a quick word for the food industry

PLEASE stop putting freaking corn syrup and soybean oil in everything!
It's not healthy. It's not doing anyone good.
For someone who is allergic to corn and soy I can not eat anything processed because it is in everything! Even bread and cold cuts.

Dear FDA,

Start cracking down on processed food. It is full of unhealthy synthetic chemicals that are making people fat and sick.

Toby and BUddy's vet visit

Buddy has a hurt paw and had to go to the vet to get it checked out. We wanted to go before vacation so the neighbor who was watching her didn't have to worry about anything. My mom decided it was time for Toby's checkup as well.
It was hilarious. Toby makes so many people laugh, because he is rather smart and such a stinker. Toby likes to bark, i think just to bark. And his bark his loud and harsh. When the doctor came in he just started barking up a storm, but after she gave him a treat he sat and scooted towards her to get another. This was very funny.
Buddy went first, and checked out well. When she was on the table Toby sat next to the nurse and put his face as close to the table as he could. It looked like he was trying to be the third doctor.
When the doctor said okay Toby it's your turn, he went from a dog pretending to be brave by barking and looking at Buddy, and immediately ran behind my mom's legs (who was standing in the corner). He put his head in the corner and would not even look at the vet. lol She had to coax him from behind her legs, and put him for a while. He did alright the rest of the checkup. They had to put a muzzle on him because he has tried to bit the vet before, and he really tried to look as pathetic as possible. He wouldn't look at anyone and just stood there while the vet examined him (which was quick and not bad, so I'm not sure what he was so scared of).
Once the muzzle was off, the vet gave Toby more treats and she called him a very sucky dog- as in knows how to suck up and get treats. hahaha

Team Edward

Before I came home for the summer I started praying and asking God to help me have patience with my parents, and help me be kind towards them. (it's very hard coming from total independence and going to very little independence. Fortunately, me and my parents have got along fine so far.
But instead of having me just deal with my parents, God decided to put a man in my life this summer who would help me learn patience. And if anyone knows me I can be rather impatient.
Edward is a very sweet, very friendly, old man who unfortunately had a very bad head accident and now is a bit slow, and it's hard for him to talk. Friday was the first day I worked with him. He spent a hour explaining how to make new patient files (something I have been doing for 6 years). I kept trying to say I already know how to do this, as polite as possible but he still just kept showing me. I got very annoyed and frustrated. On the car ride home Friday I was praying, and blowing off steam to God. When He told me working with Edward was how I was gonna learn patience. This is very true. I've worked with him everyday since, and I try and be as kind and as patient as I can. I now look forward to when he stops by to chat. I have heard people talk about Edward behind his back, and a lot of people at the office do not like him and think he is annoying because he is slow. I think the contrary, he is so sweet and encouraging and rather fun to talk to, even though the conversations take a while.
He always comes to see how I am doing during the day, and when he walks away he says "Yay team!".

i miss jeff this much!

Boyfriend is on a Italian adventure. I haven't talked to him in almost a week. And I sure do miss him.

hair cut

I got a hair cut yesterday! Just a trim with more bangs!
I love going to get my hair cut because I always get told what good care I take of my hair. Unlike the doctor, or dentist who always have negative things to say.

farmers market

My parents and I went to the farmers market in town last night for dinner and veg buying. I've never been to the one in town, my dad and i usually go to the one in the next town over. But this one was great. There was a live band, tons of stalls, lots of yummy fruit to try, and dinner stalls.
I had some falafel for dinner, with was alright. It was a tad dry. But the fruit I went around eating was some of the sweetest I've ever had. I had a great time walking around talking to vendors about their fruit and veggies. My favorite vendor and I talked about fruit drying for a while. I bought some of his raisins, which were the prettiest raisins i have ever seen. They were golden, pink, purple, and red. It's was a very beautiful melody.
The raisins, strawberries, and white peaches were my favorite!

I can't wait for next week, i'll bring my camera and take pictures.

JOhn! pancakes, and the airport

John Wenhold drove my car up from Austin this past week. It was soooo nice to have a friend from Baylor here. We drove around town and watched a movie and had pizza! It was nice to have a friend here.
Anyways the point of this post is this story:
I had to take him to the airport early Thursday morning and before we were planning on stopping to get breakfast. Breakfast took forever getting to us, so we had to get our pancakes, waffles, eggs, bacon, sausauge, and fruit to go. This food is probably one of the hardest to eat in the car. Syrup is sticky and gets everyway. Oh and it spills easy. So off we drove into SF to the airport eating with our fingers cuz they didn't give us forks. It was delicious, difficult to not make a huge mess, and very hilarious. Once we started eating we just started laughing! We were sucessful in eating our breakfast, although I did make a tiny sticky mess.

Graduation

I went to my high school's graduation this past saturday to support Geneva's sister Emily. I saw a lot of people I knew but for some reason tried to keep my head down because I didn't want to talk to any of them.
Being around people from high school (even teachers) kinda reminded me how much i hated high school. I had a hard time with various stupid friend drama, and eventually told off all my old "good" friends because they were doing things and talking about me behind my back, and would tell Geneva and stuff. I'm glad I'm done with high school and all the people there.
I saw a few old friends and it seemed so fake, they all said how much they missed me and wanted to hang with me. Some of these are the same friends who were never "free" last summer when I called them often to hang out.
It made me realize how great my college friends are and how much I love all of them!