vegan Day 0

We are going vegan tomorrow. Should be an experience. I am excited. I can not wait to feel healthy and fit. I am preparing lunch for myself and my brother for tomorrow. (my cousins are in houston) I have made vegan Mexican rice and it will be accompanied by tofu steaks and salad. yummy! For snack there are cuties, strawberries, blackberries and trail mix made by me. I will post pics of it soon. I am going to use this to track my progress. I will record what I eata nd what physical activity I do. For my last meals as an omnivore, I have had and Orange Dream Machine from Jamba Juice, Sushi and for dinner, Mac and cheese. I lvoe mac and cheese.

Have a great day!

I voted... did you?

Obama is our president! If you voted, way to be an American, I know that does not mean much now, but give Obama some time as President and we will clean our name. If this was your first time voting. How does that feel? Awesome I bet. I feel sorry for my sister one month from tomorrow she will be 18. She missed voting, but at least she was here for this revolutionary election. No matter who won, this election was just a stepping stone to bring the USA into the times and start building a new reputation.
I have been sitting waiting for Barack Obama to give his speech, while waiting I have been doing homework and drinking cappuccino with marshmallows. Here is a photo. Obama is speaking now, gtg!

Fashion Notsa

Today I will begin my fashion blog. I have been racking my brain all day to come up with a cool, fashionable name. Any suggestions? I am stuck.
My fashion blog will consist of outfit posts, Mariam-isms, my fashion inspirations, loves, hates and other randoms. Out fit posts are photographs of the clothing I am wearing that day. I will try to post everyday, if not I will snap photos of my clothes daily and post them as often as time allows.
As you all may know I am currently enrolled in 18 hours of school and I am graduating this December. WOOT! I am a little scared of what comes after. I have waited so long for this moment. I have plans for after I graduate, but it still is not enough to keep my calm. Ya, vell.
I finally finished my last two pillowcase skirts about a month ago and put them on my etsy site this past weekend. I have no free time. Boo on that.
Speaking of Boo, my tu tu for Halloween is done. I am so excited. My friend Gin made it for me. I heart her!

this world is coming to ....

too frozen ice cream and too hot tea.

I was driving to class this afternoon when I came upon a woman who had tried to make a left turn into a drive when her van oh so conveniently died. She was blocking the two lanes of traffic. Coming from the opposite direction I saw this. I also saw the long line of cars that were just waiting for her to move. This older lady is out of her car trying to move it out of the way, by herself... no help. No one got out of their car to help her. There was one car that was just attempting to go around her. So I pulled into the left turn lane, put my hazards on and got out. I asked if she needed help, she said yes... YES. All these people around to help her and it took me to get out of my car to offer help. Well, I put my shoes back on, those who know me know that I do not drive with shoes on, I slip them on and walk over to her. As soon as I do this, about 5 guys, and I say guys because they are not gentlemen, had they been gentlemen they would have already helped her, piled out of the truck they were stuffed in and pushed her van for her, I did not get to help, and that is fine I do not think I could have pushed a van in flats. After they pushed her van out of the way they let her glide away, yelled "Hit the brake!" and hopped back in their truck. One tried to wave to me as if to say "We are not so bad we just helped her." I bet they are pleased with themselves for moving her van out of the way. I wish I could have done more, I probably could have and I should have, I was running late for class and her van was out of the way. I am not pleased with myself, I really should have done more, but at least those "oh so kind guys" moved her van for her. They ran off as if they were in a rush. If they were is such a rush why didn't they help her sooner to get her out of the way and on with theirs?

