I’m a bookish kind of girl. So that I today spent 50 GBP (quids? I have a lousy lapotop keyboard without the pound sign) on books.

• Alternative Vegan by Dino Sarma I allready own a copy of this, this is a gift. I love this book.
• The joy of vegan baking by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau For my sweetie. He’s started baking a lot after we vent vegan. And I really want to encourage him at that. I love his baked goods.
• Veganomicon by Isa Chandra Moskowitz for me…
• Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog by Gary Francione because I’ve listened to the interviews with Francione over at VeganFreak Radio and wanted a bit more. I’ll get the rest of his books later.
• EAT, DRINK & BE VEGAN by Dreena Burton this is also the VeganFreak Radio’s fault, they had her on in the most recent show (nr 81), and I started lusting after the book. That was what started the book binge in the first place.

I’m turning into a cookbook whore! The problem is just that I find that vegan cooking is so much fun! I enjoy it, I never used to enjoy cooking before and now I love doing it. And being an obsessive researcher I get books on the subject

Tags: animal rights, Books, cooking, podcast, Vegan

I’ve been thinking about growing herbs in the kitchen for some time, but as everything remotly plant like dies under my care I had dismissed it.

Now I want this, a techie sollution to the problem.
It’s a pot with built in light, and a computer that tells you what to do.
Genius!

Tags: plant

Let’s start out with some facts; in the last seventeen years consumption in Norway has increased with 36%. We are not atypical in that respect, it’s actually below the rate a lot of other countries we should compare ourselves too. But it’s not good.
The main reason this increasment has happened is the access to cheap stuff, from places like H&M, Ikea and Rema 1000 (grocery store).

Everybody should know by now that this is one of the big problems the world has, we exploit other countries for their goods (making the rich richer and the poor… well, starving). We buy shitty toys painted with poison made in slave labor just because they are soooo cheap and enslave animals for food purposes.

Because everyone knows this most companies with decent marketing strategists figure out ways to make our consumption guilt free, or even something we see as a duty.

Ikea has started a campaign where they give 1 euro to UNICEF for every plush toy you buy from them for about two months.
This makes people think that they are doing something good purchasing these products.
Ok, why do I think this is bad?
Because I was at Ikea today (buying stuff for making this years Yule gifts), and I saw people walking up to the stand, reading the info, and then picking up a toy they hadn’t intended to buy in the first place!
The UNICEF booth had no info about how to donate without purchasing, this gives the impression that all you can do is buy something, and everything will be better.
WTF?

The toy costs 100kr = 12.45 euro
if we say that the production cost is half of this (I think it’s smaller), and we remove 2 euro for shipping and handeling, Ikea still makes about 4 euro pr toy.
They give one fourth of this to charity. They still make money off the toy, but more money since more people are buying them!

And as a marketing campaign this is really clever, people will buy more at Ikea because they know that Ikea gives some of their income to charity.

Unless I’m very much mistaken, UNICEF gets some out of this, the consumers get more shit in their home they didn’t really need in the first place, the enviorment gets more messed up with every shipment of toys across the globe and the ultimate winner is… Ikea!

The moral of todays post: Don’t buy shit you don’t need, donate the money instead.

I’m home after a great day, the reason I’m not posting anything long today is shown in the second pic..

I had a friend over for vegan dinner today. I love culinary activism.

After dinner we went to a stand-up show, in a bar, the thing was put together as a part of some student politics I’m involved in at the moment. We had a couple of beers and laughed til we cried. I loved it. I also digg the fact that it was free, everything free in our modern society is something I’m likely to support.

And then I took the train home…

I asked Kade over at A Wooly Discipline a question over at her blog, and she was kind enough to write a pretty good post about it. The post made me think more about what would I write as an answer to the question myself?
So here goes

How do you feel about daily blogging and why are you (not) going to
continue with it?

I started writing things online years ago. At that time people would call their “thing” an online diary if that was what it was, just ramblings and daily life stuff.
And a blog was something different, you didn’t write too personal on there, but mostly stayed on topic with whatever your blog was about.

I had an Online Diary, first at Xanga for 6 months or so. But the service had a lot of problems and I left.
I joined a Norwegian online diary community (EnjoyDiary), and stayed for three years. Yep, three years, often multiple postings each day. I have a year where there no dates without posts.

I left EnjoyDiary for a number of reasons, I didn’t care for some of the rules, some people I needed to get away from was on there and I just wanted my own thing.
Two years ago I bought this domain and put up the wordpress blog on it. It was very liberating at first, like moving out from a shared living situation and into your own flat.

That’s a long way of telling you that I’ve been doing this for a long time, and now I don’t really see much of a point anymore in posting obsessively. I’ve been there, done that (didn’t get the fucking t-shirt).

I’m trying to post daily now, and I notice that I’ve changed. What’s important too me now isn’t the same things as before. I’m not 16 anymore, the self absorbed girl that obsessed over her weight and couldn’t sleep isn’t me. I don’t have a depression to write about and moan of. Just everyday living. And I see no point in writing about that.
I’m not a good blogger, life gets in the way, and in the end, it all boils down to time.

After this month I’m not going to keep on posting daily. I’m just not that interesting.

Tags: blogging