Hugo and I are both feeling under the weather a little. Probably due to overwork and lack of sleep. We’ve been fortunate to be able to catch up a little the past day or so but I am definitely looking forward to the weekend.
Good gracious, day 14. A while back I would never have thought I could make it this long and here I am… 2 weeks. Today, I made CoK’s “Chicken” Salad. It really kicks ass. I loves it.
I am actually managing to save money as a vegan. I was eating out on the road at least once a day. Now I’m snackin on nuts and water while rollin down the road. Comparatively, I just don’t eat out right now…at all…the end. I’m buying fresh fruit and veg and eating it instead of putting it in the fridge and forgetting about it. I’m doing lots of cooking at home with staples and spices instead of relying on processed food.
I believe this is a good choice. I’m so sleepy right now.. it’s 1:30am and would I love to be in bed right now? Yes I would.
We went out to an Italian restaurant for dinner. I love this place and their family has been feeding mine since I was a kid. Normally I get cheese ravioli that is smothered in this delicious pureed tomato sauce; it’s divine. Not Vegan, however, so I opt for spicy marinara (seriously craving spicy lately) over ziti. I really hate it when I order something spicy and the server is condescending and says to me “You know that’s spicy right?” Yes, yes I would imagine that SPICY Marinara as it reads here on this menu in English, my native tongue, would indeed be somewhat spicy. Ok so it’s not ALL in English. I had to have Hugo explain to me what aioli meant. (barf btw)
Spicy marinara is self explanatory. When it got to the table it was about 9000° so I had to wait and wait and wait before I could eat. The heat from the spices wasn’t like eating a pepper or something where it throws you on the floor and sits on your chest, it was the kind that built the more you ate. Not very exciting. Every time I took a sip of my water, it was over and I had to start building to the heat again. I’m not sure if the waitress told them to make it horribly hot or not hot at all, but I didn’t break a sweat. It did clear my sinuses though.
It wasn’t the sauce I was expecting though. I wanted the pureed tomato sauce of fire and instead it was giant chunks of stewed tomatoes, giant chunks of garlic, and a shit load of some sort of pepper. I wasn’t terribly impressed so next time I’ll have to be more specific.
Food Lion has some pretty decent, vegan, organic canned vegetables they’ve recently started carrying and that I have, consequently, started buying and eating. Beans are the ultimate convenience food indulgence for me right now. I was afraid I had been eating too many of them (my dwindling stash of beano for evidence) and thought “Hey. I like beans. I will try to make beans from a bag of dried beans. I shall have my own beans. Mmm.”
Right. I put a couple of cups of dried beans on to soak about this time yesterday (2:40pm EST) and put them on at 1:21. I just got to fucking eat them. I don’t know why my brain didn’t compute that they had to cook for almost 2 hours when I inserted this food product into my lunch plans. They were damn good beans though. Not too salty, not too smooshy, and made with nothing but water, salt, and my swearing. Mmm.
From what I have read, the amount of sodium your body can tolerate is determined by genetics. Gaging the amount of processed foods and crap I have eaten in the past…..25 years I should probably cool it with the salt for a while. I know I am extremely sensitive to MSG. If I eat ramen noodles 2 days in a row, I will get a migraine that makes me want to die. This probably has a lot of factors…my blood pressure being one of them. The migraines, I’ve had since I was a kid…the sensitivity to evil chemicals is something I’ve acquired since I turned 19.
For the last 10 days I have had very little processed food (compared to the weeks and years before it’s almost zero), lots of fresh and frozen vegetables, new grains and proteins have been introduced to my diet. Come to think of it, I probably have a thing or two to cross off of my list of 101 in 1001.
I’m still having nightmares/panic attacks in the middle of my sleep cycles which makes it extremely hard to get back to sleep. The other night I jumped out of bed, got my arm hung in my curtain tie back (huge metal U thing), ripped it off the wall, fell down and then realized where I was. Negative: I have damaged my wall. Positive: I get to learn how to repair drywall.
I am healing faster, it seems. I never bruised easily until I started on birth control and if you look at me too hard now I’ll bruise. Most of the damage has been contained to my lower extremities because the dogs bump into me (a lot) and I run into a lot of shit (really a lot). Those bruises would take 14 forevers to heal and the last few I have gotten have cleared up in a few days. This says to me….better circulation maybe? Trudging up and down 6 flights of stairs every night is probably doing me some good as well.
Anyway, I wanted to go ahead and get Day 10 up because I have been so tired in the evenings (i somehow missed day 8). I’d like to get in bed at a decent hour and fall asleep at a decent hour and wake up at an appropriate hour and not feel like I’ve spent 8 hours getting my ass kicked. I’m off to do some housework and think about Actionscript and how much I wish I could wrap my head around it. Au revoir mon ami.
