Going Vegan???

Hey guys!!  Lately I have really been thinking about going full Vegan.  When I did the Daniel Fast fast at the beginning of the year, I loved how I felt.  It was only for a month, but I was noticing a difference in my body.  I can only imagine how amazing I would feel if I ate like that for a year!  Sure it is hard and expensive eating healthy... but you know what. I think its worth it in the long run to invest in your health.

The more and more I look at meat and processed foods I get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.  That food is not good for me.  All I see is huge big businesses lying to us and selling us crapy "FAKE" food.  You know its not real food when it can literally sit on a shelf for months and months.  There is something seriously wrong if your food can still be "safe" to eat after that long of a time.

I've really been wanting to eat more and more organic food lately.  I search out fruit and veggies labeled with that wonderful USDA ORGANIC symbol, and the NONGMO symbol.  I'm so happy to see those popping up more and more in our local grocery stores!

If I do decide to go full Vegan, I really want to stick with it whole heartedly for an entire year.  If I can't make it for a year then I never will.  My biggest fear though right now is societal pressure.  Being a Vegan or Vegetarian is really looked at strangely by others and I am afraid of people judging me, or thinking I'm weird.   I also don't want to be offensive or rude to anyone, or rube them the wrong way.  Turning down food people make for dinner or not being able to go eat out at as many restaurants with others might be a problem.  But what I just can't understand though is, why is food so important?  You know?  I mean really why should it matter to someone else what I want to eat?  While I am scared of being looked at differently, what it boils down to for me is that, does it really matter?  Its just food!  And food shouldn't be the only thing that brings people together.  If I want to be Vegan I don't feel like its a huge deal.  I hope over time people will just get used to it, and maybe be inspired to perhaps even eat a little more veggies or fruits themselves.  :)

Canola Fields

I just love this time of year in Oklahoma.  Its the farmers season to harvest canola oil from their fields. But right before they do this, we are so blessed to see such a beautiful sight.  Endless fields of these beautiful flowers.  Every time I drive by I just want to slow down and look at them as long as possible.  I got off work early today and decided to go take some pictures.

A Fine Frenzy - Now Is The Start

I'm back!!

Hey guys and gals! sorry I've been gone for 4 ever!  But I'm back now!  How is everyone?  Can you believe how fast time has flied?  Its already almost Halloween! :D I'm so excited!! ^_^

2014 Is Almost Here!!

Hey everyone!  Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.  Sorry it's been a while since a post.  I'm sorry!  Life has been incredibly busy.  But any way, just wanted to talk to you all about my 2014 new years resolutions I'm making.

For 2014  I want this to be a year of Change!  I finish school come summer and am going to start applying for animation jobs.  I'm really hoping and praying to get a job at Life Church.  That would be amazing!!  I'm really scared, but with God I know he can help me through anything.  I want to stop running away from what scares me and embrace it and run towards it instead.  I want to face the things that scare me.  I'm going to try new things I never have before.  I want to discover who I really am through Christ.  Not what other people think about me, but what God says about me.  I also have a gut feeling this year Tiger is going to pop the question, I'm super nervous but even more excited!  I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with him.  :)  I don't know when we will actually get married, but I don't mind being engaged.  ;)   So yeah!  I'm also going to list my goals below

1. Grow closer to God, read my bible every day
2. Discover who I really am through Jesus Christ
3. Graduate and get an animation job
4. Work on my art everyday, I'm going to do the 365 day drawing challenge.
5. Work out twice a week
6. Eat healthier
7. Fast for 3 weeks from sweets
8. Read more books
9. Save money more
10. Save up for Maya Autodesk

So yeah! Those are a few of my main goals!  These one's I really want to accomplish come the new year!

What are some of your new years resolutions?  I'd love to hear what they are, please share in comments below.  Thanks everyone, love you all!  Happy New Years, I hope all your dreams come true this year!  :)

Life Update

Good morning dears!  How is everyone? sorry it's been so long since I've posted anything.  Life is crazy busy... my weeks seriously blur together, its so sad!  Any ways hope you all are doing well.  Things for me have been rough but some good things have happened too, and I have made some new changes in my life as well that I feel are some good ones. :)

Started this yesterday but I began a fast.  I'm fasting from sweets until the end of the month.  I realized lately I've been eating way to many things that are bad for me.  Its been making me break out and feel yucky so I just wanted to take a break from sweets for a while.  It's been hard, I sure do love candy and ice cream!  But I want to try and start eating better and working out more.  Its hard to find free time anymore to work out, but I'm going to try and find some time some where.

