Monday, November 29, 2010
UP
One of my very favorite movies is Disney-Pixar's Up. I love pretty much everything about the whole movie. It's beautiful and will make you laugh and cry. If you haven't seen it, you should!
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Welcome Fall
Fall is probably my favorite season. Lately we've had some wonderful days here, where the temperature is just right and the breeze feels perfect. Those days have been like fall previews and I'm starting to get excited :)
I even got my little "Welcome Fall" leaf and a pumpkin spice candle that makes my room smell amazing and very fall-like. I'm planning on buying even more pumpkin spice candles this weekend, because they just smell so good and they remind me of my favorite season. I can't wait for the leaves to change and for the weather to stay nice and quit being hot. I also can't wait for the Soybean festival and hayrides and hot chili on a cool night and warm jackets and riding in the car with the windows down and all the other amazing things that come with fall.
I even got my little "Welcome Fall" leaf and a pumpkin spice candle that makes my room smell amazing and very fall-like. I'm planning on buying even more pumpkin spice candles this weekend, because they just smell so good and they remind me of my favorite season. I can't wait for the leaves to change and for the weather to stay nice and quit being hot. I also can't wait for the Soybean festival and hayrides and hot chili on a cool night and warm jackets and riding in the car with the windows down and all the other amazing things that come with fall.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Random things found when cleaning my room
Old art projects
High School Diploma
State champion newspapers
Easy-Bake oven
Furby
Playstation
I never throw anything away.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Names
Am I the only one who tends to name things?
For example:
Our family car (a cobalt) is named Cobe
My car (an old mercury mystique) is named Ollie:
My new laptop is named Zeke (short for Ezekiel)
And my camera (a Nikon L100) is unofficially named Henry
There's really no point to this blog post.
For example:
Our family car (a cobalt) is named Cobe
Thursday, April 8, 2010
One day without shoes!
I wrote awhile ago about how much I love TOMS shoes and today was One Day Without Shoes. One Day Without Shoes is a TOMS shoes event where you go all day (or part of the day or even a few minutes) without shoes to "experience a life without shoes first hand and to help spread awareness of the impact a simple pair of shoes can bring to a child's life."
I wasn't able to go all day without shoes (I had work in the morning) but I did go a few hours in the afternoon without shoes.
I'm glad I decided to do One Day Without Shoes, even if I didn't get to do it all day.
I'm not the type of person who normally goes barefoot, I like to have something on my feet. Even when I'm just walking around the house I feel weird without having slippers on. So going barefoot was a little hard for me.
Today I learned that I am thankful that I have shoes. I am thankful that I don't have to walk around barefoot and face the dangers of getting some sort of disease from it. Sometimes it takes going without something to realize how important it is and how thankful you are that you have it.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Pretty day
Today it was beautiful outside!
I've been planning to do a couple blog posts on "my favorite things" and today since it was so pretty out I was going to go out and take pictures in my dresses (because dresses are one of my favorite things).
Well, it didn't quite work out the way I had planned. I have 4 dresses I was going to take pictures in, but I didn't feel like changing that many times and trying to get four good pictures.
I did, however, decide to still go out and take some pictures in my favorite dress!
Cubby wanted to have her picture taken too...
She's pregnant, if you can't tell.
I'm still wanting to do a couple posts on "my favorite things" but I'll have to do that sometime when I feel like taking pictures of my favorite things.
Today feels like Friday. I am ready for the weekend, even though after the weekend my spring break will be over. Although, my spring break hasn't consisted of much. Just work in the morning and then resting. I don't mind though, I'm just like an old lady. And at least I have fun plans for tomorrow night and saturday!
I've been planning to do a couple blog posts on "my favorite things" and today since it was so pretty out I was going to go out and take pictures in my dresses (because dresses are one of my favorite things).
Well, it didn't quite work out the way I had planned. I have 4 dresses I was going to take pictures in, but I didn't feel like changing that many times and trying to get four good pictures.
