When in Mancos

I promise I will be traveling a lot later this summer (and even more once I move overseas), but in the meantime, I'm still in Mancos. I am a fan of hometown, so I still have plenty to say about it.

I am always amazed when I meet people who have never heard of, let alone tried, a Navajo taco or even just plain fry bread.

Fry bread is a delightful, flat, dough bread that is deep-fried in oil, shortening, or lard. It's light and puffy, and can be eaten with taco toppings (therefore becoming a Navajo taco), or eaten as a dessert with honey, jam, or powdered sugar. It's a little bit like a sopapilla that you can get from Mexican restaurants to give you some context.

Anyway, if you're ever driving through Mancos, I highly recommend Ted's Tacos. It's right on Highway 160 next to the only gas station in town, so you can't miss it. They have a large menu full of many delicious choices (the breakfast burritos here are also a personal favorite), but if you have never experienced fry bread before, this is the perfect place to do so! Ted is almost always cooking, and you won't be disappointed.

Tips on Tuesday: Get Organized!

I've got a lot going on this week, and I'm feeling pretty stressed and overwhelmed right now. I know I'm probably not the only one who feels a great sense of relief once I get things organized and just how I like them, so I thought I'd share some of my favorite tips on organizing my mind and my surrounding so I can think clearly and tackle all of my tasks.

1. Bullet Journal. This is my favorite thing ever right now! I love my bullet journal. I first heard about them around Christmas this past year, and I got one to try out in January. I have always loved planners, but a bullet journal is so much more and better than a regular planner. It's also a place for random lists, a journal, a wish list, and a brain dumping ground. The best thing about bullet journals is they are exactly what you need when you need it. You can have all kinds of things in between your calendars and to-do lists. And if you don't want to write anything down at all for a week or two, you don't have wasted pages like you would on a regular planner. If I can get everything flying around in my head written down in my bullet journal, I feel so much better and it all looks so much more manageable.

2. One Minute Rule. This rule states that if whatever task is in front of me would take one minute or less, then I need to do it right now. File that document. Throw away that junk mail so it doesn't clutter my desk. Close the cabinet door in the kitchen. Hang up my coat. All of these things are so small and simple, yet they have a cumulative effect that really makes a big difference!

3. Clean for 15. Every evening I like to set a timer for 15 minutes. In that time, I pick something in my house to clean and I keep cleaning until my timer goes off. I can always manage 15 minutes. I would always use an excuse to get out of a 30 or 60 minute cleaning stint, but 15 minutes goes by quickly, and if you stick with it day after day, you can really get your house in good shape! I was on a great roll with this back in January, and I was running out of things on the main floor of my little house to clean, so I used my 15 minutes to do things like sweep my basement floor. I felt so much better when my house was that clean!

4. Sunday Basket. I just learned about this strategy recently. The idea is that you set up a basket (or bag in my case) where you put mail or any kind of papers that you accumulate throughout the week. On Sundays you get it all out and deal with it in whatever way is most appropriate. You pay what needs to be paid, schedule what needs to be scheduled, trash what you don't need to look at again, and so on. It really helps cut down on clutter, and it saves time because you can be more efficient doing that all one time on Sundays, rather than a little every day. And you know right where everything is!

5. Power Hour. I really like the idea of the power hour, and this is one I have yet to employ in my own life, but I would really like to start! We all have annoying little tasks that we keep putting off, and usually whatever can happen at any time happens at no time. If there's no deadline, it'll never happen. So the power hour is one hour a week that you schedule into your calendar to get all of these little tasks done, such as calling the doctor to schedule an appointment, getting a screwdriver and tightening the handle on your bedroom door, and other random, nagging tasks.

Have you ever used any of these strategies? Do you have tried-and-true strategies you love that aren't listed here? Please share!

Appreciate the Light

The devotional that I shared on Friday by Madeline L'Engle inspired me to share another one of her quotes today:

"Maybe you have to know the darkness
before you can appreciate the light."

March Sunrise, South Padre Island, Texas

Savory Saturday - Pork Lettuce Wraps

Here's the new recipe I tried this week! And, spoiler alert, I loved it! It's definitely going into my regular, healthy meal rotation. The recipe for these wraps is posted below, with the modifications I made to leave out the sugary sauce and amp up the flavor.

