Returning

Regressing to Black

2004-10-21T07:54:00.000-07:00

Yes, yes, yes, the inevitable has happened! I have changed the template to minima black! I can no longer deny it, black appeals to my senses! Okay, so I just really dig the colour...but you get the point!! I wish I was knowledgable enough in HTML/CSS to create my own template, alas, it may never be!

Bwah, it was nine weeks tests these past two days, but I'm officially off school now, woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope Dad and I do something interesting today, I don't want to dawdle around the domicile today! Maybe I can harass him into going to the parque! or something else...but nothing interesting to say as of now.

Chocoholic Saves Life!

2004-10-16T13:08:00.000-07:00

OoOoO! Today was great!! I got to sleep in and when I dragged myself out to the living room Dad was up reading his Bible, so I curled up next to him on teh couch and he held me for awhile while I dozed on his chest. Then I went and read Bible, ate breakfast, watched 30 minute meals and took a shower. Then we trekked out to the Health Food Store and I got chocolatiefied!! We got some dark chocolate chips and some Soy Delicious Chocolate Obsession "ice cream" I swear, it's better than Ben & Jerry's!! It has not just chocolate "ice cream" but chocolate sauce and flakes, its creamy and yummy and just delicioso!!

Also, as we were driving home (down the backroads for a change) we almost saw this turtle trying to cross the road! Dad let me out and I got him out of harm's way, if I hadn't been afraid of being hit meself I woulda put him on the side of the road he was trying to go to...but atleast he isn't roadart now!! He was soo beautiful, gotta love turtles...

What I ate today:
Cereal & soymilk, toast

chocolate chips
leftover pot pie
Chocolate Obsession "ice cream"

Still Returning

2004-10-15T15:51:00.000-07:00

Halloa! Begging you pardon for not posting for 4 days, but I've had a horribly poopy week.

Not that anyone died or anything...just kinda blah, the nine weeks is drawing to a close, everything is rushing towards due dates, tests and exemptions and all that bureacracy (they didn't have me in the book the first day of exemptions! :P)! Katie got sick for takeout the other day (see why cooking at home is better?), and even Valentina seemed kind of ready for it to end. Luckily, Fall Break occureth on 21st (Thursday o' next week) and I'll be FREE! Then a whole new nine weeks to start over, again!

Great Expectations is awesome (literally)! I've read A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities before, but didn't really dig the former, I think it was the way it was written. The latter was in 4th grade I believe and totally soared of my head at the time, but I do think Dickens (I mean, like everyone else since his time has said) is an genius writer, who needs TV when you have such beautiful word pictures? I don't get confused at all except during dialogue, not truly sure why.

HAPPY NEWS: Spending the evening with Chris & Bonnie tomorrow! hoorah!

I hope this blog is not severely boring...

Shalom

So sick of Wal*Mart

2004-10-11T16:20:00.000-07:00

I am SO tired of Wal*Mart! GAH! But, as many people are, its the only reasonable option for everyday life - the HFS is great and so are the corner produce is awesome, but for the mundane things I have to use Wal*Mart; most veggies/fruit, soymilks, cereal, canned and dried goods (excluding red lentils, couscous, quinoa, etc.), sometimes even tofu, though I prefer tempeh most of the time. Maybe its just because I'm tired, hungry, and have somewhat sore feet, but I really am not in the best mood. So I'll name some good points of the day:

-going to spend time with Chris next Monday
-U2's new album coming out in 1 month and 11 days (approx.)
-Dad suprised me with organic dark chocolate, carrots, and garlic
-Making all A's

Alittle more about me

2004-10-09T11:26:00.000-07:00

Having just read my friend Geoff's blog, I have become inspired to reveal even more of myself the the Interneting populace.

I've mentioned I'm a vegan (apian is more correct, as I do indulge in honey occasionally) unless my memory is really failing me. My journey to veganism is an odd one, though maybe a journey "to" it is wrong, its was kinda like just trading supplies for more comfortable ones on the long road of Life. First off, I don't believe (very much) in "animal rights" nor do I believe that veganism is for everyone. The first vegan I ever met was my belov'd friend, Doug. He is my inspiration in this veganism thing to this day - mainly, it took me forever to figure out he didn't eat meat, because he didn't talk about it at all! (until I started to question him, I think..or myabe I just wasn't paying attention) Once I had learned of this new idea of meat-freeness it intrigued me, and I vegan to research into it, finding the information presented I was convinced it was healthier and better, and slowly, especially after having to handle some raw meat at one point, I began to detest the idea that a cognizant creature had to die for me to eat - especially when it wasn't necessary. I was also sick of not being able to cook, I started out only knowing how to make basmati rice with barely stir-fried veggies, and peanut butter sandwiches. (This was around December) I had felt from the outset that, for me, eating eggs/dairy while not eating flesh was hypocritical, so sometime in February I "went vegan." Now I love to cook and have tried new things I wouldn't even look at while I ate meat. It has been a rivetting process for me, and meeting all sorts of people along the way, too!People tend to see vegetarianism (especially veganism) as exceedingly restrictive...yes, we are cut off from slabs of charred filet mignon and hot, succulent fried chicken, and ice cream too boot! But the "restrictions" are far outweighed but what you discover when you turn from the norm and have to look elsewhere, also, you'd be suprised how many vegetarians/vegans completely abhor salad (like me).

