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did you end up doing the hotdog stand? also I have a question - is donating sperm vegan? I thought about donating eggs to make money before.. but I was thinking it didn't seem very vegan. I don't remember why I thought that though. Do they use animal research for all that in-vitro stuff.

Happy World Vegan Day everybody!!!! My adopt-a-farm animal packet came yesterday. I put out some farm sanctuary literature at work. Hopefully some people will stop by my desk to learn more.

Hey Rob, How are you selling the film? though your website? amazon? what's the cost? what's the run time? Renee

My husband took me skating once when we were in college - I could barely stand up on the skates, they made my calves and ankles hurt, I pretty much hung onto him and the side of the rink. And whined like can we go now. Then about six and a half years ago my husband started playing hockey in a league. After Lex was born I took her to the games to watch. She loved the pretty dresses that the figure skaters wore.. and so she wanted to take skating lessons so she could dress like that. I took her faithly every week, several times a week for about a year and half just watching her learn. Then I decided to 'try' out skating myself. Surprisingly I could do a lot of things that she could do. Things it took her six months to learn - I could do. Yes I know how old she is and how old I am. Anyway - I'm enjoying being able to skate with her but I'm just a figure skating mom. Solos came out today and she got one! Yay!

How do you know if it would be (is - like by brand) synthesized? I was doing some uh homework last night trying to find a good list of ingredients to avoid to give my daughter's teacher. I found something about urea being used to darken pretzels. AND it didn't say it was synthesized.. it was on the ingredients to avoid list.

I swear I am constantly learning new stuff. Isn't it frustrating when you learn something that you have been eating isn't vegan. Pretzels for crying out loud. They put pee in them. Who thought of that? What is wrong with people? I have to go edit my daugther's "What I can and cannot eat" list that she has for school now and feel stupid that I didn't say that before. ARRRGGgghhhh I feel really bad when I don't know everything. Rob - you really should write an everything you need to know about things that stupid people put in food. Somebody should anyway.

just to say I had a stomach virus for like 48 hours last week.. and then I caught a cold from my daughter over the weekend.. I'm all sniffly and coughing with a headache.. my eyes hurt. Anyhow no lifting.. I did go to skating lessons on Saturday. And I made myself go tonight. I felt like I had to be a good example.. cause a know a certain little girl who doesn't always feel like working.. So I did. I did really good today. I didn't really do anything Saturday except show my new coach what I CAN do already and what I couldn't do that I need to be able to do (stop). So I worked on stops Saturday - that didn't go too well. But I did pretty good today with them. I also tried some backward pumps and I worked on pivots.. two new things I had never done. Cool.

no certificate or anything... but I was called most likely to defect.. sometimes I am AMAZED it hasn't happened yet.

There is NO way I'd let my kid eat school lunch. School foods are WAY TOO funded by the USDA for me to trust that anything they would serve would be okay for MY kid to eat. Last year I was told that she would have to have a doctor's note just to be allowed to purchase JUICE at school instead of milk. I not dealing with that kind of BS. I pack her 2 juice boxes a day.. along with her lunch and snack.

Howard Lyman presentation "Eating the Earth One Bite at a Time" Chapel Hill, NC Oct 25, 2005 7pm http://www.trianglevegsociety.org/howardlyman.pdf

The 45s are heavy for me - if I had been lifting regularly I prolly would've.

Its been a while since I posted. I seem to be lifting a lot less often than in the past so I'm going to be trying to get in 2 or 3 full body workouts a week. Swing Squats 3 x 10 x 15# each leg (was not getting full range of motion before - MUCH harder this way) Cable Push Pull 2 x 10 x 30# (each direction) DB Bicep Curls 3 x 10 x 25# DB Bench Press 3 x 10 x 35# (40s were MIA) Seated Row 3 x 10 x 70# feedback welcome on program...

Most companies that make vegan foods make other foods that are not. Amy's, Gardenburger, Boca, Morningstar Farms, Litelife, Yves, etc. I eat mostly Gardenburger and Litelife products.

I don't think she sculpted it to look like a turkey.. I think she just tried to make a homemade version of tofurky. I usually make my own stuffing, gravy, potatoes, etc to go with the tofurky though.

The brainwashing thing is something I am dealing with right now. If ya'll don't know I am extremely Anti-McDonalds. What McDonald's did (fries thing) is personal. Yesterday was McDonald's day at school. A portion of the proceeds went to my daughter's school so they were advocating all the kids to tell their parents to take them to McDonalds. Lexes had a little McDonald's bookmark that I made her throw away. "You are not allowed to have anything that says McDonalds on it" On the drive home I talked to her about did she know why. "Because McDonald's is evil and they kill animals and sell them for people to eat." I'm still thinking about how to explain why that answer was wrong. We eat at other fast food places and restaurants that 'kill animals and sell them to people to eat' so why is McDonalds a special case. So I'm working on that lecture for her. I don't want my daughter brainwashed into believing stupid crap. I don't even know how much I can fight of it. Well that is why I have my blog huh. I don't know if I contributed to this conversation at all. That really sucks that vegans can't adopt from overseas when so many of those children need good loving homes. I also heard the thing about soy milk being provided by WIC. That's awful that they feel like well poor people can just eat crap because they can't afford to be choosy.

Come by and check out the blog if you haven't yet... or recently. I'm doing lots more real blogging in addition to logging lunches.

Last year a coworker said that they make tofu turkeys for thansgiving. I was like I never knew anyone to make one - why don't you just buy one from the store. She didn't know you could get them already made! Go figure. They had one last year and loved it.. as opposed to the flop their homemade one had made. We had an unTurkey last year.. I like Tofurky better so we'll be having that again this year.

awesome I can't wait to get the magazine!

That's great. I have had workout partners in the past.. it just never seems to work out for me. I do need a 'counter' though when I am seriously training reps for bench.

how's your training going? Are you slacking with the workouts or with the posting? - I'm both

Its supposed to work the whole body.. doing those on Monday incapsitated me for a week. I'll have take it a little bit easier next time. I'm going to try a slight modification of the workout plan I found in that article. Pretty much doing the routine as he has it listed and adding squats to one day and some bench press work to another. We'll see how that goes this week.

I found a picture... here you go: http://www.stumptuous.com/weird_stuff.html except that my up squat position is the middle picture - I don't guess I go ALL the way up.. according to this. actually I do them one handed - not two handed more like this http://www.trainforstrength.com/ex-4.shtml again my up is picture 4, not picture 5. Maybe I should change how I do them then... huh?

It was recommended by Mike Mahler. He sent me a link demostrating that move but it doesn't appear to be working anymore. Here is an article where he decribes it though: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/mahler25.htm

BB Squat 3 x 8 x 145# DB Swing Squat 2 x 16 x 25# Standing Hamstring curls 3 x 10 x 65# Leg Extensions 3 x 10 x 70# Lying Hamstring Curls 2 x 10 x 60# DB SLDL 3 x 5 x 45#

Hey I want to see the trailer.. is there a link to it?