Today!

Im going downtown to acquire more manga, because I have no life. Fail? Possibly.

First Communion of my lil cousin Ben

Bah. I hate church. Whenever im forced to sit through a service I feel like a huge hypocrite. On top of that Ive run out of manga to read. Grr.

Lololol

Poor Demitri, hes got a male stalker at work and we seem incapable of refraining from teasing him about it. Its fun though, i didnt know his face could go -that- red.

First morning shift since the summer!

:D we played a game! It was fun. And we got free drinks.

Ah, Dragonball Z.

I need to get a hobby.

Ive been watching between 5 and 10 DBZ episodes per day since last friday. Thats really lame, and I do realize this.

In other news, I also bought two DBZ manga and two Inuyasha manga. I kinda figured that since I already watch both animes avidly, I also should delve into the manga version as well.

That will be all. Hey, this post wasnt about food! :O

:D Pancakes!

I made chocolate chip pancakes and granola. I rule.

zomg.

The Pharmaprix near my house has frozen Vegan pizza. Im excited.

I really need to think up more creative posts...

Easter monday.

Lots more eating, this time with my dads side of the family. I mostly hung out with my cousin Chris, who was visiting from Calgary. Hes like...30/31 and was fun to talk to, since he DJs and stuff, twas cool. Oh and I made my mom breathe fire, i think the enchiladas I made were too hot for her...tee hee.

Happy Easter everyone!!

I actually slept through the easter egg hunt this morning, but i did get one chocolate bar from my mom. Its hard to find vegan chocolate, so im not complaining. :) Later in the day my aunt and her hubby came over and we ate and talked and ate some more. It was fun.

Sucks being vegan sometimes, hahaha.

after getting home from work Ive spent all my time cooking in prep for Easter. Ah well, it'll be yummy! :D Baack to work for me.

Dragonball: Evolution = Not complete fail.

SPOILERS AHEAD.

Pros:

-Goku is still a dimwit

-Grampa Gohan is in it

-Piccolo is basically perfect

-Master Roshi still wears hawaiian shirts and is a pervy old man

-Bulma acts like bulma.

Cons: 

-Yamcha is like....a retard in the not good way. Looks NOTHING like yamcha.

-Puar and oolong are completely non-existent.

-They totally fucked with Goku's transformation, and it was bad. 

-Goku in high school....what?

In all honesty, it could have been way worse, but it was a lot better than I expected. If you're a dragonball fan, I dont think you'll be overly pissed, unless you're the type who nitpicks over everything. If that is the case you will probably hate it :)

I do not know what posessed me to do this.

So tonight I went to Taste of Chaos. During Pierce The Veil, these idiots behind me started yelling stuff at the band like, "Faggot!" "You guys are fags!" and stuff.

I really dont like it when people use the word fag/faggot and stuff. To me its as bad as calling someone the n-word. So after several minutes of this I spin around, hit the heel of my palm against his face and shove him...hard. Our conversation goes like this, needless to say, I was so pissed that I wasn't making much sense.

Him: What the fuck's your problem?

Me: Don't fucking say faggot, its insulting you fucking homophobic asshole!

Him: Well, so-rry. I didn't know you were a faggot lover.

Me: I'm a dyke you fuking douchebag.

I then turned around and tried to enjoy the rest of the band's set, but it was kinda hard when they soved me repeatedly, and yelled rude remarks at me over the music. I quickly moved and enjoyed the rest of the show in peace.

I do not know what posessed me to do that :/ im usually a pretty timid person...

Nananana Mission Impossible.

I went, I saw, I was frightened.

I saw A Haunting In Conneticut today. Scary shit, but I say that cause im a HUGE wuss when it comes to scary movies, and I love being scared. I wont say anything about it, other than its really good.

ZOMG TOC TOMORROW.

It's SNOWING.

FUCK YOU WEATHER.

Grrrrrrrr.

