home together. Then I had some green tea with agave and a big salad with some new fancy greens, avocado and dressing I made last night. The dressing was tahini, garlic, sesame oil and juiced ginger. Damn, that stuff will k n o c k your socks off.

After this simple but lovely day here are 8 things that I've decided I want to make habit of:

Eight Things For Every Day

1. Leafy Greens
I don't want to set unrealistic goals about my greens intake but I definitely want to get some leafy greens in every day!

2. HTP-5

Ever since I heard about HTP-5 being able to help with binges I've been curious to see how effective it actually is. I'll never really find out unless I'm consistent though so I need to make a point of it.

3. Green Tea

I go back and forth on the caffeine debate but all in all I think the natural and minimal amount in green tea is a great way to kick start my energy and keep me feeling full. Plus, it's SO refreshing!

4. Water

They say most raw foodies don't really NEED to drink water since we get so much in the fruits and veggies we eat. Regardless, I like the way that water keeps me feeling satiated, especially if I want to stop eating late at night. Drinking water is a good alternative.

5. Walking

Walking is a great stress reliever and is just all around good for your body. I try to walk as much as possible. It's recommended that adults walk 10,000 steps a day (about 5 miles). Since there's a pedometer in my phone I keep an eye on it and achieve this minimum pretty much every day. I walk back and forth to school (about a mile) at least once a day Monday-Friday so that definitely helps. I want to start making it a goal to walk 10 miles a day though by adding an evening walk on as many nights as possible.

6. Music

Just seems like a given, really no explanation necessary. Music makes me happy :)

7. Sleep

I'm still waiting for the raw energy to enable me to survive and thrive on 2 hours of sleep a night. Right now that's not the reality and I need to allow myself the 6-8 hours that my body is asking for.

8. Laughter

Is the best medicine, take daily.

"Monkey, monkey, underpants..."

"I guess what I be saying is there aint no better reason, to rid yourself of vanities and just go with the seasons..."

Beautiful song, beautiful video and as the icing on the cake...Jason's a raw foodie. I've liked his music since his first CD came out and just found out about his dabbles in raw foodism. Not that this makes me like his music any more or less but I do think it's pretty bad ass.



You should definitely check out his blog if you haven't do so. Click-ity click on his ammmazzziiinnng looking "chocomole" picture to do so. I'm SO making that BTW.

Next on the list of random thoughts in my head is...."ow". Apparently it takes longer than I thought for an immune system to build up and stop getting sick after going raw. I think I have a sinus infection. I feel all congested and plugged up and slept ALLLLLL day until 5:00 when I got up and got ready to go to work, where I currently sit.

Being sick puts me in such a biiitchy mood and eff, I hate it. I seriously DO NOT like fighting with people. It just seems like such a waste of time and energy and I honestly have a hard time being mad for more than 2 minutes, I kid you not. Even during those two minutes I KNOW it's a waste of time and energy cuz I'm just gonna get over it. If someone honestly betrays me to the point where I think I'm better off without in my life than that's another story but I just don't get the point in sweating the small stuff if you really love somebody. Anways, that's my little tirade about how much I hate being angry, haha. Ironic much? I think I got in my first "fight"(?) with my roommate last night and I must say I didn't quite care for it. We were both in a mood but whatev, she's still one of my favorite people in the world so I could really give a shit about one insignificant incident.

Moving on...found a new blog linked off Bueller's kitchen

COCO Y MANGO

A blog about raw in SPANISH???...i'm in love <3

yummieee.

grated crook neck squash with diced tomatoes, a little bit of olive oil, celtic salt, paprika and chili powder.

Try it :)

UPDATE

It's been a while since I updated so here's what's up...


I'm in the middle of my second week of school. I have a lot of my plate (no pun intended) this semester. I'm only taking 12 units which is the lightest load I've had since I've been here (this will be my third year of college) but I'm also working 30 hours a week (between 5 jobs), volunteering 5 hours (boys and girls club and the local co-op) and trying to get back into doing voice coaching since singing has been something I've always loved but never really devoted sufficient attention to. I went home for labor day weekend and manged to eat 100% raw although not very organic. Still, it was definitely cool to know I could do it and "come out" as raw to my friends and family. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

Backtracking a little bit, last Thursday as part of my volunteer working membership with the co-op I helped work a really cool lecture called "The Health Robbers" which discussed the dangers of highly processed foods (DUH) and talked about what foods were best for you. The lecturer was Marsha Vernoga; a raw foodist which was pretty cool considering I've actually met very few others in person. Her lecture was very interesting but talking with her about her raw food journey was probably the best part of the evening. She was very sick and healed herself with raw foods. In sad news, the organic raw restaurant in my town had to close down. I guess it's just not the market for that sort of thing here. I feel bad for not supporting it more although I know I couldn't have single-handedly saved it. I did find out about Empire Coffee; a fair-trade organic coffee shop that's in an restored antique cable car by the greyhound station so I'll definitley be checking that out shortly.

That's all for now! :)