Healthy Pork Lettuce Wraps

Ingredients:

2 teaspoons vegetable oil

1 pound lean ground pork

4 green onions, thinly sliced

1 teaspoon ground allspice

2 teaspoons ground ginger

4 cloves garlic, chopped

2 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce 

16 leaves of romaine lettuce 

2 tablespoons cilantro, chopped

lime juice

Preparation:

1. In a large frying pan, heat oil over high heat and add pork. Cook, stirring until starting to brown. Drain excess fat.

2. Stir in green onions, allspice, ginger, and soy sauce. Cook until green onions are tender, about 2 minutes.

3. Place 8 leaves on each plate and fill with pork mixture. Top each with cilantro and lime juice as desired. 

Serves 2

Prep time: 15 minutes

Cook time: 10 minutes

These wraps were a little difficult to eat as wraps, so the only other change I made was actually eating them more like a salad with a fork. The pork was the only major source of calories in this recipe, so you get a lot of bang for your calorie-buck! It was filling, flavorful, and delicious!

Five Thing Friday

1. Loved yesterday's devotional by Madeleine L'Engle (who also happens to write great young adult fiction that I enjoyed growing up!):

"Faith means believing without seeing. If we can see it, verify it, explain it, and make perfect sense of it, we don't need faith. Faith, by its very definition, requires us to trust in something we don't understand. 

"Much of Scripture require us to take that step. Virgin birth? Unbelievable. Calming the sea? Can't be done. Raising people from the dead? Impossible. And so some turn away and decide that they can't be Christians when, in reality, those questions are the first step. Knowing that something is unbelievable or impossible means that a higher power has to be involved. That knowledge leads to a choice. Are we willing to believe the unbelievable? Are we willing to have faith?

"You may never understand the reason for some events of life on this side of heaven. But God is pleased when you have faith in him even when you can't understand."

2. Chalene Johnson is one of my favorite motivators. She's done numerous fitness videos, hosts a podcast, has written a great personal development book, and created several online classes. She wants to help others, and she's helped me a lot. 

Her timely advice in an email today was, "There are no universal 'facts' that apply to everyone when it comes to eating. There’s so much research out there that can be carefully selected to prove whatever 'fact' or 'rule' you want. Moral of the story: be skeptical, do your own research and experiment with what works for YOU."

She said it perfectly! No matter what you do or don't believe in regarding fitness, nutrition, and/or health, you can find evidence to back it up. So it's up to you to decide what works for you, and to stop letting others try to dictate how you treat your body.

3. Beachbody has recently launched a new program very different from anything they've ever done. This one is called YouV2 (You Version 2). It's a fitness and nutrition program for those who have never worked out, hate the thought of working out, have a lot of weight to lose and need an easy place to start, or have physical ailments that prevent them from bending over or doing many traditional exercises (think squats and lunges).

Anyway, I just got access to this program today, and it looks pretty silly and fun. All of the music is hits from the 1980s and 1990s, so in order to promote this program, I decided to put together a little costume to show my love of the 80s!

4. The podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin is by far my favorite podcast that I listen to. I have listened since it first started over two years ago, I think. Gretchen and her sister, Elizabeth, make wonderful co-hosts. Their advice this week is to design your summer, to be intentional about how you're spending this season so you can make the most of it. I love this advice! Summer, after the Christmas holiday season, is my favorite time of year. You can do so many things in the summer that you can't do the rest of the year, and it should be celebrated! Now I just need to think of how I want to design my summer...

5. I am a huge of fan of The Reset Girl's #listersgottalist prompts. I love making lists! She has faith-based listing prompts, and more generic listing prompts. Here's one of my lists I thought I'd share!

What Bravery Means to Me:

Being scared, but going anyway.
Choosing not to regret what I didn't do.
Having faith that everything will work out and I'll be ok.
Being strong in the face of pain or grief.
Doing what's right.
Getting to go on grand adventures.
Being a little impulsive, maybe.
Getting to create the very best of memories.

Food Pressure

It's Day 4 following the Bright Line Eating program I explained in an earlier post (no sugar, no flour, no snacking, correct portion sizes), and so far so good! I'm reading a lot of ingredient labels, but I'm still getting to eat some delicious food! For example, yesterday I had my favorite Cafe Latte Shakeology for lunch, and then I made this delicious lemongrass chicken dinner.

