c--al, so, you've mentioned a lot of vegetables with your csa and your garden, what will you do for your meats?
me--y'know, i'd thought of a few places that i'd like to buy from from but i haven't made any plans. i guess i hadn't thought of it to much lately.
c--so you'll be a vegetarian?
me--i suppose i will?
i later thought about that conversation during my drive home. c is my editor on a television show i work on. she and her man enjoy eating well. they are both vegetarian/vegan dieters. like myself, they love animals. i tend to eat them though. anyway, she's seen me devour burgers for lunch, sandwiches, most if not all of my lunches have included a meat portion, in short. she seemed a little surprised at my absent mindedness. made sense. when we have routines, they are often times deeply rooted. and most importantly, enjoyed to some degree on one level or another. it doesn't really make sense for me to just stop including meat. which, i'm not either.
one of the end goals of this excercise/experiment/reason to blog/ life pattern is to learn something new and/or teach myself something new. i want to unlearn all the patterns i've absorbed through my senses as i've been bombarded by billboards, commercials, radio jingles and every other type of advertisement, trying to buy my appetite and convince me to shuffle over to their factory produced robot food. i WISH it was robot food. because, in the end, we are what we eat.
i want to eat what's around. i don't want to plan on eating. i know i'll be hungry at some point in the day, so that is when i will consume something to satiate that hunger. i will differentiate between a temporary blip on my hunger radar and true, necessary vital consumption. up until now, if i felt a pang i threw a snickers at it. if i felt a slight hunger i'd grab some chips. maybe i'd have a dr pepper to wash it down. i can't lie, that sounds delicious right now. but, it's not in our house. and that's as far as i will hunt for my sustence tonight.
oh, i almost forgot, so today wifey texts and there's excitement. how can i tell an excited text from say, a sarcastic text? i can't. point being she was headed to a local CSA and there would be "a chicken guy" there. after checking it out on FARM LOT 59, a representative from a local chicken farm, i'll get the link, shows up on the first CSA of the month and he'll have chicken tonight. which means, i'll have chicken tonight.
coincidence? nope.