Works been horrible, HORRIBLE!!  I've never been so stressed out before!  They have been hiring all these new people and I feel like tons of responsibility has been put on me to teach and train them, to make sure everything is going good in the bank.  And on top of it all, we have been way busier then we have ever been before, I have practically 100 transactions every day anymore.  I'm in charge of making sure every thing goes good at night at the bank, balancing the vaults, running work, making sure all night duties are done, its just really wearing on me! I get chewed out all the time...  and I was sopost to be switched to part time hours last month and they still have me on full time hours even though I'm technically a part time teller now with no benefits.   Sigh... Its my fault though cause I'm a push over.... I let them do this to me.  I always try to help out as much as I can but some times I just feel taken advantage of, that I always get the worst end of things, and I just feel so worn down.  I have no free time whatsoever anymore...  :(  Sorry I'm complaining I'm ranting to myself! haha! idk who reads this anymore anyway. lol!  But yeah.... work sucks....

But one good thing about work....  My boss wants me to make a mascot for the bank.  I drew some sketches of some ideas I had for the mascot and he loved them!  He wants me to make bank T-shirts, flyers, banners, and an animation to put all their electronic billboards!  I'm like so shocked!  He really liked my art, and wants me to draw all this for the bank.  And he wants to pay me!  Its crazy, I can't imagine seeing my art on a billboard!  I really need to start working on stuff.  but yeah!! God is so good!  He is really opening up doors for me that I never dreamed of.  I'm so happy!

God has been so good to me in other ways too.  I have been needing a newer car because mine has been having a lot of issues lately... I really feel like it could have broke down on me at any point.  But any way my mom posted on facebook that I was looking for a good used car, and I guess the word spread around and people from my church family found out and told me about an older lady at the church who was selling her car for a really good price.  I went to go look at the car the other day and it was perfect!  its a 2003 Dodge Stratus with 51,000 miles on it, and they were asking $4,500 for it.  It is in wonderful condition, and the lady had taken really good care of it!  We made a deal and I got the car for only $4,100.  I'm so happy!  God just really provides!  It was seriously a God thing too, because the people selling it even said they were waiting for the right person that God would send there way. :)  So things have been going good despite work. lol  I think I just need to put all my work troubles in God's hands and ask for his help and guidance.  Hopefully I can have my part time ours soon and then I can start working of stuff for the bank. :)  but yeah!  That's basically all thats been going on in my life for the most part.  I'll post again soon!

Love you all!
Sincerely your friend Cheryl.

Less about Dieting, and more about Eating Whats Good for you. :)

Hey girlies, I know all of you have started your new diets for the summer, but I wanted to share something with you, that I think will be good news.  :)  I recently watched a session on the Dr. Oz show, and it was all about how eating the right foods will help you lose weight instead of just cutting back on food and dieting.  I would really love to watch the show with you all some time, becaue its a lot to explain over a blog. lol.  But yeah!  Basically if you eat the right foods essentially you can eat as much as you want, and the good foods will keep you fuller, and help burn fats faster.  Also he talked about how a lot of times when your stomach is growling or you feel hunger, you actually arent hungy at all, but instead that is your stomach trying to repair itself from all the bad foods you have been eating and your poor diet.  He says when your body is healthy and you are eating the right foods you shouldn't feel hunger pains in your stomach at all, but up in your chest area.  It makes sense, cause I always think that I am hungy when my stomach growls, but its odd becuase I've been noticing my stomach hurts pretty soon after I have eaten.  And its usually after I have eaten a not so healthy meal.  Its crazy that this whole time it was actaully just my body trying to heal itself my the bad foods I've been eating.  Any way, some of this might sound like yada yada I dont believe taht kind of thing, but maybe you will have a change of heart after seeing the show.  Any ways, I thought this was good news for all of us that we CAN get through this, by eating the good foods eventually our body wont crave those junk foods anymore, and we will feel fuller and healthier.  And whats great is we can eat when ever we want.  No starving yourself or cutting back on calories.  It's all about eating the good calories that your body can actually burn instead of the bad ones that get turned into fat cells. I think the toughest part will be getting the right foods, and having them at hand, becaue lets all face it, its way easier to grab burger or some other fast food then constantly bringing healthy food with you.  I think maybe if we pack little snack bags to take with us every day that will help a lot.  You know like pack them the night before or something.  And if we absolutely have to eat fast food to pick healither options like subway, quizznos, jamba juice, panera, ect... Places that actually offer some better quality food. :)  Any ways, we should all watch this together some time.  Love you all, and I'm so proud of all you who are starting these new healither goals in your life.  I know you can do it!  And we are all here for each other.  Never give up, and with time things will get easier I promise. 