I am also using the Intermittent Fasting method. I have an incredibly slow metabolism, and one of the only advantages of that is that I can go for long stretches of time without getting hungry. My metabolism makes intermittent fasting relatively easy, and my favorite part about it is that it actually makes me obsess about food less.

I have an all-or-nothing personality, so going 16 hours in a row without eating makes it easier for me to tell myself that I get nothing to eat, than to fret about what and how much I can eat during every one of my waking hours. I set my eating window to be from 11 am until 7 at night. I think I would rather eat breakfast and skip dinner, but that's pretty difficult to do without becoming a hermit and declining every evening get together with family and friends. So I'm ok with skipping breakfast in favor of having a life.

Something I have noticed in the last few days, as well as in several other times in my life when I was following a diet plan that I wanted to stick to, is how much my food choices can bother those around me.

Have you ever noticed this?

I firmly believe that what or much of something someone else is eating is none of my business. What you do or do not choose to put in your mouth is a personal choice that should never be criticized.

And yet people do it all the time. I guess it must make others feel more secure and comfortable with their own food choices when everyone around them is eating the exact same thing? I don't know. All I know is that I am sick of the food pressure! I am sick of people trying to force me to eat a certain food that I do not want, or to eat at a certain time when I do not want to eat.

It's hard enough living with the food temptations that are constantly surrounding me- I don't need peer pressure to give in on top of everything else!

When In Mancos

Since I'm going to be traveling so much this year, I thought it might be fun to do a "When In Rome" inspired series of posts each Wednesday. I'll include something worth seeing and/or doing in each location.

I'm back in my hometown of Mancos, Colorado, currently, so this is the perfect place to start! Mancos prides itself on being the "Gateway to Mesa Verde." The cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park really are a must-see that bring in visitors from all over the country, and all over the world. There's nothing else quite like them.

The view from my front porch.

I grew up looking at Mesa Verde across the valley every day, and as is often the case, exciting tourist attractions are much less exciting when you live so close to them. I have only ever been inside the park four or five times, and one of those times was with my driver's ed instructor practicing my driving skills. In the last few years I have begun to appreciate the fact that I get to see this incredible landmark every day.

My most recent visit to Mesa Verde: January 2013

The National Park Service (nps.gov) explains that the cliff dwelling of Mesa Verde are some of the most notable and best preserved in North America. Sometime during the late 1190s, after primarily living on the mesa top for 600 years, many Ancestral Pueblo people began living in pueblos they built beneath the overhanging cliffs. The structures ranged in size from one-room storage units to villages of more than 150 rooms. While still farming the mesa tops, they continued to reside in the alcoves, repairing, remodeling, and constructing new rooms for nearly a century. By the late 1270s, the population began migrating south into present-day New Mexico and Arizona. By 1300, the Ancestral Puebloan occupation of Mesa Verde ended.

I had always heard that these people that lived and built Mesa Verde as we know it today were called the Anasazi. I think that's such an awesome name! I grew up pondering the mystery behind their disappearance. Nobody really knows why they built such elaborate villages into the faces of these cliffs, only to abandon them and never return.

According to the National Park Service (nps.gov) Mesa Verde had almost 600,000 visitors in 2015, and again in 2016. In 2015, those visitors spent $55.4 million in communities near the park (that includes Mancos!). That spending supported 814 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $66.8 million. Our economy sure benefits from such a major tourist attraction!

FYI: Many people don't realize this at first, but from the time you turn off of Highway 160 and enter the park, you still have at least an hour drive ahead of you before you get to the top and reach the cliff dwellings. Keep this in mind when you're planning your trip!

I think it's time I play tourist in my own back yard and go up for another visit!

Training Tip Tuesday

My advice today is to take it slow. This is advice that I desperately need to take, so it's for me just as much as it is for anyone else. 

I injured my back 5 weeks ago. I ended up going to the emergency room the day it happened because I was scared by how much it swelled up and I thought I might have broken something. Thankfully, the x-rays confirmed that I had no broken bones, but I am still trying to recovery from this injury 5 weeks later. My nerves are damaged and bruised, and since the day of that accident, I have been unable to do a real workout or run more than 10 steps or so. 