The weather wasn't what I wanted to talk about, actually. I actually wanted to talk about Veganism.

See, it just amazes me how a simple eating habit/lifestyle can be so insulting to people. 

Also, I also find this hilairous: when I'm at some sort of family gathering, and a lot of my family is very traditional-thinking, so obviously if i dont eat animal products I'm gonna shrivel up and die, right? Cause as im sitting there, doing whatever im doing, my 2 aunts are sitting nearby and their voices are slowly raising in volume about how they think they people "need" meat to survive, blah, blah.

Yeah, they'll probably shit a brick when they find out that when im on my game and not being lazy about what im eating its as healthy as ive ever been xD

A lot of people ask me, "Why are you Vegan?" they seem shocked, and I am still not sure what all the fuss is about, to be honest.

I went Vegetarian officially when i was 16, after many poor attempts, I finally went cold turkey, no pun intended. At that time, I knew nothing about nutrition, so I was basically living on cheese sandwiches. But regardless, I stuck with it. 

About 2 years later, I finally converted to Vegan. Its funny, my mom didnt think I;d be able to do it, but after living on a little more than bread and water for a month, I dropped 18 lbs and my mom started investing in soy milk so that I wouldnt die xD not literally...just so you know.

A while after that, my mom insisted I get tested to see if I was healthy. Blood tests and such for calcium, b12, iron, protein, etc. I was actually healthier being Vegan than I ever was being simply vegetarian. 2 years later, im stil vegan :D

Now this does not answer the question: Um...why?

At first it was for ethical reasons. I didn't like the idea of animals being killed for the benefit of my tastebuds, and even in the cases of dairy cows and egg hens, it was still unnerving. I won't go into details, this post isnt for me just to bitch about animal cruelty.

Now I do realise that a lot of canadian farms arent cruel to their animals, but its hard to tell which are and which arent, and at this point I have no desire to return to eating dairy. I am being completely honest when I say that the smell of milk nauseates me.

"But what do you eat?" I love this question cause my answer, "Food." usually really annoys people. In all honesty, I dont see my eating habits as abnormal. I drink soy milk for calcium, b12 and other vitamins, and I can also get protein, iron, and calcium from some grains like quinoa, millet, and such. 

Sooo yeah :)

A Shipwreck In The Sand.

Best album of '09 so far? YES.

So, on March 31st, 2009, Silverstein released A Shipwreck In The Sand. I wasn't like ZOMGGG NU ALBUMZ because as good as their previous album Arrivals & Departures was, it was semi-meh. However, I still pre-ordered this deluxe package thing, which was the deluxe version of the CD -- it included a "making of the album" DVD, a T-shirt, and a colour poster.

So I woke up sick this morning -- again. Augh, so needless to say I was bitchy and miserable. Then around midday my bro knocks on my bedroom door and says I've got a package. I knew EXACTLY what it was :D

After tearing the packaging open I popped the CD into my stereo and I could have cried with happiness, cause its just that amazing. I'm sooo happy :D

I highly recommend everyone go buy it, its like the perfect marriage of screamo and singing, AND Liam Cormier is one of the guest vocalists on the album. The other guest vocalists are Scott Wade and Lights. When I saw that Lights was on it too I was like: "Wtf?" but it really works well.

GO BUY IT!

Locked in his bedroom, he saw the world.

Amanda Palmer, yay!

Sundays suck, I'm so bored, and its cold outside. Regardless, I'm gonan get my ass in gear soon, cause I wanna make some breakfast...brunch? lunch? Idk. Breakfast at 2PM, so whatever. I havent eaten yet cause I'm insanely lazy. Though...it IS sunday, so I guess I have an excuse.

OMG THE DRAGONBALL MOVIE IS COMING OUT ON FRIDAY

I'm geekily excited, WOOT. So the worst part is that Its gonna be terrible, and that much is obvious from a few things: Master Roshi isnt wearing a hawaiian shirt, I have yet to see Puar or Oolong, Bulma's hair isnt blue, and Goku's hair is epic failure, but they did a decent job on Piccolo[ITS SPIKE LMAOOO].

