Folks, how's the fam? How are you? Sorry for the late thread, I have not been well 🤒.
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Folks, how's the fam? How are you? Sorry for the late thread, I have not been well 🤒.
Our week went pretty well. Felt a lot like it was back to normal. Nothing drama to really report.
I had a "hiring event" style interview for the local hospital. I made a post about it. But I get there and wait in line for 45 mins to finally get to the actual interview and like 5 mins into it, they tell me the position was actually filled 3 days ago because the person that quit asked for their job back. So yeah big fucking waste of my time.
I am attempting to network to try and find clients and I'd really like this to just fucking take off so I can make websites for people and have an income because I think I'm basically done with the job thing for now on. Working is a fucking joke. But yeah I"m trying to get out of post-interview funk. I applied an IT position for a local gas station chain and I guess I'm on their blacklist for getting fired from there 10 years ago when I was working as a cashier and the firing was over a miscommunication. I was fired because coworkers didn't understand delegation of duties but the lady that was stealing cartons of cigarettes got a promotion. Such is life.
Moving on, me and the oldest have our first scouts meeting tonight. We missed last week's. They are already planning a camping trip so I need to plan for easy vegan snacks for that weekend since I don't wanna be that guy. I am already prepping for 2 whole days of masking(autism, not facemask) so that is going to be draining.
Keep us posted on the scouts thing. I'm curious about it for my kid but not sure if the culture will be a good fit for us.
Quick update from last night, but they did start the meeting with the pledge of allegiance and ended with prayer. Not super happy about pushing imperialism and religion on kids and an extracurricular org. But I think that is mostly my lefty brain judging. Normies gonna norm.
I probably will since this is a big change for both of us. So probably mention the good, bad, and ugly.
My main focus is to first make sure my kid is having fun, then to try and blend in and be "one of the guys" instead of a chronically depressed disassociating autistic socialist lol.
Glad to see another vegan parent on here too! Our whole family is.
I'm the only vegan out of the 4 of us but I also do most of the cooking, so they do end up partially eating vegan a lot. It's a bit fucked up when I make a spaghetti sauce and use TVP or Impossible grounds and then the cover it in cheese though.
It also sucks because my partner really isn't great at cooking(she'll even admit it) so sometimes like when we have burgers, I have to intervene and help her so at times it feels like a losing battle. She's supposedly anarchist and won't even vegan up.
Funny enough, even at our scouts meeting that was last night, they were covering nutrition and was like "Meat is protein. Meat is protien."
and I wanted to be like, "Plants also have protein. In fact peanuts, soy beans and lentils are the most dense protein foods when comparing price and calories, etc" but like I said, I'm trying to mask and be a normie.
That sounds difficult tbh, I've always wondered how I'd manage in that situation. Sounds like you're handling it pretty well though if you'll even help your partner cook meat, that'd be hard for me at this point.
Ugh we've run into so many people like at your scouts meeting, especially from my in-laws at first. Luckily I shut that shit down right away. They make faces or talk about the food behind our backs but that's it. The area we live in isn't very vegan friendly either so that gets tough, we eat out once a month and we're kinda of bored of the same three options.
It's sort of an "it is what it is" situation I guess. I did tell her when I came over to the vegan side that I was gonna probably cook less meat for her or at least be more hands off about it. Last time we did burgers, she did most of it but the serving so it's progress I guess? I'd rather her and the kids just join me in the no animal thing because it'd be easier for everyone and cheaper but I also don't belief in forcing beliefs on to others. I'd like them to come over of their own accord. I do sprinkle in a bit of vegan commentary here and there, so like my oldest does know that I choose not to support killing animals, for example.
We have a camping trip coming up for scouts and I'm not even gonna bother with trying to figure out how to eat what they are providing so day before I'm gonna grab a bunch of protein bars and trail mix lol. I've been on a vegan protein bar kick for some reason, partially because it's easier than trying to find fast food that is vegan.
We live in "Steak Country" Texas so it's pretty abysmal here too but we have 2 Indian places that can do vegan, a trustworthy Thai place that has a tofu dish that I crave, but also we have a hipster gastro type place and probably 40% of their menu is vegan. They even offer vegan specials. We have a food truck turned brick and mortar that does Tex-Mex fusion stuff and the owner has a vegan menu that is virtually the whole non-vegan menu with vegan substitutes. But what is amazing is that we have a full on vegan food truck here that is ran my a pair of sisters that work with Food Not Bombs and all sorts of leftist and mutual aid stuff. I'm pretty much convinced at this point that they are anarchists lol. Like if you are ever in my neck of the woods, I got the hook up on vegan cuisine, rofl.