I am so saddened by the fact that I cannot run. I want to do a Ragnar Trail Relay, I want to sign up for half marathon on June 18th, I want to sign up for a fun subscription box (I'm obsessed with subscription boxes!!!!) that has running challenges in it.... but I can't do any of those things right now.

So for myself, and all of you out there, take it slow! Whether you also have an injury you're trying to overcome, or your body is just incapable of keeping up with your mind right now for whatever reason, give your body time to heal and play catch up. 

I took this photo during my 3 mile run on April 15, not knowing it would be last run for quite some time. 

For now, I'm walking a few miles every day, doing some strengthening exercises every morning that do not hurt my back, and trying to be patient. 

The Bright Lines

I've felt like a fraud for the past few months. I'm trying to become a health and fitness coach. I want to help people become healthier, happier versions of themselves. But lately I definitely have not been "practicing what I preach." 

That all changes today. As I mentioned briefly in an earlier post, I recently read "Bright Line Eating" by Susan Peirce Thompson. 

I am going to follow Thompson's four "bright lines" to the best of my ability:

1. No sugar. I will not consume any food that lists sugar, or any of its aliases, in the top 3 ingredients on the label. 

2. No flour. I will not consume any food that lists flour, or any of its aliases, in the top 3 ingredients on the label. Important note: no flour does not mean no carbs. I am not interested in cutting carbs out of my diet. I think carbs are, or should be, part of every healthy diet. Foods that do contain a high amount of carbs that do not contain flour include rice, quinoa, potatoes, and fruit. All of these foods will be included in my meal plans. 

3. Eat only at meal times. This means no more snacking.

4. Eat correct serving sizes. This means I will be using my food scale to control my portion sizes.

I have become addicted to flour and sugar, and by eating them in excess for so long, I have damaged my brain's dopamine receptors. Cutting these substances out of my diet will allow my brain to heal, and will hopefully stop me from constantly craving them.

I'm going to track my progress every day as I strive to treat my body right. I love the quote by Kevin Trudeau, "Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel." I intend to find out how good my body is supposed to feel, and I can't wait!

 

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"

~John Muir

Savory Saturday - Salmon

My goal is to cook at least one new, healthy recipe each week and share it here every Saturday. I'll share the original recipe, as well as any modifications I made to it, and how it turned out.

The whole moving process took over this week, so I didn't have time to cook anything new to share today. I will next week for sure, though.

In the meantime, I still wanted to do a "Savory Saturday" post. I thought I would share a real breakthrough I had with salmon a couple of months ago.

I loved salmon as a kid. I remember my dad taught me how to spell odd words like "salmon" and "coffee" for fun sometimes, and I was so proud and excited when I won the second grade spelling bee with this word! 

Anyway, I told my grandparents I loved it so many times, that they eventually forgot that I liked to eat anything else, so salmon is the only thing they would serve every time I came over to their house for dinner. This was awesome at first, but then I really started getting tired of eating the same thing, cooked the same way, so often!

As a result, I would eat some of the salmon they heaped on my plate only out of politeness, but other than that, I never ate salmon anywhere else. 

That is, until I received one of those meal subscription boxes earlier this year that had a salmon recipe inside. I wasn't super thrilled about preparing salmon, but it was one of their low-calorie options, and I thought I'd cook it exactly as they specified, and give it a try. 

This was the most amazing salmon I had ever eaten! I didn't take any pictures of that first batch, but I did re-create it with my own ingredients a few weeks later:

The secret to this amazing salmon is to sear one side of it for a couple of minutes in a frying pan, then to put the salmon in a baking dish, seared side up, and brush a mixture of honey, soy sauce, and ginger over the top, and to bake it in the oven for several more minutes. 

So good! But I'll be sure to wait a few months before I make it again so I don't get burnt out on salmon again! :) 

Unfortunately, the recipe I used accidentally got put in storage during my move, so I can't post it here now, but I will post it in the comments once I find it in my storage unit. You can make your own mixture to taste, though, and do some experimenting of your own if you're want to cook some salmon sometime soon! 

