It has been a while...

yes. it has been a while, I do admit. I am deeply regretful for letting my blog fall behind on my list of priorities. I hope everyone has had a good winter holiday.
Just saying hi for now!

Money.

The root of all evil right?

Well maybe in some cases. In my case it's disappoint and sadness. The value of money has gone down so much. You just can't buy stuff like you use to. Life is hard. Pressure to get a job and start thinking about my future is thick as molasses in my head.

I feel weighed down by money. If my family wants to go somewhere it's going to cost us an arm and leg just in gas to get there and back.

I feel I am obligated to fix this. To do something great and earn enough money to reassure my family. To not have to worry about bills and if we can afford this or that.

I want to do something I love though. I want to create poems and books. Take pictures. Act.

I want to accomplish my dreams and make money at it!

Sounds like every ones' dream?

Yeah, probably.

Think my chances our slim?

Maybe.

Think I can't do it?

Oh but I can.

Why am I so great?

Because I follow my heart. And I belief.

Food of the Day!

It's time for the food of the day!

What ever do you think it could be?

It's Ezekiel Toast with Peanut butter and apple butter :) yum

And you know what else goes good On Ezekiel Toast? What, you may ask.

Soy Garden Butter

~Toasts and tastes so good~

The benefits of eating whole grain bread like Ezekiel are:

• good source of dietary fiber
• anti-oxidant packed
• dietary minerals
• Carbs for energy
• protein
• And has been shown to reduce some forms of cancers, diseases, and obesity!

Now that's a piece of cake- no wait- a piece of toast!

-Greenness-

Can you guess the food of the day?

Its Avocados!

Yummy goodness all wrapped up in a green peeling- my favorite color!

• Avocados are high in fat so don't eat too many of them- unless of course you want to gain weight or just don't care.
• They contain more Potassium than bananas!
• More protein packed than any other fruit
• There's more than 500 different varieties!
• Good source of Vitamin E
• anti-oxidants
• And makes a great treatment for dry hair <:)
  

Earth Balance Better- i mean butter

I recently discovered Earth Balance Soy Garden Butter and let me just say that its freaking awesome!

I don't use it that often so a container of it lasts me a long time.

It takes exactly like normal butter-I will actually say better than milk butter- and is smooth. Pleasently easy to spread on toast.

Here is Earthbalance.net's info on my fav vegan butter:

Crushed Whole Soybeans
No Hydrogenated Oil
Non-GMO Ingredients
No Trans-Fatty Acids
All Natural (NO PRESERVATIVES)
Lactose Free
Gluten Free
100% Vegan =D
Superb for Baking and Frying
Helps Improve HDL/LDL Cholesterol Ratio!

Silly Lilly

This is me and my baby niece Lillian Rae :0)

I love her sooo much!

What a vegan named Annabell would eat on normal day:

Breakfast: A small banana-p-nut butter-soymilk-carob smoothie and coucous

Lunch: Salad with lettuce straight from the garden and a cornbread muffin

Dinner: Oatmeal with sugar, soymilk, and dried fruit, almonds

S: fruit

I really need to go shopping...its been like forever and I have a bunch of money in the bank just waiting to be spent on yummy vegan goodies!

I need more protein. Perhaps I should buy some tofu when I get to go to the health store?

A day in a field with some haybails, my cousin Austin, my best doggie friends Ally & Ben, and my daddy raking up some more hay in his tractor is a great day.

The simple things- no matter the time spent doing them- seem to linger longer in my heart

-great shot Austin!-

Teen Preggies

You've probably heard the news about the alarming number of teens getting pregnant. If not..what cardboard box are you living in? :)
Well do you know that they are blaming the movies like Juno and Knocked Up!
What a bunch of BS!
I truly think that society has become so "bendable" and sways to every piece of information or lifestyle shoved in front of their faces. But you can't go blaming the movies. I saw Juno and I don't think it glorified pregnancy at all. Neither did Knocked Up.
Teenage pregnancy seems to be getting more and more common these days and because of that girls don't fear getting pregnant as much. They can just give the baby up for adoption like Juno did. Or they think hey me and the daddy will fall in love like the couple in Knocked Up.
Its not the movies fault at all and I don't see why they have to put up someone else for the blame. It's not Jaime Lyn Spears fault teens are getting pregnant.
Girls are having sex- that's the issue. Guys want sex. And these days the age of girls having babies are just getting lower and lower.
There will always be movies and movies are not real life.
And teens will continue to have sex and continue to get pregnant with or without the movies.
That's real life, no blaming the movies or celebs....Its those darn horny teen boys!

My big sis April had her baby at 19 years old. Almost not a teen...but still

lists

My Possible Future Jobs..just a thought

1. Writer
2. Actress
3. Model
4. Vegan health store owner or worker

Things I just plain want to do

• live in a green home
• travel the world
• have children
• finish writing my book
• publish my book of poems
• oh yeah and also publish my finished book
• find my dreamy vegan husband
• create my own yummy recipe
• make a good amount of money
• be happy most the time
• have a successful blog
• accomplish everything I've listed in this post :)

My work

You can use my work with a link back to my blog and note that I was the author.
Thanks bunches,
annabell

Eco Living

Lets talk about eco living or the new cool term green living.

I've cared about my impact on the earth for a few years now and it was a bit strange when all of the world started all this green trip, but I find it as a wonderful thing for more people to start caring. But at times I do get..frustrated seeing people wearing shirts that say great things like Recycle, Save the Whales, Save water-get dirty, ect ect.

But I cannot help ask myself: do they actually try and do all these things their shirts are showcasing? I sure hope so.

I wonder if they're just wearing these shirts because of all the radness about being green and they don't do anything different in their lifestyles.

But perhaps they are very green and are trying to spread the news of the eco lifestyle!

So to all the people of the world: Wear it and mean it