Lovin' the fruity Summer days...

I'm not pure fruit lately but enjoying lots of it... and bowlfuls of the fresh tender greens!

I love my nephew. Can't see his cuteness in the clip. He is staying with us until the weekend when his parents come back from vacation.

He turned 1 in late June!

He didn't like wearing his traditional Korean outfit...


but he liked the football (or any round object he can throw/roll/bounce) and I think he liked the singing too!

I am tutoring quite a lot. My autistic student has his own blog he writes in with assistance in spelling and syntax from his tutors (me and another girl who work with him on different days).

I have one last summer class (a Biology course) I am now taking before I am finally done with my bachelor's degree in Psychology! I am not allowed to participate in dissections (so no lab for this week for me) since I am pregnant (5 months this Thursday, can you believe it?).

Our wedding photographer hasn't gotten back to us with the proofs yet. My cousin took and sent me some pictures.




Our flower girl. She was timid so her mom came and walked with her.


Happy Summer, love and care to all!

Wedding reflections

Just thought I'd update about our wedding. None of these are by our professional photographer, as those are not ready yet. These are taken by friends and family.

Our first dance. The bridesmaids dresses were gorgeous, with rhinestones along the front and sheer material which split down the dress.



Obtaining the garter: I was telling Tom not to lift the dress too high.

Here is our centerfold piece at the country club. This is a church member behind the centerfold. There were vanilla scented tea lights surrounding this. The butterflies were inserted into the oasis. The floating flower is a Gerber daisy.

High school friends who came out.

When I get pictures, I'll post of our cute flower girl (cousin's daughter who looks like Precious Moments toddler) and perhaps some from the ceremony. Tom picked me up and carried me down the aisle.

It was fun. The next day I got nauseous, threw up, and slept for 15 hours. Feeling much better today.

My hubby-to-be and I questing

My hubby-to-be and I are going raw vegan, but mostly fruitarian. He gave a comprehensive review of each recipe we made on his site.

I made him Ani Phyo's almond mylk cereal with bananas instead of the Smart Monkey bar, and we made some salsa with added mushrooms and chives together.

Also had cantaloupe, Ataulfo mangoes, honey tangerines, green grapes, dates and walnuts (I only had one). I felt so good and happy after my raw day. I was also happy we got him full. We're going to be making more of Ani Phyo's recipes, like the Dolmas and Spanish Scramble, since it helps with satiation. We're having those recipes without the salt, however. We'll see how it goes this way.

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As an off-topic note, here are our wedding invitations. I wanted to have an Enchanted Forest theme to our wedding but we shall see.

Goodbye

Farewell to the horrors of the cooked realm. I abhor certain foods right now. I hate major sources of fat and protein. Water is good. Mangoes are kind to me.

I am ready for spring and summer. For melons.
I dropped these melon seeds last summer and they flowered into the fall but didn't make it for the winter. This time I will save the seeds and plant them in the spring.

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My day of expectancy is December 2nd.

Evolution or Devolution?

I am happy to report I got the highest grade back on my test for my Biology lecture class of about 300 students. yay me. I did put in the studying, and I made connections with what I already knew, strengthening and increasing the complexity of my neural networks, and I created clear mental images so that the material would remain for good. I was happy to review right before the exam with another studious student. I was glad to have found her, as the people sitting around me did not know what I was talking about!

Evolution is a heated topic (I have come to find by scanning through forums), but it opens my eyes to the potential we carry within our DNA. To look at the vast changes that had to occur for the divergence of the common ancestors between the marine-dwelling manatee and the African or Asian elephant. To even consider the model that shows the evolutionary path from a dinosaur to a whale.

A question that continues to intrigue me is this: Are we evolving or devolving? I do think in more ways than not it could be the latter. Of course, our thoughts will continue to evolve in whatever course they are taking. However, physically, it seems we are becoming degenerate and diseased. With a few fossils that were found in Europe, later labeled as belonging to neanderthals and cro magnum, it appears the brains of modern human are, on average, a little smaller than the brains of the neanderthals. Surely their physical build far surpassed modern man's current build. I watched a man vs. animal episode in which an orangutan went up against a sumo wrestler (twice the weight of the orangutan) in tug-of-war. The orangutan had no problem hoisting up the wrestler and tugging the wrestler till he fell into the pit. She easily held his full force of strength with just one arm. If we are evolving in the capacities of our minds, to grow in self-awareness/creativeness, and in complexity of thought, where are we headed? What are we capable of?

