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Kane napping :) and my lunch today! Yum!

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Summer is a comin'

(Picture: Ryan and Kane on the way to Cafe Del Mar on Wrightsville Beach)

My friend Keaton works there and hooked us up :) Only paid $3 for Ryan and I both.

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"I hope the days come easy, and the moments pass slow. And each road leads you where you want to go. And if you're faced with the choice and you have to choose, I hope you choose the one that means the most to you..." ♥

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Ryan's mom and little sister Audrey are in town :)

This is a picture from lastnight (Jan 22, 2011)

I went bowling with Ryan, his mom, little sister, niece, and nephews. :-)

It was so much fun! Such a great family!

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Kane loves playdates :)

If you don't know by now... THIS IS MR. KANE

He is tech Ryan's, but we basically like share him :)

I take him literally everywhere with me... even to work.

Anywho...

Julie brought her puppy over tonight... Kane loved it :-)

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Beach Access Adoption

Going To Adopt A Beach Access At Wrightsville Beach!
Beach Access Map

The available accesses at this time are: 5, 6, 7, 18, 19, 20, and 24

I was hoping to get #35 because it is closest to Ryan's house

& would be most accessible to me... but oh well!

Ryan's sister Danielle Richardet from It Starts With Me adopted access #36!

Hmmm... which one to adopt?!

UPDATE: I ENDED UP ADOPTING ACCESS #24!

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PICTURES!

Props to James Bain for his first "Beach Trash Run"

You may think that this isn't a lot for his beach trash run... but...

THINK ABOUT IT!

If EVERYONE picked up a couple things... we'd REALLY get somewhere :)

Good job JB!

10-20-2010

Well I forgot to wear my purple today...

but I saw these quotes on my friends' facebooks and thought I would share them...

"Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality." ~James Baldwin *Wear Purple Today* :)" -Jana Suggs Wirtel

"I'm as straight as they come but I will gladly stand up for the LGBT youth of America, scared to stand up for themselves. This gay bashing & bullying has got to stop. We have kids committing suicide because they are bullied & taunted for being "different." I've grown up & realized that there's so much more important shit goin on, then what society teaches us, as kids. Stop the hate. Love is louder." -Mel Atoa Siaki

Can we talk about boys... who want their cake and wanna eat it too... and then want nibbles out of other cakes... no, never mind I don't even want to go there....

This made me laugh... hope it makes you laugh too... :)

"At some point, we have to learn to let go of all control that we THINK we have." -Erica Denton

"Our Daily Ocean: A Story of Butts"

I just wanted to thank everyone that has been voting for my friend Danielle Richardet and her project .... "Our Daily Ocean: A Story of Butts" ... yay! She has 827 votes as of RIGHT NOW... 9:10 AM on Wednesday :) woohoo! You should check out her blog: "It Starts With Me" ... and the name of her blog, definitely deserves it's given name... because it HAS started with her! :) So proud of her!

If you have not voted... please do! You can do it everyday up until Oct 29th!

Yesterday, I had planned on going to the gym, doing P90X, etc but it was SUCH a beautiful day out that I decided to get some exercise outdoors... so I decided to go to, well... ONLY my favorite place in the entire world... yes, yes, yes, DA BEACH hehe... well I started at Stone Street (near Wings/Trolly Stop) and ran a little ways, until I found a Starbuck's coffee cup in my path just skirting around on the sand, feet from the water... and of course, I picked it up... had a few words (with myself, hehe) and then proceeded to run, with it in hand... well I continued seeing trash and it started to make me kinda angry... so I decided to turn my "beach run" into a mini "beach sweep"... and spent the next 3 hours picking up trash AND cigarette butts. I honestly should've put cigarette butts first, because that was definitely the majority of what was out there. I have to say, I never doubted Danielle's findings, or that there was a lot... and you probably don't either... but until you really go out there and LOOK for what has become so COMMON that we don't even notice anymore (so ridiculously sad) you probably won't understand... because I didn't realize JUST. HOW. SAD. it was/is. I spent the 3 hours seriously like talking to myself. Cussing to myself and then praying to myself... weird right? It's something so incredibly simple that could literally make the world of difference.

I picked up 541 cigarette butts, 6 plastic filters, tons of plastic straws, tops to bottles, bottles, glass beer bottles, numerous birthday balloons... I mean I was like in complete shock. I'm a nanny as I'm sure you know... and I brought most of the stuff I picked up with me to work, after Girls on the Run, I talked to Sonja (10) and Charlie (6) about Danielle's project again (they've been hearing me talk about it) and we sat outside and counted the cigarette butts. Sonja (10) couldn't believe how many I found, but I told her that it was NOTHING compared to what was still out there. If I compared it to the ocean, I told her it's like I only was one drop. Sonja was upset that I had gone without her, but I assured her that there will definitely be more times for her to participate.

