Shelley, girl ...you's good with words!

People look at me as a vegan and conclude that since I stepped on a snail or because the vegetables I eat resulted in a tractor death for a squirrel somewhere in Paraguay that somehow vegans are hypocrites, which of course they’re not since perfection is an unattainable goal and is something to be driven towards, never actually achieved.

The difference between you and the vegan standing next to you is that while you’re both going to step on a bug tomorrow, they’ve decided to dedicate their lives to do as little harm as possible, completely independent from what you do. So in no way does the protozoan life form they step on negate your responsibility for the lamb you’re paying a stranger to cut tomorrow. And falling 1% short of an unattainable goal is really good when you’re standing next to someone who won’t even try.

~ Shelley Williams



I think we have all gone through something like this?? even if it isnt about veganism, any time you try to do something out of the ordinary that is good, you can get slammed. 

how is everyones summer??..( i just wrote that but remembered that its still cold in lots of places) (ill just kick myself for you )

how i DIDNT get sick eating hacked on brownies

I havent blogged in awhile, but i could not keep this to myself. I know lots of you stick to natural medicine, have kids that NEED you to be well not to mention jobs that expect you to show up:). So i just wanted to let you know how WELL this stuff really works, i had no idea!


SO..
I recently went to a party (my veggie friends bday), i brought cupcakes and slutty brownies. If you havent heard of them it is a layer of chocolate chip cookie dough, a layer of oreos and then a layer of brownie batter. Im a fan of ridiculousness so i added another layer of pb frosting swirls(a swirl on each serving) and a small rectangle cookie bar popping out of each frosting swirl(sorry no pics!).

So i get to the party, im not trying to trick people into eating vegan food so i let a few people that were interested know that they were vegan. Nobody batted an eye, i think brownies will overcome any bias. So anyway, i went and sat down with the older ladies, they usually let me talk and talk, that generation is too nice to tell people to shut up. Not long after i sat down a boy went over and bent really REALLY low over the brownies, ok, he likes to smell things...so i go over and tell the kid what they were, and that they were vegan, can i get him a slice? He says no, i go sit down (in no way defeated of COURSE) (yea right). 

HACKY HACK ALL over them.

dude,....i look over, his face is down like he is smelling them again...he coughed all over them...THAT CLOSE

i have OCD, as ive mentioned before, AND i am overly sensitive to chocolate,.....and now they were tainted with hacking cough germs, and i still ate one...im ashamed and i felt like how a dog LOOKS when its doing something naughty:) my OCD is horrified that i did that.

two days later

felt a little funny

a few hours later started to feel reeeal funny

sick

Remembered all the reading i had done on colloidal silver. Remembered how it made stompers lymph nodes swell(proof that it is getting stuff out, so fast that his lymph system couldnt handle it all so fast). so i took half a dose of 220 ppm(parts per million) colloidal silver. forgot about it. next day i was fine.

thats not the only time its helped me. every year for the past five years i get a 24 hour flu thing. throwing up my brains for an entire night and not getting out of bed for two days (48 hour flue?). one night, in December  i started to feel it. The first few times that i got it, i thought it was food poisoning  This is the first time i knew what was coming, and was absolutely dreading it. i had taken CS before when i ate something that was passed its prime, and felt better within moments. This time it wasnt quite as fast. I also took about 9 drops of grapefruit seed extract with the dose of CS, just to give myself every chance i could. for about twenty minutes i was in bed thinking it wasnt working. CS has abandoned me, it was a giant pity party. after 30 min i was asleep.

i urge you to get this stuff. 

i quit capitalizing the first letter of every sentence

whos the snottiest little angel ever???

pictures of the summer

HIII!! so.....whats been going on?? (as she tries to pretend like she hasnt been a horribly absent friend) this has been a busy summer, i have gotten more done these past few months than the past three years put together i think. just getting my house put to rights and then keeping up with everything. i am not an orderly person so it takes a lot of practice for me to get into good housekeeping habits. i LIKE doing stuff around the house, i just needed to get used to the fact that housekeeping isnt something you do only once...lol. 

here are some pictures from this summer:)

 

this pic was after it sun stormed. do you see the double rainbow? i know the poles are in the way, everyone here has em' this close to their homes.

i went to California this summer!! it was the first week of September so i pretended that the whole trip was specifically designed to cater to my birthday...which wasnt until the middle of September...

this pic is from mimis cafe, DO NOT order their version of vegetable side dishes..8 pieces of broccoli and a few carrots is pathetic....and that was a double order...BUT look at this picture (of a picture:) closely...this weirdo is stuffing a giant duck(ok its really a live swan) into a car!!!

uh huh, uh huh...not seeing any resemblance...

this is monster:) i found her running around San Diego seven years ago covered in fleas,with a bad haircut....which is the worst travesty you can inflict on a dog that thinks shes a purebred...something....anyway my parents are in love with her now:)

this is in my parents back yard...practically a vineyard!!

then we went to my grandmas house...

i made(all vegan) gluten free cranberry muffins, reg blackberry muffins, GF brownies, two GF apple crisp pies, two layer vanilla cake...and...i think thats it? oh and some dark chocolate mint bark for my grandma. she is  GF so i made lots of things that she could freeze. that vanilla cake looks a mess but omgosh was it good! the best part was that everyone ate all of my stuff and nobody was worried about it being vegan! i did have a vegan police moment that im not to proud of...i was about to cut the cake (after i insisted everyone sing happy birthday to me) and my aunt was all " ill go see if we have ice cream" and im all...."no! no! its all vegan it'll ruin my all vegan birthday desserts!! " so.. you know i was trying to make a joke out of it...but i was serious. no ice cream for you!

