So I have gotten through 16 days of the New Year and have managed to actually survive without logging in to my Facebook. I was strolling through a store the other day and saw a guy's buttcrack and thought "that would be a great snarky Facebook post" or then I ate something somewhere and was like..."oooohhhhh ohhhhhh I should post this to Facebook" but then I thought how truly ridiculous. Why live a life so completely transparent that everyone knows my every move or thought. I do miss the people contact...my friends but then I have to ask what makes them friends....but yet I feel a connection to literally a couple of hundred people that I have never met before. This means I worry about, get angry for, or want to knock up side the head more folks than I can count. When I add myself in to the mix, along with all my bunch...I realize it is truly emotionally exhausting...and yet there is that "bungee cord effect" and I know it is pulling me, calling me. Facebook is whispering to me...come back...we miss you...you know you want to check so and so's page, or know if so and so had a baby... I cannot say that Facebook brings out the best in me or really in other people either. It is the most open venue to completely tear someone to complete shreds and there is really no one to protect another. It can do a lot of great stuff but it can also bring out the voyeor, gossip, cheating, judgemental, and truly cruel side of society. You have those that sit behind the screen and pretend to be amazing/kind and wonderful to all that think that know them and then use the power of the "private message" to bully and harass. Facebook can be a great place but has some wickedness all it's own.

A focus of mine this month has been to feel better. I have wanted to clear my head, clear my heart and get in a good frame of mind. I probably made a wee bit of a mistake by watching too many "Vegetarian" related movies over the holidays BUT they did have a lot of great information and some of it did sink it. I hope it sank in. I decided that for one week I am a "VEGETARIAN". This is probably one of the most hair brained schemes I have ever attempted but there is a method to my madness. I just want a week to "detox" and feel better. After this week then I will decide where to go from here. I know a good, plant based diet is just a great spring board for whatever I decide to do but I need to do something NOW!!!! So I started on a Tuesday, middle of the month...which is how I roll. None of this first of the month crap, first day of the week business. Oh now...if I am going to do it...it is going to be a pig falling out of the sky like a big ol' "wonk, where did that come from sort of thing!". Yesterday went fine except I was hungry though I ate. Today so far was a bit of a challenge and I have only had breakfast. So I am going to have to work on that. I have a ton of great stuff on the fridge, made veg' wraps, left over eggplant parm in the fridge but this morning I was stumped. I know this whole thing is going require a lot of careful planning on my part so that I can figure out what I need to do to stay the course for just a week.