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Friday, August 29, 2008
another classroom discussion
I went on another one of my rants today.
This is what happened:
My U.S. History teacher likes rambling. Today he was talking about Shoney's. He said he likes going there and getting a take-out all-you-can-eat-buffet. He mentioned that he fills his main dish with meat, his salad dish with meat, and any other dish with meat. He went on and on about meat meat meat and how much he eats. He also said he likes going to graduation because they have free chicken and he just brings his own ziplock and fills it up... so you get the point...
then someone started talking about "canned goods" and how you can buy stuff at dollar general
and my teacher says, "OH no no no, I don't eat stuff from a can! Cans equals Cancer. Cans Cancer. Cans CANCER. "
so of course,
I raised my hand.
"Wait, soooooo you won't eat out of a can because it causes cancer, YET you eat a TON of meat? Are you aware of the pesticides and chemicals in your meat!? Meat causes cancer just as much, if not more than canned goods!!!!"
BAM, the riot started. I went on a pretty good rant.
oh this is funny ---
After telling him a lot of facts about meat and conventional vs. organic and all of that, he says, "SOOOOO darling, are you a vegetarian!?"
and I reallllly didn't feel the need to say "no im raw vegan" so i just answered, "well yeah... kinda..."
and he asked me if i ate certain things like fish and chicken... you know how the questionare goes. =)
Then someone blurted out, "WAIT WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR PROTEIN!?"
*smack myself in the face*
I AM SO TIRED OF ANSWERING THIS QUESTION!? What about you guys!? LOL it is truly sad and humorous at the same time HOW MANY PEOPLE are completely dumb when it comes to nutrition and facts vs. myth about nutrition....
The whole class seriously broke out and finally a guy raised his hand and said, "Can we move on now?" to my teacher because my teacher kept going on and on and on about it, even after I was finished. =) good times.
I told the people next to me to make me shuttup if I start talking about nutrition again, and they were like, "OH NO we like it! we don't mind!"
ha ha
man... i love being a healthy rebel.
The other day in class my English teacher was giving candy to everyone and she didnt even ask me. She passed my desk and said, "well.... i don't even have to ASK you!!!!!" but she said it in a postive way, which was funny.
anyways, i'm done rambling. Just had to share.
I'm off to Chattanooga this weekend for a climbing trip. WOOHOO!!!
p.s. McCain picked a WOMAN for VICE PRESIDENT!? WHAT! WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO!? I'm not personally a McCain fan, but I am definitely a fan of the ladies.
This election is making SERRRRRRRIOUS history, no matter WHO becomes president! WOW! This is insane!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
I don't know if I told you guys this, but I fell off the 80/10/10 thing.... again....
I'm so upset with myself!
my mom was being amazing this week and bought me a TON of raw stuff (like fruit) and then she bought me a HUGE bag of raw nuts...
well... as most of you know, nuts are A-D-D-I-C-T-I-N-G-! I ate way too many in the past week.
it sucks. I can tell my performance has decreased, but i am addicted to them.
I can't wait till they go away so i can stop snacking on them. A lot of times i eat when i'm not even hungry - but its usually just with nuts. GRRRRRRR. WAY TOO ADDICTING.
ANYWAYS, i'm going to do the 21 day 80/10/10 challenge with Bunny Berry and the crew from RAW FU.... after these nuts are gone! =)
ENCOURAGE ME! I felt so much better on 80/10/10!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, August 24, 2008
climbing diet
I have found that keeping it simple is the best way to go.
On this most recent climbing daytrip, I ate 1 grapefruit and 2 oranges for breakfast. Then I brought 4 bananas for the day --- but ended up giving one away (non-raw fooders need more fruit that I do, you know? SHARE THE LOVE!)
I have found that when I don't eat a lot when I climb, I feel the best. This may be because I am not weighed down by food and I am able to squeeze my abs more when I don't eat a lot.
after I work and climb a hard problem, I will eat a banana while I'm resting and about to move to another area. Then I wait a little bit before I climb. I only really need to eat 2-3 bananas throughout the climbing part of the day. (then after climbing I can eat a huge dinner full of fruit and leafy greens)
CONCLUSION: keep it real on climbing trips when it comes to eating. Bananas provide the easiest and most delicious energy and calories. 2-3 will get me through the day.
rawwwwwww fooooooooooooooood duuuuuuuuuuude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
p.s. people keep telling me i'm too skinny. BUT IM NOT! Too skinny is where you see someone's bones. I'm just athletic and slightly thin. I bet i could even lose another pound or two (not gonna try, but you know what i mean!?) Oh and people keep saying my cheeks are gaunt. Is that a bad thing? At first I thought it was a compliment but then my parents told me that it is a bad thing to have gaunt cheeks. HMRPH.
bananas everywhere!
ALSO, I told her about this dream I had where bananas were EVERYWHERE. Seriously, i would open up cabinets, drawers, and look on the counters, and there were bananas everywhere!
I came home from Chattanooga last night, right?
i saw that there were bananas on my desk area. I was like "OH cool my mom bought be bananas!
Then I sat down on my bed and looked at my T.V. --- there was a bunch of bananas ON TOP OF THE T.V!!! this made me laugh out loud. THen i went to lay down, and there was a bunch bananas on a top shelf across the room -- this made me laugh even more.
My mom can be pretty funny. So now I have like over 30 bananas in my house - thats awesome, haha!
one of the best wekeends EVER
I went on a climbing trip to Chattanooga on Saturday. There were about 15 people from Nashville who ended up going. (THATS A HUGE CREW FOR A CLIMBING TRIP!)
It was FANTASTIC. Everyone in the group had some greaaaaaat vibes flowing. Everyone was having a blast, and you could almost FEEL IT.
My coach Steve and team member Sean were there and I climbed with them for most of the day. I ended up working and SENDING this amazing bouldering problem called Diesel Power. I have never been able to do it, even in the prime season. (Prime bouldering season is winter because the friction is so good on the rock. Worst time is July and August - go figure - because of the humidity)
Then I worked and sent this other really cool climb called Dumb Luck. My fingers bled all over it... my fingertips are TOTALLY raw! literally!
I will post a few pics later.
Anyways, keep reading, it only gets better.
After we left the boulderfield, we decided as a crew to go get pizza. WELL, there was 2 vegans in the crew (me and someone else) so we asked to go to greenlife, the local health food store, and pick up something - so we did. Then we went to the pizza place to meet up with everyone else.
After pizza, we were getting ready to leave and we were all standing in a HUGE circle in the parking lot. We decided to do a group hug -- we all put our arms around eachother in this huge circle, and then we all ran into the center trying to hug everyone at the same time. It was hilarious. Next we started playing little games like slap jack, the slapping game, finger fighting games, and others. Then we put all of our hands in the center, like a team at a baseball game, and lifted them up at the same time (like when teams go 1-2-3- GO TIGERS!) or whatever.
ANYWAYS, we found ourselves having more energy so we went to a parking lot next to the pizza place. We started playing tag, freeze tag, whip tag, and all sorts of things. Might I add that 11 of the 15 people are ADULTS. Also, the people who were eating outside at the pizza place got some great enertainment including awesome falls on concrete!
Next we decided to walk to a park. Then we found ourselves playing freakin LEAP FROG all across the field. IT WAS THE FUNNIEST THING EVER. People were looking at us like we were a crazy church group or something.... but nah, we were just climbers having a blast.
Then we played red rover, and a stranger saw how much fun we were having so HE JOINED US! it was great!
FINALLY we walked back to our cars, said our goodbyes, took group pics in the middle of the street, and went back home. I didn't get home until a little past midnight. Usually I get home from climbing trips at 7pm. We were having too much fun!!!
Friday, August 22, 2008
CHECK THIS OUT --- and keep lookin, readin, and clickin' the NEXT button... it will turn any lunch-meat-eater into a vegetarian QUICK - and if not, there is something terribly wrong with their self-control!
Monday, August 18, 2008
On Saturday, I drove to Chattanooga to drop my brother off at his high school. My parents were staying in a hotel, but my climbing coach kidnapped me and brought me climbing.
After arriving in Chattanooga, my coach picked me up and we hit the climbing gym. I was pretty much just messing around, i wasn't feeling my best because I was verrrry dehydrated, but it was still really fun and I LOVE that little gym!
