Things I am Thankful For

I think I just ended that sentence with a preposition (Alabaster Mom or Margin Walker, can you help me out?). Any way, on this day instead of celebrating genocide, I prefer to think of the things that I am thankful for. So here goes:

1. That I am alive and well.

2. My family. They put up with me, what could be more rewarding? My dogs are my family as well and deserve a huge shout out.

3. My friends. Real life and online. I cherish all of you and wish you nothing but happiness.

4. My enemies. You give me something to work towards.

5. All those who work towards ending the slavery of animals. Those involved in animal rescue, veg*ns, and any one who has adopted a shelter animal.

I know I complain and rant a lot in this blog, but for today I leave you with my gratitude.

Fun Around the Holidays

Seriously, how hard is it not to eat ham on Christmas? I am just wondering. Would the worst thing ever to happen to the world be to have vegan lasagna?

Right now marriage is trying. Trying to kill me I think.

I am sleepy.

Good night.

How do you explain?

Back on Mothers Day, I posted about my experience and expressed some pissed-offedness (ha) that my dad made the comment that my veganism was a "phase".

This got me thinking. Which as many of you know is a dangerous thing. I have gone through a lot of phases. (Jenna and Bob Torres talk about this in their excellent book Vegan Freak http://www.veganfreak.net/, which I highly recommend everyone read). I did go through a lot of phases, as we all did. I even tried going vegan once before with not much success. (I didn't plan well and ended up eating a lot of crap).

All vegans know there is a sort of sha-zam moment when you know you are going to go vegan and stay vegan. It is hard to explain for those who have never experienced it. Which leads me to the question in this blog title. How do you explain it? If I would have tried to explain it to my dad, he would have grinned and shrugged me off. And unfortunately, I can't blame him.

Fortunately, I know too much now to ever turn back, but if any one has any suggestions for explainin my moment of "vegzen", let me know.