Saturday marked my one year anniversary of being vegan. How did I celebrate it?
Standing outside for almost two hours in snow-turned-freezing-rain protesting a fur store.
Then I went to the Chicago Diner with my new friend, Emelda, and had yummy vegan food.
Then more standing outside because the El was broken due to the weather.
But you know, it was a good day. A lot of dedication was seen by how many people showed up for the protest in the bad weather.
I’ve been doing events with the Animal Defense League of Chicago. I’ve met a lot of great people already! It started with the Fur Free Friday march, then the next day I brought Ginny with me to the regular Saturday protest outside of the Chicago Fur Mart. She got a lot of attention and yes, she loved it. Despite one woman yelling at me for “torturing my cat like that” (Ginny was calmly sitting on the ground on her leash…). Some people are crazy.
I’ve been doing more work on the webpage, if you haven’t noticed. It still has a lot to be done, but I only have so much time to work on it between all my work and activism and kitty cuddles.
But basically, I wanted to write this to celebrate the fact that I’ve been vegan for one year and I know that this is something I can live with for the rest of my life.