Guilty Pleasure #5

Its been a long time since I posted one of these. In middle school I had a strange obsession come over me, there was a certain genre of music that I became obsessed with... which leads to guilty pleasure #5: Showtunes.

I discovered Showtunes Saturday Night on Cozy 106.5 when I was 13 and became an avid listener learning all the new musicals. Thankfully this obsession has died down a lot, although I did just go to Las Vegas solely to see The Lion King... so maybe the obsession isn't quite gone yet.

Les Miserables twice, Wicked, Mama Mia, The Lion King, and countless musicals seen at Hale Theater. I can't get enough. I really want to see Mary Poppins, and if Uncle Jesse is still starring in Bye Bye Birdie than sign me up.
What did I say earlier about this obsession dying down? ha ha It still very much exists! Katherine wearing her $60 Wicked sweatshirt, me in my wicked T and us copying the playbill cover. It doesn't get more pathetic hilarious than this.
Abby's a Monster!!!!

This is the phrase that my loving and adoring sister Katherine has whispered into the young innocent ears of my nieces and nephews for years now...funny funny Katherine. Sometimes I am a monster I'll admit.... today...... I ate a Green One!!!!!
Yep, a big, filled to the brim, in your face spinach Green Monster! What did I think of it?
no explanation will be necessary. just yum.

Divinity

Are you getting a load of this picture? Isn't it a beauty? Unfortunately I did not take it but I sure did eat it, I gotta give props to Angela from ohsheglows.com
for this delicious creation. Cherry Chocolate Bomb Vegan Overnight Oats!!!!!! It was quite possibly the most delicious thing I have ever eaten! It tasted like dessert for breakfast but it is healthy! You can check out the recipe on her webpage! You will NOT regret buying the ingredients for this because I guarantee you you'll want to eat it every day! Angela is so inspiring she has changed my outlook on a lot of health related topics. She instigated the green monster movement--- haven't heard of it? Green Monsters= Spinach Smoothies. I've got to admit I am a little skeptical but I am going to try one sometime this week so expect a follow up post!

Its all coming back to me now!!!!! (thank you Celine Dion)

So for the past few days I have taken on a major assignment... organizing the thousands of photos in our house and putting them into albums. Challenge? Yes!!!! A definite Yes!!!! Even trying to figure out how old I am in the pictures is hard enough let alone ages of my 4 other siblings.
It has been so comical coming across hilarious photos of everyone in the family... mostly funny pics of my dad, he's quite the hysterical being. Categorizing holidays is just a plain nightmare! Especially since I was an Angel for about 3 Halloweens in a row and Katherine was a bee for (count em) 4 years straight! The missing teeth in photos are my only clue to age! I just love this photo, especially since I am still friends with Angel #1 in the photo! Shout out to Whitney Simons!
I may have taken on more than I can handle but don't fear mom, I will eventually finish this project! And clean up the basement which is now covered in thousands of photos!!!! Literally the whole floor is my own photo archeological site!
Organic Schmore-ganic No More!

I was always riding the train that said why do people pay so much for organic food? It isn't that much different and costs leaps and bounds more than regular food... but lets just say that after
reading this book and a whole heap of health blogs..... I may be making some dramatic changes about what I eat.
Yep, thats right! I am actually going to give up all my fake foods... and I sure do eat plenty of them. Sugar Free Jam, Sugar Free Syrup, White Splenda, Brown Splenda, Low Fat Peanut Butter, Low Fat but sugary yogurts, Artificial Butter Spray, fat free mayo, 45 calorie bread and various other health hazardous food. It had never occurred to me that these "free foods" were actually playing tricks on my metabolism fooling it into thinking it didn't have to do any work because the food was covered in so many harmful and disguised chemicals that my body naturally can't recognize.
I have become addicted to reading food labels now and trying to pronounce all the ridiculous names of chemicals listed in the ingredients... It cannot be healthy to eat such processed foods and sadly that is all children do eat today. Blue Box Mac and Cheese (which don't get me wrong is sadly delicious) with all its artificial coloring and taste ( powered cheese isn't natural right?) I don't even want to begin to research what is in hot dogs, or the lacking nutrition of breaded frozen chicken nuggets. I don't think that it is any mystery why our society is so so so unhealthy; I really believe that a big part of this comes from processed foods and what foods we teach our children to love. So I'm about to go on this low processed journey and see how it feels.
Three pieces of advice that I pulled from this book are to stay away from processed meats, artificial coloring, and harmful plastics. Some of the absolute worst preservatives are found in processed and prepackaged deli meats, hotdogs, and diet hamburgers; they are extremely harmful and raise cancer risks by 42%!!!!!!! And also avoid artificial colored products, artificial coloring has also been linked to skyrocketing 5 kinds of cancer!!!! How to avoid it? Choose color- free medications for your kids and also choose popsicles made with real fruit as opposed to rainbow freezy pops. Also did you know that even nalgene bottles contain harmful plastics? I had to throw 3 of mine away after looking on the bottom to see that they were the harmful kind!!! So look at the bottom of your water bottle and if it has #3,6, or 7 throw it out!!! Jillian also says that you should hand wash your plastic water bottles just to be safe and if they ever get a cloudy appearance replace it!!!!! Thank you Jillian for changing yet another person's life! Oh.... and Happy Canada Day to one and all!!!!