Day 41 Happy: Not having to cook!
Today was pretty uneventful, at least as far as "happys" go. I worked over 10 hours, starting at 7:30 in the morning, and then bummed around for the rest of the day. At least I didn't have to cook anything, though, because I had leftover Chinese food for lunch and leftover vegetarian chili for dinner. Both were delicious and kept me out of the kitchen!
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
The Fourth of July (035/365)
Day 35 Happy: The Fourth of July! Today was amazing. I didn't get to see many fireworks, but I did see a lot of the back of my eyelids, and that's just as good!
Marc and I slept in, watched Independence Day
and Live Free or Die Hard 
and bummed around on the futon all day. It was rainy and gross most of the afternoon, so we decided to skip the fireworks and hang out at home instead. Last year when we went to watch fireworks at Vinoy Park, it was crowded and hot and it tooks us forever to find our car afterwards. Staying at home was really nice, and we saw a couple fireworks over the building across the parking lot. I also made veggie chili, which was absolutely delicious. I took a picture of it as the very first picture for Project 365 that I am doing on Flickr. Marc has been doing his Project 365 for almost two months, and it seems fun, so I will be taking a picture every day. We'll see how that goes... it's not like I'm not too busy already! Haha.
Veggie Chili = Love!
How did you guys spend your Fourth of July?
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Not Eating Animals! (027/365)
Day 27 Happy: Not eating animals!
I never made a conscious decision to be a vegetarian.
The last time I ate meat was over a month ago. I hadn't been eating red meat for close to a year, and was only eating chicken and turkey a couple nights a week anyway. One day, I just decided to stop. I will admit that there was a PETA
pamphlet involved, but that wasn't the reason I decided to stop eating meat. My sister has been a vegetarian for several years now, and I don't really like the taste of meat anyways, so it wasn't really that big of a deal.
I have run into a few bumps in the road along the way though. There are a few types of food that I love (Chinese food, Mexican food) that I generally had meat with (Orange chicken, and turkey tacos!). My fiancé (carnivore) and I have been experimenting with vegetarian ways to make dinners. Some of our inventions have been great successes (vegetarian chili was super delicious, and vegetarian burritos, which are JUST as good as turkey burritos!), and some have been... iffy (like veggie burger, which I think tasted a little odd because it was overcooked, and I don't really like red meat anyways, so why would I like fake red meat? ... I'm trying the veggie chicken patties next).
We also tried to make our own homemade veggie Chinese food, but that was... questionable. Making your own at-home Chinese food is hard anyways, but we have some little changes to make for the next time we try to make it. It honestly hasn't been that big of a deal to cook and eat vegetarian for the last month. Plus, it has saved us a whole bunch of money at the grocery store, as we are now only buying half the amount of meat we used to. (Marc likes that part, too.)
Yay for not eating animals!
I never made a conscious decision to be a vegetarian.
The last time I ate meat was over a month ago. I hadn't been eating red meat for close to a year, and was only eating chicken and turkey a couple nights a week anyway. One day, I just decided to stop. I will admit that there was a PETA
pamphlet involved, but that wasn't the reason I decided to stop eating meat. My sister has been a vegetarian for several years now, and I don't really like the taste of meat anyways, so it wasn't really that big of a deal.I have run into a few bumps in the road along the way though. There are a few types of food that I love (Chinese food, Mexican food) that I generally had meat with (Orange chicken, and turkey tacos!). My fiancé (carnivore) and I have been experimenting with vegetarian ways to make dinners. Some of our inventions have been great successes (vegetarian chili was super delicious, and vegetarian burritos, which are JUST as good as turkey burritos!), and some have been... iffy (like veggie burger, which I think tasted a little odd because it was overcooked, and I don't really like red meat anyways, so why would I like fake red meat? ... I'm trying the veggie chicken patties next).
We also tried to make our own homemade veggie Chinese food, but that was... questionable. Making your own at-home Chinese food is hard anyways, but we have some little changes to make for the next time we try to make it. It honestly hasn't been that big of a deal to cook and eat vegetarian for the last month. Plus, it has saved us a whole bunch of money at the grocery store, as we are now only buying half the amount of meat we used to. (Marc likes that part, too.)
Yay for not eating animals!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Oh, The Choices! (003/365)
Day 3 Happy: Finding too many choices to by my "happy" for the day
It appears my little trick has worked!
I started this blog to help me notice and realize all the little things that make me happy. Today, I stopped myself several times throughout the day and said "OH! This could be my happy thing!"
Even though today was a ridiculously stressful day (I had at least a million hours of homework to do, AND had to go to a meeting for our wedding venue) I found several things to be happy about. I made a DELICIOUS pot of vegetarian chili. I finished a 300 page book that I had to read for school in about five hours. My kitty jumped up on the chair behind me to snooze. I got to meet up with one of my bridesmaids and talk wedding stuff. There was a beautiful breeze on the beach while we were there. I actually FINISHED said amount of heinous homework... the list goes on and on!
Optimism is awesome!
It appears my little trick has worked!
I started this blog to help me notice and realize all the little things that make me happy. Today, I stopped myself several times throughout the day and said "OH! This could be my happy thing!"
Even though today was a ridiculously stressful day (I had at least a million hours of homework to do, AND had to go to a meeting for our wedding venue) I found several things to be happy about. I made a DELICIOUS pot of vegetarian chili. I finished a 300 page book that I had to read for school in about five hours. My kitty jumped up on the chair behind me to snooze. I got to meet up with one of my bridesmaids and talk wedding stuff. There was a beautiful breeze on the beach while we were there. I actually FINISHED said amount of heinous homework... the list goes on and on!
Optimism is awesome!
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