Hi.

I'm new to this blogging thing, but I think it's a wonderful place to throw random ideas, thoughts, rants, praise, etc. etc.  Well, hopefully, I'll be sharing more praise and positive notes than anything else, but as per discussion yesterday, sometimes the shitty happenings in life can be super funny retrospectively. There will probably be a lot of that. My henny-penny-ness tends to lend a hand to catastrophizing. Yeah, that's a word.

The most plaguing thought on my mind today: why is it that in this country people are so quickly to want to change their health with pills and medicines yet at the same time are so unwilling to change what they put into their bodies? I choose to try to fill my body with as much natural, unprocessed food as I can. I choose to eat as little animal product as I can, not so much as a moral decision, but as a health decision. I feel better when I don't eat it. My little brother turns 3 tomorrow, and today was the family birthday celebration. I brought fresh veggies and ingredients to mix up some red pepper hummus. My brother and I were the only ones in the house who knew what "hummus" was and also the only people to touch the veggies. My aunt asked me if I was "allowed" to eat chocolate. I told her that I "choose" to stay away from chocolate most of the time, but failed to comment on the lack of governing body overseeing my nutritional intake. Someone offered me one of those sugar-covered "sour strings" at school the other day, and when I declined (a little sadly) because I was attempting to cut as much refined sugar out of my diet as possible, he replied "Oh, one of those fad diets." What?? I'm pretty sure the same guy would deck me if I took a bunch of sugar and threw it in his gas tank, so why in the hell would you willingly eat it? That seems logical to me, but then again, most say I'm a little nuts...

You are what you eat, people.