Love you all, Sincerly Cheryl. :)

Take Some Time for You

Ever since watching this video of Bubz I've been really inspired!

She made this video about just taking a relaxing night for your self. I realize I don't take much time for myself. It seems like I'm always constantly going, and am always stressed and tired. I work every day from 10:50 to 7. Long days at the bank wear me out, and by the end of the night my feet are usually super sore. haha. But yeah, tonight I just decided I was going to take time for myself. I worked out a bit after dinner, then filled up the tub with hot water for a nice bubble bath. :) It was wonderful guys! I put a hair mask in my hair, put on a face mask, and just laid in the water while reading a daily devotional bible study book. It was so refreshing to spend time with God in a moment of peace and tranquility. I think I'm going to try and take a bath now acleast once a month from now on. :) I want to also just in general take more time for myself and definitely make more time for God. When I'm spiritually sick it shows in all areas of my life. I haven't been where I should be with God lately... my spiritual walk has been weak. I want to make sure and read my bible every day, that I keep my faith strong, and that I'm constantly growing closer to God. :) Ladies, I think you all should take a day for yourself and spend some time with the Lord. I promise it will refresh you! and hey, girls you deserve it! I love you all so much! Here's some pics below of my night. Hope you all have a lovely day and rest of the week.

Sincerely Cheryl. :3

Bubbles!!! :D


I love this candle that Mattie gave me. It smells amazing! *_*

This is an amazing bible study! I recommend it to everyone. It's one of my favorites. ^_^
I feel so refreshed!

My hair feels so soft! :3

Marble Sounds - The Time To Sleep

Love love LOVE this song and music video.  :)  It's so simple but has a lot of emotion.

I Want To Be There For You

I've been feeling really down lately and sad... I feel left out and out of the loop with everyone. I feel like a really crapy friend, and I know I haven't been there for all my friends like I should have been this whole past school year. I don't know when life got so busy for me, or when things started to change, when I changed, but they did... but really I guess I let it get that way... I chose to work at the job I'm at, I chose to take on the long hours, It's my fault. I made all the decisions in my life. But I want to make a change right now, I want to be a better friend, I want to be there for my friends. I want to be someone they can come to and talk to about anything, at any time of day. I'm going to work harder guys... Please forgive me for all the times I wasn't there when you needed me... please forgive me for not being the best friend I should have been, for not being honest or open with you about things. I love you all dearly, and I'm going to make a change today. Mattie, Meghan, Becky, Sable, I am really really truly sorry from the bottom of my heart. Love you all dearly like sisters.

Sincerely, Cheryl

The Journey Begins

I can't tell you much about this place... because I don't know what happened here... just one day the winds stopped, and then our way of life was over... These wheels have stopped turning, and the once rich soil I used to plow is now turned to ash beneath my feet. It's blistering hot, and I feel no peace in my bones. I can't stay here for long... I am the last, and I am lonely. I don't know what time it is, and I have lost track of the days. I've decided this is my last entry for now. I'm packing my belongings tonight, and I'm setting out to find the truth come mornings first light. I've never left this place, this is the only home I've ever known. I don't know what I will face once I step forth out of the valley. Dragons, wizards, thugs perhaps, or even more stranger mysteries than I can even fathom. I'm terrified, and I have packed a sword and a bow just in case. Though I pray I will never have to use them. I have little money, and even less food and water. Hoping to find a spring to refill up my jug soon. Once I take rest I will wright again. Take heart my friend journal, and wish me luck. May my pen meet your paper again... It is time to take action.
Sincerely, Basil Kairos

Will You Praise Your Lord?