after!!!

then the next day we went to this Mexican restaraunt that had a special VEGAN section!! it was really neat!my Uncle had been there before and saw that section on the menu and so he brought us all there. my food was one of the best looking plates the waiter brought out!! the fajita skillet is kinda blending in to the background in this pic.

this is also in my parents back yard. a fig tree!!! the thing is HUGE. it used to be to my hip, it grows like a monster. everyday i got to go out to their yard and pick my breakfast. two kinds of grapes, figs, and apples!

little wiggles, you think she is being sweet but she is just hoping for some food...

a very worried wet wiggles:)

did i already post this pic?

i always know when im back in AZ

oh and we got a scooty!!! we have driven over 700 miles already on it, and its only been  a bit over a month! stomper surprised me one day asking if i wanted to go to the next town over and get a scooter....my makeup was tragic that day i was in such a rush,hahaha.(hes changing the oil with ginger pup helping:))

whew, thats a mish mash of pictures!! hope everyone had a great summer!! i love the fall!!

there is a down side to clean food?

i was so happy to read this article. it cleared up all confusion about vitamin B12. i will never be able to articulate what this doctor so elegantly wrote, but i am better prepared for any questions i get on my vegan diet.

 vit b12 is made from bacteria and we used to get enough just by eating foods that came from the earth. now, with everything so sterile (not complaining:)) we dont get the trace amounts that we used too. i just read this article on choosing raw it was really good!   i hope he will do more Q&A about other vitamins that vegans often have questions about!

stomper had the audacity to ask if i was serious.

hand crochet duck bikini

hey maybe she can make me a matching one!!!

been awhile....

i got so out of blogging. first my parents came and then i helped out my friend who is a pet sitter. i was busy pet sitting from before nine to after nine on some days. ginger didnt get dragged for her walks all week, and i drove the equivalent of  CA and back...at least!!lol.but its all mostly is back to normal now. also, when all that trouble with blogger was going on, it was really getting on my nerves. youd write a whole comment and not be able to post it, is all that fixed yet????

lately i have been trying to really reduce the amount of "stuff" that i have. its crazy what commercials and ads will make you think you need!! i fell head first into all of it, im the worst at thinking i need something that i dont. i have gotten rid of bout 1/3 of my clothes so far. do you ever buy stuff and not wear it/use it because you want to save it for a special occasion? i mean, i dont want to be using nice stuff while im cleaning up after animals you know? but having something go out of style in the back of my closet...with the tags still on...is going a bit far!

Lillians foot got hurt earlier this week, so she probably wont be going to the lake to watch fireworks and swim like she did last year. its back into a bucket for her. at least for the time being:)

 any plans for the fourth?

how have you all been? i have a lot to catch up on in your lives and i miss you.

 im sorry i left so abruptly. ive also been working on some personal issue type things.trying to kick some OCD habits that have been plaguing me for way to long. hows that going you ask? ocds getting a beating.

ten years vegan!!

and i almost missed it! you know how i told you awhile back 'bout how i took spanish 1 twice..and failed twice...weeeeell..i thought "cinco" was six until i used my fingers to count....so...

happy cinco de mayo:)

im so excited that today marks ten years of not purposefully contributing to the cruelty of the meaty,dairy,bee,silk,leather,and wool industry!!

what id like to do is write a few of things that i have done on accident or without thinking it through. because ten years might seem daunting to some new vegans. and it shouldnt because we all make mistakes and i have made QUITE a few really really REALLY dumb ones!!

(at this point i was a four year vegan) a few years ago i was at a ladies house to get a bunny(hers had babies) and outside she had free range chickens and i saw some eggs dotting the nest boxes. since i am against the way that factory farms force chickens to lay eggs in such horrible conditions, this to me was an ideal situation. we took a few home.  i thought that all "free range" eggs came from places like that. i was wrong.  after buying a couple (maybe three) cartons of eggs later, it still felt wrong somehow. and it was.buying free range eggs is still supporting the meat and egg industry. how? only females can lay eggs. only 50% of chickens that are born are female. the boy chicks are disposed of. needless to say i felt sick, and have regretted that ever since.

another instance, was buying shirts or clothing that were made of silk.i have dont this only once that i know of but still felt pretty bad. i mean if something is on clearance you wouldnt think it was made of silk darn it!

for nine years i have eaten white sugar. some vegans say that this is not a vegan food. some think thats going to far. i always felt guilty eating sugar but i did. i thought that taking sugar out of my diet would be just to much. id be even "weirder" now i dont care.(if people think its weird:))

ive eaten cookies that i thought were vegan, only to be mindlessly reading the label and shocked to find that they changed the recipe:) cookie crumbs spewed everywhere:)

another thing that i feel strongly about. not being grossed out by meat or dairy(stay with me for this one). i no longer freak out if i have to to touch(in a package) meaty things (i help bag at the grocery store) i have a different attitude now. i want to treat that animal body with respect. it isnt its fault that its dead. and to treat it like its icky/gross/disgusting? no thats wrong also.you know what i mean? like i shouldnt be like. flicking it away or have a sour look on my face. its sad, not gross.

thats just MY opinion:) but for some reason i think im gonna get some bad backlash...give it ta me, ill find out where you live.

anyway, ten years is a long time so im going to go celebrate! love to hear if anybody else has made ny mistakes...im figuring you cant top my egg one....