I stayed at Nicole and Steve's house and Nicole made THE BEST RAW VEGAN SUSHI EVER! like.. seriously, it was amazing. it had some sort of patte in it and some sprouts and other stuff. It was the best raw food I've ever had!
(and yeahhhh i know, I know, it totally wasn't 80/10/10 but I make excuses for when my raw food buddies - the ones who got me into it - make a delicious raw food dinner that they invite me to! YA FEEL ME!?)
This day was amazing! We went climbing (bouldering) outside at a boulderfield near Little Rock City. Once I was warmed up, I felt reallllly strong.
Usually at this time of the year, bouldering outside pretty much sucks due to the heat and humidty.... and it usually causes me to have lots of high gravity days. But this season has so far proved me wrong. My first two trips of "bouldering" season have been amazing, and I feel like this climbing season will be the best yet.
(for those of you who don't climb, bouldering season is in fall/winter/spring -- and bouldering is basically a type of climbing where you don't climb with a rope -- free flowing movements on a short boulder. Bouldering can be much harder than climbing with a rope, because the movements are usually EXTREMELY powerful and committing.)
Anyways, I did 2 climbs that I feel especially proud of. Here are a couple pictures (they do not do the climbs justice, as you could imagine, but they are still pretty good shots!)
This one was especially CLASSIC. This shot shows me reaching out the small roof to the first hard move of the problem. (actually the hard part is matching your hands without swinging out and falling!)
and not to mention, I was fueled by bananas and dates during the day, with a mango for breakfast. RAW FOOD ENERGY!!!!!
Friday, August 15, 2008
going bananas
class confession
My school hasn't issued us lockers yet, so we are carrying everything around. For me, that means I am carrying around my lunch.
Today I wanted something simple and easy, so I brought 6 large ripe bananas.
I carried them in a plastic produce bag - so it was see-through.
Many people were giving me weird looks throughout the day for carrying around a bunch of bananas, and a few people asked for one, but i had to tell them it was my lunch and they all walked away confused.
But this brings me to English class...
My bananas were placed gently next to my bag. This [loud] girl sat next to me and looks at the bananas. Then she looks at me. Then she looks at the bananas.
---------here it goes again-------------
"I'm a raw vegan."
again, the whole class stops and turns towards me.
and of course, I had some 'splainin to do.
Basically, you know how it goes, I told them and they asked questions, and OMG i totally OWNED them... Seriously, they would try to say something about "BUt where do you get your protein?" or "where do you get calcium" and dudes, i NAILED IT. I explained everything so well. They all realized I was pretty DAMN educated and i felt like they really respected me.
just had to share... ha ha.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
my voice in class
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
nobody really talks to me... I feel like a complete outcast.
I'm not sad about it or anything... it's just not very fun.
All my friends are in their late 20s, 30s, 40s... except for a select FEW.
I know that a lot of people will tell you this, but i REALLY don't connect with people my age... I just feel like we are on two different levels, especially mentally. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of really cool kids out there that are my age... I DO talk to a few people my age, but when i talk to them, I feel like I am talking to a wall. They don't understand me. They act like they do, but they DONT. I can feel it in their words and actions. They think they know what they want. They think they know who they are. But they don't. They don't even know what is in the food they eat. (had to throw it in there!)
I mean, I'm not trying to say I'm better than them by any means, I'm simply saying that I feel like I am on a different mental level than them, whether it be better or worse. I feel like I have a better grip on my life. I am not saying that I know who I am or what exactly the meaning of my life is, but i DO feel like my connection with myself, my life, and the environment is probably better than a handful of others my age.
You feel me?
I got to school early today and came into my first period early --- I was talking to my teacher and I mentioned how not many people talk to me at this school, and she was like "YEAH I've noticed that!" and I was like "eh, i guess I simply don't connect with people my age" and she said, "But i mean, i feel like I PERSONALLY can connect with you!" Then we got to talking about how much the school and the people have changed. SHe said it used to be full of people like me --- completely determined and focused on their ART and totally passionate. Now it's full of fake people who ACT like they care, but give very little effort.
You all know about it. Theres a huge cause going around about being green. People are finally opening their eyes once again to the ENVIRONMENT. People are becoming aware. People are taking baby steps and making changes. It's great, except for this:
ITS TURNING INTO A "COOL FAD" AMONG STUDENTS... but wait thats not the bad part:
I see these kids, everday, carrying around one of those "GO GREEN" or "RECYCLE" or "SAVE THE PLANET" tote bags that they now sell EVERYWHERE (even as purses at Target and Walmart) -- everyday I see those kids drinking out of bottles and then THROWING THE BOTTLES AWAY IN THE TRASH.. UH, WHAT!? SERIOUSLY? you are wearing a freakin "GO GREEN" tote and then you don't even recycle your plastic?
...talk about FAKE PEOPLE!
And you know what pisses me off even more?! How people (mainly teens) are going out and buying these "go green" or whatever T-SHIRTS at like freakin Victoria Secret (yes they have some i think) and expensive stores, but they are doing it for the FAD, not for the CAUSE!!!!!!
why not skip on the super expensive go green shirt !? donate it to somewhere that COUNTS! (a cheap one is okay if you ACTUALLY care about the cause, ya know? But vicky secret... are you kidding!? or if the money is donated somewhere important)
Yesterday I was in Target and they have all these folders for school with recycling designs.... I mean, this is great, considering people are finally being aware, but AHHHHHH I HATE FADS SO MUCH! the thing is, MANY OF THESE TEENAGERS DON"T ACTUALLY CARE!
they just act like they do.
Next time I see someone throw away a plastic bottle I am going to throw a freakin RIOT.
For the record, last year (before the big fad among teens) I would stand by the trash can sometimes and when people would throw away bottles i'd snatch them and recycle them.
ARRRRRGHHHHHHHH okay enough rambling, i just had to get that out. Hope it makes sense!
Monday, August 11, 2008
I've heard it a few times, but this time I feel like posting because of how RIDICULOUS it is.
I have heard from people in my local climbing community that I am going anorexic. LOL.
I have to laugh, because of how OBSESSED I am with food.
Seriously... i mean... c'mon! Food is my other passion besides climbing!
I am always thinking about food. Maybe I have an eating disorder in that I CANT GET FOOD OUT OF MY HEAD! lol!
But seriously... I just HAVE to laugh when I hear this.
They must not know me very well if they think I have an eating disorder -- thats like absolutely ridiculous!
Okay, so I got thin. WOW. I'm not TOO skinny or anything!!! People are so used to seeing fat people and SLIGHTLY overweight people, so when they see me I guess I look skinny to them and since they know I'm on a "weird diet" they automatically assume it's an eating disorder.
oh well.
I don't care what people think.
I'll do another post later, I just wanted to share this... funny, huh!?
Lily Boulders
I left on Saturday morning at around 6am or so, and hit the road.
I had a really fun climbing day! I worked and sent a v5 and a v6. I also worked on another v5 that I finally sent the next day when I was fresh. Also, I worked on a v8 among other things.
That night was really fun - I love chillin by the campfire at the Obed... campfires are magical, they really are!!! Everyone was talking (this includes people I don't know who were staying at the campsite) and i was like, "GUYS guys guys GUYS GUYS.... everyone be quiet... shhh" and so everyone shut up and I was like, "I just wanted everyone to be aware of this fire right here. It is magical. It brings people together! I just wanted to make sure everyone was aware!!!!!"
ha ha i'm weird.
The next day I felt fantastic. I sent that v5 that was pushing me off -- I decided to dance with the rock instead of fight with it. Then I worked on a bunch of other climbs and later on I send this unnamed problem in the roof --- it was an amazing climb. It felt harder to me than the 2 problems next to it, which are v7 and v8 BUT those are overrated. I'd probably give the problem I did v6 or v7 at the most. But still.. it was amazing!
I wish I had pics, but i left my camera in my car when I left by COMPLETE accident.
OH p.s. I survived on mono-meals of bananas, dates, and figs this weekend and my energy never stopped! Oh and romaine lettuce. Can't forget the greenery!!
Friday, August 08, 2008
Summer Camp
I worked summer camp this week at my local climbing gym.