I did, however, decide to still go out and take some pictures in my favorite dress!
Cubby wanted to have her picture taken too...
Today feels like Friday. I am ready for the weekend, even though after the weekend my spring break will be over. Although, my spring break hasn't consisted of much. Just work in the morning and then resting. I don't mind though, I'm just like an old lady. And at least I have fun plans for tomorrow night and saturday!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Shoes
My favorite pair of shoes are most definitely my Toms!
(My Toms say "Make Art Not War" on them)
I wasn't wearing them that much because it was cold, but since its getting warmer I'm breaking them out again! I'm also wanting to order two new pairs (hopefully sometime this week or next week).
I want the red canvas classics
and I also want the silver glitters!
I love Toms shoes because not only are they adorable and super comfortable, but they are a great cause as well. Toms has a "one for one" policy, which means for every pair of shoes you buy, toms will give a pair of shoes to a child in need. I definitely recommend Toms shoes. They have womens, mens, and youth(for 4 to 10 year olds) styles and they also have "Tiny Toms" (for pre-walker to 4 years old)
so cute! :)
Well, I guess I'd better go. I have biology and advanced college writing homework waiting for me. Fun fun!
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Vegetarian
Four (almost five) weeks ago I became a vegetarian. At first I wasn't sure if I would give up meat slowly or if I would just "try" to be a vegetarian (like still eat meat but not very often).
I went ahead and gave up meat altogether, all at once. It wasn't super hard because I wasn't a huge meat eater to begin with. I loved chicken and turkey but giving them up hasn't been too hard. I mean, I have had my moments where I've missed meat and craved it a little bit but I haven't caved in.
I'm not saying I'll never eat meat again. Because I might. I'm just saying I'm going to try my hardest to go without it. After learning about factory farmed animals and how horribly they're treated I just don't feel right eating meat anymore.
I'm going to post some of the article about factory farmed chickens that PETA has on their website, and if you read it you'll understand a little about why I feel the way I do.
"Chickens are inquisitive, interesting animals who are as intelligent as mammals like cats, dogs, and even primates.1 They are very social and like to spend their days together, scratching for food, cleaning themselves in dust baths, roosting in trees, and lying in the sun. Dr. Chris Evans, administrator of the animal behavior lab at Australia’s Macquarie University, says, “As a trick at conferences, I sometimes list [chickens’] attributes, without mentioning chickens, and people think I’m talking about monkeys.”2 Chickens are precocious birds. Mother hens actually cluck to their unborn chicks, who chirp back to their mothers and to one another from within their shells!3 The intelligence and adaptability of chickens actually make them particularly vulnerable to factory farming because, unlike most birds, baby chickens can survive without their mothers and without the comfort of a nest—they come out of the shell raring to explore and ready to experience life.
But the more than 9 billion chickens raised on factory farms each year in the U.S. never have the chance to do anything that is natural to them.4 They will never even meet their parents, let alone be raised by them. They will never take dust baths, feel the sun on their backs, breathe fresh air, roost in trees, or build nests.
Chickens raised for their flesh, called “broilers” by the chicken industry, spend their entire lives in filthy sheds with tens of thousands of other birds, where intense crowding and confinement lead to outbreaks of disease. They are bred and drugged to grow so large so quickly that their legs and organs can’t keep up, making heart attacks, organ failure, and crippling leg deformities common. Many become crippled under their own weight and eventually die because they can’t reach the water nozzles. When they are only 6 or 7 weeks old, they are crammed into cages and trucked to slaughter."
All of the above article was taken from the PETA website, here is the direct link to the page about chickens: http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_chickens.asp
You can also learn about other factory farmed animals on their website.
A lot of people have said to me that God put animals here to provide for us, and I'm not arguing with that at all. I'm just a very compassionate person and my heart breaks for the animals when I see the way they are treated. And I know God understands me and the reasons why I'm doing this and I don't think He looks down on me for living off of the other things He put on earth to provide for us.
