Hey Everybody!
Jill and I have returned from the land of 75 degrees and surfing to humidity, heat and humidity with no water in sight! The pictures I have didn't turn out great, but I'm gonna try re-developing them and see if they're clearer. Also, we are missing a few that are on another camera. Pictures will follow soon, I swear. (Jeremy, this also goes for your wedding pictures, which I took on two different cameras, neither of which are finished. I'll send you those once I finish the camera! :) ) Nothing really stand-out to speak of, just beautiful scenery, good times with friends and a much need vacation. :)
After today, I think I need a vacation! The background goes a littler like this...while I was eating steak weeks and weeks ago, I was chewing and all sorts of realizations as to what I was chewing came flooding into my head.
Now, if you've been around me any during meal time in the last year or so, you know I have gotten very high maintanence when it comes to food. I stopped eating: white flour (I eat wheat instead), broccoli, salads (well, not often and not large ones), at diners (or at least being picky about what I eat that's not prepared by me), drinking water or anything with "floaty things" in it, as well as never really eating fish and, as my father says "inspecting everything before I put it in my mouth"! Given these who-knows-where-they-came-from idiosyncrasies, you'd be surprised there's anything left I do eat, can eat or can give up. :)
I decided it really couldn't be THAT much harder to become vegetarian. Now, I just needed to see if they made a vegetarian that fit what I liked! :) It seems there's something called a Flexitarian or "part-time" vegetarian which was perfect. It meant I could eat meat on occasion and still have dairy and eggs (if I ate those, really...they make me queasy. Not the hard-boiled or deviled ones, just the breakfasty ones.). So, I told the family I'd be working harder on sticking to a diet and being a Flexitarian. I mean really, how far a stretch could it be at this point? ;)
My sister thinks this is hilarious as I generally make fun of those "crunchy" people, or granolas. She had such a field day accompanying me on my first trip ever to Whole Foods as I walked around going "I can't believe I'm here with these people". (It's kinda the same thing as the fact I used to yell at those "people in their fancy cars who think they can do wahtever they want - cut me off, change lanes with no signal, pull out of a space without looking, just because they paid alot of money for their car!") So, today, on my renewed diet, I trekked to the store with "those people".
I think the lack of preservatives has affected the "manners" part of their brains! Never, in any place (but maybe Wal-Mart) have I been cut of, pushed, hit, stepped in front of, or come across random people taking up a whole aisle (which is made for commune-dwelling granolas with it's one ruler width between shelves aisle space) with their cart while they wander around with their little veggied-out heads in the clouds! Not once did I hear Excuse Me, I'm Sorry, Do you mind if I...? NOTHING! The workers, nice as pie. The shoppers, rude, arrogant, oblivious freaks who need to eat McDonald's and join the rest of us in the Golden Rule world.
The worst part about the whole story is....I am technically now one of them. So, as a warning to you all, if I ever 1) Forget to say excuse me, I'm sorry or just chanrge in front of you like you are not there 2) Pretend my life is much more important than yours and therefore, I may push you out of the way, knock you over or charge in front of you because I'm in a hurry, or just because, well, I'm me or 3) Smell of incense, ask one billion questions to anyone behind a counter where I am trying to buy something or began a rant about saving the world, animals, plants, etc. Please force feed me some preservatives/grease/meat and bring me back to reality.
Happy Wednesday!
"I hate hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about "protectin' the earth" and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate 'em! I wanna kick 'em in the nuts!" -Cartman on South Park
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