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Park rangers who have spent their lives defending the wildlife of Virunga National Park are in grave danger. Their families are in refugee camps. The people there risk disease. Please help by donating or spreading awareness of this cause.

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My only blog regarding politics

I've had a few people tell me recently that voting for a third party is throwing my vote away. Sorry. Don't see it that way. I'm not going to change my opinion on whom would best run the country based on the status quo. This country is not a two-party system. This country has lots of different political parties and two just happen to overwhelm all of the other ones. I think it's irresponsible and hateful to tell someone that their opinion is wrong and to vote for one of the major parties even if they don't believe in the principles of either one "for the greater good." Where does it stop? Will there be a point that only the two big parties exist? And then what? Will they slowly merge together to become one party? Will we then only have one ideology governing the nation?

Not cool. Definitely not cool.

Losing while winning

I'm doing even better than I was in August. My life is slowly but surely finding some balance.

I actively started watching what I eat lately and trying to lose weight. I have a feeling the first 15 pounds will be easy because I like healthy foods and keeping a good schedule of meal times. I'm not as addicted to food as some people want to believe I am. Mostly my family thinks that. My friends have, in the past, worried about me not eating enough. When I'm not at home I don't eat a terrible amount and when I do, it isn't junk food. It's funny that when I'm away from my family, I'm healthy and sober. Losing weight has also been easy because I'm rarely home and I rarely deal with them. They spend all of their time judging others. It ultimately turns toward me and that negative energy isn't healthy. It's almost killed me in the past. I just do my best to ignore it.