The Best Is Yet To Come

the smell of freshly cut grass and smoke

 

the weight on my chest that's finally

 

flying away

 

the taste of the sunrise and the wind in the morning

 

and the sound of the stars singing to the moon

 

welcome home

HELLO THIS IS THE NEW ME
 
CATCHING CHILDREN
 
WHEN THEY BE COMIN'
 
THROUGH THE RYE
 

Yay for reviving old fads! =D
 
Ask me anything and I will answer. Honesty costs extra. :3

my bad.
 
i never killed my goldfish why can't i take care of a blog *cries*
 

Good news: tomorrow marks one month as a vegetarian!
 
Bad news: I got in my first car accident today.
 
It wasn't my fault: I was driving up the street and a guy parked on the side didn't see me and pulled out ...right into my car.
 
There're a bunch of scratches and dents now, and of course it happened after a really long day when I really didn't feel up to handling it, but in the end it's just a car and while I am fond of it, it's still just a car.
 
In any case, I'm glad to go to bed now.

oh
 
gosh why
 
why did i do this
 
at least i'm not the only one?

Yeah, so tomorrow will mark two weeks of me  eating no meat.
 
It's been interesting so far. I've found I've been watching what I eat, simply because I need to make sure I can eat it, and the byproduct of that is that I'm eating healthier things. I've been eating way more vegetables, and I've been getting my protein from soy, eggs, and beans instead of meat.
 
It hasn't been a drastic change, to be honest. Before going pescetarian, I already ate more beans than meat, but that doesn't man it hasn't been difficult. I've turned down some pretty delish stuff (oh bacon why), and even gone hungry once or twice. I'm proud of myself: it hasn't been easy, and it's cool to know that I have the willpower to cut something out of my diet and stick with it.
 
I'm not planning on stopping anytime soon, either. I'll keep blogging too, but I'm switching to weekly updates (the downtime threw me for a loop anyway).
 
Thanks for your support, guys! 
 
(and maybe sometime soon we'll start edging closer to vegan. who knows?)
 

Day four! Over halfway through a week of eating no meat!
 
Breakfast was cereal, which I usually don't care for, but I was in a hurry and anyway I'll probably be eating more of it because it's quick and also vegetarian. Lunch was a salad () and a scone. 
 
Supper was an interesting affair. I attended a young adult potluck at my church, and brought chick pea curry and rice as my dish (it's vegetarian, so it was my failsafe in case nobody else brought something I could eat). Fortunately, there was plenty I could eat. I had sushi, pasta, curry, fruit and vegetables, and a made-from-scratch cupcake (even the icing was homemade!).
 
I'm finding that this is definitely not as difficult as I was expecting, partly because I've realized that I didn't eat a whole lot of meat before I went vegetarian. However, I'm sort of anxiously awaiting summer, because as soon as it gets warm enough for the propane not to freeze, we Canadians whip out the barbecue, and it stays out until the snow's too high to use it. I'm hoping that, by the time the thaw rolls around, I'll have gotten into the habit of not eating meat, and it will be easier.
 
Funny side note: nobody believes that I'm vegetarian. They all think I'm joking, or say I can't really call myself a vegetarian if I've only been at it four days. That makes no sense: if I'm choosing not to eat meat, I'm pretty sure that makes me a vegetarian, regardless of how long I've been at it. Anyway, I plan to keep this up for a while, so eventually everyone will see that I'm actually serious, and not just playing a prank.
 
So far, so good! (the bacon-wrapped sushi was hardly even a temptation ^^)

Day three was a good day, by all accounts.
 
Breakfast was ordinary: once again I made an egg with some potatoes. So original, right? Unfortunately, my day always starts earlier than I'd like it to, so I'm usually scrambling to get the door. Hence the quick, simple breakfasts.
 
For lunch I had an egg salad sandwich and a pear scone. Today's temptation was a bowl of Thai chicken soup, which is seriously one of the best things in the world. But I resisted! (the scone helped)
 
Supper was chili and rice -vegetarian chili! My mom told me that she wasn't going to cook for me (which I heartily agree with; this is my decision, after all, not hers), but my family really doesn't eat a ton of meat, and it turns out that the chili was safe. Score!
 
Also I got stat pay for working on a holiday, played street hockey, and wrote a song. A pretty good day, I'd say.
 
WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY

Day two!
 
Today was a pretty chill day. An egg with some hash browns for breakfast, and beans and noodles for lunch, so there's my protein for the day. Supper was my first real challenge, because we had roast beef and mashed potatoes for the first time in, like, ever, but I managed to stave off the temptation and just took extra potatoes and vegetables instead.
 
Also a huge bowl of salad. Because salad is delicious. P:
 
Changing topics, I'm starting to realize that one of the trickiest parts about my going vegetarian is that I don't like tomatoes (cue horrified gasps). I've never liked tomatoes, for as a long as I can remember. I'll eat ketchup and tomato sauce, and I'll eat tomatoes in a sauce or a chili as long as I can't taste them, but both the taste and the texture of whole or chunky pieces really throw me off.
 
I still try them from time to time, simply because I really want to like tomatoes (they're so versatile! and healthy!), but I haven't seen a breakthrough yet. We'll see what happens, I guess.
 
Thanks to HH and Janus for those huge paragraphs of encouraging advice on my last post. You guys rock!
 
There's not much else for me to write about today (it was a pretty nice, relaxing day), so I'll close it here. A reminder, though: we're coming up to 1,000 comments pretty quickly, and I do have something planned for that!
 
(note that is not an invitation to spam the comments dont kill me deevee)