I have a video to show off and a couple of pictures, too. What this means is I'm too lazy to write any actual content. I'd rather be in bed reading Fast Food Nation and patting myself on the back for the cruelty-free dinner we had tonight. I must thank Lovebucks for her suggestion of Tofurky. She's not even a vegetarian and yet she knew all about the wonders of meatless Thanksgiving in a box.

As a vegetarian, I find I make almost everything from scratch. I enjoy it in that masochistic kind of way and I've realized I actually do have talents outside the realm of World of Warcraft. However, it means a lot of dishpan hands and no Madge on television to remind me to use the right kind of moisturizing soap while washing the continuous stream of pots piling up in my kitchen. I figured Thanksgiving dinner (we're in Canada, folks, so we get an early turkey - sorry - tofurkey day) would involve way more work than I wanted to put into it, and would have ordered a traditional and oh-so-wholesome cheese pizza if my good friend had not shared her glorious secret with me.

So we tried it. We bit the bullet and spent thirty freaking dollars on a small box of pre-made food that is entirely vegan in its contents.

I had my doubts. I really did. No dead animals? No dairy products from exploited cows? Could this even taste good? I was intrigued, yet terrified. I honestly thought it would taste like crap. It looked scary when I first opened it with its lack of anything resembling anything I ate last year for Thanksgiving. But I took a big swig of coffee and set about the task of throwing the "turkey" in the a roasting pan with some carrots and potatoes, the apple-cranberry dumplings in a pan to be fried and the gravy ( meatless gravy? A perversion of the devil, I declared!) in a sauce pan.

Know what? I hate to admit it, but it was actually kinda really amazingly good.

Really.

I'm not even making it up. The company hasn't paid me to say this (although they could definitely do so if they feel like it - my email address is over there ------>). I'm not trying to convince the world to be vegetarian (even though you all should be because anything I choose to do is obviously the right thing).

Like, I didn't even miss having dead bird. I didn't get cravy for gravy. The stuff was awesome. Then we made these, which I must say get a huge thumbs up (and caused me to take both dogs for a power walk - Oh, we got a new dog. More on that next post)

Here's a recent, non-tofurky picture of me, taken once I put the stupid box down. I haven't lost a ton of weight, but enough that I think it's noticeable. Moreover, I'm healthier looking. Look at me glowing that glorious glow of many fruit salads:



And, here's a video taken this afternoon as the Spawn kicks Speed Racer's ass:



Isn't he the coolest? That's because he's my spawn.