I am sorely disappointed in the human race because of this. I know that people talk about how the manners of humans have gone bad, but seriously, what is going on? These people were inconvenienced by this woman's van blocking both lanes of traffic, but no one moved to help her, they were prepared to sit there for as long as it took or find a way around her, rather than help her. We are so kind after natural disasters, something affects us as a community, but something happens to just one of us, we do nothing. We don't lend a helping hand. Common courtesy should not just been when we are all suffering, it should extent to any circumstance. My mom had a blow out of 59 the other night and no stopped to help her, I drove with my dear friend Tommy to change her tire. Middle of the night, blow out and no one stops. What if something happened to her? No one would care. I could tell a million stories about people and their bad manners. I saw a story on the tele once about an old woman who was missing, want to know where they found her? In a tree. Someone ran her off the freeway, literally off the freeway and she landed in a tree, they did not stop, they just kept going. She was there for some days and when she was found she was dehydrated and starving. I can not find the article for this but it is a good example.

Help people. If you were stuck you would want someone to help you. Help people. Help people. Help people.

Ike, Tike, Mike, Bike, Like....

well, we weathered the storm ok, we including my father mother and younger sister. we lost power between midnight and 1 am on friday evening, and it returned to us at 6 am saturday morning. we had house and phone and internet until saturday afternoon, and then caput, it was gone! sad days for me.

not much damage to the casa, some shingles flew off, fences fell, and most of our wonderful citrus was blown off the trees, green grapefruit and oranges and tangerines were strew acros our yard, it was the hardest thing to do picking them up. on the up side we had power, we were all safe, we had food, water and shelter, and there are still some rippening citrus at the top of the trees.

my sister and i made a goofy video the song is Pennies From Heaven. that song is dubbed instant happiness by my sister my self and a majority of my friends. some of you may recognize the song from the movie elf.

all of myfriends are ok, most have electricity back and are up and runnig, glad they are all safe.

for those of you who do not know, hurricane Ike was meant to hit houston, where i live, lucky for us, and not so luck y for others, it did not hit us just gave us a lot of wind and rain.

well, its been a long time, long time now...

I have been thinking lately of starting a fashion blog. I read a lot of fashion blogs and I am getting into the whole fashion scene. I know a lot of my friends do ot and will not approve of the outfits that float into my mind, all I can say to them, is be happy that we live in a world where I can where whatever I like. The clothes I wear are a not about me fitting in, but about me expressing who I am.

I am not saying that all my outfits will be super funky and breaking the norm on every turn, but they will be inspired by things around me. Nature, people, art, furnishings, fairy princesses... woods people... In fact I have a new wonderful friend who designs AWESOME! clothing and she is making me a super awesome tu tu to go with these super awesome, do gooder shoes from TOMS, you all know my recent discovery and obsession with TOMS, now they have a super awesome wrap boot for me to obsess over. That was a rant!

Any who, awesome tu tu for awesome boots. Also I bought a super crazy awesome apron, that makes me wish I worked at a small cafe in France so I could wear it and be the super awesome server!

So any ideas what I should title my new fashion blog? I was thinking FashionNotsa, like Fashionist but not... I dunno, any ideas?

my pseud big brother....

you were my brother's best friend and in turn you became mine. i remember the days spent in your numerous cars, your loud music and loud personality. I remember the serious Chris, the only that only showed up when i really needed him. more often i remember THE CHRIS.

the chris that always smiled, the chris that always laughed, the chris that gave awesome hugs, the chris that was always there, the chris i thought could and would never leave. i remember the chris that always had a joke, the chris that was in love, the chris that was my rock, everyones rock.

i hate that i didn't see you more. i hate that i thought you would always be here, that you would never leave, i hate that i can't see you anymore, i hate that you aren't just a phone call away.

as summer pointed out it was four mondays ago today and still can't get a hold of myself. you left a huge impact on everyones life you touched and everyone you met. there was not one person in this world that knew you and didn't love you or doesn't miss you. you never had a negative thing to say about anyone and in turn no one had a negative thing to say about you. you kept everyone's spirits up. nothing ever brought you down. you were always there for my brother... my family. we all loved you as if you were another son, or brother and you loved us the same.

you are one person that can never be replaced, i just wish there wasn't an opening.

i miss you i love you