just a quick snack.....lol...

This is just for fun today since it is Saturday..

Everybody is always looking for something quick for a snack or skipping meals, many people require a quick snack throughout the day due to ailments....

these are a few I like...I giggle about what I will blog about when I am uninspired!...haha!

CRACKERS---I always like crackers for quick snacks I enjoy the Club Crackers by Keebler with salads, soups, and meat and cheese party trays.

others I enjoy--Good peanut butter and cheese crackers, toasted, or even the small cookies are nice---I like NipChee/ToastChee, Lance, Frito-Lay, Austin, Nekot, Ritz, Cheez-its....any variety pack is good to have for snacks or quick noon meals, you have many more for the whole week.... I also like the Garden Vegetable crackers--good too! Goldfish crackers are cute! all kinds of snack crackers with seasonings, a few of my family members enjoy pork rinds with seasoning as a snack, but I have never tried them...Turkey Creek is the brand they all purchase...

DONUTS/PASTRY-----People always say " OH donuts are not good for you!" BUT I like them occasionally for breakfast with coffee, or tea, many colorful donuts, sprinkles, cream filled, fruit filled, powdered, maple coated is one of my favorites....

I enjoy any local donut/pastry shop, I like Dunkin' Donuts--but it left the local city and I hated that!, I like the brands--- Krispy Kreme, Tasty Kakes, Hostess, Toaster Streudel, Little Debbie, CloverHill, Mrs. Freshley's, --for breakfast... 

I like any variety or kinds of these pastries---Honey buns, Boston Cream Pie pastries, Cinnamon Rolls, Long-Johns maple coated and with vanilla pudding cream filling, Apple Fritters, Donut-holes with glazed icing, Butter Horns, Bear Claws, Vanilla Cream filled Donuts with maple icing, Crullers with glaze icing, Twisted Donuts with glaze icing, Cup Cakes, Vanilla Zingers, Twinkies, Ding-Dongs, Fruit-Filled Danish....just all of them!...Haha!

CANNED PASTAS----I enjoy for a quick lunch sometimes any canned pastas with a salad or a vegetable, they are easy to heat in the microwave placed in a microwave safe dish

I enjoy:
Chef Boyardee
Spaghetti-O's
Campbell's,
or any off brand that is affordable any canned pasta I like so far! 

BEENIE-WEENIES---these are something I liked when I was a child and I haven't tried them lately, but they are a quick snack to make with mashed potatoes and a vegetable..You can purchase them canned or create your own!

PORK N BEANS---Talking about beans, haha!..I like Van Camp's Pork N Beans with sandwiches, hamburgers, potato salad, hotdogs when I grill outside....I often purchase those...

VIENNA SAUSAGES---any brand of these I like, but I wish I could find them in Hormel brand again...I like these with mustard, a small square of sharp cheddar cheese, and a Club cracker...quick snack.

UNCOOKED, WASHED VEGETABLES (with ranch dip)---I enjoy uncooked washed/peeled carrot sticks, washed/uncooked segmented cauliflower and broccoli tops and a nice ranch dip...like on vegetable trays.

CANNED FRUIT---Fruit is always something I enjoy fresh, frozen, or canned I like all brands and they are a healthier snack for you...canned peaches with cottage cheese are a good snack together....fresh peeled and cored apples are good also!

CANNED BLACK OLIVES---My family has always giggled about how much I have always liked to eat olives, since I was a child, I have always liked them...MY favorite kind of olives are the black olives with the pits(seeds) removed...I like them by themselves or on pizzas, or salads...You have to be careful when enjoying them right out of the cans and look for those stupid pits(seeds) you can hurt yourself!...but I enjoy them for a snack.

CHEESES--any brand I enjoy for a snack with party trays, or individuals cheeses, I also like String Cheese, cheese snacks.....it is fun to peel string cheese and eat it!

YOGURT---any brand of yogurt I enjoy for stomach health and digestive health...helps your tum-tum!...lol.

julie














 

favorite themes / designs.....

I enjoy designs and colorful themes...

If I go to a store I am always fascinated by the design on a product/item.....I like old country store design and anything rustic and cowboy looking...and when I find old style lettering and old labels from way back I enjoy that!.....

the colorful palette of the southwest, and the many hues of the sunsets here at home are very beautiful and I like them

country store, cowboy, southwest just anything that looks old and rustic are all favorites of mine, in a store, on a item/product, in a home, in clothing/jewelry, or decorating your porch....blue and turquoise always added to something make that work especially nice for me!.....I enjoy looking at them.

I remember back when I was younger there were a lot of country charm, southwest, and cowboy themed items to purchase, I miss that!....I really enjoyed working on craft kits and painting/gluing them that were prepackaged---always country charm, southwest, cowboy....

