"I love a warm pig belly for my aching feet."

I loved it!! I have seen the movie twice so far! I think everyone should go see it in 3-D IMAX - except if you're going at 9:30pm and bringing children under the age of 10! I was appalled that parents had their young children (like, 4-year-olds) out that late, and for a movie with such scare potential. Seriously, I was terrified of the Jabberwocky as a child, and I only saw part of it walk by. Not to mention that this was an old live version. I would have died in the theater if I saw today's version as a child!



Anyway, I'm off my soapbox now. I thought it was amazing, and I would now like to have my own Bandersnatch.

Ack!

So much has changed since my last post, and I'm sorry it has taken me this long to post anything!!

Here's a brief update of what has happened since November:

-I began dating the love of my life, Derek, on November 15, 2009, and it has been the most exciting four months!

-I took my first life coaching class in the winter quarter of 2010.

-I moved across Atlanta.

-It snowed enough this winter on three different occasions for work to be canceled!

-I saw my first snowman! And then I saw 8 more the same day...

-One of my best friends got married!! (Congrats Olivia and Ty!)

It has been a cold, but very good, winter and I will have great memories from this time! However, I am completely ecstatic for spring to be just around the corner!!!

Bad Romance

I was definitely a little skeptical when I first heard a clip of the song, but seeing the video has only further solidified my belief that she is amazing and will always be amazing!

Lady GaGa Pony

Don't MESS with a Girl Scout!

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Kanye Interrupts Atlanta's Flooding!

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Say NO to antibiotic-laced meat!

Just Say No to Antibacterial Burgers

By Ezra Klein

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

"This column is based on a single and quite extraordinary statistic: Food animal production accounts for 70 percent -- 70 percent! -- of the antibiotics used in the United States. That doesn't even include the antibiotics used for animals that actually get sick. That figure is for "non-therapeutic use" such as growth promotion and disease prevention."

"The heavy reliance on routine antibiotic use is a byproduct of the way we raise animals for food: packed into dim and dirty enclosures where they live amid their own filth, eat food that they haven't evolved to digest, and are pretty much stacked atop one another. Most human beings I know can hardly spend three hours on a plane without contracting a case of the sniffles. "

These quotes are excerpted from an article on our country's overuse of antibiotics in animal products. It's pretty horrific to see how these animals are treated. You can find more information here. (Note: Not for the squeamish!) I'm not vegetarian or vegan, but I do believe in humane treatment of animals. Even from a non-emotional standpoint, do you really want to be eating meat from an animal that's been confined, bulked up too early so it can't stand up under it's own weight, or injured by other nearby animals because they're so crammed together? I don't! But that is the state of our country's food supply.

Finding low-priced food is spectacular, but when the trade off is your future health, it's pretty clear that you paid too much for that cheaper food.