It has been really fun but a little annoying at the same time. More fun than annoying i think...
The group of kids we have this week exceeds the limit, and the hyperactive energy never stops... they are mostly all really really greedy kids (even the camp supervisor was talking about how this is the hardest group he has ever worked with in this case) and they are THE WORST at team building games. It's almost SAD how they don't agree or plan or work as a team.
Oh well.
Anyways what I was getting to was this:
Everyday, during snacktime, we hand out a choice of chex mix, cheez-its, animal crackers, or ritz bitz. To drink they have a choice of a few kinds of sugary juice. ....awesome.
I always bring my plain and simple energy: a few bananas and romaine leaves. I wrap the bananas in the romaine leaf and eat it.
This one girl says this every single day -- "You like bananas too much. You like bananas too much. You like bananas too much"
and I'm like "ARE YOU CRAZY! You can never like fruit too much!"
"yeah you can!!!! you like bananas too much!"
hmmmmmm kids these days. Need I say she was a little overweight? (sorry thats mean! but you know what i'm saying? kids think its weird when you eat bananas everday for lunch, even though they are eating the same processed food everyday!!!)
Thursday, August 07, 2008
well... can I add another item to my TOP FAV FOODS? because i think I have a tie...
seriously, oh... my... gosh...
fresh organic figs... I have only had one kind - Jumbo Calmyrna figs... and they are freakin amazing!
I had them the same day I first tried medjool dates, and I liked them, but I didn't think much about them.
Then I was watching Planet Earth (OH MY GOSH, it deserves a whole new post, OMG!) but anyways I was watching the jungle episode and it showed the monkeys (my idols, as a climber) and they were PIGGING out on figs. And then all of the sudden I got an intense urge to eat figs and so I got some and wowwwwwww they are AMAZING!
gah why do my favorite foods have to be expensive?
Like, seriously, for Christmas, I'm just going to ask for a bunch of medjool dates and some FIGS. (I mean, with the money they used to spend on buying me chocolates and candy for my stocking, they (as in my parents AND Santa) can stuff it with FIGS.
My mouth is watering just thinking about it.
And when I go trick-or-treating, i can just knock on my own door and ask for figs instead of candy
and when easter comes i can ask the easter bunny to give me figs and dates instead of chocolate bunnies and eggs.
and... and... and...
you get the point.
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
I just realized something yesterday about my diet... I have overcome my fear of greens.
When I first went raw, I absolutely hated greens.
Which means I hated salads - I found them extremely plain and bitter.
Then when I went raw, I immediately went 80/10/10 but this is what I was doing when it came to greens: I would BUY the green leafy veggies, and then let them waste away in the fridge. All the while I was thinking I was eating them. I'd have a LITTLE now and then but FAR from enough... not even close!
Then I learned about green smoothies and my first few were gross... not enough ripe fruit.
So then I got a juicer and it was the perfect way to get me into greens -- I juiced ALL my greens (and made ridiculous amounts of juice) and I would drink a TON of it... at first I would either chug it or just sweeten it with apples, but then i started to actually enjoy them for what they were and i LOVED the energy I got from them.
But I needed more.
So eventually I made an amazing green SMOOTHIE and now I am OBSESSED with them!
I stopped juicing (temporarily, as I'm 80/10/10 again) but I haven't stopped eating greens...
THis post is mainly about this though:
I started LOVING salads.
It's seriously a miracle if you knew how I used to eat.
I learned how to make salad dressings by blending fruits, and MAN it makes it SO GOOD.
The factors that really made me start liking salads are these:
-chopping up the lettuce in REALLLLLY SMALL PIECES -- i feel like I can eat it better this way. I don't know why, but I can't stand HUGE leafy veggies - I don't eat as much of it.
-adding fruit --- I love my salads with fruit. It tastes sweet and delicious
but what first got me into salads was adding chopped raw nuts. Now i've learned to omit them (as I am doing low-fat) and im still loving my salad more than ever!
SO guess what - yesterday I ate a HUGE salad and it had ZERO fruit in it. All it was, was diced up lettuce with a BUNCH of chopped tomatoes from our garden. I never knew how delicious tomatoes were!!!!!! SInce I don't eat salt, the tomatoes were SO NATURALLY SALTY and delicious! I was amazed at myself for eating SO MUCH of it.
Another funny thing is how my portion size of salads has grown ENORMOUSLY. I can eat a whole head of lettuce in one sitting.... it takes me a LONG time to eat salads, but I always finish because i love the feeling they give me.
Like --- you know how at parties and family dinners how you have a HUUUUGE salad bowl to serve EVERYONE? well my PERSONAL salad is almost that big now... As long as the pieces are chopped up small, I can eat SO MUCH SALAD. They make me feel amazing.
Even when I am writing this, I still can't believe how much I like salad. I wish all of you knew me before raw foods... you'd be amazed at me. =)
I'm truly taking steps in my raw food lifestyle. SUPER SALADS! =)
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
I don't have very much food at home FOR THE WEEK (a few non-ripe bananas, couple apples, a pineapple, an orange) and I used up all my greens, so I wanted to make a trip to the store to buy a few more items.... because I am working summer camp at the climbing gym so i have to be there early everyday, which means i have to have things to bring for lunch AND i have to make a quick breakfast. So far I usually just make a green smoothie, but I'm out of spinach and my bananas aren't ripe.
My grocery list included romaine, spinach, mangos, more bananas, celery, strawberries
I was really psyched on making another green smoothie and making a huge salad and making lunches for the week and all that stuff.
But I was missing one thing: MONEY.
but heres the catch -- my mom lost her job last week. My dad works at GOODWILL. I was really really scared to ask my mom for money.
so I called my dad and he told me not to be afraid.
But as soon as I did it was a bad idea. She started yelling at me at how expensive my raw food diet was and how I need to get off of it because we can't afford it and stuff.
I was in tears.
Then she THREW a 20 dollar bill at me...
and i didnt go to the store.
I felt too bad.
Maybe I will go tomorrow.
hard times, my friends. hard times.
why does food from NATURE have to be so EXPENSIVE!!!!?
I should start a fund to feed myself, lol.
This is the photo I entered into the Green Mustache Contest on www.RawFu.com -- WISH ME LUCK!
I took like 20 pics of me with a green mustache. Then i knocked it down to 5 and it was a hard choice. Here is one other random one that I feel like sharing... i'm a little weird, and i know for SURE you havent seen this side of me yet through my writings:
Monday, August 04, 2008
I saw and heard A LOT about the raw fu challenge, but for some strange reason I thought it was just for people TRYING to BECOME raw. I thought it was just for people to go 100% or something.
I don't know where my thoughts come from sometimes. haha.
Anyways, I found out it wasn't just for people to try raw, and it was open to any experience level. (I'm only over 2 months, but i'm 100% and i already feel very knowledgible in the subject)
Sooooo the registration closed, but sarah and rosie both offered (and sent) me an invite!
raw fu challenge, here I come!
Here are my goals for this month:
-80/10/10 or as close as I can -- (I tried this once. And.... let's just say that it didn't work out. I felt like blacking out a lot. And i did... a few times. I felt weak and I lacked energy. SO i gave up. Even though it made SO much sense to me, i gave up. Now I researched it and realized what i was doing wrong: I TOTALLY DIDNT EAT ENOUGH GREENS! I was actually more of a fruitarian than anything. I would BUY lettuce or something and like never use it!!! it was terrible. So I want to try this again, because my body looked much better when I was doing things the low fat way. And for the record, for the 1-2 times i DID eat the greens, I felt like I was BUZZING (in a good way!). I wonder why it didnt click until now!? ANYWAYS i'm going back to the low fat thing. WIsh me luck!
-INCREASE WATER INTAKE - i totally dont drink enough water and I KNOW IT. I will take this time to focus on an increase..... i'm shooting for a gallon a day by the end of the challenge, but i will start with 2-3 liters a day.
and even though I am active and training, here are some things I really need to work on:
-push-ups (I end up being really lazy on my cross training days and I don't start doing pushups until late afternoon, and then somehow it's 9 freaking o'clock and i have like 150 more to go or something, and it SUCKS because i'm always tired... i need to work on doing them in the morning!!!)
