3 posts from April 2008

Trolling the internet.
This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
What not to crochet
It brings back bad Christmas present flashbacks.  Grandma meant well.  I think.

So, this is the second week of my vegan eating adventure.  It's actually been really easy so far.  I think that I've read enough about the gross-ness of milk that I really don't want any now.  I never craved milk or eggs but it's so easy to eat these things when their mixed in other things.  I hate to say it but I need to eat more veggies.  I'm eating too may beans, I think.
It's hard for me to buy a lot of fresh veggies because I can't get a whole lot at one time.  They just go so bad so fast. 
There's definitely a lot more ingredient reading than when I was vegetarian.  20 yrs of being a vegetarian and SO much more to learn.
I'm not really getting any better at the working out part of my life.  It's so weird to say that I know what I need to do.  Tomorrow always seems like a great time to start,  I always have great plans for what I'm going to do tomorrow.  How do you make tomorrow today?  I guess you just do it and stop planning for it.  Now to do that.
Maybe I should just keep reminding myself about the whole fat single girl at the reception thing.  That could scare anyone in to losing weight.  I put a count down on my computer (obsess much?)  I know that I'm not going to lose 50lbs in 4 1/2 months BUT I can feel better about myself.  Is that too sad that weight can make me feel better/worse about myself?  It would be nice to make out with a guy sometime before I turn 40.  Right now there's no way, without LOADS of liquid courage, would I let someone...almost anything.  And, as a side note to all the young ones out there, we mid-to-late-30's peeps want to make out too.  More on that another day.
I do obsess!
On a slightly different topic, but not really, I've tried to take "food porn" pictures but I'm learning that it's all about lighting because so far my pictures have not been very attractive.  A bit on the over exposed  side.   I'm working on it.
Now I'll just wait for the hockey game to start.
Did I mention that I'm probably the only girl in Baltimore that loves hockey?  Needless to say, I'm not from here.

Red

It's hard to say since it took me over a week to actually make a blog entry.
There's about a ba-jillion things that I would like to change and/or do.
Some are big life changes some are small everyday things that I feel like other people don't even think about. 
Maybe it's that I don't think about it and they do so I don't do it and they do.
I do tend to ramble and write things that might only make sense in my head. 
I guess I'm hoping that everyday I'll get closer to the person that I want to be.  Not that I don't like who I am now.  There's just room for a lot of improvement.
So, what are the "biggies"?
1. I've been a vegetarian for 20 years or so.  It's time I make the jump to vegan.  So far it's been a SLOW process with a few set backs here and there.
2. I'm tired of saying that "I want to be a runner someday"  I need to take the steps (no pun intended) to actually RUN.  I understand that I'm close to horribly out of shape and it will take a long time but it will take even longer if I don't even start.
After that it's a lot of the regular kind of stuff-
Do my laundry before there's 7 loads to do and I contemplate going commando (or buying more underwear).
Lose weight-according to the BMI index I should lose 60 lbs.  I don't really care about the pound-age so much as I would like to wear pants that are a single digit.  I'm still in the teens but that could change if I don't put real, on going effort in to it.
Have a date for a wedding in September.  A little sad sounding, I know.  I just found out about this wedding and had a minor freak out.  I don't want to be the fat single cousin.  It's horrible to say but that was my first thought.  This must not happen.  I will be the cousin no matter what so I can only work on the other two.
I've been living vicariously through all these other blogs that I read (daily) and thought that if I started writing about what I do it would force me to actually do something.