Hi, all.

I admit that, since they've made some changes to LJ, I was unable to find the group's "memories"/archive of posts, so forgive me if there is info about this somewhere in the group archive.

I have noticed that, since I've transitioned to a vegan diet, I seem to be healing more slowly. I see this primarily where bruises are concerned. It may just be a factor of age--I'll be 40 in April.

My concern, however, is that I am going in for surgery in mid-January, and I want to know if there is anything I can eat, add, or increase in my diet to help support/boost my immune system. I do not get sick more often, which is good news, but the slower healing is a concern, considering the surgery. (It could end up being a major one.)

Anyone have any good recommendations? I already suspect I need to up my protein intake. I get some each day, but I probably could be eating more.

Thanks in advance, and happy new year!

    

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You go on vacation and leave your adult child to housesit and take care of your pet cat, who you have had for over a decade. Upon returning home, your child apologizes, says the cat dashed out the door (or an open window) one day and never returned.

Somehow, it comes out that your kid actually took your animal to to be euthanized. They felt that your pet was old and it's time had come. You've been responsible all this time and taken it for its annual vet check ups. Its quality of life was just fine.

Do you punish your child? Report him or her to the authorities? (Animals are considered property, so maybe you could charge them with theft?) Would you cut off contact with your kid over something like this?

Over in cooking, jeisenne  graciously takes the time to school everyone on how easy it is to make rice without a measuring cup or expensive rice cooker. Ironically, her method includes using a rice cooker and a cup that seems to suspiciously be used for measuring.

phanatic  would like you to know that wild rice is genus Zizania, while rice is genus Oryza which leads dangerdourk  to wonder if you put tomatoes on your pancakes.

ronin001  'dares' to declare themselves 'super anal' but wolfsilveroak  remains uninterested and unimpressed.

Meanwhile, cathrynapple  tests the universality of the length of fingers.

Speaking of rice, let's all go build our vocabulary and help end world hunger, shall we?

Yesterday we were at a friend's house for dinner. Said friend, H, is a cat man, in the sense that somehow all the strays in the neighborhood find their way into his house at some point, and he feeds them. He has a cat flap, so cats can just come and go as they please. So at any time of the year he'll have between 2 and 10 cats hanging around, eating food and then disappearing for a week or a month or a year and sometimes forever. I don't like that "his" cats aren't cared for beyond having a plate of food 24/7, but on the other hand, they aren't his cats, exactly--they just kind of wander in and make themselves at home.
( poor sick kitty )

Bonus stupid: they also just got a puppy about a year ago. Said puppy is very cute, very sweet--and very very untrained. My boyfriend's dad's dogs, for instance, all knew to sit when they were told, and the command for "lie down" meant "go to your bed and lie down". This dog...well, it's good with cats, and that's about all I can say for it. H's idea of disciplining the dog seems to be grabbing it by the scruff until it yelps, and forcing it to sit.

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Pretend you are the daughter of someone famous, making you famous by extension, and you have a 1 year old child. You dumped the baby's father and, with your powerful mother, are now trying to seek full custody of your child. The court case will be public and probably a media circus. The baby's father would like to settle out of court and wants joint custody. He has done nothing, save being poor and not well-connected, to warrant losing custody of his baby.

Is the mother selfish for seeking full-custody? Is she a jerk for taking this to court, realizing the potential for a public nightmare?

Pet insurance. Do you have it for your pet? Why or why not?

Title: We Touched the Sun
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: True Blood
Characters/Pairing: Eric/Sookie
Spoilers: 2x09 I Will Rise Up
Summary: "You'll take care of him? Eric?"
Disclaimer: They're not my toys.
Author's note: A rewrite of the end of season two, post I Will Rise Up. Originally begun as a one shot, which can be found here: michellemtsu.livejournal.com/33613.html#cutid1

 

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Frist of all, yes I have looked at Happy Cow.

I get to go to London! Ever since I went vegan it has been my dream to go back to London. I am going to Dover on Friday morning, spending the day there, and then going to London on Saturday morning and staying until Sunday night. So I don't have much time. Where are the places that I absolutely have to go? I want to make sure to hit all the best spots! I have been in Paris all week, so I haven't been able to really go all hog-wild (pardon the term) food-wise.

And now I want to just live it up and chow down on food and make myself sick from eating so much incredible vegan food before I have to go back to Utah!!!!

I've got some theories and speculation.  Now, I am SPOILER-FREE, so please no spoilers in the comments.  All I know is what the producers have seen fit to show us at Comic Con (the commercials), and promo posters.

( Click here to enter the No-Spoiler Zone )

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Hold on to your avocados, guys -- Bergen Street in Park Slope is about to get even better. Vegetarian restaurant and vegan bakery Organic Heights will close this Thursday, December 31 (sad!) and reopen as Sun In Bloom on Saturday, January 2 (exciting!). Captains of the new ship are Aimee Follette, Tony Lastella, and former SproutCraft co-owner Eric Levinson (whom you might remember as the dude lavishing us with his raw vegan cheese at Vegan Drinks a few months back). My delicate heart skipped a beat when I realized SIB's new address is the same as Organic Heights's addy, so I spoke with Eric to learn about the new menu, hours, pricing, and most important, WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE TEMPEH REUBEN?

