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My Ridiculously Easy, Delicious, Healthy Homemade Salsa!

8/29/2012

Today, I am feeling generous, so I thought I would share with you my very own salsa recipe! It is reeeeeediculously easy to make, VERY healthy, and deeelicious!

Step 1: Cut up your tomatoes into cubes.

Step 2: Cut up your onions into cubes.

Step 3: Cut (or rip up) your cilantro (this is my faaavorite part of the salsa)

Step 4: Blend your tomatoes, onions, and cilantro together in a food processor.

Step 5: Add salt, lime juice, and tobasco sauce to taste.

See how simple that was?!! Your Welcome!!!

cooking salsa

Peace Love and Salsa
Jess <3

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My Top 10 Places to Travel Pt.5; Lanzhou, China

8/24/2012

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Top Ten Places to Travel Pt. 5; Lanzhou, China

When I lived in China, I traveled to Lanzhou a couple times because a lot of my friends were from there, and it is amaaazing!

Things to do:
*Take a walk along the Yellow River

*Play Majiang 24 hours on a boat on the Yellow River

*Visit a temple

*Skate the underground tunnels

*Visit the zoo

*Go to the 地震酒吧 (earthquake bar).
Me and my friends went there almost every night; we even played a show there!

Ohh Lanzhou how I love you...

...and how I love this red door...

My band playin a show at a bookstore

traveling on sale

Peace Love and Lanzhou
Jess <3

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Sucker; a Chinese Band (plus a music video that I'm in!)

8/21/2012

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Sucker is a Xi'an, China based punk band. When I was in Xi'an I got to hang out with them and not only are they really talented musicians, but they are really nice, fun people! Here's me with them, and a couple other people, at the skate park where we filmed part of their music video.
Here is the music video (or mv as they call it in China) that we filmed at the skate park. The song is called Remain Pain, and it's all in Chinese, but it's a really fun song!
I am at 2:25 for just a couple seconds!

Here's a mv for the song called "Through My Soul". I absolutely adore this song! I'm at 1:38 standing by the half pipe, and 2:36 in the group picture.

This is a video I took of Sucker playing at an outdoor concert in Xi'an. I think this video is so cool because I video the crowd also, and you can see the energy and spirit coming from the crowd. Everyone is just having so much fun! Including me! At this concert I crowd surfed onto the stage, then jumped back out! Sooo fun!
Here's some more pictures!

During shooting

Us eatin meat on a stick outdoors after the mv shoot
Sucker's official website http://www.suckerband.cn/
Here's another website!
http://www.rockinchina.com/w/Sucker

Me and the Guitar Player

Peace Love and Sucker
Jess <3

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New Favorite Summer Snack; Peach Smoothies!

8/17/2012

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I loooove peaches. Especially fresh peaches. Yuuummm...! So today, I just out of nowhere, got the craving for a peach smoothie. I've never made a peach smoothie before, but it sounded delicious, and like something I NEEDED to make. So on my way home, I stopped and bought some peaches, and I present to you my (waaay too easy) recipe for a DELICIOUS peach smoothie!

Put into your trusty blender:
-A fresh peach. Skin and all.
-Honey (you can skip this part if you want, cuz the peaches are already pretty sweet)
-Soy milk
-Ice
and
-A couple drops of flax oil (super duper health benefit right there)
Blend together and enjoy!

This makes for a perfect summer snack!

Peace Love and Peaches
Jess <3

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New Things I Want to do Before I Die!

8/16/2012

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I just added 3 pictures of things I've crossed off my "Things I Want to do Before I Die" List. It is a life list I created, of things that I wish to accomplish before I leave this world. It is one of the best things I could have done for my life, because it gives me motivation, and lets me know what direction to move in! Here is an article I wrote on it.

So here is 3 more goals I have reached!

#10 Go to the Caribbean
I went on a cruise there in 2005, with my mom, aunts, and cousins. It was amaaazing. Here is me and my cousin Angela in the Cayman Islands, with a pirate statue! Haha

#16 Touch a Stingray
This was at the Pittsburg zoo that we went to on our camping vacation last month. The stingrays swam right up to the edge so you could touch them! I can't even describe how they feel, but it is sooo cool. These creatures are amazing, and I am so happy I got to touch one of them.

and #1 on my list! Go White Water Rafting!
This was also on our camping vacation! I'm not gonna lie, I was kinda nervous! But I ended up having an amaazing time.

Peace Love and TIWTDBID
Jess <3

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Ladies Night Out Hair and Makeup

8/14/2012

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Recently, me and my mother attended the Ladies Night Out Event in downtown Medina. While walking around, consuming way too much free wine and cupcakes, we discovered that The VCS Salon and Spa had a booth set up to do free hair and makeup! So following suit of my pinup obsession, I had a lovely lady by the name of Dawn do my makeup pinup style. She was sooo excited to do it, as she loves pinup style also! Here's an article on that night!

<<<Gettin my makeup did (click on the picture for a link to the VCS Salon)

My mom's hairdo she got done. How cool is that?!!

Peace Love and VCS Salon
Jess <3

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Rescuing Animals in Need

8/10/2012

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A couple weeks ago, we got a new addition to our family. A 3 year old boxer dog, that we named Rocky (after the song Rocky Raccoon. We have another boxer named Sadie, after Sexy Sadie [my family is huuuge Beatles fans haha]).
We hadn't originally planned on rescuing a dog, but my mom was given him for free. The man who owned him had had him since he was a puppy, and his entire life was spent inside a tiny cage. When he didn't want him anymore, he gave him to his mom, and since then, Rocky had no human contact, except for when they threw him food (his cage couldnt even open. When we went to get him, they had to dig out the ground around it to open the cage). He didn't even have a name.
When we brought him home, the first thing we had to do was give him a bath. He was sooo dirty, and I had NEVER seen so many fleas! The first week at home, he was very skiddish, and scared of everything. After being around us for a couple weeks, he is getting accustomed to his new home, and his new family. He gives us kisses, and gets along with Sadie. It is still very slow going (it takes abused and neglected dogs a while before they can trust people and not be afraid), but he is doing wonderful, and we love him so much, and he is such a great addition to our family.

Rocky and Sadie

So I would like to encourage you, the next time you are looking for a new pet, rescue one! Go to the pound and adopt, or just look for an animal that is in need. It is so worth it, to know that you gave a living creature a second chance at life, and I guarantee, that animal will give you a true friend, that will always be by your side.

Peace Love and Puppies
Jess <3

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A little Inspiration for your Wednesday

8/8/2012

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I found this attached to the end of a tea bag, and it really made me stop and think. Maybe it will make you stop and think too...

Peace Love and the Purpose of Life
Jess <3

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My Newest Business Venture!

8/6/2012

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The other day I wrote about a meeting I had, for a surprise that I'm really excited about! Soooo here it is! Me, my sister, and my brother's girlfriend now have our own craft booth set up at the biggest craft store around! If you ever take a trip to Amish Country, Ohio, be sure to make a special visit to Sol's Kit n' Kaboodles, and find our booth!

We were very excited, because we got to set up the booth however we wanted to, and we made it very beautiful (as you can see!) :P
We call our business, "Hand Made with Love", and everything in it is hand made. I have my tye dyed clothing, hand made clothing, t-shirt pillows, and record bowls, and coasters. My sister has some of her paintings and handmade hemp jewelry. My brother's girlfriend also has hemp jewelry and paintings, and also her special 3-d art she makes all from things from nature. Here is some pictures of the things you will find in our booth!

So that's the big surprise! We are very excited about this new business venture, and we are hoping that it works out for us! Here's the store's website if you wanna check it out www.solsinberlin.com