Relic Stoneworks makes my brain want to explode into puppies and kittens. I can't stop thinking about condor and puma agate. I keep coming up with reasons/excuses/occasions to justify myself and my wallet in buying full sets of their plugs. Can we say, wedding jewelry, anyone? This is becoming obsessive, and I'm okay with that.
Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. My otherwise mundane evening became extremely exciting, all because of a single trip to Target for socks. Once I had picked out some cheap little sockies, I decided to wander over to the hair care isle to pick up some curlers.. (Ha! Look at me go! That's a step towards crossing off another to-do from my list!). While I was in the hair care section, I inevitably drifted over to the hygiene and beauty section, where in the past, I've often spent too much time and even more money. But since I've pursued veganism, my contribution to the beauty industry has come to a screeching halt.. Not because there isn't anything for me to buy out there, but because I don't know what to look for or where to start. So I've just sort of given up all together, with the exception of snatching up vegan recommended items here and there while shopping with Justin and Jnet. But then, while standing there in the Health and Beauty section of Target, I stumbled upon something absolutely phenomenal:
ALL-VEGAN SKIN/HAIR/BODY/EVERYTHING CARE ISLE. So, maybe this is old news to most of you. But I'm a hermit. I don't get out much. To me, this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. You see.. Since I've gone vegan, I've given up many of the little pleasures I found in indulging in the beauty industry. I finally made peace with the fact that I simply cannot have them. So when I did find the occasional vegan chapstick or vegan facial exfoliate, I was over joyed. Now, can you imagine what I looked like when I found a whole isle full of vegan beauty goodness? Three words: Child + Candy Store.
AND CAN YOU SAY: VEGAN REJUVENATING SHAMPOO FOR RED HEADS? Oh, color restoring shampoo products, how I missed you so! I thought we would never meet again!
EDIT: Oh! And my friend Sam is coming over this evening to take first grabs at all the non-vegan health/beauty/hygiene products and non-vegan food I have left over in my house. Whatever remains I'll be selling or donating. Cheers to charity work AND money in my pocket! And I won't have to stare at all the now useless non-vegan crap I have drifting around my apartment.. Thank goodness it'll all be gone tonight!
You know what? It's really dawned on me that I've been making a lot of positive changes to my life in the last 6 months. I'm not necessarily trying to pay myself on the back, but I've certainly impressed myself. But congratulations aside, something has hit me: Why stop the changes now? Just because I started with leaps rather than baby steps doesn't mean it's time to throw up my hands and consider myself a job well done. There are still plenty of things in my life that I'd like to change, modify, work towards, achieve.. So, I'm going to do what I do best. Make lists. Here's mine, including past and future to-do's:
Quit smoking. Quite drinking. Go vegan. Ride my bike more. Lose weight. Ride my bike even more. Lose more weight. Start regular yoga classes. Learn how to cook well. Learn how to bake well. Further my piercing apprenticeship. Become a wonderful wife. Learn girly things, like how to curl my hair and properly pluck my eyebrows.
And the list goes on, I'm sure. This is all I can come up with from off the top of my head. I think I'm going to take Justin's advice and get working on a web site of my own.. Something that will benefit my career in the future, and a place where I can write the hundreds of thousands absent minded thoughts that pass through my mind on a daily basis.. I'm starting to crave a safe haven for my thoughts. Somewhere where my thoughts belong. And as much as I love BME/IAM.com, it's a body modification based website, where body modification related content belongs. I want to have a Lilli.com, a place for Lilli related things. All Lilli, all the time. For no particular reason other than for me to use to organize my life, my thoughts, and myself. And if other people can find some joy in tagging along for the interwebz ride, then wonderful. The more the merrier.
It'll be interesting to see how this unfolds.. To watch my to-do list slowly become smaller and more manageable.. To feel accomplishment as I can cross things off and feel motivated to accomplish others.. And most importantly, for me to realize that I am in fact my own entity, and that I should embrace it. That I am not just Lilli of Myspace, or Lilli of IAM, or Lilli of Facebook, or Lilli of any other multi-thousand/million member internet community. It's time for me to take pride in just being Lilli.
28 people dressed as pirates just jogged past my apartment. I'm not sure if I'm hallucinating because of the medicine/sickness, or if the world is coming to a strange, comedic end.
This is Meow Meow and he needs a new home. A very loving one. He needs to have an owner who doesn't spend all their time at work or away from home.. Which is the current problem. Meow Meow is becoming noticeably lonely, despite the company of my other kitty whom he doesn't get along with, and I can't let his loneliness or their fighting continue. Let me know if you're seriously interested. I won't give him away to just anyone.