Five Thing Friday

1. I love super lame/cheesy jokes. You're welcome.

2. I cannot get this song out of my head today! My sister-in-law told me several years ago that some songs are just good to wail to. Haha! I've never forgotten that, and this song definitely fits into that category of songs your need to wail to. It makes you want to turn up the volume and belt it out with all kinds of anguish!



3. So many funny memes come up when people get outraged about the weather. It snowed for most of the day yesterday, and it was barely above 20 degrees when I left the house this morning...

4. This still has to be my all-time favorite book. I read it for the first time when I was in high school, and I'm currently listening to it on Audible. This book has it all: drama, adventure, history, romance, murder, intrigue, colliding cultures, war... and it's long enough that you get to go in-depth into all aspects of the main character's life from the time he was a boy until he grows into a man. I can't recommend it enough if you haven't read it before.

5. Food for thought:

"God created you and the sun to display his glory. The sun displays the glory of his sustain and creative power. You display the glory of the risen Christ who lives in you! Imagine that. As the sun warms the earth, you radiate the warmth of God's love. That's why you're here. And every single thing you do falls into the category of showcasing God's glory and goodness. Order your life around the incredible thought - God is to be honored in all you do."
     ~Cynthia Heald

I need to remember this now and always. I don't always think about how everything I do should be honoring God, and I know I should.

I hope you've enjoyed my first "Five Things Friday!" Each Friday you'll be able to find five things I'm interested in, or thinking about, or just want to share for some reason.

Have a great weekend!

Summer Plans

Now that I'm all moved out of my house in Rangely, it feels like it's finally and officially summer vacation! That is one thing I'm going to miss about teaching: getting the whole summer off and not having to feel like a slacker in the process!

Ironically, on this first day of my summer vacation and my new normal routines, it snowed almost all day long!

Regardless of the weather, I love that feeling when you have the whole summer wide open and stretching out before you, and endless possibilities with which to fill it. I used to make lists of all of the fun things I was going to do each summer as a child. In a way, I still do that!

I love designing and creating routines to make my days as efficient and productive as possible. I love getting to the end of each day feeling like I accomplished what I set out to accomplish that morning.

The best time to develop new habits and routines is usually at the same time as a big transition in your life because there's usually so much changing already.

I just moved back into my mom's house for the summer, and I'm creating some new routines that I want to maintain until my next move in September.

So I'm going to try to get the best of both worlds squished into my summer: endless possibilities of fun in the sun and relaxing, along with being productive and getting some work done.

Hiking behind my house last summer.

I have a couple of part-time jobs to help me save money for my upcoming European adventures, and a lot of other things I want to make time for this summer.

I'll be working my two jobs most mornings, so probably six days a week. Both jobs are thankfully very flexible. I'll make plenty of time for my family and pets, swimming in the pond, reading in the hammock, as well as some chores around the house, most afternoons. And I'll keep my evenings open for whatever comes up at the last minute.

I'm hoping to make some new friends and possibly reconnect with some old friends this summer, and to try out a new church or two in the area.


I'm also excited for some designated Tuesday afternoon time with my mom. We've both agreed to block out every Tuesday afternoon that I'm home in our calendars so we can have some fun together. I'll be sharing more on this after our first Tuesday this next week!

I've got a few fun trips planned this summer, too! I'll be going to Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and New Orleans for sure. My tickets are all booked for those trips. I've also got a couple of "maybe" trips that might happen in July and August, but we'll have to see if those make sense as they get a little closer.

So many good things to look forward to this summer!

On The Move

I was born and raised in one house, on one ranch, in one town. I guess I'm making up for staying in one place for so many years of my life. Since I left for college when I was 18 years old, I have lived in 6 different towns/cities, and moved all of my stuff back and forth from my mom's house many times.

I moved all of my stuff out of my adorable, little, green house in Rangely, Colorado today, and I'm pulling out of town in the morning.

I'm stopping at my mom's house for the summer, and then I'm off to Germany for the next year or so.

A U-Haul this size for one person makes me look like a hoarder, I know, so I want to assure you that I am not. I wanted a smaller size, but this was all they had for me at the local hardware store. As long as my stuff doesn't slide around too much inside, and as long as it gets me home safely tomorrow, it'll do.

