...the continuing files.

Rebecca and Doug have been very nice about my crazy schedule. My week is always so full with every thing I do that there's been little to no time for friends. Some of them, in particular, have been complaining about this. Well, I'm sorry that I want to stay inside and watch silly movies instead of go out and indulge. Hello, lifestyle change here? People still have a hard time getting that. So, it's up to me to prove to them that I can and will do this the right way.

Lately, i've been going on errands with Rebecca, helping them arrange shelves, replace books, dust books, etc. Just this past week Rebecca and I drove to the church sale and then on to Goodwill. There I found a few good children's books and an interesting one on the soviet union's involvement with WWII. When we got back, Mike, one of the people who comes in and helps them once or twice a week, was there with two dozen chocolate chip cookies. Talk about instant temptation. However, I gently refused, saying that I appreciated the offer. Later, as I walked home, I consoled myself with the fact that i'd be working out soon and if I got off soon enough I could get a vegan granola bar from whole world.

Now, I would like to defend myself saying that I did not become vegan simply to lose weight. No, it was far more than that. Unlike most of my peers, I have experience with this, since I was a strict vegetarian for six years, and only caved a year or so ago. Somehow, in that short amount of time, I had managed to forget all the sadness and horror that accompanied meat. As I read the horrifyingly graphic details the book provided, I began to cry. How could I have forgotten this? I wondered to myself. The book went on to say that humans were the only species who drank milk after they've grown from the premature state of using their mothers as a simultaneous comfort of love and food. Not only that, we used another's species milk to do this.

I read the whole book in one night, and it shattered every last notion I had. But, my family was surprised to see, I was happier than I'd ever been. This was because i'd decided on a course of action. Not only that, it was such a healthy option, and it was saving lives believe it or not. I proudly told everyone I knew that becoming a vegan I was sparing 90 cows a year. 90 innocent cows are going to have their lives spared because of one less demand for meat! How couldn't that make you feel good?