dang i love california

sucks to be allergic to gluten, or so i'm learning by browsing on the blogsite of this girl who is allergic to it gluten. she's married to some superman that is a chef and pregnant with his child. she wrote a very long blog about how amazing he is and how they got married, etc. etc. anyway, with my sarcastic bitter phase still in effect i grew more and more pissed at the stupid girls who wrote such encouraging comments. such butt kissing comments. do they have to be encouraging and positive? can't they just be benign? can't they just be questions about the recipe? or in my case, massive gloating about the fact that we live in california and there's hardly such a thing as a fruit out of season. hell i have three little baskets of strawberries in the fridge right now. i wonder what i can make with them tomorrow. i love living in california.

my comment would have been along the lines of "ha ha sucks to be you, you don't live in the best state in america." but then i would make someone cry and that ain't my style.

speaking of food. judging from lynner's skeptic remark this afternoon when i told her that i was a vegetarian now and she said, "we'll see how long that lasts" i guess it could be expected that i of all people would be flaky about something like that because well lynners has watched me eat over the past 8 years we've known each other (eight, ohmygosh, how did that happen?) and seen me say and not do. if i would have been in a different state of mind than i am now and with the eating habits i had then when i ate nothing, i would have said i couldn't and wouldn't stick with it. well since i was able to commit to one man and two cats, i figured that was a good bounce board for doing and not just saying. the transition to the new foodstyle has been really easy for me because it was almost like i'd been preparing for it for the past few months. i never ate fish, i hate any and all seafood no exceptions. after seeing too many cute lambs i swore off lamb chops. matt doesn't like pork so we cut that out. red meat was making me ill. so that left turkey and chicken. in fact, it had become an added effort to add meat to a meal. i'd look at the shopping cart and i had all the ingredients but so i'd have to head to the deli.

the one part that's been a very conscious effort has been when we eat out. and if any one of you ever become vegetarians you'll notice that it really is a wide awake look at food. i would assume it would be like if you were allergic to a food because you have to make sure that ingredient isn't there. so you have to start asking questions like, does this minestrone have meat in it? do you have tofu pad thai? you don't just grab stuff and assume you can eat it, you look at labels, you think of sides to go with it, its not just passive consumerism. and aside from various other reasons why i became a vegetarian, that was the one i was most interested in.

another reason why i love california is the fact that it is very easy to be a vegetarian in this day and age and state. and companies like amy's kitchen are even in wal-marts so even in new mexico, we were fine.

its been four weeks now. its been really easy for me. i think this thing is gonna stick.