Please listen to this song as you read this post. ^_^

There are often days when I'm driving to school that I look over at the beautiful sun rising. The clouds are pink and orange, and look like far off kingdoms... and out of no where I get this sudden urge to want to pull off the side of the road, to climb up on top of my car, turn and feel the warm sun shinning on my face, and I want to close my eyes for a moment then open them, raise my arms up high and just take time to praise God!!!! Praise him for all he's done for me, for the new day! The beautiful sunrise!!!!!!!! Life gets so busy.... that I don't even have time to do that... To praise God! :( Or I'm scared of, what if someone drives by and sees me worshiping on top my car? 0.o What will people think? Or what if I'm late for school?? Ugh!!! Seriously guys, one of these days I'm just going to do it! I'm going to pull off the side of the road, climb on top my car, and just do it!! Worship God!! Stop time and all worldly things just for even if its a few minutes... God deserves so much more than that. This song I found today... it really moved me as I sat listening to it in my room. I want to listen to this song when I pull off the side of the road. It reminds me of heaven and of life; and how important it is to praise God.

I've been feeling sad lately... because life just pulls me down so much sometimes that I just want to give up. On Wednesday I just cried in my car because I felt depressed and that I had no control over my life. And on top of it, that morning I woke up with a huge ugly cold sore on my lip. They take up to 14 days to go away, they are very painful, and usually cause scaring... so for the past few days I've been feeling really down and ugly... but on thursday I called in sick and took a day off for myself... because I just desperately needed it. It helped me a lot because it reminded me that I do have control of my life. I don't have to work at the bank, but I choose to. But anyway, just listening to this song today really inspired me to write this and share it with all of you. Life is hard some times, but always remember we have a God, a savior who loves us. We are his daughters, and he only wants good things for us. We need to trust in him and his timing. I'm thinking of getting a different job this summer that has less hours so I can start something I've been feeling called to do. It's a secret though, so I will share what it is with you all soon. ;) But I feel God starting to lead my down a new path. :) And I feel other things are opening up too. This year is going to be a year of change. It's scary, but maybe once I actually face those new things, it wont be so bad as what I make it out out to be in my head. :) Any way! I love you all, and you are all in my prayers. Don't give up my sisters in Christ! God has great things instore for those who love him.

Love you all! Sincerely your friend and sister, Cheryl. ^_^

Dream of a Pink Sunset And I'll Be With You

Hello lovelies! Sorry it's been a long time since a post! I miss you all dearly.... :( I wish we weren't all so busy... I feel like I never get to see you. :( How is everyone doing? Oh, and I have great news! I found out today I can go to Nakacon!!! They finally approved it. I was really getting worried there for a bit. >_< But yes! I can go! I'm so excited!!!! so I have some news though... haha.. ehehe.. well guess what, it turns out that my cousin, aunt and uncle live like 12 mins away from Nakacon! X_X yeah! haha! crazy right! well they want to see me, so my cousin is going to pick me up Sunday morning and take me to go to her church. :) I'll only be gone till probably noon... but still... thats time I'm missing out with you all... but I do want to see my cousin, aunt, and uncle, and I probably should definitely see them since I'm like right there. lol >_< and it will also be nice to go to church. :) But yeah... just wanted to tell you all that.

Any ways! haha, other than that hm.... nothing to new in my life... except one thing... << *shifts eyes back and forth* Tiger took me to get my ring size!!!!! D: Yeah!! I don't know what that means!!! I don't know if he's gonna propose soon or something! I really have no idea! It's crazy to think about!! but wow.... if he really did ask me.... I'd say yes. =^.^= I would... I love Tiger so much. I'd be scary and a lot of new changes might be happening within the next year or so... but I think I'd be ready to face it all with Tiger. :) Is that crazy? Do you think I'm too young, or that we should wait? >_< I mean even if he did propose we probably wouldn't get married for another year or so. So... it definitely wouldn't be anytime soon. But yeah... just wondering what you all thought about it. But haha no worries, it may not mean anything, he may not even pop the question for quite a while. lol! XD So we will see..! <<

