Bri and I were talking the other night about the stuff we still have from college. I thought I’d blog about it since I’m a bit bored and would like to update my blog more. So here’s a list of stuff that I still have since college (and some before):
- Coffee table (acquired in college, was my Mom’s or her dad’s)
- Can opener (acquired in college, we actually took it from our apartment in Frostburg)
- Microwave (acquired in college, we bought it for $40 at Walmart)
- My bathroom tote (acquired in high school, Ricky and I were shopping for his college when I got it for my college for a year later)
- My pink laundry bag (acquired in high school)
- My TV (acquired when I was a kid, I’ve had this RCA 12 inch boom tube since I was born basically)
- size_t (acquired in college, he’s still good although he has diabetes… and yes he’s a pet not an inanimate object)
- Most our pots & pans (acquired throughout college, we still use the same forks, plates, spatculas, etc)
- My comforters (acquired in college, my Aunt Ruth bought them for me)
- Chair (acquired in high school from my mom, the only stable chair we have that we can stand on)
- Computer Chairs (acquired in college, both mine and Bri’s, we also acquired another one from Seth)
- Boxes & bins (acquired in college, still are used to store shit in)
- My messenger bag (acquired in high school, bought from Old Navy, used in high school & college, I’ll have it forever)
- Spare bed (acquired in college, for Bri and my first apartment in Frostburg)
- Junk bins (acquired in high school, storage for pens, tape, cords, etc)
- High school & college papers (acquired throughout high school & college, I saved all my papers & notes from classes I took)
- Stuffed animals (acquired throughout life)
- Computer monitor (acquired in high school, was my first, now is Bri’s second monitor for his PC)
This list doesn’t include DVDs and items of the sort. Maybe I’ll update this later if I can think of more stuff I’ve had since college. Pretty cool I still have the same stuff.
One of the happiest like moments I’ve experienced in the past few weeks was watching Real Time With Bill Maher. Maher had David Duchovny on. Duchovny has a new book called “Holy Cow” that he was talking about. Apparently it’s like a children’s book that brings up some very important questions. One of which is the way we raise our meat.
Duchovny said that he’s not a vegetarian but more a lazy vegetarian. Bill Maher questioned what that was and asked if it was when there’s nothing else on the menu, if he eats meat. Duchovny said it’s more like if he goes over someone’s house and if they were having meat, he wouldn’t turn it down since the animal has already been killed and you don’t want to waste it.
That has been my predicament all along. What do I do? Hearing that both Maher and Duchovny did consume meat when in certain situations, I felt a whole lot better about everything. It was probably one of the best moments of my life knowing that others face the same challenges with meat that I do. It was so relieving.
I cannot be called a “vegetarian” since I do eat meat occasionally (when it’s going to be wasted anyway) and since I eat shrimp, eggs, and fish.
According to one article I read, I’m more of a flexitarian where as I tend to not eat meat but don’t rule it out completely. But I’m also somewhat of a lacto-ovo vegetarian where I won’t eat meat but do eat dairy and eggs… then I also eat fish which makes me more of a pescatarian. But I guess if I had to pick title, I’d say “lazy vegetarian.”
It’s difficult to know what I am. I just hope what I’m doing makes a difference to the environment and saves innocent animals lives. It’s also been very good for me health wise. I used to get bad stomach aches at least once a week. Now it’s almost never.
If you’re thinking about becoming a vegetarian (or whatever word you’d choose to use), do it like I did… I did it slowly, over the course of like a year. Apparently this movement is gaining momentum. There are now 16 million vegetarians. That’s AMAZING to me.
But anyway… Thanks Bill Maher and David Duchovny for making me feel less alone!