Life Before Death & Taxes

I've been dreading my taxes. I have made two attempts this year at doing them on my own online and both times failed. I keep getting a response saying that my SSN doesn't match my spouses... I'm not married. Ugh. I guess I had better just cave and take them somewhere to get them done.

Here are some highlights from the past week;

This would be the process of making the strawberry cupcakes in honor of Vday. Gluten free of course. 

And here we have the final product. Bliss. And yes, that is a zebra patterned cupcake liner :) They were so amazing! I ate one and gave one to Lauren. The rest I gave to the owner of this sweet little coffee shop that I've been going to so they could be given away. That's the only way to get my baking business' name back out there! I've decided I'm ready to start baking more again so I need to get back on my networking grind.

This past weekend I went to listen to a band with a friend at a little bar. It was great. I'd never heard of the band before but they really blew me away. My friend grew up with the drummer in the band. I would say that this drummer is almost as good as if not as good as Travis Barker (Blink-182's drummer). That's saying something.

In other news I've changed up my diet a bit trying to gain more lean muscle and burn more fat. I've reduced my carb intake to 150g per day (unless its the day before a running day) and my protein to 150g and my fat to 40g. Stay tuned for results.

One of my hobbies has always been taking unhealthy dishes and making them as healthy as possible and recently I've been able to do that a lot. I've been having a lot of meals with friends lately that we cook at home and they aren't used to using the healthiest ingredients. The other night we made pasta with light sauce, ground turkey instead of ground beef, and gluten free brown rice pasta. Then the next night I got them to use turkey pepperoni instead of regular with just a fraction of the fat and calories. It's so entertaining to see them take the first bite expecting some horrible change. They all say they like the healthier substitutions. More so than the regular ingredients! Sounds like a job well done to me. :)

 

Well hopefully these taxes won't be the death of me. So dreading them! Be back tomorrow with WIAW :)