Any ways!!! Oh man... guys... I love instagram!! Why haven't I used this sooner! It's so fun for documenting stuff in my life, and it also helps me keep in touch with yall, I can see what you all are up to through out the day or week. :) I just love it! and all the cute effects you can add!! Gahhh!!! ^__^ for any readers out there who follow this blog, if you'd like to follow me on instagram here is a link to my page. :) My Instagram! So... tomorrow is Valentines Day. :) I'm excited. I'm going over to Tigers after work, and he's cooking me dinner. ^_^ I'm also brining greek salad, and his Valentines gift(some chocolates and a drawing). It will be really nice. ^__^ I'm so thankful to be with Tiger, he's the best guy I've ever know... This is our second Valentines Day together, and over this past year, my feelings for him have just grown and grown so much!! I love him more and more every day. ^_^ ahh sworry guys I'm getting all mushy. >w< but yeah. I just feel so blessed and thankful to be with such a wonderful guy. =^_^=

I hope all you ladies have a wonderful Valentines Day! You all should splurge on yourself! And... I just want to say, I love you all so much! You are the best friends in the whole world that a girl could ever ask for! I'm so sooooo thankful you are my friends. ^-^ Happy Valentines Day, and God Bless You. ^_^

Product Review for December

Ok so I haven't done one of these in a while. So I thought I would today! ^^ Here are some of the products I've been using this month, and I'll give my feed back good and bad on each product. :) Hope this is fun to read and that it helps you all out.

Ok the first product is an eyeliner called Maybelline New York (Master Precise) The first thing I can say about this eyeliner.... is DON'T GET IT! It's terrible, probably one of the worst eyeliners I've ever used. It smears like no other. I dont even touch it is and just goes all over, on the top of my eye lid, all around the corners of my eyes. Its messy, and oily feeling, and it just does not stay on your eyes good. While it has a good tip for painting on your eye lid, it doen't stay. I haven't had much luck with Maybelline (New York) so I dont think I'm going to try any more of their products for a while.

The second one is the Estee Lauder eye liner pencil. Well I loved this eyeliner, I'm actually almost out of it! It stays on my eyes great, its long lasting and barely smudges at all. It draws on nice and easy, i dont have to apply much pressure at all. I deffinetly recomend this eye liner. :)

Next is the Revlon perle black eye shadow. This eye shadow is really pretty.... but its smudges really badly, and doesn't blend well. If you can apply only a little its a little more manageable to work with, but if you want dark smokey eyes, and just gets all over the place.

Next is Olay professional PRO-X deep wrinkle treatment. I LOVE this product and I recommend it to everyone who's starting to see some unwanted wrinkles on their face and or who also want to prevent any further wrinkles from appearing. I've been using it only a couple of weeks and I've seen great improvements on it decreasing the appearance of wrinkles on my forehead. >< This wrinkle cream is really light feeling, doesn't feel super oily and makes my skin feel really soft and smooth.

Lastly is the three step repair Proactive set. My boyfriends mom gave me some to try out. So far, i'm not seeing the results I was hoping for with this product, mainly because so many people say it works for them. I think though I have very bad skin... I often break out wit huge systic pimples under and around my jaw line that hurt very badly. I've always had bad skin for as long as I can remember. But I will say that proactive has helped a lot, it keeps the painful acnie at bay for the most part, and has cleared up my skin a lot, although I still break out every now and then with the painful acne. I do recommend this product. I think I just have to find something even stronger then proactive to help me. ><

Any way, thats it! hope that was helpful! tell me what you think in a comment below! Thanks guys! Have a great day!

Merry Christmas!

Hello everyone, sorry this is late. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas day yesterday. ^__^ I did!! It snowed on Christmas day!!! It was truly magical! I had been praying for a white Christmas, and God answered my prayers!!! The snow was so beautiful!! Christmas morning, we woke up, finished warping some gifts, then later around 10:30 we read the Christmas Story from the Bible, and then after that we opened gifts. Then the rest of the afternoon we just spent relaxing. I had some fun and took some pics which I will share down below. Any way, just wanted to wish you all a belated Merry Christmas, and guess what! A new year is fast approaching! What will be your new years resolutions for this year? I haven't thought about mine yet, but I'm pondering some new ideas as we speak. :) I can't wait to see everyone at the Christmas/New Years Eve party! I miss you all so much, and it will be so nice to have us all together! Love you all, and hope you have a wonderful rest of your Christmas break.
Sincerely Cheryl. ^_^