corn yarn!

I have thai food photos to upload!

My Mom knits and whatnot and is going to make me a killer scarf for the winter. Of course, we were looking up different colored yarns (wool-free yarns)...and she found this awesome yarn made out of corn!!!



They have a lot of other awesome colors, too. She uses this site called yarnmarket.com that has links to tons of different places that sell the stuff. I am super excited to get my cruelty-free scarf!!!

Other not necessarily vegan-only updates:
Phenylalinine: That stuff that is all over labels with a giant "caution" or some kind of bold color around it! I looked it up... Here's the chain: In large quantities, it inhibits your body's ability to produce serotonin. It's in aspartame so it's in a whole lot of sugar-free stuff. That's why aspartame causes mood swings.. the lack of serotonin!! I knew aspartame caused mood swings but never knew the scientific reason behind it. It's also been linked to cancer. So, any sugar-free eaters or diabetics out there (my boyfriend's diabetic) beware!!

..because it's not just a bite.

I am just terrible at blogging!! It's been a good two weeks. I always have such great blogging intentions but I don't really like writing unless it's 3AM and I'm home alone. Being awake at 3AM and by myself is not going to happen...so my body must adjust!! I randomly send really crappy phone pics to facebook but I will update you with what has been my quickest/tastiest find this week. *drumroll..............*


voila!! I call them 'bagel chomps'... get it? (bagel bites...but theyre' really big. The name has already grown on me and rolls freely off my tongue whenever I am making them. I use everything bagels, some kinda dairy-free fancy spaghetti sauce I found at the grocery store (forget the name..it started with a 'b'?) and DAIYA cheese...which is amazing and actually melts (I could have melted it more but I am extremely impatient and 1) don't cook things long enough and 2) eat things when they are extremely hot and burn my mouth. I can't help it, I love food!! These were honestly delicious, though. Daiya has a pretty strong flavor so you don't even need that much.. and the sauce was like basil and garlic so that added to it as well.

I used to use "parma" but I can't find it anywhere around here. I get Daiya down in Tampa. The best thing is it's dairy, gluten, and soy free! So my Mom can eat it, too :) (she does the gluten-free thing.)

Other vegan updates:
Toms Shoes added two new vegan wrap boot colors! Olive and ash! Still haven't decided which color to splurge on.

I've also gone on questioning what "caranauba wax" is. Well, it's vegan!
"Carnauba, also called Brazil wax and palm wax, is a wax of the leaves of the palm, Copernicia prunifera, a plant native to and grown only in the northeastern Brazilian states of Piauí, Ceará, and Rio Grande do Norte.[1] It is known as "queen of waxes"[2] and usually comes in the form of hard yellow-brown flakes. It is obtained from the leaves of the carnauba palm by collecting them, beating them to loosen the wax, then refining and bleaching the wax."

So Frances and whomever she is with (Ian/Emily? just Emily?) are coming over. We might make vegan whipped cream! :D

This past update-less week.

I know, not blogging lately. I've been incredibly busy. Work has been okay, getting a bit busier now, for whatever reason...yet more strict (no cellphones aka texting haha, no drinks without lids, no food which--doesn't USUALLY apply to me since copious amounts of chocolate is often NOT vegan..) One of the warehouse guys is having a baby so I need to go find a gift from Target (my favorite store ever). I LOVE buying baby things!!! I honestly have this outfit I got at Old Navy for $1 JUST BECAUSE. Too bad it's a girl and not a boy, this is definitely a "boy" outfit..it'll have to sit in my closet a bit longer, ha.

Internship-running smoothly. About a month and a half to go (before school starts). I've been more or less keeping the journal running smoothly but have yet to start the 20 page paper. I'm hoping I get the inspiration next week to start working on it. Perhaps my house will be a little more put together....

