pinch me

Don't know what's wrong with me today but I've been procrastinating my butt off (or make that on -- on this damn desk chair, that is). I'm just tired, I guess, as I had a migraine yesterday and it took two shots of my nasty meds to get rid of it.

Anyway, before I finally get off my duff and go work on some sorting, I thought I'd upload a couple of pix of our potential new home that the embassy in Madrid may be renting for us but have not signed any lease yet. Isn't it fab?

Huge, bright with great parquet (good RIDDANCE beige carpets that Grace loves to muck) and near all kinds of big parks (for the mucky one's benefit)! Spoiled we all would be if it comes true!

See we're leaving in just 3 short weeks and the movers are coming to pack us and take away our stuff (to stick on a ship that takes 2 months!) in only 10 days. Freaking out!

G-dawg, meanwhile, has no clue what's in store and is sleeping like the now-adult lazy mutt that she is.

"Titty Debut!" Lucky I was stopped at a light when I noticed the strange ad campaign wording of a huge Samantha Thavasa billboard this morning, else I might've fallen off my bike.

And with that I realized I had been noting numerous hints of cheeky on the streets of Tokyo this spring (no, not the butt-cheek-peek miniskirts, they've been around for ages now). One that still sticks in my mind -- and with which I thoroughly identified as I have continued to dress way-way down compared to the diva/poupoune look rampant amongst Tokyo women -- was a dude dressed in black jeans and a black t-shirt that said in bold white text: "This is my suit."

Finally, I wanted to share this list, as I happened across it this afternoon and admired its brash frankness. As I non-vegan, I also enjoyed the cheeky last item.


Good Reasons to Go Vegan

• The decomposing corpses of egg-laying hens that have died of asphyxiation or dehydration are found in cages with the live birds.
• Although their normal life span exceeds 20 years, dairy cows are usually killed at five to six years of age.
• Poultry farmers frequently cut a third to a half of the beaks off of chickens, turkeys, and ducks to keep them from pecking each other.
• The American Dietetic Association reports that, on average, vegetarians have lower body weight, cholesterol, blood pressure, and rates of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, prostate cancer, and colon cancer.
• After they’re stunned, hogs are dunked in hot water to soften their hides for skinning. Botched slaughters condemn some to scalding and drowning.
• Having enough compassion and discipline to choose the vegan lifestyle permits you to smugly refer to nonvegans as “murderers” while they eat.

Source: Vegan Outreach’s pamphlets Why Vegan but found via this cheeky-yet-compelling post on Good.