-more yoga (this is one of the most important parts of my training plan, but as much as i love doing it, i COMPLETELY suck at it. Don't let my posts fool you... i'm a beginner! And a lazy one... If you notice, I don't always do my yoga. I forget. I need to work on this MAJORLY.)
and in general:
-WAKE UP EARLIER (i feel like i can get a really good start if i wake up early. I can do my yoga, 50 pushups or so, and make a good breakfast. PLUS school starts NEXT WEEK and i need to get in the habit of having enough time to do all of this AND pack a lunch and stuff.)
I dont know if I posted, but I was absolutely exhausted on Friday and Saturday. I am hardly ever that sore from a comp... WEIRD.
My good friend Dan Brayack (http://www.brayackmedia.com/) came into town and stayed for the weekend. He just quit his job to become a full time climber and photographer! Awesome, huh!?
I went to Whole Foods to meet up with some other Nashville raw foodists. It was a lot of fun. Dan and I together ate a carton of strawberries, organic medjool dates, and figs. It was delicious.
The people were really nice. 4 hours went by and we didn't realize it!!!
Then we came home and Dan took a bunch of photos of me in my yard for possible senior pics and lifestyle photos for one of my sponsors, Friksn (http://www.friksn.com/).
Later on we did some nighttime photos while playing around with incense. They were pretty cool.
We spent most of the morning working on my website. I haven't bought the domain name yet, and I'm not going to say what it is in fear of someone buying it, ha ha. I'll let you guys know.
It's pretty cool so far, I'm actually pretty psyched on it!!!
I kind of forget what we did all day... probably just hang out and take pictures. =)
I have to work summer camp at the local climbing gym. Then I have to train a little... I'll post later!
Sunday, August 03, 2008
....drumroll please....
if you ever want to buy them for me, go ahead! I'll give you my address! lol, because I can't afford them all the time. BUT whatever, they are like the new freakin CANDY.
Friday, August 01, 2008
I'm so ridiculously sore!
It hurts to move. I am also sleepy because I went to bed LAAAAATE and woke up way too early to do yardwork with my dad for the owner of the climbing gym.
I've done random stuff today. not really important.
all i know is that i'm tired.
OH AND HIHOROSIE - guess what, the whole foods CLOSEST TO ME sells YOUNG COCONUTS! It took me so long to find them... they are hidden, seriously, They are buried in the ice near where you would sell ready-to-eat fruit cups --- and they blend in with the ice, its so weird!
so i definitely got a few. =)
anyways, i did my biking and my yoga but i havent finished the pushups and crunches... i dont know if i physically can... seriosuly... this is going to be hard!
Local comp
Last night I competed in a local climbing competition.
There was one word to sum it up: HARD.
It was the hardest comp my gym has ever had. The climbs were absolutely ridiculous.
Usually at local comps, they combine girls and guys. So I'm usually stuck with all the advanced men. It usually sucks, because I WANT to be motivated but you should see these guys!
I entered the comp with a positive mindset --- I was going to try and be one of the guys. I know I'm strong (for a girl) and I wanted to try my personal best (which I did.)
Even though it was hard, I tried my ABSOLUTE best and still fell WAY short of all the guys who were CRUSHING.
I crumbled up my scorecard and the routesetter stopped me. He told me to turn it in.
So I did.
Apparently they split guys and girls up this time! That means I'm the only person in women's advanced!
sooooooo long story short, I won! Well, I got some money! I didn't really win except with my OWN self. In a way I did win - I overcame my I'm-never-gonna-win attitude that I get when I compete with all the advanced men. Even though I was the only advanced woman, it was still a blast and I am pretty happy with how I did, PERSONALLY. I hardly did any of the climbs, because of how hard they were, but i was constantly giving my best effort.
When they gave me the money, Kyle, the person giving out the awards, talked about how I always show up even though I have to compete against the guys and I still always give my best effort and I really deserve getting first, even though I'm the only advanced girl in Nashville.
It made my night.
IM SO PSYCHED FOR USA CLIMBING COMPS TO START! this is only the beginning of the hype!


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When I bought the glass tealight for my fake terrarium, I also bought three of the teardrop wall vases I've been coveting for a couple of years. When they arrived they were bigger than I was expecting but that made me happy since they'd fill up more of the wall space I had in mind for them. I always want to have plants in the kitchen but that room doesn't get much natural light since the west window has the blinds partially closed at all times since it is right next to the sidewalk and I don't like for people to look into the house and the other window is a north-facing window that doesn't get much light. Enter wall vases.
I don't have a lot of wall space in the kitchen since it is a tiny kitchen (around 7'x10') and the walls are filled with cabinets but there is one wall where I could make a swap. I took down the memo board I made two years ago…
…and moved the recipe cards to the cork board I have in the kitchen cabinet.
I then filled in the nail hole from the memo board, sanded and repainted the area so that it was ready for me to make a thousand more nail holes. At first I wanted the vases to be placed in a more freeform pattern but I didn't like how it turned out. Then I decided to line them up in a single line in the middle of the space but I felt it was too disconnected from the window and I just didn't like how it looked. Finally, I lined them up about six inches from the window and I fell in love.
I cut some tulips I had in the yard to bring in some color and test out the vases. I'm thrilled with the purchase and the location since I finally have something living in the kitchen!
Naturally, any time I come into the kitchen Sami follows me in hopes that I will feed her.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Teardrops in the Kitchen
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No drones allowed.
That's the message to residents and visitors as the Festival of Motorcycling approaches.
The Civil Aviation Administration is reminding people not to use the flying cameras to film any practice or race sessions.
Deputy Director of Civil Aviation Colin Gill says: "As with the TT Races, the airspace above the course needs to be kept clear for potential use by emergency helicopters before, during, and after racing or practising takes place.
"Drones can also pose a serious distraction to riders, and race marshals are informed to immediately report any drones to race control and the police which may result in the practice or race being halted, as was the case during a TT practice session earlier this year.
"The Festival of Jurby held at Jurby Airfield on 26 August is also a no drone zone, both for the protection of the riders and due to a helicopter flying display taking place during the day."
A no-fly zone is in place from August 18th to September 1st within the area of the TT Race Course – and again on August 26th around Jurby Airfield.
Anyone who breaches the restrictions could be fined up to £2,500.


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Eat Any Foods You Love With Dental Implants
One of life's most simple yet greatest pleasures is enjoying the foods you love, and Atlanta West Dentistry can help you comfortably get back to doing just that.Dr. Travis Watson on using 3D x-rays to place implants Read Transcript
The standard in dentistry today is the three dimensional cone beam x-ray which can be a very localized three dimensional image that we can evaluate and virtually place an impact way before a patient is actually here in the office. We do a lot of this planning prior to patients coming in. More oftentimes than not, especially in a case where a patient has recently had to have a tooth removed, the surgery, we'll call it surgery, but it's actually really not as invasive as you would think because the ability to place that implant atraumatically is something that we always celebrate because patients are usually … There's a lot of anticipation. There's a lot of nervousness when patients come in because they think, "Oh my goodness. You're going to put a screw in me. Immediately they're relieved when the treatment may last 15 minutes to have this implant placed.
We often get comments from patients that say, "Gosh, that was easier than having a filling done." Even all through the explanations that I have for patients, they still don't believe it until it actually takes place. Then it's also very funny when I call the patient that night and usually will call the patient a few days later and the patient is not expressed any interest in taking pain medications. There's really no need to take pain medication because it's such an atraumatic procedure. Patients generally are leaving with a much better experience from a post operative standpoint. There's much less pain, virtually no pain in most cases. Certainly we're cutting down on things like swelling and soreness. Basically the whole patient experience is so much easier than it used to be.
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612801 Thule Dynamic M 800 Titan Gloss
Exquisite aerodynamics and great functions combined. RRP $1399.00
Please note that all prices exclude freight and fitting charges.
- Aerodynamically designed with a curved, lowered baseline to fit your car roof perfectly.
- Pre-installed Power-Click quick mounting system with integrated torque indicator for easy and secure fixation with a single-handed grip.
- This roofbox can be opened from both sides, for convenient fitting, loading and unloading.
