Hallo!
Hello hello! In the immortal words of fetus!Zayn Malik, vasssss happening? I have had a few things happen lately!
1st, last weekend I watched Food, INC. And since then I can't eat meat. Not only that but eggs are a no-go as well. I tried a slice of pepperoni pizza last Monday and it STUNK. Literally. I could smell the pepperoni and I had to pick it off. Can't look at bacon or sausage. Forget chicken, that's the one I doubt I'll ever recover from, everyone keeps telling me that I'll get over it in time and go back to eating meat but I'm sure after watching the way they're raised there's no way for me to go back. Chicken was my go-to food because there are a million ways to cook it and it's so inexpensive, but now just the thought makes me gag. As for red meat...well I didn't eat that much of it anyway, really. Pork? I ate a lot of that too but no thanks, not after seeing the way the poor things are slaughtered.
My sister mentioned buying locally and while I know that's a solution for a lot of people, there was a really awesome humane farmer in the film but still, watching his chicken being slaughtered upset me. I don't know, a switch has been flipped or something and I can't think about it too much or I start feeling ill.
The good news is this means I can't really eat fast food anymore. Not the things I used to eat all the time *cough McDonalds cough* and I feel better already. I know I dropped a few pounds this week, I can feel it. The bad news is I don't know what to eat :/ I'm not a huge fan of veggies. I know I can't live off of nachos, plain pizza and french fries. I have to compile a list of things I like and work from there. My sister is going to teach me to make my own yogurt and I'm going to learn to make hummus. Ryal sent me a really great recipe for lentil soup and I still have Lainey's recipe for the delicious curry she made me when she was here (how the fuck has it been a year already?!)so I should be okay. It's all very strange, but I'm sure I'll acclimate to it soon enough. If any of you have delicious (preferably inexpensive) non-meat recipes, please feel free to post them in the comments section, I'm new at this!
#2 I was FINALLY offered a full time position at work. This is awesome in that I get a raise and benefits and things like paid holidays and sick time. I am really happy about this. The bad thing is I was hoping to find something else, because I work in a goddamn phone bank and I hate it. Sometimes it's okay but sometimes I want to cry my eyes out because what the fuck am I doing at this flop job at my age. I am trying to plan some goals though, such as: if I have not moved up to a team lead by summer, start saving to leave this flop-ass town. I have grown extremely hostile toward Pittsburgh over the past 12 months. I used to love it here and was proud of my city, but now I hate it. I'm angry that I've been here so long and have honed an impressive set of skills and so much experience, only to not be able to find a job that I am happy and comfortable in. I mean what the everloving fuck Pittsburgh, 400 people applied to the receptionist job I applied for. 400 fucking people. For a frucking RECEPTIONIST position. There are not enough jobs here and I am not going to be a phone jockey for the rest of my life. I am going to continue looking for a permanent full time job that does not involve talking to people on the phone for 8 hours a day but at least until I do, I will have slightly better pay and the benefits I need. And if things do not improve by summer I am giving up and going to start proceedings to move home. But until then, yay full time! YAY BENEFITS!
#3 Yesterday oh YESTERDAY! Yesterday was 1D Day! It was AMAZINNNNNGGGG. A live, 7 hour youtube stream from L.A. Oh my GOD. The technical fails were constant! Harry's jeans were so tight I could hear his sperm screaming from here. Louis...oh my GOD. Louis was SO. FUNNY. And not on purpose, either. He was so done with it by the end of hour 3. I was screaming at the shade he was throwing all over the place, all his little digs, his general bitchiness. It was a delight! I know those who care will have already seen these, I'm putting these here more for my own archiving purposes, however I urge you to watch if you haven't. Harry at the gym left me and about a million other people breathless, and Niall dancing around in his tiny black underwears is amazing. Bonus points for Zayn being silly. I wish we got more silly!Zayn, I would probably like him a whole more if we did. Anyway! Videos!
Hands down my fave part of the entire stream (even with the lack of my king):
I don't really have any words for this. Grunts and moans, yes. But not actual words.
And that is all for this massive post! I hope you are all well and having great weekends! I shall leave you with some more wonderful moments from yesterday! xxx
AKJDHAFHSSASKJFKJDFHDH HARRY STOP IT
Loool NINJAS.
WAS THIS NECESSARY. (YES. YES IT WAS.)
