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Hey there. It is time to share a great recipe again for this week. These days I am all about salads and healthy eating because my husband lost so much weight and I don’t want to be out of shape next to him ha! Also because I am getting a bit sick so I try to add more vitamins to my diet. So here I want to share an easy recipe that keeps your stomach full for a couple of hours, is a healthy alternative and changes the menu up. You can vary the recipe by adding other ingredients to make it a nice meal. I have a variation of this salad at least twice a week. It also makes a great side dish or quick lunch. When it is getting colder outside a need to eat something warm and a cold salad just keeps me searching for food all day long. (My translation option does not work yet unfortunately but I am trying to fix it- desperately! For my german readers: Farro is Dinkel!) 😉 

Here you have a simple filling salad recipe. I hope you try it and be all creative with it. 

Footnote: You can substitute quinoa for ferro which is really great too. 

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Advance Reading Copy Disclosure:

Thanks to BloggingForBooks and the publisher for providing me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review. I have not read anything else by Daria Song before but what drew my attention to this book the most was the cover. This does not affect my opinion of the content or the book in my review.

“What does the world outside of the clock look like?” she wondered. – Daria Song. 

I wondered recently what all this hype about coloring books is so I went to Barnes and Noble to see what is on the Coloring book market. I was surprised to find a plethora of these coloring books for adults; in fact an entire section at the book store with pencils and different color pens for you to get all color-crazy. On the display it said that studies have shown many times that coloring might be a great tool to fight stress because you simply focus only on coloring and don’t do much else. I think this could be indeed true. So what Korean artist Daria Song did was combing a really sweet story about a tiny fairy who lives inside a cuckoo clock and decides to see what is outside of her little house. She just discovers how beautiful the world outside is. The story is illustrated by great artwork in ink and ready for coloring.The details of the book are beautifully themed around great design, clocks, owls and other sweet characters. 

I don’t think I will use it for coloring but just keep as a really nice book to look at. The cover is gorgeous as well. The book is literally read in ten minutes because the author’s main focus clearly is the coloring. The quality of the paper used for this book is thicker than regular books and feels nice. I would almost think that you could use markers instead of colored pencils. However, I did not try it out because I don’t want to accidentally ruin it. Overall, this book is for you if you are a coloring enthusiast and when this is your thing to relax and unwind or take your mind away for a while. Or if you just want to clear your mind and meditation does not do the trick for you. Finally I want to share my two favorite pages of the book and this great blog that I follow. This woman is obsessed with coloring books. Check it out here. 

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“If you put a bunch of chameleons on top of a bunch of chameleons on top of a bowl of Skittles what would happen? Is that science? Because if so, I finally get why people want to do science.” ― Jenny Lawson

This book I picked up because of all the hype. Honestly, I don’t usually listen to this but I have read a couple of posts on The Bloggess and I liked what she is all about. She has a very funny way of writing and this book is her memoir.  I also liked the author’s note when she explains how she struggles with depression and then she changed her concept of just being furiously happy. I still don’t know if this “extreme joy” that I read throughout her book is really good either, but it is funny. So very funny. The story with the dog food at the pharmacy made me cry laughing when I read it out loud to my husband. The author is just doing whatever she feels like and this I love. Like saying whatever you want, jumping into whatever you want (like a fountain or a pool with no water in it and just lay in it for the fun of it ordering a piña colada). All this made me order her first book so she did something right. 

Jenny Lawson mentions some of her issues pretty fast. She is suffering from compulsive hair-pulling (ahm… I had to look this one up: trichotillomania), anxiety disorder, ADD, OCD and depression. She is sharing stories of her life that are just funny, strange and weird at the same time. The arguments she describes in Furiously Happy that she had with her husbands seem weird to me. I would never argue about anything like this. Not even for five minutes. But she does, and again in a funny way. She just has a very wicked sense of humor. 

I don’t think she leads a boring life but to me it seems somewhat chaotic. The book is a great mix of really cry out loud funny and quite serious topics. I love how honest Lawson is about her mental illnesses. If you suffer from a mental illness and you simply just need to lighten up a little then this book is defiantly for you. Even though having my own blog I would not be that open and share as much as she does. This must have taken her a great deal of courage to write and talk so freely about all her problems. Or maybe it did not. But then again I guess she does not care what other people think and simply accepts herself the way she is – with all her flaws and mental disorders. 

This book was simply a great read from beginning to the end. You get a great insight on mental illness and laugh out loud at point and the next second you are thinking clearly and get overwhelmed by her ability to capture these diseased so accurately. Of course I will be reading her first book soon. 

Thank you for reading my blog and feel free to share if you are going to read her book or already read it. I would love to hear your thoughts.