I went to the eye doctor today and got a new prescription. My new glasses (two pairs) will be here in about a week. It’s always a good feeling to have a new pair of glasses. I’ve had this gold pair of Christian Dior eyeglasses for almost two years now and although they are real gold, there are small parts of the glasses (around the inner nose part and the crystal gem settings on the side), it’s starting to turn green. So it’s time to get them replaced. I got a pair of black Versace frames and a rimless pair from Vogue. At PearlVision, they have a buy-one-get-one-free sale going on right now, so I figured - why not get two pairs instead of one? Total cost (including 2 prescription lenses, 2 designer frames, AND an eye exam) only $550. Not bad. My old frames (that you see in all my pics) ALONE were $600.
Did a little Christmas shopping. I don’t know why I always forget that everyone likes to shop at the same time during the holidays, so parking is always atrocious. I don’t mind parking far, cause I love as much exercise as I can get. The problem is when it’s 32 degrees and wind hits my face and I walk through sloshy snow and ice. Exercise is the last thing on my mind.
Speaking of exercise and health, today is day #19 being a vegan. So far so good. And I’ve lost 5 of the 7 pounds I gained because thankfully, Jenny Craig helped me write my own special menu for myself without eating their food. So I’m off Jenny Craig, but still going in for consultations and weigh-ins. Hopefully by the time I go in on Monday, I’ll have lost 2 more. *crossing fingers*
The look on my friends’ faces are insane when I tell them I’ve stopped buying leather. My friend Mandy looked at me like I was absolutely crazy when she saw me wearing my new $30 hemp purse and vegan wallet instead of my $2k Chloe handbag and $800 matching leather wallet. But you know what? I feel more natural and more ME wearing a cheap purse than an expensive one. I swear, the first day I bought an expensive purse, the whole time all I could think about was someone taking a hacksaw to my arm or killing me for a bag or something. Morbid, I know. For years, I wore a $10 leather slingback pouch from Mexico and was perfectly fine with that. So these days, I’ve opted for hemp - thanks to a loving slave who bought it for me after an enthralling conversation.
I’ve gotten rid of lots of leather things I own as well as deodorants and soaps that have glycerine. I thought it would be really hard, but it’s been fairly easy since there is a store here (Bloomingfoods) which carries alternate stuff for vegans and vegetarians. I’ve since joined ASPCA and PETA. Don’t worry, I won’t be one of the crazies who throws paint at people wearing fur, but I do support their overall cause, which is to make sure animals are treated humanely.
There are some things I’m not ready to part with: my leather bondage stuff. I’m hanging on to it. For one, I’ve already purchased it. Secondly, there is such a big demand for leather, that leather isn’t just a by-product of killing a cow. So if I have bondage furniture and leather whips, I kind of justify it to myself because technically, I’m “slaughtering” my slaves. Bad logic. But for now it’s ok cause I’ve decided that I’ll only accept second-hand leather for now on. In the meantime, I’ve written emails to some of my favorite BDSM manufacturers and most of them have agreed to make custom non-leather items for me in the future and happily obliged.
There are a few things I’ve found kind of humorous with this new “loving-animals instead of murdering-them” mentality. For one… there is leather on practically everything - even my dashboard of my SUV is in leather. What do I do in the future? Ask a car dealer for a vegan car? LOL. I don’t know I thought it was kind of funny. I feel silly for even asking. Anyway here is a list of items that contain animal products, many of which I wasn’t even aware.
One of my office chairs at home is leather, but I can swap it for something cloth (which frankly is more comfortable). Some makeup products have animal products in them (or test on animals) but sometimes it’s hard to tell what has what in it. So I’ve been going out of my way to buy things at vegan websites or non-cruelty sites.
I swear, I feel like a nut sometimes being in the minority. I had no idea that vegans went through this. I seriously thought they were all nuts. I never thought it was cause they were fighting such an important cause. Speaking of which, I changed the menu on the 7-day Slave Training to reflect a non-dairy and non-meat lifestyle. In fact, everything I posted on the menu is stuff I eat on a daily basis. It’s a bit different than before.
Sometimes I smell barbecue in the deli (of regular grocery stores) and it smells so good that I find myself running away from it like a girl running away from a fire - so I’m not tempted to eat it. But today I braved myself and looked down at the barbecue and literally felt myself get sick cause all I saw was meat and sauce and immediately I pictured the sauce as being blood and, well, you can guess how violent that story became to me. Shopping at regular grocery stores (even if just walking down the meat aisle with all the turkeys, chickens, beefs) feels like I’m walking down a slaughterhouse. A few days ago I held back tears just trying to get to the produce section. This is why I’m sticking with Bloomingfoods and other health food stores. More expensive, but less violent.
I’m crazy, I know. But that’s why you love me.
Love
Isabella
xooxox
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