<3
Niall- 'Let's pretend we're in 'Ghost!' LOLLLL
BOLLYWOOD
1st, last weekend I watched Food, INC. And since then I can't eat meat. Not only that but eggs are a no-go as well. I tried a slice of pepperoni pizza last Monday and it STUNK. Literally. I could smell the pepperoni and I had to pick it off. Can't look at bacon or sausage. Forget chicken, that's the one I doubt I'll ever recover from, everyone keeps telling me that I'll get over it in time and go back to eating meat but I'm sure after watching the way they're raised there's no way for me to go back. Chicken was my go-to food because there are a million ways to cook it and it's so inexpensive, but now just the thought makes me gag. As for red meat...well I didn't eat that much of it anyway, really. Pork? I ate a lot of that too but no thanks, not after seeing the way the poor things are slaughtered.
My sister mentioned buying locally and while I know that's a solution for a lot of people, there was a really awesome humane farmer in the film but still, watching his chicken being slaughtered upset me. I don't know, a switch has been flipped or something and I can't think about it too much or I start feeling ill.
The good news is this means I can't really eat fast food anymore. Not the things I used to eat all the time *cough McDonalds cough* and I feel better already. I know I dropped a few pounds this week, I can feel it. The bad news is I don't know what to eat :/ I'm not a huge fan of veggies. I know I can't live off of nachos, plain pizza and french fries. I have to compile a list of things I like and work from there. My sister is going to teach me to make my own yogurt and I'm going to learn to make hummus. Ryal sent me a really great recipe for lentil soup and I still have Lainey's recipe for the delicious curry she made me when she was here (how the fuck has it been a year already?!)so I should be okay. It's all very strange, but I'm sure I'll acclimate to it soon enough. If any of you have delicious (preferably inexpensive) non-meat recipes, please feel free to post them in the comments section, I'm new at this!
#2 I was FINALLY offered a full time position at work. This is awesome in that I get a raise and benefits and things like paid holidays and sick time. I am really happy about this. The bad thing is I was hoping to find something else, because I work in a goddamn phone bank and I hate it. Sometimes it's okay but sometimes I want to cry my eyes out because what the fuck am I doing at this flop job at my age. I am trying to plan some goals though, such as: if I have not moved up to a team lead by summer, start saving to leave this flop-ass town. I have grown extremely hostile toward Pittsburgh over the past 12 months. I used to love it here and was proud of my city, but now I hate it. I'm angry that I've been here so long and have honed an impressive set of skills and so much experience, only to not be able to find a job that I am happy and comfortable in. I mean what the everloving fuck Pittsburgh, 400 people applied to the receptionist job I applied for. 400 fucking people. For a frucking RECEPTIONIST position. There are not enough jobs here and I am not going to be a phone jockey for the rest of my life. I am going to continue looking for a permanent full time job that does not involve talking to people on the phone for 8 hours a day but at least until I do, I will have slightly better pay and the benefits I need. And if things do not improve by summer I am giving up and going to start proceedings to move home. But until then, yay full time! YAY BENEFITS!
#3 Yesterday oh YESTERDAY! Yesterday was 1D Day! It was AMAZINNNNNGGGG. A live, 7 hour youtube stream from L.A. Oh my GOD. The technical fails were constant! Harry's jeans were so tight I could hear his sperm screaming from here. Louis...oh my GOD. Louis was SO. FUNNY. And not on purpose, either. He was so done with it by the end of hour 3. I was screaming at the shade he was throwing all over the place, all his little digs, his general bitchiness. It was a delight! I know those who care will have already seen these, I'm putting these here more for my own archiving purposes, however I urge you to watch if you haven't. Harry at the gym left me and about a million other people breathless, and Niall dancing around in his tiny black underwears is amazing. Bonus points for Zayn being silly. I wish we got more silly!Zayn, I would probably like him a whole more if we did. Anyway! Videos!
Hands down my fave part of the entire stream (even with the lack of my king):
Click to viewI don't really have any words for this. Grunts and moans, yes. But not actual words.
And that is all for this massive post! I hope you are all well and having great weekends! I shall leave you with some more wonderful moments from yesterday! xxx
AKJDHAFHSSASKJFKJDFHDH HARRY STOP IT
Loool NINJAS.
WAS THIS NECESSARY. (YES. YES IT WAS.)
<3
Niall- 'Let's pretend we're in 'Ghost!' LOLLLL
BOLLYWOOD