- With handles on the lid and inside the box, for convenient opening and closing.
- Designed for having a forwarded position on the car roof. enabling full access to the trunk without interference with the roofbox.
- Comes with an integrated base mat with non-slip surface for extra secure loading.
- For maximum safety and theft protection this roofbox has several locking points, and the grip-friendly key cannot be removed unless they are all securely closed.
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The Mary Kay Ash Childhood House
This circa 1895 extended shotgun cottage was the childhood home of the late cosmetics queen, Mary Kay. The house has been mentioned in several of her books. It features Classical Revival features such as the large leaded glass windows, ornate entry doorway, and half-moon attic vent, which were sold off by a previous renter struggling to pay rent. These pieces eventually found their way back to the house and the two story rear addition was built in the early 2000's.
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These businesses are the only fully insured and licensed marine businesses in Vanuatu.
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Our crew are internationally qualified (UK and NZ) and are highly experienced in working on board Superyachts. We provide the most comprehensive and best marine services in Vanuatu.
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Well, this is funny and coincidental. Funny because I've never corresponded to anyone via the editor of a newspaper, like I am responding to the July 5 letter from Mike Sommers of Oakland, Calif. (hi, Mike!). Coincidental because I lived in Silicon Valley and then in a tourist town in California before repatriating to Vermont.
It is coming up on one month since Green Up Day. On that day, three of us pulled 14 bags of trash out of the ditches on a New Haven road just 2.5 miles long.
For people who do not know, Green Up Day bags are the size of large trash bags. Today, I walked that same road and was dismayed to see a re-accumulation of the same beer cans, cigarette packs, fast food containers, plastic, etc.
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Below you find several ways you can contribute to Arizona's economy, since our stupid govts feel the need to break the law and boycott Arizona for doing something we have been begging our federal govt to do...they are now enforcing the law without discrimation beginning in 90 days. It's about time!
Here is the email I received from San Diego Tea Party:
Starting May 5th, we are officially kicking off an on-going ARIZONA BUY-cott to support Arizona bases corporations, local businesses, on-line retailers, and tourism. The following list is just a sampling of the great companies you can support...and there is something for everyone. PLEASE SHARE!!
Be sure to check back at our website regularly...we will add more companies as soon as possible!
Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition.
If this or any of the links below don't work, simply type them in to conatct these companies.
Arizona Guide.
NPS.gov. (map search)
Arizona State Parks.
Camp Arizona.
Arizona Bed & Breakfast.
Verde Canyon RR.
The Train.
Arizona Wine.
€ Allied Waste Industries.
€ America West Airlines.
€ American Flag & Pole Co.
€ American Spirit Arms. (Manufacturer of precision firearms)
€ Arizona Artists.
€ Arizona Cardinals. (Football)
€ Arizona Diamondbacks. (MLB Baseball)
€ Arizona Highways. (magazine)
€ Best Western.
€ Bookmans. (largest used book seller in AZ)
€ Cerreta Fine Chocolates.
€ Candy's Apples. (gourmet candied apples)
€ Circle K. (Convenience Store)
€ CSK Auto. (Checker Auto Parts, Schucks Auto Supply, Kragen Auto Parts, Murray's Discount Auto Stores)
€ Clear Channel Outdoor.
€ Cold Stone Creamery.
€ Dial.
€ Discount Tire Company.
Eleanor Joseph Confections. (truffles & more!)
€ Fairytale Brownies.
€ Fender Music Instruments.
€ Flight Miniatures. (model aircraft)
€ Grand Canyon Airlines.
€ GreenNurture.com. (green corporate consulting)
€ Greyhound Corp.
€ GoDaddy.
€ Harkins Theatres.
€ Hollycake. (Letterpress Stationery)
€ Hopi Market.
e IT Consulting Services.
€ Kona Grill.
€ Knight Transportation.
€ Lifelock.
€ Massage Envy.
€ Mesa Air Group. (Mesa Airliines, Go!, Freedom Airlines)
€ McClendon's Select. (mail order organic fruit and honey)
€ M. R. Designs & Gifts. (Gift Baskets)
€ My Computer Works. (Scottsdale. Online computer repair)
€ Navajo Fine Jewelry & Collectibles.
€ New Vision. (vitamins & wellness)
€ PF Changs.
€ Ping. (Golf)
€ Phoenix Coyotes. (NHL Hockey)
€ Phoenix Suns.
€ PetSmart.
€ Poore Brothers Pototo Chips.
€ Protégé Sports.
€ Ramada Hotels.
€ Robar. (firearms & accessories)
€ Set Enterprises. (board games & brain puzzles)
€ Seven Sisters Sweet Shop and Chocolate.
€ Sky Mall.
€ Surf City Squeeze.
€ Taser International.
€ U-Haul.
€ University of Phoenix.
€ US Airways.
I'm back. Let's show these ungrateful lawbreakers that WE DO SUPPORT ARIZONA. First they want us to buy American, then they don't want to buy anything from Arizona which, may I remind the ignorant, is an American State! They want the illegal aliens to stay here, then they want them to lose their jobs due to the economy. These people are nuts and the sad thing is, they're running our government!
May you walk with the LORD always, and when you cannot take another step, may He carry you the rest of the way until you can walk along side Him again. Digg!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Arizona BUY-Cott
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Ohio band writes a fanfare for the common man
It may not seem like it at first, but Southeast Engine's Canary is actually a concept album — and an ambitious one at that. Through 11 songs, the band follows a family in rural Ohio as they confront the devastations of the Great Depression, and songwriter Adam Remnant depicts their plight through dusty Americana rock and evocative lyrics full of natural imagery. For many reasons, this sort of thematic undertaking can be especially difficult to do without merely playing dress-up or singing to your framed history degree on the wall.
To their considerable credit, however, Southeast Engine never come across as academic and aren't concerned with what Greil Marcus called the "old weird America," at least not the way artists like Josh T. Pearson and David Eugene Edwards are. In fact, Remnant is much more interested in the old mundane America — specifically, the widespread circumstances that defined individual experience at one place and at one time. The nameless family that inhabits these songs could be anybody; rather than anonymous, they're relatable and sympathetic. The hardships recounted in these songs weren't unique, but shared by so many in the country, then as now.
Where the lyrical details are pointedly broad, the music is sepia-toned and specific, drawing from the foothills folk of southeastern Ohio. The band is based in Athens, not far from the West Virginia border, and they've obviously absorbed the musical traditions from that area. Instead of re-creating those old sounds, they translate them into ramshackle rock songs, kicking up a ruckus on "1933 (Great Depression)" and the celebratory "Summer and Her Ferris Wheel." Their emphatically percussive playing gives "Cold Front Blues" its sense of menace and worry, as if some vague threat looms just over the horizon, while "Adeline of the Appalachian Mountains" is a gentle pastoral ballad, punctuated with banjo and the band's rough harmonies.
That song in particular is a good showcase for Remnant's vocals, which have more of a foothills barb than a country twang. He sounds like he's been recorded to an old 45, which was then run over by a Model T. Shaky and scratchy, his voice conveys a jittery anxiety on the ominous "Red Lake Shore" and old-beyond-his-years regrets on "Mountain Child."
Especially when so many groups are mutating old-time American music into pedestrian pop, Southeast Engine distinguish themselves by gently updating these traditions for the 21st century, nodding to Harry Smith and The Band along the way. For all its careful historical detail and empathetic characterizations, Canary is decidedly topical: This historical setting becomes a means for a band of bookish young men to understand their own place and time.


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Gormanston & District Anglers were set up originally in the 1970's to take charge and care of the Delvin River. This small river borders is the naturally border between North County Dublin and Co Meath. The river albeit small had a decent stock of brown trout supplemented with a sea trout run.
Knock (Now known as the Wavin) Lake was man made in the early nineteenth century (1826) to provide water for the Cotton Mills in the Balbriggan area. It was acquired by Wavin, the country's largest manufacturer and distributor of PVC pipe systems, in 1974 to augment the Balbriggan water supply to the factory, so as to ensure a constant level of water for the plant's cooling process.
Twenty years later, after improvements to the water supply system in the area, Wavin no longer needed the lake as a commercial natural resource. So, the lake effectively became redundant, but remained rich as a community resource full of beautiful wild life and fauna. However, access to it was difficult so much of its richness was not accessible to the community.
