Well, I guess you really can't make decisions on a whim. I always thought that when my mother said that, it meant that decisions on a whim are a really bad idea. I didn't expect it to mean that they're near impossible. I decided on Tuesday that I'm going vegan. It didn't occur to me that half the stuff I own has some form of meat or dairy in it and that I don't get paid until the 31st. So I am grouchy as hell, drinking gatorade for breakfast because all I had was yogurt and cereal with milk in the fridge. This is the first kind of refined sugar or HFCS I've had in like 2 days and I have one monster of a headache. Add my period and an arguement with my fiance this morning, and I'm going to need serious psychological help by the time the day is over. Of course, I can't be surprised, I could have halfway expected that I would have gotten in a fight with my fiance this week considering my physical disposition. I'm impressed that this is the first one and I've been on the rag since Monday. Oh well. As the old addage goes, you win some, you lose some. But I also sort of feel like guys smell weakness and go for the jugular when we're not at 100%. I don't think it's being sneaky or mean, I don't even think it's a consious effort. I think it has to do with all of that "survival of the fittest" garbage. I think it has to do with testosterone. Jason knows I haven't been feeling well, if he were a woman he would have left me alone to sleep for another 45 minutes without the phone ringing in my ear in hoping when I wake up I will have a little more energy and just feel better. But, being a man, his primal urges took over and he calls me promptly at 6:45 and went into attack mode. Which, in my opinion, was the worst idea on earth.
I had Amy's Kitchen Organic Split Pea Soup for lunch. Truth be told, I wasn't exactly impressed. Normally I *love* Amy's Kitchen stuff but this time it just didn't do much for me. Granted, when I think of Split Pea soup I think of something rich and creamy with chunks of ham. I don't mind vegetable broth, having officially tried it today, but it was over seasoned and yet strangely enough it was still bland enough to call for salt. It really needed a kick. The whole time I'm sitting there eating my vegan soup, everyone else is eating barbeque from my favorite restaurant, Full Moon. I wanted to cry!!! I wish I would have at least had something delicious and impressive to make me feel better. I ended up eating at my desk :(. Next time I'll bring hummus and pita and ratatouille and all kinds of wonderful vegan things and make sure it's when everybody else has pb&j! HA HA! ...Probably not though, seriously. I have $70 to spend on groceries tonight to last me a week. How on God's green earth I'm going to spend $70 on vegan, HFCS-free food is beyond me. But I guess since I'm not buying packs of packaged decomposing flesh and cartons of milk I can use that money in other places. I guess that's one benefit of being raised in a one-income home: I never got attached to the expensive stuff. I HATE cheese, can't have milk, don't particularly like eggs, rarely ate meat prior to the change to my new lifestyle... If it's cheaply packaged and even more cheaply made, I LOVE it. That's my problem. I loooooove Chef Boyardee, Smucker's PB&J spread, among anything else that comes pre-packaged in it's own cooking container, which all contain MSG's, HFCS, refined sugar, artificial coloring and sweeteners, pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, steroids... Fruit Roll Ups, Velvetta shells and cheese, and Lunchables are like filet mignon to me. That is what has been the hardest for me to give up. Of course my precious fiance (who isn't the dingbat he sounds like, today I'm just hating on anything that doesn't have ovaries) LOVES meat, LOVES cheese, LOVES milk, and LOVES LOVES LOVES anything and everything listed above. It really concerns me too, because with my new knowledge I don't want him to be so suspectible to cancer! I read that going vegan makes you less suspectible to 90% of all known cancers. I wonder if cancer is the chemicals like MSG's, Aspartame, HFCS, and the pesticides, antibiotics, and steroids the USDA and other companies are pumping into us trying to find its own place in our bodies? I mean our bodies are built to cleanse itself of the impurities that would be natural for us to be exposed to - minerals, some chemicals, extra sugars and fats, etc... What if our bodies aren't prepared for all these foreign, complex chemicals that we're now eating, drinking, and breathing? It makes sense to me. Over the course of the past year, I have really been thinking about the level progression has taken in the 21 years I've been alive. Nearly everything I make contact with on a day to day basis is some form of synthetic material, some form of chemical that isn't organic, some creation of a scientist somewhere to make production cheaper and our lives "easier". But how much better is it really getting? What if the very thing that is supposed to help our fast paced lives is killing us? It's really scary. REALLY scary. The problem is though, I feel like the tree-huggers and PETA activists are giving Vegans a bad name because they're so overly outspoken that nobody really listens to the studies that vindicate what they've been saying for so long, and if it ever was proven by someone outside PETA or a connected source people would still roll their eyes and walk away. Forget the ADA has begun to back a plant-based diet. Nobody wants to be labeled a hippie twig muncher. I choose this lifestyle because I want to protect the temple that God gave me, for me to be a good steward of and take care of. If I'm exposing myself to the thing that is killing hundreds of millions of people a year, that's not being a good steward. Until the USDA cleans up their act, there is no way in hell I'm going to eat anything they produce. This isn't a "awww look at the baby chicken" issue, it's "what the h-e-double hockey sticks do you think you're doing to your country" issue.
Rant over.
Current Library Check Out List:
Secret for a Nightingale - Victoria Holt
Final Days of Dogtown - Anita Diamant
Next Check Out:
Vegan Freak - Rob Torres
Red Tent - Anita Diamant
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