I heard they've already gotten the script written for the sequel, so im like: HAHAHAHAHAHA.

And I'll probably go see that too. I wonder how they're gonna fail at Vegeta and Trunks, aka my fave characters? We shall see.

In the spirit of TOC in 6 days...

What does Chaos taste like? This is a traditional question during the Taste of Chaos season. 

There are many answers to this question, some of which are dumb, some of which are smart, and some that make my head spin.

My thoughts on the subject are as follows: Chaos tastes like balls. Which, needless to say is pretty damn gross. Gross=chaos? Pretty much, yeah. See, I'm linking Chaotic and Contraversial here. So when you say Chaos tastes like balls, especially if its a musician on said tour saying that, it makes them sound GAY which makes the fangirls write slash.

TRUFAX

I actually have nothing constructive to post today, I've gotta leave for work in an hour an a half, and so I'm semi- rushing this post. Fail.

So I'm sitting in the living room, eating banana pancakes...

Mmm...vegan pancakes... Oh, anyway.

So today the impossible happened! I found a Pete Wentz quote that made me smile a lot, and I'm gonna share it with you guys.

"We're sick of hearing people say, "That band is so gay," or "Those guys are fags." Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something's shitty, say it's shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes."

-Pete Wentz

I don't think most people realise what they say. I mean, you wouldn't go around saying "That's so black" or "That's so Jewish". It doesn't make sense to me.

Also, for those people who use it, some will say "Well a fag is a British term for a cigarette and a faggot is a bundle of sticks." Keep this in mind: Faggots are what people in the old ages used to burn gay people at the stake. And that is where the term came from.

Now, I'm not trying to come across as some Straight-hating dyke, but its just so frustrating to hear people use those words as an insult. Its like, what can we say about society today? We can go up to an LGBT person and call them a Fag to their face, but just TRY going up to a black person and calling them a nigger, or calling a Jewish person a kike, a Mexican a spik, or even an Italian a wop. You'd probably get punched out.

In terms of civil rights, human equality and all that, I consider LGBT rights to be one of the last frontiers. This is not including women's rights in the middle east. I'm not saying I want the LGBT community to rule over Straight people or whatever, I merely wanna see equal rights. 

I want to see the Dan Whites and the Aaron McKinneys punished for hating someone for something they can't help, I wanna see the Amercians of the LGBT community able to be Out and still keep their jobs. Is that too much to ask?

Being sick kind of sucks.

So, both of my brothers are sick, and they have been in bed for like...3 days. I caught whatever they had today.

8AM sharp, and I'm bent over the toilet. Not fun.

So at 2 I phoned work to call in sick and i got yelled at by my manager cause i called in 2 hours before i was scheduled to start. Not my fault, I overslept.

So ive been in bed all day and I came out of my room not too long ago to get something to eat. Pear, yay. I wanted something more filling, but I'm pretty sure if I ate something too heavy I'd be back in the bathroom. 

In other news, my cat is a big suck and she insists on being a princess like, all the time. Bah. I came downstairs and she was like: "O hai, pet meh." Bah.

On a happier note Taste of Chaos is in one week! I'm totally excited to see Thursday and Bring Me The Horizon and Cancer Bats. The other bands I dont really care about.

I should drink some mint tea. "But why," the random reader demands, "do you not take some kind of cold medication?" Well, darling reader, I'm one of those weirdos who avoids commercial drugs whenever possible. The only drug I take is my Symbicourt for my Athsma, and Tylonel once in a while. I sort of swear by mint tea, its not a bad thing, but I just buy a lot of it.

Soo thats it, I've got nothing cool to talk about today.

Since BEDA has begun, I'm gonna start off by saying: Hi guys!