Click here to see some of the pics from my FIRST mini beach sweep

I really think that I may start just picking up trash everyday, wherever it may be... of course, as many of you know, I was already "environmentally friendly" and what not... many of you call me a "Tree Hugger" or whatever, and that's okay... I don't take offense to it. It's honestly a compliment. Driving around yesterday afternoon with the kids to all of their activities, you should've seen me looking out the window at the side of the road, looking around and scoping out all the litter. arg. Danielle has made a Nazi out of me! hehe!

Random Interesting Facts/Info-ish

Did you know 12% of college students consider themselves vegetarian?

If vegetarian were a college major, it would be the largest!

I also heard on the radio that Psyche majors are the least

satisfied once they are placed in their jobs... grrrrrreat.

Cancer survivors who increase soy consumption are less likely to face disease again.

I was cleaning all the pictures off of my phone... yeah... still in the process of finishing because I take pictures of EVERYTHING... and this one SO reminds me of MYSPACEDOTCOM pictures back in the day... haha makes me laugh...

Ryan and I at the Oktoberfest @ Fat Tony's Friday, October 15th...

Vegan & Gluten Free Mac & Chz & Apple Crumble

Thanks to Happy Herbivore I made vegan & gluten free Mac & Cheeeze :)

Her recipe is found here: Mac & Chz

I used gluten free penne to make it gluten free.

I put diced tomatoes with mine...

because I don't know how to eat anything just by itself

Apple Crumble

Slices apples... 1/2 unsweetened organic applesauce, gluten free oats,

agave nectar, lots of cinnamon... hmmm I think that's it.

I baked it at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.

I put it on top of almond ice cream for Ryan.

I tasted it but was too full to actually eat because of the mac & chz.

He said it was amazing. :)

Not so little anymore

^Caroline this morning eating breakfast!

I just love her cup, don't you?

Her parents are the ones that really sparked my interest in running

and taking it from just plain "exercise" to something that I just TRULY enjoy.

Thankful for that.

Last night I ran the loop, and I've been wearing my 5 fingers

Click here if you don't know what 5 fingers are... :)

well... my ankles have been KILLING me so I've been trying to not push it so hard, and taking "rest days" but I don't want to end up turning everyday into a "rest day" even though even on my rest days I have been working out. Luckily I have an eliptical IN my apartment (my birthday present to myself last year) and I can watch the shows I have recorded on DVR while I do it... instead of sitting on my behind... or I have been doing P90X, squats, etc... but I think I might start switching between my 5 fingers and my Brooks...

Pat Mulligan (Caroline's dad) that does marathons/races/triathlons etc. like constantly told me he thinks that I should limit myself to once a week in the 5 fingers. But I LOOOOOOOOOOVE my 5 fingers. They feel SO much better on my feet in every way, EXCEPT my ankles. Doing the loop last night I ran as much as I could on the grass/dirt beside the paved Wrightsville Beach Loop, but there is still alot of the loop that doesn't have grass/dirt beside it (down Lumina) but oh well. We'll see!

cinnamon toast breakfast... :)

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My birthday flowers have hit a brick wall.... sad!

(I got them from little Cameron & Jackson! Nice huh?)

"Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you when you think everything's okay and everything's going right and life has a funny way of helping you out when you think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up in your face"-Alanis Morissette

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Look what Sonja found in World Market...hahaha

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After all that rain!

I thought the sky was so beautiful last night.

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When we say things like "people don't change" it drives scientist crazy because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy. Matter. It's always changing, morphing, merging, growing, dying. It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting things be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones. The way we insist on believing despite every scientific indication that anything in this lifetime is permanent. Change is constant. How we experience change that's up to us. It can feel like death or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline. Like at any moment we can have another chance at life. Like at any moment, we can be born all over again.

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Left to Right: Charlie (6), Sonja (10) and Karly (13)

Blair Elementary School had a fundraiser at Rita's Italian Ice last night, so I took the kiddos :)

"What it all comes down to, Is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet, I've got one hand in my pocket, And the other one is giving the peace sign" -Alanis Morissette :)

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Fall in love, or fall in hate Get inspired or be depressed. Ace a test or flunk a class. Speak the truth or lie & cheat. Dance on tables or sit in the corner, Life's divine chaos Embrace it. Breathe & enjoy the ride.

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Sonja being goofy whenever we went to go pick strawberries @ Lewis Farms!

Flaming Amy's

in my opinion is a good place to eat... with kids too!

I get the "Big Ol' Bowl"

I honestly have gotten a different mixture everytime.

But I always get WITHOUT cheese/sour cream... WITH black beans.

Click here for Flaming Amy's Menu

Caroline Mulligan and I at the beach :)

CLICK HERE: LOVE THIS SONG

YOU are what you eat.

RIVERFRONT FARMERS MARKET INFO (times/location/etc)

Do you want to start going to the Farmer's Market but you don't live in Wilmington... or you don't know if there is one that is closer to you? Check out this link...

Click here to find your Farmer's Market

Some of my Farmers Market findings...

My friend Zoey Zapple's son Jameson is a tree hugger ;)

SEE you can NEVER be too young ;) teeheehee

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