In my sad attempts to try and eat healthier, I went to Subway for lunch the other day. Chill. I wasn’t anywhere near Portland, otherwise I would have stopped in on one of my favorite restaurants. Every Wednesday I drive to Battle Ground for a meeting, during the lunch hour, and they don’t have much up there for vegetarians. Hence, Subway. The Veggie Sandwich thingy isn’t half bad, considering my pallet has grown up a little and now allows for a lot more vegetables.

What it still doesn’t allow for is any part of anything that used to have eyes.

Mmm k. With sandwich in hand, and a bag of Lay’s Baked Mesquite BBQ chips (and a glass of water because their iced tea was awful), I sat down to inhale my glorified cheese sandwich. I like to read when I eat, so for the first time ever, I read the ingredients on the Baked Lays bag. Down at the bottom, in wee little letters: chicken fat.

What

The

Fuck

Why do they add this shit? You have a chip, which is pretending to be healthier, and they acutally ADD chicken fat to it? Does that really help the flavor? Or the texture (which reminds me of those cheap-o crackers I ate as a kid)? Why add chicken fat to chips?

This irritates the piss out of me for 2 reasons: 1 - no food is safe 2 - I have to pay more attention. I want to be a lazy vegetarian, damnit. I want to chew on carrots and chips alike and never wonder where they came from or how they got into my belly.  I think that all foods that have animal stuff in them should fucking say so. If it’s vegetarian, help me out - SAY SO! Fucking chicken fat…..

Next it will be fat rendered from babies who dined on foi gras and veal. Argh….

But it is Friday. That is a good thing. I went to class last night, with a HUGE stomach ache, and I was painfully sore. Again, the class was small, but we had a good time. There are flow movements, where you move from down dog, you thread your foot between your hand and your other foot and then flip over. It is as difficult and muddled as it sounds. Trust me.  And I managed to get rug burn on my feet. Go me. But I slept like the dead last night, and I woke pretty chipper. I’m at the edge of a mania peak right now, and moving my ass seems to help the edge. Right now, I’m very quick to trigger (sorry for being a bitch yesterday D), but as fast as I shoot off at the mouth, it’s over. Just an ebb and flow of uncontrollable emotions. I’m not lashing out as  i can sometimes, but I’m also not as stable as I would like to be.

The Navy ships are in town for the Rose Festival. I don’t care as much about the parade as I do all the people, all the crazy citizens of this nutty town, converging in the Waterfront area.  D said he saw pirate clippers, and the shots on the news of the bigass navy ship, just fucking amazing. They had to take down the lightening rods on top of the ship in order to get under the bridges. Yeah, it’s that BIG. Now, I know most people who have lived here for a long time will avoid the waterfront like the plague, but I intend on seeing a little of what which I have not seen before. Besides, it’s something fun to do on a Saturday.

I have to thank Amandapants for hooking it up with this band. I’ve been listening to them all week.

And now, linkies

• At first I was very insulted by this article. WTF? All games are geared toward women/girl gamers? But they do have a point. Now I will never buy Viva Pinata, I’m just not cheesy in that manner, but I do loves me some Oblivion, Halo and Orange Box. Speaking of which, I need to beat Portal. And most of these games would be good for both beginning gamers AND women. Except Halo. Unless you are familar with FPS, the camera could drive you 6 shades of crazy.
• I made a new internet friend. Go say hi! …yes, that means you too.
• Unless you are living under a rock, you should know that Obama won the democratic nomination. Now, who shall be the running mate? I’m voting for Bill Richardson. John Edwards already said no

I had more links to share, but I want to finish up my work for this spiffy Flyday. Hope you are having a good one.