Favorites Friday

June 10, 2011 · 9 comments

Happy weekend, everyone! I tried my best to catch up on my Google Reader this week…if you call going from almost 900 unread items to about 700 unread items “catching” up”, haha…at any rate, I have some great links to share with you!

First, you should know how much I love onion rings. They’re salty, crunchy, YUMMY…and when I saw Jessica’s recipe for Healthy Crunchy Onion Rings on How Sweet It Is, I almost squealed and fell out of my chair. And I was at the office. It was a close call.

These look delicious and at are the top of my “must make ASAP” list!

How Sweet It IsHealthy Crunchy Onion Rings

And then I read a couple of really amazing, moving and important posts this week.

The first is from Sheryl, aka “Bitchcakes”—she is right on in her post on body image.

Bitchcakes  – Body Image and a Reality Check

Emily wrote about her two year “Fativersary” at Skinny Emmie…this post brought a tear to my eye. She is so inspiring!

Skinny EmmieFativersary

Finally, I’d like to share my favorite post from Journey to Marvelous for this week…

An AWESOME Announcement

I was more than excited to share the news about dropping another pant size this week and I got a ton of really supportive comments and tweets that gave me the warm fuzzies and made my heart swell up. Hooray!

I leave you with one of my favorite YouTube videos…a beautiful piece of music by Korean pianist Yirumi, called “The River Flows Within Me”…

Have a fantastic day!

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Emmie June 12, 2011 at 6:50 am

Thank you so much for the shout out! And how awesome is down another pants size? You’re rocking it!
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Melissa June 12, 2011 at 10:23 am

No, thank you Em! It feels awesome as I know you can attest. :) Hope you’re having a great weekend!

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Michelle June 12, 2011 at 6:54 am

Healthy onion rings? Those sound amazing! I’m so glad you pointed them out, this is definitely going on my list of things to make this week.
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Melissa June 12, 2011 at 10:24 am

I’m pretty much obsessed with Jessica’s blog. She has so many amazing looking things on there, you should definitely check it out! Next on my list are the onion rings, the salmon with the blueberry bbq sauce, and the mojito salsa!

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Lauren @ Sugar Coated Sisters June 12, 2011 at 2:29 pm

I totally need to catch up on my Google Reader too! I have 296 items left!

Congrats on your awesome announcement!
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Melissa June 12, 2011 at 4:12 pm

Thank you Lauren! And you’re doing better than I am…I have about 700 items in my reader pretty consistently! It’s all of those fabulous but prolific food bloggers :)

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Michele June 16, 2011 at 8:29 am

Mel, I choreographed a ballet piece to that song in 2009 for a Dance Convention I teach at. Wish I had the video to share with you! I love that music!!!
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Melissa June 16, 2011 at 12:05 pm

Really?!? Oh, I wish you had the video! This is one of my favorite pieces of music. Actually all of his compositions are beautiful. Small world. :)

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Michele June 17, 2011 at 11:48 am

Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj1ArZjbmo8

It’s a bit rough because it’s convention kids dancing to it but… you get the idea!
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