Been Busy

nobody@vox.com(sharonb) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:56:55 -0400

I have been a bit busy setting up scrapbooking my websites and such, raw living is good and i am losing weight! wow! what a plus.
Also I have a brand new nephew!!! And he is adorable and life lately has been all about him. My sister is doing fine and all is well.
If you want to find me
check out The Scrappy Chic Boutique

This is my new nephew, he was born on July 4th at 3:15pm.

Layout made with the Turk Fun Kit

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It has 2 tags, 1 string of hearts, 1 quick brag page,3 butterfly, set of alpha, 2 buttons, 4 flowers, 4 frames, 1 album, and 6 designer papers.
I made this kit as a free sample of my work.
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R.I.P. George Carlin:

nobody@vox.com(sharonb) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:58:16 -0400

Georgecarlin

A Message by George Carlin:

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways,but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.

We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.Remember, to say, 'I love you' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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Obama seals nomination: 'This is our moment' - Politics on The Huffington Post

nobody@vox.com(sharonb) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:10:34 -0400

Obama seals nomination: 'This is our moment' - Politics on The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Before a crowd of cheering thousands, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket without conceding her own defeat.

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Day 8- Gone Raw

nobody@vox.com(sharonb) — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:23:27 -0400

Raw1

Ok so it has been 8 days sense i decided to go on raw foods. I start each day out with a green smoothie filled with kale greens, celery, apple,pineapple,lemon. Thanks to the book Green for Life. It gives me lots of energy and fills me up too. Guess what, I am not hungry all day anymore!

And i have to say I love living raw (so far). My sister swares i will began craving meat and looking at people like pork chops soon, but i beg to differ. I think i have completely made up my mind and it has been a long time coming for me to decide to give up meat and such. I am pretty firm in my conviction, i am just so happy that Mr. Big decided to do this for a month with me so i don't have to overcome any temptations.

But I purposely went to the store and around cooked food just to see how i would react and actually it was not so bad. My main problem is sweets. i love ice cream and cake and chocolate and stuff. But that is all good too because there are so many things i can make with raw chocalate and natural sweetners like agave.
I also find that i love raw granola, i had some for breakfast with hemp seed milk this morning, yummmmy!

I am also learning to be a raw food chef. I made this green seaweed pate wrap and it is a wonderful great taste in the mouth. And filling without the worry of calorie counting!

Seaweed and greens pate rollup

Also i have released 5lbs! So that is a plus. Looking forward to continuing on the journey.
I made my own ice cream with nuts and seeds and added a banana and it is yummy. I never knew real food could taste so good.

Raw bananasplit

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Preparing to go Raw

nobody@vox.com(sharonb) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:48:22 -0400

I spent most of the morning looking for somewhere to buy organic foods in Atlanta. I was amazed to only be able to find a few whole food supermarkets that actually carry food for the raw vegan lifestyle. I am so tired of the S.A.D.
( standard American Diet) that i have been eating for all my life and now i am at the cross roads and a wake up call of which i fully plan to answer..YES! TO RAW and a new life. New energy, new, just new.,.

I am so excited and a bit nervous about going completely raw, but hey I decided to quit smoking 10 yrs ago and Once i layed down my last puff i didn't look back, I am hoping the food will be the same. I feel a strong committment to my feelings towards food these days. I have actually grown to hate eating, it use to be my gratest pleasure, now it is almost my greatest night mare, by going raw i hope to change the way i feel about food and my body in general.

I found a great grocerie store in Marrietta, i called the lady there she gives classes on going raw and i plan to take the class on may 20th. But i am happy to find a place to begin. to night i am going to change my kitchen around. It will become a raw kitchen.

Mr. Big has decided to go raw with me so that makes it all the better and a lot easier for me not to have to cookj seperate meals for anyone but My son Chris. I am also excited about learning how to become a raw chef. And hoipefully help someone else in the future as well. So now the journey begins,. Lets start with a picture.
I am not happy with this pucture but right now it will do.
This is me before My raw life begins.