The Greatest Help Is Self-Help

For me, self-help books are a guilty pleasure. I love to read them, browse through them in bookstores,  read reviews about them online, and think about how they could change my life for the better.

I am on a never-ending quest of self discovery and self improvement.

I recently discovered a new podcast in which the two hosts read a self-help book, follow the guidelines from the book as closely as possible for two weeks, and then report back on how their lives have changed from the experiment.

Why didn't I think of that? I have countless self-help books and audiobooks all over my house. There is always at least one novel and one self-help book on my nightstand and in my bag at any given point in time.

Unlike the hosts of this podcast, though, I'm not choosing the popular, extra-cliched self-help books such as "The Secret" or "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up." I'm choosing books that may not be as well-known, but cover topics I'm genuinely interested in and areas in which I truly need help.

I am an emotional binge-eater. I can get truly out of control with my desire to consume copious amounts of sugary treats. For this reason, I have been reading book after book on binge eating and how to control it.

I just finished "Bright Line Eating" by Susan Pierce Thompson a couple of days ago. I was fascinated by the author's story and the science she included in the book on how addictions affect our brains. I am going to incorporate her four bright lines into my diet and my life in about a week. I will be posting more details and updates on this soon.

I am also currently reading "How to Live a Good Life" by Jonathan Fields. The title definitely drew me to this book. Who is this author who can tell me how to live a good life? It sounded too good to be true, but I wanted to read it anyway.

In the book, the author asks you to identify how full your three "buckets" are. I took the online quiz, and found that my vitality bucket (the overall health of my mind and body) is at 36 out of 100, my connection bucket (my relationships) is at 62 out of 100, and my contribution bucket (how I give back and serve) is at 27 out of 100. Ouch. So I'll be working on this, as well as my bright lines in the coming weeks.

In an effort to work on filling my vitality bucket, I tried meditating this morning. I have never meditated in my life, and have always regarded the practice with a lot of skepticism. However, it is an important component to both "How to Live a Good Life" and "Bright Line Eating," so I'm going to give it an honest go every morning for at least a few weeks.

I also slept for 8 hours last night, I exercised this morning, I spent some time in nature with my dog, I had a green smoothie, and I wrote down what I am grateful for today in a gratitude journal. We'll see how long I can keep this up, and if I see any positive changes in my life as a result of these practices.

7 mile hike this morning!

This blog will serve as some excellent accountability, as I am committing to reporting back on my progress. Wish me luck!

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

I love having more time to time in my schedule to take some long, leisurely hikes with my hiking buddy!

The weather was beautiful today! A flawless blue sky and warm sunshine.

Some see weeds, I see beautiful wildflowers!

Brodie and I tackled more than 6 miles today, and we're off again on another hike tomorrow. After all, as Thoreau so eloquently put it, "An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

Just Dance

Sometimes you need to take a break from your day-to-day routine and just dance! Yes, I am one of those crazy ladies that turns up my music as loud as it will go and dances around my house. Sometimes in my pajamas. This always makes my dog crazy-excited, as well.

There's nothing I love to dance to more than a good swing dancing beat. Here are two of my favorites for you dancing pleasure! :)

I never met a sunset I did not like.

Sunsets have always been, and probably will always be my favorite thing to photograph. 

They are stunningly beautiful glimpses of God's artistic talents. No two are the same, and every sunset looks slightly different moment to moment. 

I took this photo last night just outside of Rangely, Colorado, after having spent the evening with friends around a campfire. Does life get any better than that?

May every sunrise bring you hope, and every sunset bring you peace. 

Playing Favorites

My favorite flowers: bright, big, sweet-smelling, colorful, and happy

My favorite shoes: flip flops and cowboy boots

My favorite clothes: a good pair of boot-cut blue jeans and a t-shirt

My favorite accessories ever: sunglasses and big, dangly earrings

My favorite hairstyle: small braid taking my bangs off to the side

My favorite decorating idea: lots of bright colors, mis-matched furniture, and natural lighting

My favorite restaurant: Cheesecake Factory (that cheesecake is to. die. for.)

My favorite travel destination: Scotland (but that's subject to change after I've travelled more)

My favorite store: Michael's or Hobby Lobby (new craft supplies have endless potential!)

My favorite drink: a margarita with a bottle of champagne tipped over inside