Laptop Bag Stalking

Okay, so I may or may not have mentioned my obsession with my new MacBook Air. It’s so slim and darling! In any case, I am bored with my current laptop bag and searching for a (few) new fun one(s). So what will house my adorable new friend?

I am thinking perhaps this cutie or its cousin for everyday use?

Or perhaps this little gorgeous glamourama in grey?

Or maybe this little fashion plate in plural fossil?

Help!

PS: Have you seen this? LOVE. Talk about fueling my stalkery.

Vegenaise!

I am not kidding.

This stuff is golden. I would never, ever have known it wasn’t the real deal.

I can have tuna salad again!

Seven Weeks Down

So it’s been that long since I’ve had meat, eggs, and dairy.

It’s weird to me.

Last night I went out with some ladies for gossip on a patio. There were nachos and a platter of delicious appetizers on the table. The only thing I could consume was the calamari. Strangely, it didn’t entirely bother me, though I did make up for it later in the evening with plain tortilla chips, salsa, and guacamole.

But this does kind of surprise me. I thought going out would be the toughest part, and it’s actually pretty easy.

Any favourite non-land-animal-product foods when you’re out and about?

The Starbucks Experience

So I remain endlessly disgruntled that Starbucks doesn’t do a soy version of the Frappucino. I mean, Frappucinos are one of my favourite summer snacks, and what is a trip to Starbucks without them?

No matter, I’ve been stuck with the iced green tea soy latte.

So what is with the fact that this is never made properly? So I don’t get the whipped cream on top and I don’t mix it with green tea liquer as pictured (hah), but I have never seen one look remotely like this!

Every second sip I take involves clumps of that green tea stuff. And it’s never frothy, instead just being randomly stirred with a metal stick for a few seconds.

I like the general taste when it joins forces in my mouth, but the inability of the baristas to actually make it taste like a consolidated beverage rather than a combination of green tea bits, soy milk, and ice or the inability of Starbucks to put together a method of production that is a little less difficult for said staff? So very unfortunate.

Perhaps I should just switch to iced coffees for good.

Some Updates

Hey! There apparently is a word for what I’m doing: pescetarian. Who’d have thought?

In any case, things have been fabulous since we got our barbecued. I grilled tuna steaks for Dave’s birthday with lemon and fresh herbs. I’ve been making some delectable salads, and am particularly re-loving my baked homemade french fries (curried is best). I’ve even started having soymilk on my cereal without a problem.

You know what I don’t like, though?

At the cottage last weekend, I was a little forlorn at the lack of steak action, but veggie burgers with steak spice helped me out. However! When Dave was having his amazing Italian sausages, I decided to try out some veggie dogs. Now, I hadn’t had veggie dogs in probably ten years, and when I had them, I completely hated them. But my sister swore to me they were great again, and I gave ‘em a shot.

Dave called them Not Dogs and said they looked like Tootsie Rolls.

They were sick. Sick. I couldn’t even finish a single one and hated them so much that I actually threw them in the garbage.

Nonetheless, when I found soy chicken nugget looking things and soy chicken strips, I still bought ‘em. Sigh.