I like to wear just old cowboy boots and jeans that look worn and old, and it's simple, but I enjoy old cowboy/ranch/farm working clothes, and I just like a nice southwest design colorful poncho to wear with jeans/boots....just simple, no fuss, because I don't give a crap!....lol...I don't know why I like ponchos in southwest designs so much....they are beautiful to me..

country store charm is something I really like to see in most stores, and I like old country store restaurants like Cracker Barrel....just a nice comfortable look to a business or even a item with that kind of labeling on it is nice too....anything like that is cute!...it's just more old style America designs like that...comfort.

old southwest colorful palettes and hues make me smile because I like them so much...just miss that old country store design on items, in my view at stores when I shop, or even drive by down the road....I also like anything rustic and cowboy, or old looking....it is nice.

j.

rabbits as pets....never as food...Sadness!

Purchased a SLUSH PUPPY frozen drink yesterday at a convenience store yesterday...I wish locally that they had many more machines with different kinds!...I also enjoy those ICEE drinks in the ICEE machines at stores....we all need different kinds to enjoy!....lol

Seed potatoes for spring planting in the vegetable garden were $6 a sack...so I got one...I am hopeful that the garden will be abundant with vegetables this year, also have seed packets already!...It's a lot of fun for me to prepare the ground for gardening and choosing the vegetables I want to plant there...just get down in the dirt and have fun planting!...

Since it is spring, I am thinking about all the little rabbits that there are for purchase as pets..they are so cute! and sweet as can be! aww!....I know that when you may wish to have a rabbit as a pet, that you MUST know it has to have plenty of care and attention...You MUST always clean it's cage, change the water and clean the food trays/waterer--wash/dry it out....

Timothy Hay is something that is always good for them in their cages, and they love to play with their little toys also!...You can take them out of their cage and hold, hug, and pet them..be very careful with them, they are delicate animals....NEVER let them near other pets that may get very jealous and attack them or hurt them, same goes for guinea pigs/hamsters/gerbils...they can be severely hurt, or killed when attacked or lost in your home!!!...and we can NEVER let this happen...small pets like rabbits always need constant attention, love, and care....aww!

there are many different types of rabbits and when you have one ALWAYS name your pet rabbit and know that it is your family just like your other pets!....

one thing that terribly saddens me is when people eat rabbits as food on their plate!...Oh it is terrible,awful, upsetting, nasty and saddens me! I cry when people have rabbits as dinner food on the plate! That needs to STOP!...we should have rabbits ONLY as pets who are our family and pals!....

there are tiny(small) rabbits I have seen and they are so cute! and fuzzy!...I wish that I could have one right now as a pet/as my family!!!...but I will wait til later to purchase one!

I know Bugs Bunny likes carrots for meals like I do!....lol

julie

bad situations, made good.....

I often see homeless people begging on the streets, for money....and I think how sad and awful this goes on in the world!

I know that there aren't many work occupations and it is tough to make a good life for you or your family when there are bills and other payments for housing, cars insurances, doctor bills....BUT I DO NOT think that people should ever be involved in any illegal activity to make money, they could always work fast food jobs to make extra money or wait tables, work convenience stores jobs, or something like that...NEVER engage in anything nasty, corrupt, or evil....fight it!

I think about the homeless people often and it makes me cry to think that people stand on street corners with no shelter, freezing or overheating, and in all weather elements there for everyone to see, and they are asking for .50/cents and that is what I saw recently....makes me sad!....

Many people who are homeless and living on the streets like that can seek help at the missions/homeless shelters, and many of them are sadly terribly abused/abandoned, and addicted...it makes me cry and is very upsetting.....I wonder often times, why can't these people help local law enforcement, because they know everything illegal and how it all goes with the street life....they are in terribly dangerous situations and starving and often addicted, why not get sober, get help at the shelter and go to work for a serious good agency that will help them and get them work on the streets helping to rid the streets of all sick nasty illegal activity???

many good people start life out in pitiful situations like living on the streets, dealing drugs, being prostitutes, other awful situations, and terribly abused, and they take that bad situation and turn it all the other way--to good! and I know that so many people take a bad life and make it a better good life, by getting clean/sober, and wanting to have a better life, and often wanting to help eradicate evil nastiness on the streets or in their country, state, town, city where they live...

They have lived sad lives and some of them want to make life better when they are inspired by God after having someone or something change their life and make them want to get sober and be much better for themselves and the world...

A lot of really good people change the world everyday when they can get sober, and want to work for the better of the world....They say: " Oh you haven't lived my life, I have been abused, I have been poor all my life, or  I had no choice but to be like this!" and I say--" You can be better for yourself and the world, make a good change in your life! Start now!" everyone needs to get sober and life will get better, God always opens doors when you change your life for the better, good things will follow....