Anxious to conserve the area as a natural resource for the community, and despite offers to acquire the lake land for building purposes, Wavin decided to donate the lake to the Gormanston & District Anglers club for use as an amenity area. In return, the anglers would make the area accessible to local community and ensure that the area was maintained as a wildlife sanctuary and the flora and fauna were preserved.


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Kirk Franklin—known for his unique style of Gospel music that blends contemporary sounds, flawless harmonies and inspiring lyrics—will join THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE as musical co-host for the second season of the network's highly rated original one-hour game show.
Franklin, along with musical director Kris Pooley, will lead the show's choir with additional new members joining to support GSN's hit series. Season 2 of THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE, hosted by Jeff Foxworthy and produced by RelativityREAL, will premiere on Thursday, March 21st at 8 pm ET/PT on GSN.
"We are excited that Kirk will bring his exuberant sound to THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE," said Amy Introcaso-Davis, Executive Vice President of Programming for GSN. "Kirk Franklin, the consummate musician, joins host Jeff Foxworthy, the consummate comedian – a combination of incredible talent that will prove to be entertaining, fun and inspirational in this truly unique game format."
"I'm very excited to create the musical environment for THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE," says Franklin. "The show is a fresh and fun approach to celebrating the Word of God, and being able to provide an element of praise, worship and honor is both exciting and humbling."
Comedian and author Jeff Foxworthy hosts THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE, a studio-based game in which contestants compete based on their knowledge of the Bible. Utilizing current as well as historical references, questions are drawn from the rich, dense narrative found in the world's best-selling book. The contestants share their compelling back-stories and each team plays for a charitable organization.
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Kirk Franklin On The Yolanda Adams Morning Show Talks About His Role On GSN's 'The American Bible Challenge' was originally published on praisecleveland.com


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Malley's Story
Our baby girl was due Tues. December 8th, 2009. She was actually born three weeks early on Tues. November 17th, 2009. Here's the story of how she came into the world.
On Monday, I woke up very early from my sleep with cramping. I knew right away they were associated with labor because it was accompanied by back pain. The cramps didn't hurt, but they were uncomfortable. When they stopped a couple hours later, I went on with my daily activities and finished thank you notes from my baby shower the day before. But all day I just felt a little "off". For dinner, we went out to eat with my husband's parents for his step-dad's birthday. We were joking that the baby would be born that night since she was going to be named after her grandpa. It would be cool for them to have the same birthday!
When we got home around 8:00pm, I had my first bloody show of all pregnancy, and I knew I lost my mucus plug! The cramping came back. They were not time-able, but rather gripping, rolling cramps that felt very much like menstrual cramps. I was nervous and excited, so my husband suggested we call Jen to fill her in. I was in denial that it was actual labor since I wasn't due for weeks, so when Jen said, "It sounds like things are getting started!" I couldn't believe it! She advised me to practice my breathing and just relax, maybe take a bath. Afterwards, Ian and I began getting the house ready - just in case. I called my mom to tell her, because she was actually 4 hours away visiting my brothers family, and I wanted her to be at the birth. She made arrangements to come home sooner. Two hours later, I called Jen. Nothing had progressed or changed, so we decided to check in with each other the next day.
That night, I was up with uncomfortable cramping. Ian and I went outside to watch the meteor shower around 3:30am...it was really fun to be distracted and out in the fresh, cold air! I didn't get much sleep that night, but the next day started off very calm regardless. I had plans to go grocery shopping and stop into my chiropractor for a quick adjustment. But instead I stayed home and did laundry...I just felt different. My husband and I decided to play each part of his day by ear. He went to his class in the morning, then came home. He stayed with me for a couple hours, then went to work. I said I'd call him if I needed him. This was 2:40pm.
I laid down to get some sleep, as I was exhausted from the night before. Around 3:15pm, I felt this sudden "drop" inside me. I bolted out of bed and felt trickling of fluid. It came and went, but something changed inside of me - I began to feel surges. Not cramps, but the real deal contractions.
I called Jen and left a message telling her about this. I also tried to get ahold of my husband, my mom, and my sister. I reached their voicemails every time - and my surges started to get very strong. Despite me trying to stay relaxed and breathe, I got very scared. I didn't want to be alone, and I couldn't get through to anyone! Finally around 4:00 I managed to talk to everyone! Jen told me to try to time the surges as she was just finishing up with another birth. Ian started on his way home immediately, and my mom and sister said they'd head over. Within no time, I was able to say my surges were exactly four minutes apart. I texted Jen to tell her the time. I'll admit it, I was crying and couldn't talk. :P I was so uncomfortable, I drew myself a bath to force myself to relax.
I had practiced HypnoBirthing for months, but looking back, I should have practiced more. I found it very difficult; all I could do was breathe out and in as slowly as I could. I knew I was not as relaxed as I should be. Those videos made it look so easy! :)
Within 20 minutes, Ian, my mom, and my sister Marie were all at the house with me. I felt safer immediately and knew everything would be okay. Ian stayed by my side from that moment on. I took to the couch where I was still able to "go into myself" for each surge. Sometimes I would hug Ian and breathe during the surge, then I could relax and talk with everyone when it was over. I was feeling tired at that point, so it was nice to close my eyes and breathe deeply. It was almost like I could rest a little. Twice, I tried laying down with my husband, but we learned right away that position was horrible - it increased the discomfort and a couple times I would begin crying. I finally settled with sitting up as it made breathing and talking easier. My mom and sister started to heat up pots of water for my birthing pool.
By the time Jen arrived around 6:00pm, it was intense. I was so happy to see her! Hearing her voice guide me through a few surges made such a difference. By that time, it had gotten easy for me to forget small relaxation tips - she reminded me to start with my face, which truly made all the difference. Jen pointed out that I was being very quiet, and offered the suggestion of making a little noise with each surge, maybe saying, "Ow" or humming low during my exhale. I hadn't thought of making noise, but once I began, it seemed to help!
I was constantly looking over to check if the pool was ready - I wanted to get in so badly! Finally after a small snack of pears, I was able to get in the water. It was a godsend! The heat and feel of the water immediately brought relief to my surges. My entire tummy was immersed under the water, and for a few minutes, my pain was almost completely alleviated. But my body must have become accustomed to the atmosphere, and the surges felt intense again. Suddenly, what must have been the heat from the pool and any other reason of labor, I leaned over the pool and threw up. I apologized, but Jen assured me it was completely normal. That made me feel better. :P
The next few hours were tiring and difficult. I sat in the pool and rocked side to side, with my eyes closed. Ian was behind me every moment, holding my hand, lightly massaging my arms, and offering words of support. My mom and sister were baking a cake for our baby's arrival, and when that was done, they stayed by the pool with me. Jen was there to get me through some very difficult moments, pouring cups of warm water over my belly, and other times she would simply be close by, letting my family guide me. By this point, my surges were continuous, with a high peak during each one. Sometimes I would feel that part coming and cover my face, ready to cry. Either Ian and or my mom would remind me (a little firmly, but lovingly) to just breathe. Immediately I would be able to focus myself. It helped so much to have them there. My mom suggested blowing out through my surge and said the words, "Blow it away..." to help me. It gave me a great visualization of saying goodbye to each surge!
I had to pee a lot, and I found that getting in and out of the pool for bathroom breaks was a nice change for my surges. I loved getting back in the water! So I made a point to play games like that with myself to pass the time.
Around 9:00, Heather (Jen's assistant) arrived, and somehow I knew that was a great sign...the end must be coming! I was relieved to see her, and she came by the pool to help me along. Not only did her presence encourage me, but she also said just the right things that made me comfortable with how I was handling the pain. As a matter of fact, every one was amazing like that. I loved having them around; I felt totally safe and supported.
Throughout the night, Jen would listen to the baby's heartbeat to monitor. Every time I heard that sound, I would be reminded of why I was going through this - I'd be holding that baby soon! Not once did Jen check my cervix, though, and I loved that. I didn't want to know how many centimeters I was. I knew that when my body was ready, I would be able to push.
