Vegan?

Blues and Roots Festival Byron Bay 2009

It is a beautiful sunny saturday. I have had a healthy breakfast and had my coffee down on one of my favourite spots on the rocks over looking the water and instead of going to join my housemate down by the food and wine fair on the grassy hills and the beach, am going to work. Oh well, atleast I'm enjoying work at the moment and learning magnificently large amounts of interesting things... I don't even feel like a fraud anymore.

I've been thinking about Veganism a bit lately and looked around at a couple of sites last night. I have mixed emotions about it. I believe in being resourceful, however I also believe if there are alternatives that are just as easily attainable as animal products that they should be used. I'm vegetarian, but if I was to live off the land and in that situation I would have no problem eating meat if I had caught and prepared it myself and it was best for my health. Circle of life, etc. But at the shopping centres there are far too many alternatives. I use soy milk, and am not a great fan of eggs but still have products that contain those things. Perhaps I'll look into cooking vegan meals... hmhmhm.

I'm also feeling rather creative and excitable about being healthy and making and designing new things... now I just need to create time to do them in. I just seem to end up down by the beach at every spare moment that I'm not working.

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Cliffs of Insanity
(Re: the Princess Bride)
Ireland

It's so easy to lose focus! One minute I'm buzzing around eating delicious colourful fruits and vegetables, seeds, nuts and yoghurt while walking down to the beach a couple of times a day and racing around work while speaking excitedly about life and all it's possibilities to my new friend at work and the next I've let myself get far too tired, eating less then nutritious foods and in my couple of days off have done very little of the things I would have loved to.

Try, try again. Keep on keeping on.

I still had quite a lovely mid-week weekend though. Catching up with friends I haven't seen in a long while who kindly came to see me as I seem to have become quite a recluse up here in my little beachy haven and busy work.

Galway,
Ireland

Galway,
Ireland

I will?

Saying something out loud sometimes makes it seem like it has a greater meaning accompanied by greater expectation applying greater pressure. I thought I'd keep this one to myself, which is tough for me! I get far too excited about things, let it slip, and become discouraged by responses that I don't appreciate. Which I think is the wrong attitude to have really. It simply means I must be stronger. Sure, don't let everyone know... but if it is out loud, then I can't ignore it as well and I will just have to turn this pressure that I've imagined is a bad thing into a positive thing and channel it into what I was already doing, and what I was already achieving when it was kept to myself and not be discouraged simply because someone thinks differently, after all that is what I appreciate about people... their differences and varying perspectives. All this nervous energy and anxiety I seem to have at present could just be doubt? Which is silly.... if I remember that perhaps I'll just keep keeping on? I hope so. Which is silly again, I'll stop hoping so and just do it!

I bought another canvas yesterday... now I just need some green paints... I love green at the moment, especially really green greens...

Best go cook up some dinner to take to work.

As I haven't taken new pictures since last time, here are some pictures from when I was overseas earlier this year.

Switzerland

It was so difficult to leave

I'll make it back there one day.

I just realised I will, and I will can have different meanings.... hm.

Gecko, Gecko what the hecko....

Found this little guy hiding under our blow up pool when we moved it, so I hung out with him for a while before going to work.

I really must get back on my motor bike. I am such a chicken... and I might decide to get rid of the bike, but I want it to be for the right reasons. I may as well learn while I have it and not let fear hold me back from something i'm actually capable of!

Work has been so busy. I still have this image of one of the patients running accross the helicopter pad being chased by another nurse while i'm left standing there with a cup of water and the medication wondering what on earth just happened!

Daylight Savings begins tomorrow!!! SO Excited, and as of 330pm tomorrow I also begin my weekend! Good times.