The menu, designed by Eric and spruced up by his partners, will feature living, organic, vegan fare, and raw, gluten-free breads and desserts, not straying too far from Organic Heights owner Mark Zumoff's vision for his own restaurant. The juices will stay, and SIB's Norwalk Press juicer, which the owners expect to provide better quality, less oxygenated juice, is new to the spot. Eric says the spiffy new juicer will enable SIB to offer bottled juices and nut milks "for grab-and-go customers, to serve the morning commuting crowd as well as the stroller mafia."

Bottled fresh juice is one of a few planned conveniences. "We're also looking to create a membership program where people can order entire meals for their family and pick up dinner after work, dessert, breakfast, and lunch to bring to work the next day, all in one stop. We want to make this kind of lifestyle more accessible, more available, and more fun," Eric said.

So here's the million-dollar question: will it be 100 percent vegan? "We haven't decided whether to serve milk," Eric said. "It's one thing to stick to your guns and your ideals, but if only one customer out of 10 wants almond milk, you have to kind of watch out for the bottom line. It's such a small thing to do, to just have that one pitcher of milk out there. We'll offer a good quality milk from a nice, organic, small farmer."

By way of comparison, Organic Heights offers milk for their coffee now. But on the other hand, we know there are other restaurants -- Candle, Blossom, Peacefood Cafe, to name a few -- that don't offer any animal products and seem to do just fine. Why not Sun In Bloom? "We're basing it off of what we were told by the current owners," Eric said. "They had such a high percentage of people coming in demanding regular milk that they would have been shooting themselves in the foot not to just have it. It's all about weighing the positives and the negatives. Maybe someone'll come in and have regular milk, but they might also grab a vegan muffin where they could have been going around the corner and getting a regular muffin with cream and butter and refined sugar. We want to keep the dialogue rolling." But if no one's drinking the dairy milk, it goes. "It's our hope that we can eliminate it." Yeah, ours too.

Now, the billion-dollar question: Will you, SIB, let perfection alone and not screw with our tempeh reuben, please? (Seriously, people LOVE this thing.) Eric said there will be a tempeh reuben on the menu, but not the very same because they didn't buy Organic Heights's recipes. Replacing Organic Heights's Russian dressing, sauerkraut, and sourdough rye will be SIB's house-made Russian dressing and sauerkraut and sprouted grain bread. I think I can live with those changes. I don't know. I'll let you know.

Prices will be comparable to those at Organic Heights, if not slightly cheaper. Tentative hours are 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. daily. They are accepting applications, my income-seeking friends.

Opening day is Saturday and VEGAN BRUNCH WILL BE SERVED. In my mind I'm already there, eating Eric's cinnamon buckwheat toast with homemade jam. In reality, I will be there Saturday, crack of noon. WHO'S WITH ME?

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 Ugh, I really should not be checking Craigslist after the holidays.

So many "My husband/wife got me this puppy/kitten as a surprise for Christmas, but oh noes it doesn't fit in with our family."
Sadly, I think one of them is my old friend's ad...she's pregnant with her second child and has a toddler and the last thing she wanted was a puppy (they already have 2 dogs and 3 kitties)...but what does her husband do? Gets her a puppy he found at a pet store (gah) because he thought she'd think it was cute. ....

I don't understand how one can get a puppy (or any animal, for that matter) on a whim. I love dogs, but I know I work wayy too much to have one. Maybe someday. And to not discuss it with your spouse? "Oh hey, honey, I know you're raising our toddler, are pregnant, and take care of 5 animals, but can I throw a puppy into the mix?" So now this poor puppy needs a new home. 

And there are so many ads like that. I went to a pet store today for some cat litter and they had an ad up. It was a woman getting a golden retriever pup with a bow on its head that read: "Surprise her this holiday season!"   *headdesk*

What would you do if your 16 year old daughter came home from school one day in tears, and said that a boy had started a really nasty rumor about her all over school about -insert sexual act here-. She claims the rumor is totally unfounded and she barely knows the boy except that he's in a few of her classes.

ETA If you got involved, how would you expect it to be resolved by the school/boy's parents/etc.?

You've discovered that your child has been wearing some of your clothes while having sex with his or her partner. Consider it a bit of role playing, at the request of the aforementioned partner.

How would you deal with this? Does your reaction and possible punishment differ depending on whether the child is of the age of majority?

How would you react if you went out to eat lunch with your 14 year old, just the two of you, and you asked them if you could just share whatever they were going to order, because you're on a diet or not hungry or whatever, and probably only going to eat a few bites, and they told you no, they want to take home leftovers. You're paying for the meal, obviously. Would you this upset or annoy you at all, or no big deal?