Just a quick post to say that I proposed to Alex today and that he said YES! We were in Bath, England in a lovely park outside the Royal Crescent and I decided to pop the question. Afterwards we had some lovely vegan food in a pub nearby and bought some kitchen gadgets. A lovely day!
We’re off to England in an hour. It’s vegan paradise compared to Sweden and I’m going to eat lots and lots of fresh lovely food. Alex’s mum has a lovely garden and we’ll be getting most of our food straight from there.
We’ll be visiting some markets, going to lots of car boot sales, looking at second hand shops and I’ll also be working on my accent. I want to move to south west England in a couple of years and it’s vital to be able to talk to the locals! Hopefully when we come back on the 20th I will have picked up a little bit of the accent.
This is what I looked like last year before we went. I was really excited and nervous then, this time I’m more nervous about our cats and less nervous about meeting Alex’s mum. See you all later!
They say no news is good news and while it’s not always true that getting news is BAD per se, it seems like thats how it works for me. Things have been emotionally difficult for me lately. I’ve already told you about my mums arms and neck and the hernia that’s causing it. Well, it turns out life thought it hadn’t taken a big enough dump on my mum just yet and so we’ve recently found out she has a serious heart condition. Go life!
I’ve cried a lot, and to be honest.. I’ve been thinking about what would happen if she died. Not a nice thought considering she’s only 43. Damn life.
It’s been hot here lately. The grass has turned yellow and brown and many plants have flowered and died, much faster than usually is the case. I’ve been very reluctant to make any kind of food where you have to heat things so we’ve mostly lived on boring sandwiches and pasta. Nothing exctiting at all.
I was tagged by Sarah @ vegtoveg so it seems this post will be all about me and not about the food I eat.
Here are the rules :
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 5 facts about yourself.
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post and list their names, linking to them.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs
1. I am a huge collector. I collect: journals, paper, old videogames, cups, glasses, plates, tea towels, bed linen, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, hair pins, shoes, bags, books, piggy banks, erotic novels from the 60s and 70s, old comics and stickers. Just the other day I went through my jewelry and sorted things out, there’s about 150 pairs or earrings there!
2. My absolute favourite things to do in my free time are going to flea markets, auctions, car boot sales, garage sales and markets. I find so many awesome things there. My obsession with this is what keeps our tiny flat so cluttered and kitschy.
3. I am fat and that’s ok. It bugs me so much to hear vegans talk about fat people like they don’t exist within the vegan community. I know I’m not the only fat one! Not all of us fatties follow the standard american diet, I don’t for one, I’m not even american and not all of us are unhealthy lazy slobs. I’m active, happy and healthy and that’s not going to change and neither is my fat status. I’m fat, proud and happy, how about that?
4. When I get tired at night you’d think I can’t speak.. at all. The confusion of speaking English and Swedish all day (when I’m with mum and Alex together I keep swapping) breaks out in all it’s glory at night and I say things that no normal person can understand. Alex laughs and laughs. Sometimes I just resort to grunting.
5. I love colourful make up but I rarely have the opportunity to wear it. I usually don’t wear makeup to work and I won’t put any on when I come home, but when I get the chance I break out the blue and the fuschia, gold, purple and orange. I think I look quite good in it actually, it’s all about confidence (I have plenty!) but it helps if your own colours are good with strong, bold make up.
I don’t think anyone hasn’t been tagged already, so I’m not going to tag anyone. But if you haven’t already posted this on your blog… DOOOOOO IT and let me know!
Hay guys! I have bad news and good news.
The bad news is that my mother was told by the doctors at the neurological unit that the hernia she has in her neck is going to make her lose control of her arms. They don’t know when or how fast it’s going to be, just that it will happen. That’s why I haven’t been on much lately, I’ve been feeling down. The hernia is pushing on nerves in her neck making her arms difficult to use. We don’t really know what’s going to happen yet, but we know it’s bad news. I’m pretty upset about it and has spent many hours crying. Bleh. Life is unfair.
Good news:
Edit: I feel so filthy and cheated! I was sure Oreo’s were vegan but atleast here in Sweden they have whey! The first time we bought them they were imported oreo’s from the US and they were lovely and vegan 8and expensive!). Since then they’ve started being sold here in Sweden in almost every store. These are not US imported. The ones we get in our normal store isn’t vegan at all. Damnit! I feel so cheated and upset : /
Saturday was Alex’s birthday and he seems very happy about it. I was an awesome girlfriends and bought him 9 Discworld books as well as supplied him with baked goods and Homer Simpson socks. Who’s the man? You da man! (Yeah, that’s me.)
Now I’ve run out of energy and I’ve come down with a nasty cold. I’m so happy about those frozen soups now, I’m much too tired to cook.
Last week I went to the doctor to talk about my SAD. I’m not getting any medicine but I am going to start seeing a psychiatrist because they figure that might help. The doctor ran a lot of tests, she was really nice and friendly. Upon mentioning being vegan she asked me if I’d like her to do some additional tests just to make sure I wasn’t suffering from any vitamin deficiency. There was a lot of testing being done and they had to take quite a bit of blood (actually, it only LOOKS like it’s a lot of blood, but still it was scary!). Turns out almost everything about me is perfect. Perfect blood.. everything, pressure, sugar, value.. the lot. I’m fine for b12 and the other essentials too. The only thing that was off was my liver. when she phoned me up she asked if I was either taking lots and lots of pain killers or if I’m drinking lots of alcohol. I don’t do either so they’re going to do another test in a couple of weeks. I’ve read up about it on the internet and the other things that can cause this is lots of fatty foods or being on the pill. Maybe the doctor didn’t think I ate much fat, because you know, vegans are so healthy and they never eat fat… um, but I’m going to cut down my fat intake drastically and we’ll see if that makes a difference. I might be vegan but it’s not lettuce that built this very voluptuous body. If that doesn’t work I might have to go off the pill. We’ll just see.
Anyway, before going on this fat free ‘diet’ we had a party to attend. So yesterday we went to a friends house to celebrate Alex’s birthday and the hosts up coming birthday. Here’s what I brought!
Delicious cookies n’ cream cupcakes. I <3 Isa! I ordered Vegan Cupcakes but it ran out of stock so this is a recipe from online.
Vegan homestyle chocolate chip cookies. Dreena is a vegan goddess!
We made a few changes to this one. Mainly, have no blackstrap molasses, we didn’t use a 1/3 cup maple syrup, instead we used half maple and half golden (maple is SO expensive here).