Around 11:00, in some ways, the surges seemed to stop. My mind became so alert, and I announced I thought I had to poop. Jen said it was perfectly okay and that it would have to come out before the baby. Although my mom joked it wouldn't be the first time she cleaned my poop out of the tub, I decided to go to the bathroom. Well, as soon as I tried to "go" I let out the most cave man-like yell, saying, "Oww!" I could feel this insane pressure coming down, and I knew right away the baby was there! Ian helped me back in the pool where I barely made it to my knees before I had to bear down. Before birth, I had been uncomfortable with the thought of me yelling, but at the time, it didn't seem weird to me. I just squeezed Ian's hands and pushed. And yelled.
The tone of the room changed - everyone became excited! Jen and Heather began setting up for the arrival, and for the next half hour, I pushed slowly. It was incredible! I was able to talk and joke around with everyone in between each surge, and when I felt one coming, I would say, "Okay here's another," and grab Ian's hands. Id yell rather loudly during each one, saying, Oh my gosh! but then it would be over quickly. Jen asked me if I could feel our baby's head yet, and so I reached down. My eyes got wide as my fingers hit something hard - I was so excited! I made Ian feel too, and the look on his face was incredible! Everyone was encouraging me to push harder as her head slowly came out, but I refrained from popping my eyes out. I knew the slower, the better, as it would allow everything down there to stretch as it should. Everything burned as her head was coming out, and I said, "I don't think I can stretch much more!" Jen told me I'd be surprised - and I was! She suggested getting into a squatting position, and I happily did. I could tell I was opening up more and this would help the baby! And finally, her head was completely out! I felt her face and was shocked at all the details. "Oh my gosh, her nose! I can feel her little nose!"
When the next surge came, with the guidance of Jen and a big push, Malley was born into our hands! Jen and I lifted her out of the water, and that memory is in my brain like slow motion. I held her out in front of me for a moment, as utter joy filled me and I started to cry a little. Jen told me to bring her right to my chest, otherwise I might have stared at my baby like that for ever. :P She was warm, plump, and sticky from the vernix - I kissed her anyways!
I had asked beforehand that if Malley didn't cry right away, that we let her slowly adjust by herself instead of rousing her to cry. I was so happy we did. Malley's eyes were opening and little noises came from her, and she did whimper a little before letting out a single cry. We also let her cord stop pulsating (maybe about five minutes) before Ian cut it.
I had been exhausted during my 8 hours of labor, but now I was on such a love high. :) I hadn't torn at all, but I had some hemorrhaging going on, so I was moved to my bedroom where I could lay down. I wasn't scared or worried, because Jen and Heather took excellent care of me. I was able to hold Malley the entire time. Already, most of her vernix was absorbed into her skin (which felt like velvet, by the way). After a while and after taking a few doses of medicine, I seemed to be "stable", so Jen and Heather left Ian and I to be with our baby while they cleaned up the pool and everything in the living room. They did a great job - my house was almost cleaner afterward than before! ;)
Malley was weighed and measured. 8lbs, 4oz. and 20.5 inches long. Just perfect. I had help from my Mom, Jen, and Heather when it was time to nurse. Though it wasn't as easy as some moms make it look, it did happen!
Everyone left around 2:30am, except Jen who took Malley on the couch for about 1.5 hours so Ian and I could sleep. But when she started fussing a lot for me, Malley was brought back to me, and then Jen went home after making sure we were all okay.
It was the most amazing first birth experience I could have asked for. It wasn't easy; as a matter of fact, it was the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life. I can really see how some women would want drugs! ;) But I will never want to do it another way. Nothing has replaced the bliss I felt when Malley was born, and I'll never forget it!


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Obama's supposed "reset" with Russia is/was the biggest bunch of bullshit ever propagated by a White House occupant.
The "reset" term comes from Obama's idea that Geo. Bush failed to see that Putin is actually a good guy and that Bush was wrong to distrust him. What a joke! It shows how laughably naive these people are. They shouldn't be in any position of power at all! (Obama is showing the same naivete with regard to Iran's Rouhani and the reversal of the highly effective sanctions on Iran.) Now, their stupidity and naivete is yielding only more bloodshed in Syria and now the Ukraine.
For example, word comes that the Syrians have failed to dismantle it's chemical weapons which they promised to do in the resolution of the Syrian chemical weapons flap. Gee, what a surprise that is! Only idiots like Obama and Kerry would have agreed to such a lame-brained scheme. But they only did so to save face when Obama discovered that there was no support for his military strike.
Thanks to Putin's outmaneuvering of Obama in Syria, Bashar al-Assad is now ensconced in power under the protection of Putin. Russia is actively actively arming this evil regime to allow the continued killing of it's own citizens and even blocking humanitarian aid. Some 100,000 innocent people are already dead and the death toll continues to rise. The blood is also on Putin's hands. Nice guy, right?
Now Putin has managed to create the current unrest and bloodshed in Ukraine. It started when the Ukrainian president shunned the EU and jumped into Putin's arms for $15 billion in financial aid. Obviously every formerly captive Soviet state freed from the "Iron Curtain" wants to escape the Russian sphere at all costs. Now the people of the Ukraine are in a pitched battle to overthrow that President and dozens are dead already. Where's the statement of support for the protestors by Obama? It's the same lack of support for Iranian students who were losing their lives protesting the evil regime and rigged elections in Iran in 2009.
Putin has no match in our White House. He is far more clever than our foolish and idiotic administration. Russia is actively working against America all over the world and has only evil intent. I would say that it's time that Obama wake up to this fact, but Obama never learns anything. He needs a new brain---because his doesn't work.


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Manzano Mountain Review is an online New Mexico literary journal affiliated with UNM-Valencia.
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No. 1 Winter 2017
No. 2 Summer 2018
No. 3 Winter 2018
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Little Wolf #2
April 2017
"Love You'll See" by Bear by Blood
"Fire" by Brianah Maestas
I will not remember tomorrow,
I will not remember today.
When I die I wish I could live my life over and over,
And I wish I could be there to say,
"I'm here if you need me"
Every time that I'm needed,
And I wish to know you're okay while I'm away.
And also to tell you I love you as much as I already say.
It's not hard to understand
I've always been afraid of being left out.
It's not hard to understand
We're lit and then we burn out.
I will not remember tomorrow
And I will not remember today.
But it doesn't take a genius to find
That there's no other way.
That there's no secret and there's no cure,
I will take every bit and piece of me with me,
And if there's anything left it'll stray.
I have to take every piece of me away.
Everything I've ever wanted to do
Everything but my love for you.
"I promise I'll leave my love - you'll see.
As I take all the best parts of me with me.
I'll take every bit of the love that I can find,
And I'll leave it all behind
It's passion, beauty, unpredictability
on a good day it provides warmth and light
on a bad day it causes destruction and pain
The flickering flame causes shadows to dance
enraged it consumes all that stand in its path
At peace it is kind, allowing forgiving light to brighten your way
It cannot be controlled, only guided
If you are careful, patient, it will obey
If you are careless, in a hurry, it will succumb to its own desire
It is meant to burn, go engulf, to smother
Whether it is warmth that smothers you, or the less forgiving heat
Fire will never be bad, or good
Only you can make it what it is
Its existence needs help
It cannot survive on its own
It is so powerful, yet so weak
It is destruction, but can be destroyed by neglect
It can go out of control, but will eventually die out
Like life it is not everlasting
Like passion it is fleeting
Like obsession it is consuming
It is nature's example of humanity
It is our hopes and our fears
"Alamillo" by Never Look Back
The town, the root, the life…
The family, the home, the childhood…
The ground, the tree, the rock...
The happy years, the siblings, the laughs…
The sad year, the lament, the chant…
The town, the root, the life…
Echoes of my life.