And to end this post I also want to say that just because I've decided to become a vegetarian doesn't mean I'm a "crazy" vegetarian. I don't look down on people who eat meat and I don't get offended when people eat meat around me. Being a vegetarian is my personal decision and I would never judge or discriminate against someone for not being a vegetarian.
I went ahead and gave up meat altogether, all at once. It wasn't super hard because I wasn't a huge meat eater to begin with. I loved chicken and turkey but giving them up hasn't been too hard. I mean, I have had my moments where I've missed meat and craved it a little bit but I haven't caved in.
I'm not saying I'll never eat meat again. Because I might. I'm just saying I'm going to try my hardest to go without it. After learning about factory farmed animals and how horribly they're treated I just don't feel right eating meat anymore.
I'm going to post some of the article about factory farmed chickens that PETA has on their website, and if you read it you'll understand a little about why I feel the way I do.
"Chickens are inquisitive, interesting animals who are as intelligent as mammals like cats, dogs, and even primates.1 They are very social and like to spend their days together, scratching for food, cleaning themselves in dust baths, roosting in trees, and lying in the sun. Dr. Chris Evans, administrator of the animal behavior lab at Australia’s Macquarie University, says, “As a trick at conferences, I sometimes list [chickens’] attributes, without mentioning chickens, and people think I’m talking about monkeys.”2 Chickens are precocious birds. Mother hens actually cluck to their unborn chicks, who chirp back to their mothers and to one another from within their shells!3 The intelligence and adaptability of chickens actually make them particularly vulnerable to factory farming because, unlike most birds, baby chickens can survive without their mothers and without the comfort of a nest—they come out of the shell raring to explore and ready to experience life.
But the more than 9 billion chickens raised on factory farms each year in the U.S. never have the chance to do anything that is natural to them.4 They will never even meet their parents, let alone be raised by them. They will never take dust baths, feel the sun on their backs, breathe fresh air, roost in trees, or build nests.
Chickens raised for their flesh, called “broilers” by the chicken industry, spend their entire lives in filthy sheds with tens of thousands of other birds, where intense crowding and confinement lead to outbreaks of disease. They are bred and drugged to grow so large so quickly that their legs and organs can’t keep up, making heart attacks, organ failure, and crippling leg deformities common. Many become crippled under their own weight and eventually die because they can’t reach the water nozzles. When they are only 6 or 7 weeks old, they are crammed into cages and trucked to slaughter."
All of the above article was taken from the PETA website, here is the direct link to the page about chickens: http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_chickens.asp
You can also learn about other factory farmed animals on their website.
A lot of people have said to me that God put animals here to provide for us, and I'm not arguing with that at all. I'm just a very compassionate person and my heart breaks for the animals when I see the way they are treated. And I know God understands me and the reasons why I'm doing this and I don't think He looks down on me for living off of the other things He put on earth to provide for us.
And to end this post I also want to say that just because I've decided to become a vegetarian doesn't mean I'm a "crazy" vegetarian. I don't look down on people who eat meat and I don't get offended when people eat meat around me. Being a vegetarian is my personal decision and I would never judge or discriminate against someone for not being a vegetarian.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Songs I couldn't get enough of in 2009
The wind blows-All American Rejects
Falling in love at a coffe shop-Landon Pigg
Cant let go-Landon Pigg
Boy with a coin-Iron and Wine
Samson-Regina Spektor
Look Up-Bradley Hathaway
The Chain-Ingrid Michaelson
Fireflies-Owl City
Vanilla Twilight-Owl City
If my heart was a house-Owl City
I'm not ashamed-Hillsong kids
Merry Happy-Kate Nash
Nicest thing-Kate Nash
Coney Island-Good Old War
Maybe Mine-Good Old War
Thats Whats wrong-Good Old War
I'm not for you-Good Old War
Stolen-Dashboard Confessional
Closer to Love-Mat Kearney
I'm sure there's more, but these were the first ones that came to mind.
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