Leafy Greens Cafe

It seems like its been months since I quit my job at the animal hospital and everyday just kind of blurs together. Hours spent online researching marketing and advertising, trying to get this Ameriplan thing up and rolling. Everyone's out there trying to promote the next get-rich-quick-scheme and its all very exhausting. I did purchase www.therawctopusgarden.com with the help of blog i360 so hopefully that will be up and running in the next week or so. I'm very anxious/excited about Ameriplan because I'd really like to find a way to do good (and cheap) online advertising but if its not making me anything then unfortunately I won't be able to stick with it.

I've actually just finished a conference call with the ever-excited (and always exciting) Kevin Gianni and Mike Anderson (author and health documentary film maker) where they discussed his book The RAVE Diet & Lifestyle and his movies Healing Cancer from Inside Out and Eating. I believe this recorded call can be found here for the next 24 hours or so. (Kevin runs several amazing sites that bring great health news to the public.) Its definitely worth listening to if you have any doubts about our current medical system. And if you don't, well then its even more important for you to open your eyes and question a system that relies on fallacy, keeping Americans sick, and pharmaceutical company payouts.

On a lighter note, I met up with the wonderful Denise Becknell (and all her rawesome employees) of Leafy Greens Cafe in Reddington Beach today. We have a lot of similar interests and I got to try lots of yummy food. Their raw carrot cake was absolutely phenomenol, as was the raw apple pie cookies, the raw walnut burger, and all the delicious sauces and dips she forced me to try ;). We also fed this little egret (who the locals have named Chuck) some raw white fish by hand (too cute) and talked a bit about our love of Indian culture and how going raw has changed our lives. She showed me her wonderful herb garden (I wish my basil looked like bushes!) and let me try some chocolate mint! yum. I'll be working as a prep chef/server there and I'm really excited to see how a raw food cafe operates. This will be an amazing opportunity for me to learn the business and network with the driven people of the alternative health world.

After spending 2 hours there chatting, I walked across the street to the beach and wanted to cry the second I stepped into the water. We haven't been to the beach at all since we've moved and I didn't realize how much I'd missed it. Our apartment in Indialantic was a 5 minute walk to the beach and even though we didn't go every day as we had originally planned it was still nice to walk over there early in the morning to feed the seagulls or late at night so the dogs could run through the water. Seeing the ocean this afternoon was so moving and yet so comforting. I wanted to dive into the water and play with the pelicans. Instead, I picked out a perfect shell-encrusted rock (its our little beach tradition), said good-bye to the sea, and walked back to my car. I think many lunch breaks will end with me brushing the sand off my toes.