and he's all so healthy in his body and his mind.

i wish people cared less about how they looked and more about other people.

we must live until we die.

I read this poem today and it struck a cord. I believe that it is talking about how you must live for today because you could die at any moment. Marvell is saying how much he loves this girl, and would love her for thousands of years if he could, but the end will come and we have no idea when that will be. If you love someone let them know. Express what you feel or else you may not have another chance to say it.

To his Coy Mistress
by Andrew Marvell

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day;
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood;
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball;
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

yum.

sometimes it's hard to be really healthy when you're a vegatarian. You are constantly eating some sort of carb, and I sometimes find myself eating spaghetti 6 out of the 7 nights a week. So here's a dish idea that is really easy, really cheap, and only around 250 calories with 3 grams of fat. It's delish and filling and one of my favorites.

peppers and onions stir-fry

here's what you need:
1. peppers and onions. I like to use the birds eye peppers and onions stir-fry mix.
2. Stir-fry sauce. I like Kikkoman's stir-fry sauce.
3. Rice. I usually use the minute rice individual microwaveable white rice cups.

here's what you do:
1. Coat your pan with PAM or some other non-stick spray
2. Then add your veggies (as much as you want..strive for 5 here people!)
3. Cook them, stirring often so that they are fully cooked and do not stick to the pan.
4. Put your rice in the microwave for one minute.
5. Add your sauce to the veggies and lower the heat.
6. Continue stirring (especially because stir-fry sauce really sticks)
7. Add your rice to the mix and stir it all together. Continue to cook for 1 more minute.
8. Enjoy :)

But ideas that left never come back home.

It's amazing how much "Into Dust" by either Mazzy Star or Ashtar Command (though I'm a bigger fan of Ashtar's cover) can put me in a trance. It is one of those songs that I need when I am stressed. I don't even listen to the words, but the tone of the singer is hypnotising. I literally feel every worry and thought that weighs down my head release from body, and I can just lay there in peace.