The question I bypassed was, where did we come from? According to my textbook, using mitochondrial DNA testing, all humans can be traced back to a common ancestor who was a woman. In consideration of the story of Adam and Eve, what did they look like?

Prosperity

If you want to get to the land of Milk (lots of green pastures) and Honey (lots of flowers that become fruit), to the Promised land, to prosper, you've got to not have any part with certain things that close your potential and were designed for your fall.

Some obvious ones are hard drugs. Crack, cocaine, heroine, Methamphetamines. Take these and become habituated to them, and you will have a very very hard time coming back. It was not for no reason that China came into a huge and exponentially growing debt with the BEIC and could not help themselves any longer until a man stepped up and dumped all the opium into the ocean. It's almost a death sentence.

Next in line is premature relationships. The reason I put this in is because I believe children need strong parental figures to support them and bring them up with everything they need. It must be emphasized that the person you choose as your mate must be ready for that role, wise and equipped, a good choice as a partner and parent. There must be good support and nurturement for the people brought into the world. <3>Notice how when some people are going through struggle they turn to these kinds of premature relationships? This must not be their most desirable resort, those people must be there in their lives so that they do not have to turn to this. It just allows for a chain effect of harsh living.

Next is those foods which cause eventual body failure. Yes. Foods cause dysfunction and the inability to reproduce. These are manufactured that way. They're almost a death sentence too. Think of all those comfort foods... buttered white refined biscuits, so hard to even dissolve from the mouth because they stick to the lining of your mouth, and then to intestinal walls... make you constipated... and all the MSG-laden food. Overactivates your brain for no functional reason. All the fried transfatty food. It makes you feel horrible but it gets you to overlook that and it gets you hooked onto it. These foods start to run your life, where you eat when it does not serve your body, you have absurd cravings, food becomes your reward, you can't live without it... beware, it's deadened your senses but if you desist for a while you will see you are much better off without, much more functional without. If you find yourself failing tests and not able to learn, no, this is not who you are, check if these things are corrupting your very beautiful, designed-for-thriving body and intelligent mind.

Finally (for my list), watch out for idols. These are figures or symbols or things that represent a way of living that was not what you were created for to begin with. You were created for much higher things. These things occupy, but do not take you further. These are things that get in the way of your potential, your destiny, because you don't see past them. Anytime you find yourself praising something that you think is holy (but in fact is not) or being attached to something, you have succumbed to an idol. Careful who you choose as a role model. Chances are they are quite lacking, not living to the full of the potential that is for you. Don't limit yourself to what they have become. Idols are fixed, but we are fluid, and with potential.

Eating fruits

I'm glad to have read that Jericho Sunfire eats fruits and drinks of their juice!

Post on JS's stay over 60 days (comments section).

Was pondering about this one for a while. Yeah, I had a coworker who would make all sorts of preposterous claims, like how he was 100 years old. I used to get angry at him, but I learned that it was his vata-like personality, and I ended up appreciating his imaginative nature, as long as he let me know the truth. Well, it's good to know. One thing he taught me was that people do like to fabricate their stories and fascinate others by giving false accounts! Yes, people do this.

Just seeing how Olivia wasted away to having almost no fat by the end of her third water fast, I had a better picture of how long a person can last without food.

I wonder about Barbara Moore, who was supposed to have not been able to eat food after transitioning from raw vegan food to greens and juices and eventually lemon juice in water. When looking at her picture, she looks very robust and thick. The report and her picture don't seem to go together.

The same goes for the report of Therese Neumann. She looks bloated. I read that she looked young, but she doesn't. She was supposed to have eaten a tiny wafer once a day.

There is also Giri Bala but she also looks like one who eats.

This man scares me a little. I do not aspire to look like him. His name is Prahlad Jani. He looks most like a person who has gotten used to not eating. He says there is a hole in his upper palate through which nectar is fed to him. I'm scared that's cerebrospinal fluid. He is very tiny. He went under constant surveillance for 10 days without drinking any water- only rinsing his mouth and bathing.

Well, that's just taking this all into view. I'm on my first day of fasting and I'm glad I'm getting to experience this. I'm going through extra cleansing this first day since I'm at *that time of the month* and going through this method of elimination early on. I'm looking forward to seeing how I do. Hopefully I'll do well and will be able to continue.