BEDA. What is it? Well, it stands for Blog Every Day April, and this girl Kerrie, a member of the lovely UMCRS posted about it, and I thought it sounded cool, so I'm gonna do it.

So with that out of the way, I figure I should start off my introducing myself.

Hi!

My name is Jamie, I'm 19 years old, and I'm a college dropout that lives just outside the city of Montreal. 

I am biologically female, I am a raging homosexual who will convert your children, and I'm Vegan.

I like rock music [and a little rap here and there...], I like to cook, I like to read. I also love piercings and tattoos :)

I'm an apple geek, meaning the only MP3 player I use is iPods, and I'm typing this entry on a MacBook :)

My favourite band is My Chemical Romance, but don't judge me on that, cause I like a lot of music, from Arch Enemy to 3OH!3 to Dashboard Confessional.

I've been Vegetarian for 4 years, it'll be 5 in January, and I've been Vegan for 2 years, it'll be 3 in July.

I have 3 Tattoos and 4 piercings. I HAD 5 piercings, but one of them rejected, so I'm still trying to decide on what to get to replace it. This count is also not including ear lobe piercings.

I don't have a favourite book, please never ever ask me that. I work at a bookstore, so my list of favourite books is a mile long.

Not gonna lie, I'm a damn good cook. Today all my cookbooks disappeared [My mom thought it would be funny to hide them] and so i kind of tore the house apart in my search for them....That's kind of pathetic, I do realise this. In addition to my love for cooking, setting me loose in a grocery store is always a terrible idea, I guess it goes with the territory, heh.

My favourite drink is Mint Tea with a little bit of Agave nectar [Kind of like honey, but not honey.]

My favourite live-action movie is Interview With The Vampire. My favourite animated film is Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz [*raises hand* total anime geek :)]

I don't have a favourite song, I have favourite albums and stuff, but not songs. With over 3000 on my iPod, that makes it kinda hard to pick.

I write slash. Avidly.

I believe in Frerard.

I'm very picky when it comes to comedy, in terms of movies. A lot of it I find really stupid, but some of it is good. Like...Monty Python. That's my favourite :D

I live with my mother, 2 younger brothers, 4 cats, and 3 dogs. My mom works as an Educator for the Mentally Handicapped, my brother Peter is 17 and he works at Wal - Mart, and he goes to Cartier for Math. [Hes getting the high school courses hes missing so that he can get into college]. David is 14, and hes in high school. Hes a slacker, he has no job.

Pets! so, lets start with the dogs. There's Zacky and Billie. Zacky is named after the Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Zacky Vengeance, and he looks like a small German Shepard with floppy ears. Billie is all black with pointed ears and she looks like a little black fox. The latest addition to our family is a little Westie named Sammy. I kind of hate this dog and I would love nothing more than to give him a good kick. Why? Hes a little asshole who wont stop chasing my cat.

Onto cats! All of our cats have some kind of story, so lets start with our current oldest cat: Nigel. This little boy is our resident troublemaker. Hes fluffy as hell, and is a pale blond colour. He was abandoned near my dad's old apartment when he was about 3 months old, and he's been with us ever since.

Tiger is pretty much my cat, and she is all black with a white spot on her crest and over her naughty bits, so it looks like shes got a white vag, its kinda funny. We inherited her when my dad passed away, and shes a shorthair. [Why shes called Tiger and not Blackie or something is cause my brother is a retard when it comes to naming pets.]

Mickey is a fat grey and white cat, with big baby eyes and he is the only animal in the house who is allowed to beg for food at the dinner table. when my mom's friend's mother died, the cat was left homeless, and my mom decided to adopt him.

The last cat we have is Jersey. She is a gorgeous silver tabby with a temper as high as the sky. We got her when my grandmother passed away, and my grandfather couldn't take her with him when he moved.

Sooo yeah, i think that's everything, till next time!

xo