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We returned from Chicago last night around 9. I am glad we went away for the weekend. I would have liked to see everyone at Kellys on New Years, but I really, really needed a break from Pgh. It was 8 hours each way, and it wasn't all that bad except the rain last night on the way home. I have never been to Chiacgo - it's pretty great. There's tons of little towns all over the place and it looks cool with it's mass transit and overpasses and wide streets and stuff. I love cities. Pittsburgh looks kindof un-city in comparison with it's lack of metro and not many skyscrapers and poorly navigable roads and run-down buisnesses. Pittsburgh looks like a city just thrown together with a half-assed attitude. Anyway, downtown Chicago abuts the lake and there is what looks like stairs made by giants there stepping down to the lake, and down at the waters edge theres huge white boulders to break the waves. We went at night and the water was choppy and the hazy sky was full of that golden ambient lighting from the city and Matt stood there pondering and said "it's interesting how there's waves and currents like the ocean, even though its only a lake" and i responded "yeah, like, why doesn't the lake just sit still already?! Doesn't it know it can't go anywhere?!" and we laughed like bunch of assholes and the whole weekend went like that. I was glad to be laughing a lot and being a silly-ass just for the sake of it. Except for I got bit by Matt's roomates pshyco cat, but that's another story, though we laughed about that too.
We also got to partake of some delicious vegetarian and vegan foods Matt and Amy made us for us. I think its funny that me and mark went vege first, but it's the people that went vege after us (like CP and Matt... well Matt for a spell anyway) and who even made FUN of us for it (I won't say whome... that was long ago now) are way more healthier eaters than us now. They left us in the organic wheat four dust so to speak. So I changed my new years resolution to eating 'healthier less processed foods', as opposed to just 'dieting'. It's really a better philosophy. So I am going to rid us of boxed meals, overly processed foods and other junks and replace them with simple raw foods and organic and low-processed foods, foods with good fats... and all cruelty-free of course. It was interesting through our conversations this weekend we all agreed that its healthier to eat less of the natural yet fatty foods (real butter, real sugar) than eat more of the unnnatural diet fad foods (diet soda, margarine, fat-free dressings) bc they contain more chemicals and unknown shit in them that have equally unknown effects on the body. The long-term effects are the real issue. In fact, researchers are finding that diet foods are making people fatter and SICKER in both mind and body - plus they still feel hungy even though they ate twice as much of the diet stuff! It's crazy. Go natural! Say no to aspertame motherfuckers it makes you mean and gives rats cancer! As Matt said "Why wouldn't you pay more (for healthier foods) - it's only going into your body! People care more about expensive name-brand tennis shoes than they care about the shit that fuels them!"
On the way home from Chicago we stopped for dinner in Columbus and saw my Aunts new pad. Its a pretty big house, but stuck in the 70's. Thats typical when you rent. We also met my cousins cousin buy my Aunt first marrage - he was a card. I forget his name but anyway he works for The Renissance Festival and lives in Pittsburgh - but he's effectivly a carnie! He's wears crazy clothes, travels the country from one Festival to the next and is just a wierd dude all around. We we had a long an interesing conversation with him about it all. We went out for Chinese and he ate frikkin deep-fried frog legs. It was so gross. In other news my cousin with the depression is way out of it - they haven't figured a concoction out for her that works yet. She just lists in and out of conversation with you when you talk to her - she can't stay focused. But she is aware of it at least and can do something about it. I wonder if she could use less drugs and more conseling.
We also got to partake of some delicious vegetarian and vegan foods Matt and Amy made us for us. I think its funny that me and mark went vege first, but it's the people that went vege after us (like CP and Matt... well Matt for a spell anyway) and who even made FUN of us for it (I won't say whome... that was long ago now) are way more healthier eaters than us now. They left us in the organic wheat four dust so to speak. So I changed my new years resolution to eating 'healthier less processed foods', as opposed to just 'dieting'. It's really a better philosophy. So I am going to rid us of boxed meals, overly processed foods and other junks and replace them with simple raw foods and organic and low-processed foods, foods with good fats... and all cruelty-free of course. It was interesting through our conversations this weekend we all agreed that its healthier to eat less of the natural yet fatty foods (real butter, real sugar) than eat more of the unnnatural diet fad foods (diet soda, margarine, fat-free dressings) bc they contain more chemicals and unknown shit in them that have equally unknown effects on the body. The long-term effects are the real issue. In fact, researchers are finding that diet foods are making people fatter and SICKER in both mind and body - plus they still feel hungy even though they ate twice as much of the diet stuff! It's crazy. Go natural! Say no to aspertame motherfuckers it makes you mean and gives rats cancer! As Matt said "Why wouldn't you pay more (for healthier foods) - it's only going into your body! People care more about expensive name-brand tennis shoes than they care about the shit that fuels them!"
On the way home from Chicago we stopped for dinner in Columbus and saw my Aunts new pad. Its a pretty big house, but stuck in the 70's. Thats typical when you rent. We also met my cousins cousin buy my Aunt first marrage - he was a card. I forget his name but anyway he works for The Renissance Festival and lives in Pittsburgh - but he's effectivly a carnie! He's wears crazy clothes, travels the country from one Festival to the next and is just a wierd dude all around. We we had a long an interesing conversation with him about it all. We went out for Chinese and he ate frikkin deep-fried frog legs. It was so gross. In other news my cousin with the depression is way out of it - they haven't figured a concoction out for her that works yet. She just lists in and out of conversation with you when you talk to her - she can't stay focused. But she is aware of it at least and can do something about it. I wonder if she could use less drugs and more conseling.