Earlier this week, I decided to read Alicia Silverstones The Kind Diet (for the 3rd time). I decided last night to try the whole vegan thing, AGAIN. I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want to go full vegan but I have several things that keep holding me back. Here they are (in no particular order):
1. Cheese...mmm, yummy, gooey, oozy cheese. I know it's bad. It's fattening, it clogs and congests you and not to mention what the poor cow has to go through for me to have it. I gave up the butter and the milk a couple of years ago. Ice cream...I don't eat very much of it as it is but when I do, it ain't vegan! But I can get over that. Rice Dream makes some awesome ice cream. But cheese? It's my drug of choice. :)
2. I'm the only one I know out of all my family and friends who is vegetarian. I've been a vegetarian for the last 20 years. So I've kind of gotten used to being the picky eater at restaurants. I've also gotten used to people asking me, "if you don't eat meat, what do you eat?" (rolling my eyes). But being vegan brings even more questions, groans and crazy looks from my friends. My family is pretty compensating since they are used to the way I eat. They have no problem with anything I eat and are usually willing to try anything I make. But my friends...that's another story. Most will try stuff but they don't generally like it if it's something they've never heard of. Then the ones that want to go out for lunch or happy hour always feel as though they have to go where I want to go, which isn't true. I've been vegetarian for 20 years. I can ALWAYS find something on any menu to eat.
3. Lastly, if there is a new vegetarian or even vegan restaurant I want to try, well...I have to go by myself, which I don't like doing. If there is some new food or ingredient I want to try, I have to research it and go hunting for it myself, then figure out how to cook it myself. If I want fresh, organic, locally grown produce I have to look for the closest farmers markets and trek through them alone on the weekends. Boo-hoo.
Maybe I'm just being a lazy procrastinator. I don't know. But I'm really going to try it again and hopefully introduce some new foods to my palate. I'm stuck on your pretty standard veggies, fruits, grains and beans. I follow several vegan blogs and I always see the yummy stuff they make and want to try it. I guess if I had a friend that was also vegan, it would be much more fun. Maybe I'll post an ad on Craig's List!! "Looking for vegan friends to go shopping at farmers markets with!" Just kidding...sorta. ;)
Wish me luck!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Vegas & roommates
Wow...it's been awhile since I last posted. As much as I love to write, I don't know why I don't post more often.
I just got back from Vegas last week. We had a great time. It was practically my first time there. The real first time was more like a drive-thru. I got to see tons of stuff this time. I went with my current roommate Jessica. We stayed in an awesome suite at the Venetian. It was really nice...although the hallways were so long, it freaked me out a little when there was no one else in them. They seriously looked like the hallways from The Shining. I kept waiting for those two creepy twin girls to pop out! Maybe I had been drinking too much. I'm not a big gambler but I did play about $12 worth. I won $103 with one pull of the handle on a twenty five cent Monopoly slot machine. But then I spent $30 of it trying to win more. Basically I came home with $60. But that's fine with me. At least I didn't come home in the hole.
Speaking of my roommate, she is moving out at the end of this month. She moved in back in January because she broke up with her boyfriend. Well...they got back together so she's moving back in with him. Now my other friend Cassandra is moving in with me and she's bringing her cute little weiner...weiner dog, that is. Penny the Dachshund will be joining my little Oscar. YAY! So he will have someone to play with now. I will miss Banana Bread Jess but Candied Carrot Cassandra will be fun as a roommate too. Don't ask me to explain the nicknames. Cass & Jess know what they mean! :)
Cheers for now!
I just got back from Vegas last week. We had a great time. It was practically my first time there. The real first time was more like a drive-thru. I got to see tons of stuff this time. I went with my current roommate Jessica. We stayed in an awesome suite at the Venetian. It was really nice...although the hallways were so long, it freaked me out a little when there was no one else in them. They seriously looked like the hallways from The Shining. I kept waiting for those two creepy twin girls to pop out! Maybe I had been drinking too much. I'm not a big gambler but I did play about $12 worth. I won $103 with one pull of the handle on a twenty five cent Monopoly slot machine. But then I spent $30 of it trying to win more. Basically I came home with $60. But that's fine with me. At least I didn't come home in the hole.
Speaking of my roommate, she is moving out at the end of this month. She moved in back in January because she broke up with her boyfriend. Well...they got back together so she's moving back in with him. Now my other friend Cassandra is moving in with me and she's bringing her cute little weiner...weiner dog, that is. Penny the Dachshund will be joining my little Oscar. YAY! So he will have someone to play with now. I will miss Banana Bread Jess but Candied Carrot Cassandra will be fun as a roommate too. Don't ask me to explain the nicknames. Cass & Jess know what they mean! :)
Cheers for now!
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