| I had some extra time to surf through the malls | | | | know, but which made me actually sit up and listen. |
| these last few days. | | | | "Did you know that the word "vegetarian" is in fact |
| This is my shape of work out after sitting at home, | | | | not derived from the word vegetable, but from a |
| stuffing myself with food and drink. As the climate | | | | latin word meaning enliven"? |
| was horrible, a usual walk outside was actually merely | | | | No, I did not know that! It seems these guys in |
| for "mad dogs and englishmen" as the proverb goes. | | | | 1847, The Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom |
| Anywaay...my preferred pasttime in malls is browsing | | | | (England) coined the term "Vegetarian". They in fact |
| thru electronic device shops, and bookstores. As I | | | | already knew that a vegetarian diet is a more |
| had previously stressed the budget of electronics | | | | energetic and life enriching way to eat. |
| purchases the preceding 12 months, I determined the | | | | Mmm, maybe I should give this vegetarian thing one |
| bookstores would be it. | | | | more try. More energy and fitness does sound |
| Big mistake! | | | | tempting, particularly after the holiday binges. |
| You see I am one of those people that purchase far | | | | My son, who is an energy worker and healer, says |
| more reading stuff than I can ever expect to | | | | he cannot be a non-vegetarian as the energy of |
| complete, short of giving up my job and just reading. | | | | animal protein is too low, or something to that effect. |
| As such, a lot of self-improvement books, finish up | | | | Now, I am not going one way or the other, but to |
| as shelf-improvements books. | | | | say that we owe it to ourselves, to at least get |
| This time I limited myself to 2 books and a periodical. | | | | some more information in this regard. This is for |
| They are good books, on marketing (can you say | | | | entirely egotistic reasons. if we can be more healthy |
| geek) and on life enjoyment. But the magazine was | | | | and alive, that would mirror back on our life in |
| the cruncher. My significant other (I love you darling) | | | | general, our love life and all our relationships. Saving |
| hijacked it and did what significant others do so well- | | | | the planet in some minute extent would just be an |
| namely reading it and stopping every 2 minutes to | | | | extra bonus. |
| inquire "did you know that...." whatever had just been | | | | I personally have not yet succeeeded in becoming a |
| read in the magazine. This is irritating, since I would | | | | total vegetarian, and might in no way actually |
| have ultimately read the magazine for myself and | | | | manage it. |
| then I would have known (well that was the intent | | | | However having read some information, I will |
| anyway). The difficulty that came up now was, that | | | | re-evaluate my philosophy at least. |
| I really heard something, which I obviously did not | | | | |