Some things.
1. I'm listening to Tori Amos a lot today, and really enjoying it.
2. For lunch, I had black beans and rice with veggie crumbles, a "ham and cheese" sandwich on potato bread, and scalloped potatoes made with nutritional yeast. A recipe I found in Peta's College Cookbook.
3. I'm going to finish up Dexter season 3 when I get home from work today. Only 2 more episodes.
4. I need to do some actual work today.
5. My stomach has calmed down from earlier. I was feeling yucky.
6. The next 6 months are going to be awesome. Going to Texas, California, Nevada, and Lewes, Delaware. Not at the same time. My mom is renting a beachouse this summer, I'm hoping to see Holly for hopefully a week also this summer. Then in November for Thanksgiving, I'm flying out to Las Vegas, Nevada with my mom and little sister. We're going to then take the 4.5 hour drive to our destination in California and stay there for a week.
7. I have 1 1/2 hours left of work.
8. Bad things: I noticed that my WordPress blog doesn't know what timezone I'm in.
9. I noticed my new doll's eyebrows don't match her wig.
Oh Crappy Day…
Today was just the worst day at work. Half of the customers I spoke to were either crazy or just plain rude to me. Sometimes, I just wish I could ask people why they thought they could treat me the way they did, honestly. That is all I'll say about that.
I'm happy because I got some yummy coconut flavoured vegan icecream sandwiches at the Newark Co-op the other day. They're so yummy and small and animal-free. I could eat a million of them, but I won't, because that would be bad.
But another thing I like about being on a mostly-vegan diet now is that my diet is cholesterol free. I'm never going to have to worry about having eaten too much cholesterol and getting sick from it. I always get enough protein because protein is in like, everything. There are only a few vitamins I have to worry about, and I have to make sure I get enough sun for those, and take my daily vitamin. For calcium I've been drinking calcium orange juice every morning with my breakfast.
I said "mostly-vegan" up there because there are still some veggie substitute things that manage to have whey in them. I'm not really sure the reason for it, but it's there. I should give it up eventually I suppose.
If anyone is really wondering why I became vegetarian again (and even vegan this time) is not only because I felt I wasn't being myself, but also because of a movie/documentary called Earthlings. It's a documentary that shows how we treat animals. Basically animals aren't ours for any purpose in live, except to share the Earth. It's a really sad documentary, and I did cry a few times through it, but I recommend it for anybody.
I'm going to be trying a few new recipes this week. I want to make Brady some more vegan cupcakes or some muffins. Also I want to try a few stir-fry recpies with the package of seitan that I bought from the Co-op. I think that if I don't like tofu very much, I'll really like seitan.
Besides all the new vegan-y stuff in my life, I found a new musician to listen to. Her name is Lenka, and the album I have is her self-titled one. I really like all the songs on it, but my favourites are "The Show" and another one, that I can't really remember the name.
I'm finishing up here; I'm going to try to upgrade my WordPress to the newest version, and watch Family Guy with my loverly husboi. <3 <3 <3
A Small Update
Hello, everyone. I'm publishing this from my new WordPress blog, but it's going to cross-post to LiveJournal. I just wanted to give you an update on my life, since it's been about 2 years since I've regularly blogged anything. The problem was that I was dating this guy Kevin, and he didn't like me to be honest. He didn't appreciate that I'd ever write the truth. I wasn't always happy with him. He was logging into my LiveJournal and reading entries. Reading entries that existed before I was dating him, and during. I'd change my LiveJournal password and he'd still do this. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if he somehow found my WordPress blog as well, but that's besides the point. I want to be able to write with honesty and not have to worry about someone reading it and feeling hurt. I did end up leaving him, thankfully. I no longer felt my trust would be compromised in any way.
I work at a web-hosting company now, (and they're not hosting this blog, someone else is.) I met a boy there, and his name is Brady. I had a small, insignificant crush on Brady when I first met him, but I didn't let this bother me, since I was with Kevin. I just wanted to get to know him a little more though. He seemed to be pretty cool and liked good music. In October of 2008 I went with my friend Allyson to see Hanson in Atlantic City. We somehow convinced a couple of guy friends from work to come hang out with us after the show. Brady was one of those guys. We hung out and drank and had fun, and I was good, knowing I had a boyfriend at home. But after that weekend, Brady let me know that he really liked me and wanted to get to know me more.
Kevin and I were constantly off and on, and I honestly didn't see much hope left in the relationship, so I let it end, as I should have done months before. I wasn't really ready for a relationship with Brady yet, but I found myself hanging out with him more and more, until it was obvious what it had become. Essentially we fell in love within the first few months, and now I live with him in Bear, Delaware, along with his friend Bryan. We have 4 cats and 1 fish, and probably twice as many computers as cats. I'm pretty happy, as happy as I can be. I've since worked for the hosting company for a little over a year, and I've been with Brady for 6 months. I can see a pretty decent future for us.
I've also become vegetarian again. This is something I have wanted to do for a while. I was vegetarian for 5 years, starting in highschool and lasting throughout college. I stopped for some reason, maybe because Mike, my ex, promised to cook for me if *only* I would eat chicken. I remember he bought me a chicken sandwich at Wendy's, and I cried over it, and then ate the sandwich, covered in salt from my tears. I eventually got over it and began eating meat again. I've been questioning myself as to why I made that move. I don't particularly like meat, and I knew it was cruel, yet I kept eating it. Friends like Sarah and Mike (another Mike I know from working at Apple) helped me get back to myself.
I don't have much else to say, but I can promise I will start blogging on a regular basis again. I do check and read LiveJournal, so if you want to add me, feel free. I will read your posts. Just comment here at WordPress what your username is. And feel free to comment either here or there, I will read both.
I'm very much looking forward to doing this again.