VeganMoFo

Whoops, just about missed the boat on this one. October is VeganMoFo – which is a really fun way of saying Vegan Month of Food. MoFo! The idea is for vegan bloggers to write as much as possible about being vegan, and most vegans I know – especially the food bloggers – have been at it all month. Unfortunately, my food blog has been sitting idle (as has this one) now that I’m working. Plus, I’ve renewed my obsession with knitting, and I’ve been at it with a vengeance. I’m limited to projects that can be done on circular needles, because I am very nervous about what Nina will do when she finally gets a hold of my regular pointy ones. This weekend is my birthday, which is just an excuse to buy more yarn. Actually, I’m flaunting my birthday status to make sure we get a bunch of things done this weekend:

1. VOTE!!!! We are voting tomorrow, even if it means taking the Neenster with us and taking turns to vote. She’ll probably scale a voting booth or show off her new jumping skillz (while wearing her slightly-too-big froggy boots) to a bunch of strangers, providing some comic relief, and possibly resulting in an injury depending on her balance. She jumps with a lot of force, but hasn’t quite mastered landing. It’s really awesome when she jumps so hard that one of her boots flies off; I’ll try to get a picture next time that happens.
2. Finding the best yarn store around these parts so that I can replenish my dwindling stash. It’s either that, or hitting the Le Creuset store for another addition to my kitchen…
3. I need new boots, and I refuse to buy them online – unless J Crew can make them materialize in my hands as soon as I punch in my credit card number, even next day air isn’t good enough.

That was a lot of rambling about mostly nothing. It’s my birthday, so I don’t care. We are also making Nina’s Halloween costume this weekend, and if we can find the time, I want to visit a pumpkin patch. Yep, I’m beating this birthday thing into the ground! We were originally going to spend a long weekend in New York, splitting our time between Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, and Brooklyn. I put the kibosh on that – I want Nina to be old enough to appreciate a visit to FS, plus we see goats and horses every day on our runs, and we have deer on our property all the time.

Even if you’re not vegan, you still need your veggies. So don’t forget – MoFo!