Personal Update:

[butterfly]

So, I've decided that I don't want to drive my car. It uses gas, which is both expensive and bad for the environment, plus if I don't drive, I will need to walk and/or bike-ride to the places that I need to go.

I've been doing this for the last five or so days that I've gone places. Will let y'all know how it goes.

I've been off of meat and caffeine for a little while now and haven't had any trouble since the time I had issues with telling my dad that I was going vegetarian (have since told him, all to the good). Haven't managed to fully quit dairy (pizza and ice cream, mostly) but I am drinking soy milk regularly and have stopped putting cheese on my pasta.

I now have a plan for the future that I'm quite excited about. In about ten years, jic, vampireborg and I are planning to open up a bed and breakfast (preferably near Ashland, Oregon). So, we're starting to save up for that now. We figure, between the three of us, we make at least one quality host (borg likes to cook for vast quantities of people, jic is a numbers person, and I genuinely like people and find pretty much every person in the world interesting). I'm thinking that I'm going to tell my family that I would prefer money for the B&B fund on my birthdays and Christmas, rather than presents (this was my mom's suggestion).

Life is rather spiffy, at the moment.

Comments

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm kinda bemused, myself. I was just drifting along in life, thinking that that's all I would ever do.

And I gave up driving a few years ago. Never regretted it, doubt I ever will.

I'm already looking into selling or giving my car away (Volunteers of America takes used cars, I think). I quit at the right time, I think, when I was ready.

Still haven't given up dairy though. Maybe I should try that next?

You could give it try! I'm still not there yet, but I plan to get there eventually. It's hard, though. Pizza is one of my old reliable comfort foods and I have no idea if they even make vegan pizza (or how it would taste!). It'll be hard to give up.

[fannishnonsense]

I've actually been considering giving up dairy for some time. I already switched to soy milk a while ago without any problem. Like you, it's pizza and ice cream that are my big stumbling blocks there. Although Tofutti is pretty decent if you get the right flavor (the vanilla is kind of weird). Ultimately though I think my biggest problem is that I always have to think things to death before I actually do anything about them!

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Ah! I was wondering if all of the flavors were odd like the vanilla. Knowing that you think it's an exception should make it easier for me to try the others.