So there you have it Installment #1 in the life of E l i z a b e t h

Procrastination

2004-10-08T15:08:00.000-07:00

I'm a horrible procrastinator! Of course, I've known this for a long time but...I have so much stuff to do this weekend! GAH! Science Project, Keystone Project, Spanish Composition! I'm actually procrastinating right now...putting off packing my stuff for the sleepover tonight and my shower...oh well, maybe SOMEONE reads my blog, which I hope isn't totally asinine...I'll be famous one day, then everyone will read my blog! mwhahaha! Just you wait...isn't this technically talking to voices in my head if no one reads this? Hmmm, no time for pondering!

Dad is taking G John the recipe to the quinoa stuff from, er, the second day of the blog! w00t! AH! THe garage door raiseth!

So peace and love to my existant or non, readers.

Breakfast: cereal and soymilk, toast with peanut butter
Lunch: soy yoghurt, apple water (I need to be un lazy and start taking leftovers again!)
Snack: toast with (non hydrogentated) margarine, some chocolate chips, apple
Dinner: probably a frozen burrito or something, I don't think the girls will have anything for me to eat the slumber party, but you never know...

Thursday...one day to go

2004-10-07T17:55:00.000-07:00

Yeehaw..where did that come from? Not much to say righ' now, I'm sleepy Z.z! I'll make this easiness and just right down my food consumption again:

Breakfast: cereal & soymilk
Lunch: peanut butter (on wholewheat bread) sandwich, apple, water
Snack: soy yoghurt, two cookies ^^'
Dinner: spaghetti with tomato sauce, palmful dark chocolate chips

Anybody got a pillow? anyone? ...

As the boys play rock'n'roll...

2004-10-06T14:58:00.000-07:00

Yes! I have achieved it! Its the place where you can feel the music pulsing through your veins, and through your heart and mind! I heard Vertigo (via my normally evil, but not today, AOL) twice today, man, that song rocks, no matter what those people say! Though, I can't fathom why Bono sings "unos, dos, tres, catorce" as uno isn't plural and catorce is fourteen, but, dude, its Bono. Reminds meh, had a test in espanol today, I think I did okay, and my composition over Valentina is going pretty well, it dawned on me today that while she writes "baby" sentences in English, I'm writing "babe oraciones" in Spanish, so we're both eventually going to meet in the middle, but her English improves everyday, hoping the same for my spanish!

Hum, seems like I should write down what I ate today, I'll follow the feeling;

Breakfast: cereal & soymilk, 2 multivitamins (I hope..)
Lunch: soy yoghurt, apple, water (yeah, so filling..)
Snack: wholewheat toast with peanut butter, numerous dark chocolate chips
Dinner: probably one of Amy's bean & rice burritos...yum, so good...

Snack: two cookies O:)

Ah, the smells....

2004-10-05T19:03:00.000-07:00

What scents pervade the air and circulate about my nostrils? Paint fumes are prevalent, in the back ground a nice, new scent of cooking quinoa and brown rice for tonight's dinner (here's the idea as it currently stands):

1/2 cup rinsed, uncooked quinoa

1/2 cup uncooked (long grain) brown rice

2 cups water

Cook each grain separately in 1 cup of the water until water is absorbed and grain cooked. Let stand 10 mins. then store until ready to make rest of meal

2 carrots, peeled and cut into half-moons
2 zuccihini, diced
1/4 a large onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 jalapeno peppers, seeded and minced finely
2 ribs celery, chopped
1 can of black beans
1 can diced tomatoes, drained

1/2 tsp. dried cilantro leaves
1/4 tsp. allspice (ground)
1/4 tsp. turmeric
cayenne (to taste)
1/4 tsp. curry powder
salt & pepper to taste
chives (to taste)

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 can vegetable stock

Saute veggies, peppers, and seasonings in a little olive oil for 5 minutes, add the beans, tomatoes, and stock. Bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes or until carrots are tender. Stir in the grains. Heat through, and get a huge punch of protein!!

«Returning Home

2004-10-04T16:29:00.000-07:00

'Quel andune! (or for those who don't speak Elven "Good Afternoon!") Following a stumbled-upon link to a vegan blog on a forum I have created my own blog. The eternal question: why? Perhaps to keep track of what I eat, but probably not. Maybe just have a venting place, that's closer, I suppose. Who knows what the future holds? Product reviews? Recipes? A cookbook? Poetry forum? Well, it'll be an adventure, but as is the assumed custom of things like this I'll tell you alittle about meself.

My name is Elizabeth, and I'm fourteen (and 1/4 precisely). I happen to be a firm Follower of the Yeshua (Jesus), a vegan and (to flatter myself; gourmet [vegan]) chef, a poet, and an avid fan of rock'n'roll (ranging from the Beatles through Pink Floyd to U2), and when I say fan, I mean a real fan, not someone who goes to every concert in 10000 mile radius, who throws underwear on the stage, and hangs out in supposed hangouts or outsides the houses of the band members, I do not want Bono's name tatooed on any part of my body, though I would like to talk to him someday. *soapbox* Anywho, I have several soapboxes, numerous opinions, many passions, and lots of love. ..My train of thought is obliterated (did I mention I like big words?).

Just to begin I highly recommend the book How It All Vegan! by Sarah Kramer and Tanya Barnard, that book rocks my nonexistant socks. http://forum.govegan.net/ y http://www.govegan.net