Age 50
weight 215lbs

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Going Raw on May 1th-2008

nobody@vox.com(sharonb) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:53:17 -0400

After 50 yrs of diets,pills,drugs,drinks,and other chemicals, my body is beginning to say NO!.

LATELY NO MATTER HOW MUCH I EXERCISE OR DIET I CAN not seem to overcome the back pain, the headaches or the weightg gain. I have become prisoner to my eating habits and my flesh.
I now fully realize that Cooked and processed Food is killing me!

Each year around this time i go on a fast and recover for a while. But As i get older i am finding that i want something real, something lasting, something meaningful health wise. So i began some research and studies a few weeks ago and have come to the conclusion that getting back to live foods and natures way of eating is what I really need.

Yes i know after all these years of cooked and processed foods it will be hard to go raw but I have made up my mind and so it will begin. On may 1th i amgoing raw. I will pop in each day and post about the journey, but that is all I will have time for.= As I am still also on spiritual shut down.

I need something meaningful and real in my life. We live in a superficial processed world and I need more.
I need to get back to the garden, the way God planned it. The way nature requires it.This month
I am reading...

Eating in the Raw: A Beginner's Guide to Getting Slimmer, Feeling Healthier, and Looking Younger the

The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life

Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine

The 80/10/10 Diet

The Raw 50: 10 Amazing Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, Snacks, and Drinks for Your Raw Food Lifestyle

Living on Live Food

12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food

Juice Fasting and Detoxification: Use the Healing Power of Fresh Juice to Feel Young and Look Great

The Raw Food Detox Diet: The Five-Step Plan for Vibrant Health and Maximum Weight Loss

And I am spending time on these websites"

What is raw
Give it to me raw
Living raw chat

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Gone on Sabbatical for May

nobody@vox.com(sharonb) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:43:16 -0400

Sorry i haven't been around the blog much, and I am gonna be gone for the whole month of May.
hang in there ya'll and see you when i get back. hugs and smooches.

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Well 50 is upon me

nobody@vox.com(sharonb) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:38:40 -0400

yep in a few hours i will be 50. And I am feeling pretty good about it after all.

I was looking to be in London/Paris this weekend but so much other stuff is going on in my life right now, no time to travel just yet. So hopefully i will get there before the year is over.

Anyhoo i will be out in the fresh air tomorrow so i decided to post my 50 picture today.,

Mybirthdayphotoshot

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In a few hours-the city of Sydney Australia will turn off its lights for Earth Hour,

nobody@vox.com(sharonb) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:06:22 -0400

In a few hours-The city of Sydney Australia will turn off its lights for Earth Hour, beginning what will hopefully be a very large ripple effect around the planet of city after city doing the same. So today I am changing all my websites to black and grey in honor of Earth hour. The black web colors use less screen energy and symbolize the efforts at the same time. I encourage you to do the same. Have an awesome earth hour. Help save the planet.

On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund.

Earth Hour was created by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007, and in one year has grown from an event in one city to a global movement. In 2008, millions of people, businesses, governments and civic organizations in nearly 200 cities around the globe will turn out for Earth Hour. More than 100 cities across North America will participate, including the US flagships–Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix and San Francisco and Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

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Breaking News: Iraq war Costs US $12Billion Per Month

nobody@vox.com(sharonb) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:22:12 -0400

Breaking News: Iraq war Costs US $12Billion Per Month

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03...

A US soldier of 3rd Brigade Combat team, 3rd Infantry secures the area as smoke a pall rises from fires in background, during a military operation at Al-leg area about 60 kilometers (40 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, March 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and co-author Linda J. Bilmes report in a new book. Beyond 2008, working with "best-case" and "realistic-moderate" scenarios, they project the Iraq and Afghan wars, including long-term U.S. military occupations of those countries, will cost the U.S. budget between $1.7 trillion and $2.7 trillion _ or more _ by 2017. Interest on money borrowed to pay those costs could alone add $816 billion to that bottom line, they say.

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