I just cry about those people I have seen on the streets recently and I think about how he/she might feel standing there in the cold freezing wind, clutching a cardboard sign asking for .50/cents...and I wonder about what they have been through....

I think about how all the poor, barely getting by people were used and played by the snobby elite greedy people with all the big wheelin' money....they did this to them, played mind games with them, used the poor people to make them money, got them addicted, selling drugs, selling themselves by prostituting, by promising everything to them, and while in bad situations these people took those promises trusting and believing their BS lies for quick money!...This only made the big wheels that much richer and they tossed the poor people in the trash after using them...that's how all these nasty corrupt pieces of shit work!!!....they all go to hell....

I think it would be sooooo FUNNY if all the people who they used and abused all got together and tore those big wheelin snobs into pieces by working against them!....Take them all down and laugh the whole damn time!!!....Bwahaha!!!...that'll get them!....make all those corrupt big wheel snobs live on the streets and ruin their lives, take all their money and laugh at them! kick them while they are down for what they did to you!...haha!

So many people who have lived tough, harsh lives in terrible situations, like those people who are used and abused, and like many bad addicts I have seen, need to always know they can seek help and get sobered up, find God, and help change the world by working for good serious agencies on the streets, cities, towns, countries, states--everywhere to help fight all nasty illegal corruptions all the time would be good, it would be good work fighting crime and illegal activity all the time...

It would help rid the world of the sickness of drug activity and END the sadness of prostitution everywhere all over the world...and create good work occupations for those needing work...it would probably be constant work considering how jacked up/messed up the world is all the time!....but I have hope.

God loves everybody and I know that when HE is the judge of all people, we should NEVER judge others, he is the one who judges...I NEVER judge others, I just wish for the best for all people who want to rid the world of all evil corruption and get sober, and make good changes in the world and in their lives and I only want the best for those people...they just need constant work fighting the corruption in the world..it would be good work!..they can seek treatment for addictions and work to rid the world of those sick nasty terrible people who ruined their lives, by working for good trustworthy, serious agencies that fight illegal activities like drugs and all crime.

they could help fight back against the people who ruined their lives! and show them that they can take them down!....hahaha!!!

j.

local disease awareness walks and others....

Many times people have diseases in your community, almost everyone has someone in their family who has had a disease....whether it be cancer, diabetes, MS, Lupus, Dementia, others----these are the diseases we have had local awareness walks for....I know it could be for many other disease awareness, these are just the ones we have had walks/runs for.....

locally we have had walks in the park with good people who want to raise awareness about how these diseases have affected their lives, their family/friend's lives, and others lives....They may not know each other, but they get out there when the walks are organized to draw attention to these diseases and make people aware they are real and they are out there, so we can all know about them....

before the walks happen---they will call the local radio, newspapers, tv station and let them publicize the walks so everyone will know they can go out at the certain time and walk with others....they create these walks and organize them well, handout information fliers about the disease they are walking for, sometimes they have candlelight vigils for those who have passed away from cancer and that is to remember those who did not survive the disease....

t-shirts that let people know about the local organized awareness walks are very nice ideas and that lets others know when you wear the t-shirt that you went out there and walked for a good cause....they have fundraisers and people can donate money to local clinics to help those in need who need help with payment for disease...just whatever they can afford, (IF they wish to donate money, they don't have to)....having these walks in the parks are good ways to socialize as a community and gather together and support those who are facing these terrible diseases so they know that they are not alone in their battles!.....

it is also a good way to socialize and meet like minded others who know how you feel and how your family/friends are feeling or have felt when battling these diseases that you wish to show support for by attending and walking for them...you can talk on the walks and say hello to others...it is just a good way to let others know you care and wish to support their battle against these terrible diseases....and they can show support for you and your family/friends battles against the diseases too!

there are also bicycle tours/rides near the mountains to raise awareness about these afflictions, and they have motorcycle poker runs that raise awareness by riding motorcycles town to town and raise money....I know that is a lot of fun for the local bikers who wish to be charitable and they can get out there on the road, socialize, and raise money and awareness for these causes to help others with diseases...it is all wonderful....and good socializing!

they also have awareness walks, rides, runs, to raise awareness for people who have been terribly hurt and abused, they have them for animal cruelty awareness also!.....just all great ways to show support, raise money locally, socialize with like minded others, meet others going through or have battled through the same problems/afflictions...raise awareness.

I really enjoy watching the colorful runs that use colorful cornstarch/flour and they are thrown in the air...those are very beautiful! all to show support and bring awareness to the local public about these diseases.....

as a community it is always good to get together and show support for those who are battling through something challenging, upsetting, awful and sad....

julie