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Ha ha - not worried about the well-being of the deer, honestly. I just grew up in a town where dudes liked to hunt and hang heads on walls. So I am creeped out by antlers.

But I totally love your house for real!

I bought a condo under the craziest dude in the universe!!! Their living room was above our bedroom so we would wake up to loud cracking sounds that sounded like the ceiling was going to fall. Then they would run around the living room and move furniture around CONSTANTLY! It was like living under Jurassic Park.

Upper condos are required to have carpeting, but these people had wood floors. We offered to buy them carpeting, but they refused and started being even louder just to "stick it to the white man". We tried talking to them, but ultimately the condo board forced them to get carpeting.

To make us pay for having to get carpet - they broke into my condo and the other condo above us and have flooded us a grand total of SIX TIMES in a little over a year. The association won't do anything. The police won't do anything. NOBODY will do anything. Basically unless we have a video of them doing this the police won't even talk to them about it.

We ended up buying a new house and moving because the condo was no longer safe for our baby, with all the flooding. The crazy guy is selling his condo as a short sale now. And we were 2 weeks away from selling ours when they flooded us again.

We had lost our homeowner insurance after flood #5 so now we have no way to fix this stuff and we have to pay 2 mortgages until we can fix the flood damage and sell.

Thankfully, our new neighborhood is great!!!! We just hope that the condo can be sold soon so we don't go broke and lose both places!

I agree with the juice idea. Our family has started juicing and doing a lot of green smoothies. And we have found that not only is it easier to consume a lot more greens (kale, spinach, collards, dandelion greens) that we wouldn't typically eat - it's so easy to disguise the taste by mixing them with other vegetables and fruits! Not to mention - you don't have to spend all night cooking and cleaning. Instead, we have time to take an evening stroll as a family and head home for an early bed time.

The days are so much easier when your nights are full of peaceful sleeping.

And eating well isn't anything to be smug about - it's something to be proud of. It's tough to get started, but once you get into the groove - it's amazing!

I became vegan and raw by accident. When we set up Netflix thru our Wii - we instantly had access to all the movies one could ever require. One day I came across "Change your Food, Change your Life" which got me contemplating the reasons why one would become vegan. Having grown up on a dairy farm, hearing that pasteurized cow milk is not good for the human body was tough. But I read "The China Study" and I haven't drank milk since, and have only eat cheese on very rare occasions. Quitting dairy - I lost 18 lbs in less than 2 weeks. I got a couple of Post Punk Kitchen books and started rocking out with all kinds of new recipes.

Then I saw the movies "Food Matters" and "A Beautiful Truth" and decided to dabble with raw. We got a juicer that week along with some Ani Phyo books and Boutenko Family books.

It's tricky getting used to new terms and new equipment, but the food is DELICIOUS! Once you get used to the flow of things - you realize that eating healthy does NOT mean sacrificing flavor!!! Get the book "Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World" and you'll know what I mean!

I feel more focused and energized and am really on-fire for learning about food and nutrition. It's no joke - you are what you eat. And when you consume chemicals - your body cannot function the way it should, hence all the cancers and diabetes and other infirmities so many of us are battling.

Grocery shopping has become my favorite thing to do. THAT is my retail therapy. Knowing that I am feeding my family genuinely good, nutritious foods is a fantastic feeling.

We allow ourselves to do meat on the weekends or if we go out to dinner with friends and there aren't vegan options. But the more you experiment with vegan and raw foods - the more you realize how healthy you feel when you eat them.

I encourage everyone to TRY vegan for a little while - just to see if you like it. Or just incorporate a few vegan recipes into your week. You'll be surprised at how much you like them! Just remember - eating good doesn't have to taste bad!