THE HOUSE! I'm in an incredibly creative and COLORFUL, might I add, mood lately. I went shopping at the usuals (Ross, Marshalls, Target) and got some wonderful things. Bright orange curtains, an owl stuffed with potpourri, 200 colored cardstock squares, awesome wedges with colored stripes on the sides, Marc got the movie Igor...we need to watch it again before he brings it to work. I know there's more!! New orange ceramic bowls since I'm probably throwing away most of our old dishes.. Marc got a giant glass boot, like Beerfest, except we don't drink so it's either going to be 1)gifted to a deserving individual or 2) turned into a plant pot!! :D So then, TARGET!! had these 4 packs of plastic dishes (yes plastic but it's TARGET so it's decent) plates/bowls/cups for $2 each!! Then they had these huge square plates with splattered colors (which happened to match the colors in one of the sets I bought) and giant cups soooo...got two of each of those :) also $2.. Then they had HUGE mixing bowls so got one black, one pink :) I literally walked up to the cashier with my arms full of dishes but I think it was well worth it. Oh yeah! and this awesome cheetah print mug from Marshalls..for tea drinking, solely :)

So the cardstock, I made little origami birds and hung them above my reading chair in our room! They are SO cute!! I'm trying to make the house look nice before the summer is over so that it's not frustrating me once school starts. I want to have my mom/stepdad over for *vegan* dinner one night, too. I think I know just what to make. Thus, I am looking for a nice little dining room table that can fit four if need be.. any ideas? I know I can get one from Ikea and Target... I think I'm going to buy the chairs from Target that Marc hates, I'll just make my own cushions for them. I need someone to get this twin bed and other bs out of my house!!! It's just sitting there and it's hard to clean when theres a mountain of things you just want out of your house. I need to hit up Goodwill ugh no it's this huge chain store now, I'll probably bring everything to St. Vincent's or something instead.

School! I just redid my school schedule and it's so beautiful I could cry...and hopefully it won't make me cry for other reasons once I'm halfway into it..like last semester (HA), oh, last semester was a trainwreck.

Here we go!! Chinese I/Lab, Chinese Cinema, International Human Rights, Totalitarianism in Film and Lit., and a research paper on Animal Rights Philosophy sponsored by Tauber :D I am beyond excited. I moved some things around so I could have a semester to just really enjoy myself BECAUSE:

I really wanna get an ETSY store running! I know JUST what I'm going to make.

Speaking of making, I have not been a good chef lately! Believe me.. takeout takeout and more takeout??? Chinese, Taco Bell, Thai.. really not that $$ but still. The kitchen just honestly needs a massive overhaul before I make anything fancy. I did, however, bring the vegan cupcake book to work with me. If I am somehow super full of energy tonight, I'm going to tackle enough of the kitchen to attempt making cupcakes. We'll see how that goes. If it's a success, there will be pictures.

Oh! Went to Harry Potter world on Monday--amazing. The ride was ridiculous (you know, the good kind of ridiculous) but it made me pretty sick. The only thing we didn't do was the wand picker but I wanted to save something for next time (we have passes).. Butterbeer is just cream soda. Bummer? eh. The pumpkin juice was REALLY good though!!! Chocolate frogs are $10--you are warned. Everything is totally worth it though, it's Harry Potter!! And note, Mythos--the "Lost Continent" restaurant right outside HP has Pad Thai right now!! VEGAN! and my favorite, ever. It doesn't come close to the Thai restaurant here, it's very light, but it was still an awesome find. And City Walk has Moe's for dinner after the parks close :D There's also a burger joint in each park that offers veggie burgers. Finally breaking through? haha!

Oh! I made mac-n-cheese with ramen noodles. I've decided ramen noodles SUCK and I refuse to ever try to convince myself otherwise ever again..same goes for oatmeal. BLECK! The cheese sauce I made was really good though.. mix of daiya and nutritional yeast. Tonight I'm probably going to make spinach stuffed ravioli with spaghetti sauce--next week I'll try to tackle the alfredo sauce :D

I promise, pictures soon. I'm in serious need of getting the house together so that's all I've been doing every night. Yes, it's going to take that long. and then I have so many ideas sometimes I just sit there and stare.

Tonight: Tackle kitchen, make cupcakes, finish bedroom, SIGNUP for traffic school.

I think I can handle that?

Pizza time!

Okay, I know I haven't been updating this thing. Did go to my faaaaaavorite thai restaurant ever the other night. I hadn't been in over a week!!! I just can't go that long without peanut sauce (best thing on this planet, more or less.)

Tonight (since there's still a ton of cheese left over) I decided to make a pizza. Half green peppers (my half) half mushrooms (Marc's half) all pepporoni :) I don't remember the name of the pepperoni I used, I threw the label away a while ago, but I got it at Whole Foods. It's Pillsbury pizza dough crust. Touch of italian seasonings in the sauce. VOILA! Bon appetit.