Jo goes vego

Monday comes again. Had a bit of a relaxing weekend. Went out on Friday with an old mate and caught up with developments down atGlenelg. Had a fabulous Korma Pie at some gourmet pie shop. Granted I was slightly tipsy at the time and thus my sense of taste was inhibited, but still I say it was a tops feed. It's all looking a bit shiny and new down there now aye! No more Magic Mountain. Well, there are still rides and etc, but it's all jazzed up, no more grey fibreglass rock. And our tram was all shiny and new too! What's happened to Adelaide anyway? There was even some woman announcing the stops over a PA system. Crazy. I tested out my new red shoes with a power walk from Vic Square to the Austral - wouldn't want to do that again, but I did survive without a blister. Copped a bucketload of Aussie Male behaviour, that'll take some getting used to. Sunday arvo had a run about at a touch scratchie in town. Gee, the fields are looking a bit bumpy these days. Probably owing to the lack of water these days I guess. I've only been home a week and a half and I'm already worried about the fact that it hasn't rained yet...

In other news... I am getting a new bicycle! I am tremendously excited about this. An Orbea. Made in Spain - where I'll be sunning myself next year :) Had to order it from Melbourne so haven't got it in my hot little hands yet, but by the end of this week I'll be all set to get around on it. My first time using, what's it called?? The arrangement where the shoe is attached to the pedal.... starts with a C. I have forgotten for now, but I am heaps looking forward to forgetting about them and just falling off my bike because I can't put my foot down at some point. Ha, on Friday my friend asked me if I wanted to go to Perth and ride home from there with her in September. Stupid thing is, it is actually really tempting me - but I hope to have a job by then which would obviously prevent me from doing any such thing. How fun would that be though! Something for later on I reckon.

By the by, have made the decision to go vego finally. Been thinking about it for a while, had some things crop up while I was in Japan that made me think about it some more. Thoughts along the lines of "Gee, dunno if I wanna support the practice of tying an animals mouth shut until we decide we want to eat it" are just the beginning of a slide down a slippery slope into vegetarianism so I thought I'd just whizz down quickly. I work best at doing things cold turkey (although I am no longer allowed to eat that of course).