Happy New Year

Happy Advent/New liturgical year/New translation to you all! (Big day!) To celebrate, I made my chocolate cake. By the way, I found soy whipped cream--I used it for the Thanksgiving pies. I definitely ate too much sugar over the holiday. I think that was part of the 'needing' the cake.

By the way, have I talked about my new birthday/anniversary/Christmas present yet? We bought ourselves a Blendtec. I love it! It was definitely a splurge, but we make smoothies all the time and wanted something powerful to handle all the stuff we cram in there. If anyone is thinking about buying a super blender, I'll tell you that Costco is running an online deal for the Blendtec right now... and you get both jars--the normal and the Wildside for a really decent price. Over the past few months, we've done our research and watched presentations on both the Blendtec and the Vitamix and finally were convinced. I think anyone would be happy with either one, but we're super content with ours. I even mixed up the cake today in it (hence the 'random' digression).

Speaking of smoothies, I'm learning about potency of certain things. I had no idea that this even existed but J's been getting a stomach ache after drinking his. I asked a friend who has know-how on the subject and she said something about tinkering with ingredients because it might be "too much". Who knew?!? If anyone has any knowledge on the subject, please share!!!