Yes. that's right. In an effort to FURTHER alienate myself at otherwise great parties, I am now firmly seated on the "Crunchy" bandwagon. Actually, they probably wouldn't let me on the wagon due to some of my other silly ideas, but I'd probably be running along side it.
Sometimes I scare me.
I mean, I won't be stopping my monthly salon visits for fresh hair dye anytime soon, and I haven't actually been able to make myself care too much about how or where or by whom my favorite skinny jeans were made.
But for the life of me, I can't figure out why the hell I've been smearing toxins on all of my eating surfaces for years!!!! Why I have been eating vegetables grown in human sledge.(Thanks for looking out for me Big Brother, it turns out that eating your own crap won't kill you.....right away.)
And why on earth I have been drinking milk and eating meat that is chock full of hormones and medications!! Why?!
So that's it.
Without even thinking about it, I have been making changes.
I have found myself increasingly aware of my own environment, and what we are putting into our bodies.
Plastic containers? gone. I switched back to old fashioned glass.
grocery store meat? No way. Can't do it anymore. We have found local sources where we can actually SEE how our food is being raised.
Vegetables? Gardening along with the Farmers Market.
Milk? ONLY organic.
Cleaners? I switched to vinegar and hydrogen peroxide.(2 spray bottles) Cheap, effective, and it actually dissenfects!
So that's it. I'm on a mission to erradicate as much of the foreign crap that we put in and around our bodies, as possible. To begin to "eat out of our own yard" more .
It's just logic that I cannot argue with. Put food into your body that it recognizes and can use.
But where does this leave me? Where's my "group"? My "gang" My 'club"??
The "Greenies" won't have me because I'm too conservative,
The Conservative homeschoolers eye me warily, because they know that I've been known to have a drink from time to time.
The Liberal homeschoolers, while they WILL kick back a beer with ya, also know that I go to a PCA church.
The "Crunchies" won't have me because I heart JCrew and Nordstrom and despise the whole rubber-shoe-croc thing .
And, of course, I could never really get along with the Fashionistas because eventually they'd spy my fake True Religion jeans, and they's know I wasn't a believer. It'd be ugly.
But maybe this.
Yes.....yes.. ...
This is where I belong. What's HER club?
Cheers!
Melissa
4 comments:
ROFL! Well, from one who is hopelessly hooked on BE makeup, now, and yet has freshly made sour cream in the fridge (beside the beer), I'm thinkin' your crew is just waiting for you to open those toned (and now healthy from the inside!) arms and yell, "Wine's ready! Who's in?"
Yeah?
Yeah.
yeah!!! I love it!! When I went on my Raw kick everyone thought it was nuts...I didn't go all the way, I still ate *gasp* chicken and fish, but not much else in the way of forbidden meat (and I just can't do soy..blech blech blech...gimme good ol' cow juice any day of the week) but you can find some neat recipes on raw sites...raw glow is a good one. Welcome aboard prad crunchy ;)
You can come be my neighbor! I'm a conservative homeschooler who loves herself a cocktail and is never without lip gloss. Plus, I'm envious of *monthly* salon trips! Monthly! I'm not into the raw food thing, but would happily invite myself over for dinner. I'll bring a really good bottle of wine to share.
;-)
I'm all for it...but if I ever see a picture of you in a long denim jumper with a braid down the middle of your back while wearing socks with your Birkenstocks, I'm calling for an immediate intervention! (No offense to anyone who may identify with the aforementioned fashion choices.)
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