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The healthiest picks for your weekend pleasures and indulgences. Happy Halloween!

Bits and Bites
Healthy Candy Corn

• What: Eat the candy. Ditch the guilt.
• Why: Trick or treat…give me something good to eat.
• Where: Online at Nature Mom’s Blog.

Got To Have It
Nike Yoga Basics Capri

• What: Fun and functional pants for fall.
• Why: If you won’t eat the candy, wear the candy.
• Where: Online at 6pm.com.

Around Town
The Uptown Bar’s Last Halloween Hoorah

• What: Say farewell to a Minneapolis staple before it closes its doors to all hipsters and music lovers. Food and drinks (what’s left, that is) is specially priced.
• Why: Cheap beer has less calories.
• Where: Uptown Bar & Cafe ~ 3018 Hennepin Ave South

I Think I Can
9 Tricks to Make Halloween a Treat

• What: How to use Halloween weekend to practice “rational indulgence”.
• Why: Treat yourself to a few tricks.
• Where: Online at Eat Without Guilt.

The healthiest picks for your weekend pleasures and indulgences.

Got to Have It
Premium Foam Roller

• What: Roll out your kinks with this textured little slice of heaven.
• Why: Rollin’ with the homies.
• Where: Online at Power Systems.

Bits and Bites
Restaurant Alma

Around Town
Glamorama

• What: A Macy’s charity event with glitz, glam and musical jams. The bennies go to the Children’s Cancer Research fund.
• Why: Somebody forgot to invite Bananarama.
• When: Friday, August 14 ~ 8:00 pm
• Where: Orpheum Theatre ~ 910 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis

The healthiest picks for your weekend pleasures and indulgences.

Got to Have It
Women’s adiStar Midsize Watch

• What: A 100-lap memory watch that helps you keep time and track your progress.
• Why: Time is on your side. Yes it is.
• Where: Online at Adidas.



Bits and Bites
Mix My Granola

• What: Create a custom mix: Pick a granola base, add your favorite toppers and have it shipped right to your bowl and spoon.
• Why: That’s the way (uh-huh uh-huh) you like it.
• Where: Online at Mix My Granola.




Around Town
Music in the Zoo: Keb Mo

• What: Outdoor concerts amid our furry friends.
• Why: Dance like a monkey…or with the monkeys, as the case may be.
• When: Friday, July 17, 2009 ~ 7:00 pm
• Where: The Minnesota Zoo amphitheater ~ 13000 Zoo Boulevard, Apple Valley, MN

I Think I Can
Invest in Yourself

• What: Feeling stuck? Learn how to reinvest in your appearance, skills and heath to keep moving toward your goals.
• Why: The best things in life are free.
• Where: Online at Pick The Brain.

The healthiest picks for your weekend pleasures and indulgences.



Bits and Bites

Matisse and Jack’s Bake at Home Snacks

• What: Customizable bite-size snacks made from the comfort of your own kitchen.
• Why: Home is where all muffin tops are accepted.
• Where: Find recipes online at M&J.

Got to Have It

Hardtail Roll Down Short

• What: A solution to your warm weather workout wardrobe woes.
• Why: We wear short shorts.
• Where: Available online at Londo Mondo

Around Town

Minneapolis Recycle Run

• What: A local 5krun and a great opportunity to recycle those old running shoes. Proceeds go toward watershed clean up efforts.
• Why: Run [for the] forest run.
• When: Sunday, April 19th
• Where: Registration takes place at the Lake Harriet Bandshell, 4135 Lake Harriet Parkway.

I Think I Can

Lance Armstrong Nike Commercial

• What: Watch one of the world’s most motivational men do what he does best.
• Why: Cutie patootie.
• Where: Online at You Tube.

Bits and Bites

Galactic Pizza

• What: “Planet saving pizza” served with a smile by da da da dah … Captain Organic!
• Why: Superheroes, delicious pizzas and smart cars. Need we say more?
• Where: Dine in or take out: 2917 Lyndale Avenue South, Uptown Minneapolis
• Delivery: 612.824.9100

Around Town

Mill City Museum – Washburn A Mill Walking Tour

Got to Have It

Chakra Agility Pant

I Think I Can

Minneapolis Weekend Weather Forecast

The healthiest picks for your weekend pleasures and indulgences.

Bits and Bites

Seward Cafe

• What: The Seward neighborhood’s faithful resource for vegan, vegetarian, and locally-produced organic food, collectively owned since 1974.
• Why: Save a cow, eat a carrot.
• Where: 2129 E Franklin Ave, Minneapolis | (612) 332-1011

Got To Have It

The Original Backnobber

• What: A self-care deep muscle massage tool for the back.
• Why: Leave the knots for the sailors.
• Where: Online at the Backnobber Store

Around Town

Coastal Seafoods – Private Sushi Making Classes

• What: Explore and perfect your skills for making sushi at home with Coastal’s worldly selection of fresh fish.
• Why: That’s how you roll.
• Where: 2330 Minnehaha Ave. S, Minneapolis | 612-724-7425

74 S. Snelling (Grand & Snelling), St.Paul | 651-698-4888

Practice Makes Perfect

Mat Class

• What: Free First Saturdays
• Why: A penny saved is a penny earned.
• Where: Align Pilates 708 N 1st Street / Suite 150 Minneapolis, MN 55401
  (612) 343-7500
• When: Saturday, April 4, 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM
• Sign up: alignpilates.com ;612.343.7500

I Think I Can

Go forth into the weekend with a Buddha focus quote.

• Why: Buddha knows best.
• What: “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”
- Sir Edmund Percival Hillary

Tomorrow marks the day for many to start fresh and new. Back to routine and full work weeks. Ambitions and resolutions for the new year in hand. Or at least lingering about in back of mind. The holidays are over.

No more excuses to eat two pieces of chocolate goodness before noon. The reasons to skip hitting the gym after work to have one too many glasses of festive cheer are null and void. The last minute Christmas shopping and  out-of-town friends will no longer stand in the way of that 7:00 yoga class.  I must say, it was fun while it lasted. Alas, it’s time to reel it in.

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On May 29th,1953, at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.

Mount Everest is a pretty admirable feat. I’m just hoping to kick my fell-into-the-big-black-hole-of-holiday-cheer butt back into shape. But after reading this quote from the (remarkably rugged and probably pretty hot in his day) Sir Edmund, I’ve realized that my body doesn’t need conquering as much as the thing that tells my body what to do does.