"Never Look Back" by Nathaniel Cuaron
Life comes and goes, you're born, you live, you die
We all live, laugh, love to just make us cry
Making mistake we walk away, but those mistakes are carried on
through our life
We step forward to escape the past but the past is always right behind
Trying to make you fill sad, mad or just to bring you down
Never look back
Look at the beautiful things that will come upon the feature
The things we do the things we see will always stay
There is never a dual moment in our lives
We cherish what we have
The most important thing ever
Never look back
Step forward not back, might just fall on your back
Stepping back is like jumping off a cliff backwards
Jumping backwards and you will never know when the ground is
It will come fast or it will come slow
Never look back
Life is so much more then we think
It is a gift that we all have when we took our first breath
Life is to short
Knowing we face 1,000 ways to die everyday
This gift will be worth our last breath
Never look back
"Thought of the Dying" by Chai Hollow
They always spoke of a light, that you see when you die. I
always thought it was silly, the living speaking about death as if
they knew what was coming, but I believed it too. I suppose
everyone did. When you die, you go into the light. It made so much
sense at the time, didn't it? Hmmm… but I guess there's no one to
answer me now. Something to be glad for, I suppose. What a thing
it would be, to go mad as you're dying. Be my luck though, wouldn't
it? Heh, still asking questions to no one.
I thought it would be faster, ya know? Dying, I mean. If I
don't get a light, if I can't be warm, couldn't it at least be over
quick? Or maybe no time has passed yet… I don't think I'm the best
judge of that at the moment. But… it feels like I've been here
forever, wherever here is. Can a place that isn't really, still be
considered a place? If there is no here for me to be, am I still here?
Hmm, I don't think I'm making much sense anymore. It's getting
harder to think sometimes, or at least I think that it is. I don't
really trust my mind too much anymore.
Sometimes, I think there's almost something. Almost a
sound, I think. But maybe that's just my head playing tricks on me
again. Like the times I think I'm a memory, before I realize that I'm
not there anymore. I'm here, or nowhere. I can't tell anymore.
It's bright sometimes now. Not always, but once in a while.
I think I can almost see something. But it's never clear, just bright.
There's a sound now to. It's a piercing tone, too loud when it
surfaces. It hurts to listen, but it's the first sound I've heard in so
long. I can't turn away
"Consider the Wolf" by Aliyha Martinez
Consider the wolf for a moment. The wolf is a beautifully feared animal of the wild who howls at the moon and wanders the dark city. The wolf is distinguished by its striking howl which can be heard miles away from all ears. The wolf is known for killing livestock and terrorizing smaller animals at night, which is when the wolf lurks. Farmers and other civilians have been known to hunt wolves in the US. When people think of wolves, they think of a wild beast, whom they've seen in movies ripping people and animals apart, but did you know the wolf is one of the mammals who find lifelong love? When male wolves find a female whom they are attracted to, they mate for life. Love is something that may not be expected of such a fearful, monstrous animal, but love has no boundaries or limits and can be obtained by anyone of any species.
The wolf hunts day and night, searching for a hearty meal to bring back to its family. When a human sees a wolf, we see a frightening creature, a creature we don't care to learn more about. When looking past the scariness of the nocturnal animal, we might see a frightened, hungry animal scavenging for food for its young, just trying to make it through another day, much like us. The distinction between humans and animals, more specifically the wolf, is that unlike humans, wolves find love and love knows no pain. The wolf never harms its mate, it never abandons its family, or fails to come home, unless killed by a human on the way. When analyzing the human however, more specifically about how humans love, we can see the difference.
Humans love in a very different way than wolves. Humans on the other hand, find someone to love, only to hurt them. People have the ability to feel and
care deeper than wolves, and also the ability to hurt. When people find a mate, they might love each other, but they also find ways to hurt and harm one another, in ways in which the wolf, a frightening beast, cannot. Humans also do not mate for life, instead we go through different partners trying to find which one is right for us, much like shopping for clothes. In other words, love for humans, isn't as personal, caring, and emotional as its thought to be. Love is defined to be an intense feeling of deep affection, but now, the word love is thrown around more than a football at a Dallas game, it's told to numerous partners who a person finds attractive.
The definition of love, for humans that is, has changed of the course of time. It has become less personal and more about the physical aspect. Humans are above all animals on a hierarchical scale, but animals no how to love, care, and appreciate more than us. Even a domesticated animal, a dog for instance, has more respect and love for its master, than its master will ever have for it, and the domesticated dog, will never, ever stop loving its owner. Animals don't just feel love, but unconditional love, love that can never be broken, love that is pure and innocent, love that has the best intentions. Love can never be broken by something, or someone that can do no wrong.
"Conflict Resolution" by Jared Sanders
Drawing the errant blade you lunge forth at it
Vast and white and daunting
An enemy you hope to reshape in your image
With one, two, three,
Plentiful strokes.
You strike the graphite wounds in its flesh
Each fresh cut oozing with texture, entendre, emotion.
It stands to crush you, to pin you down with the weight of its near infinite body.
But you remember the words of the ones who came before you, and, retaliating,
You loose a satisfying barrage of metaphor upon it.
Reeling, it strikes back, the blinding white of its college ruled hide tensing.
It breathes a cloud of fatigue upon you, eraser shavings and paper scraps.
You reach for your draught, a cup of Earl Grey on the far side of the desk.
Refreshed, you lunge back in,
neurons taught,
consciousness screaming,
heaving the weight of your pen with Herculean mental strength.
You go on like this for hours, until eventually,
You and your unflinching foe seem to reach a mutual agreement that it's time
to stop.
Wounded, tired, retreating to the comfort of your bed
You know this fight is not over.
You know it will be there tomorrow, leering from atop the faded mahogany
plane across the room.
It may take days,
It might take months,
It could even take years.
But you'll be there.
Everyday you'll be back, until it's done.
Writing is a serious business after all,
Most certainly not for the faint-hearted.
Besides, another beast will come soon,
Its own massive white frame springing forth on the battle ground.
Better to be done with this one sooner than later


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iChat2Flickr update : Direct Upload Action
My last post detailed an automator action that would upload a copy of your ichat buddy icon everytime you changed it with a built in camera. Unfortunately, it had to use the mail program to send the picture to flickr by email.
But what should I find on [http://www.tuaw.com/|TUAW] this week but the [http://turtlehead.co.uk/macintosh-toys/osx-automator-flickr-upload-action/|OSX Automator Flickr Upload Action] by James Pitts! So here's an updated version of the script. This will allow for easier uploads and more reliable data.
ichat2flickr automator action
Since I started using a Mac with a built-in iSight, I've been changing my buddy icon every morning. It's always a bit of a surprise how it comes out, because you only get 3 seconds to pose. Some of them were turning out pretty funny, and I wanted to be able to store and share them. So I wrote this automator script to upload the new picture to flickr using the email to flickr method.
The keys to this project were:
- Buddy icons are stored in ~/Library/Images/iChat Recent Pictures/
- Automator can create and send a mail message with an attachment
- An Automator Workflow can be saved as a plugin, and run as a Folder Action whenever a file is added to the folder.
This script is saved as a plug-in Folder Action on the ~/Library/Images/iChat Recent Pictures/ folder. When it sees a new file added to that folder, it copies it to ~/Pictures/Flickr Selfportraits/, then changes it from a TIFF to a JPEG, then attaches it to a new email in the Mail program, then sends off the email to flickr.
- Open the workflow in Automator.
- Customize the email details with your [http://flickr.com/account/uploadbyemail/|Flickr Upload by Email address], customize tags if desired, and choose an email account to send from.
- Save as a Plug-In, Plug-In for Folder Actions, Attached to Folder: ~/Library/Images/iChat Recent Pictures
- Change your buddy icon in Adium or iChat, and test it out!
I'd like to be able to upload to flickr directly from the automator script instead of having to use the Upload by Email function, but I haven't found anything that does that yet. I did find [http://fraserspeirs.livejournal.com/869471.html|this Automator Action], written by Fraser Speirs which does just that, but it's not intel-friendly at the moment. Maybe I'll offer to help him update it.
Have fun, and please leave a comment if it works or doesn't work. I'm new at releasing Automator workflows.
Note:Apparently, an Automator workflow is really a folder, not a discrete file. I've zipped it up into an archive now for distribution. Drupal did NOT like trying to attach that.


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Anniversary Of The Holocaust Museum
It was 20 years ago the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. first opened to the public.
In honor of the anniversary, a reunion of survivors and liberators was recently held.
Former President Bill Clinton was one of those on hand to mark the occasion.
As ABC News reports, it could very well be the last time the survivors of World War 2 concentration camps and the Army soldiers who liberated will meet.