The Weekend Send-Off

September 16th, 2011 - filed under: Furthermore » Feedback

Ultimate sadness. This is definitely not going on my love list this week!


Oi Oi! Hello friends, and happy Fridays all around! We had a pretty rough week around these parts, as evidenced above (buckle fracture – also called the “toddler fracture” – from a tumble on the slide), so we’re very much looking forward to a fun-filled weekend. And filled with fun, it will be! But before we get to all that . . .

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This October I’ll be participating in MoFo, or the Vegan Month Of Food, which is a collective endeavor from the vegan blogging community, to blog about all things vegan and awesome for every. single. day. of the month of October. Anyone can play! You should play too!

Being the busy full-time mommy that I am, and seeing as this is this is the year of quality over quantity, I’m cutting myslef some slack and hoping to post at least 5 days/week. A lot of MoFo-ers choose a theme to guide their posts and offer inspiration. For example Monika will be gluten-free-vegan-izing Halloween treats all month! And Joanna has set a theme for each day, like Mondays = recipe, Fridays = product review, etc.

So why am I telling you this? Good question!

I would like to follow a theme, but I want to know what YOU’D like to see! I was thinking of doing “RAWK-toberfest” (sort of as a playful jab at the raw community and how they’re always trying to work the word “raw” into everything, which has become Damian’s favorite game and has resulted in some truly awful meal titles. Oh, how he thinks he is a funny one!) wherein I would post a raw food/raw recipe/raw-related something every day. But maybe you guys don’t want so much raw?

In 2011 I’ve done some massive diet experimentation, which I’ve never written about, so I was thinking I could finally write about that for MoFo.

Or, I thought about doing a photo theme, maybe even an Instagram photo theme, and posting tons and tons of food porn pics of everything I eat, maybe even in real time. Sort of tumblr-style.

Or . . . I don’t know, you tell me! Any ideas? What do you want??

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And now, the fun stuff . . .


Le Love List

1. VEGFEST!    It’s one of my favorite events of the year (see past recaps here: 2009 and 2010), and this year is going to be extra special, because I’ll be promoting my book! I love VegFest and I love the Portland vegan community and pretty much any time you get a whole lot of vegans in one place, it’s an effing amazing feeling. VEGANS ARE THE BESTEST PEOPLE! So supportive, so damn friendly.

If any Pacific Northwesters will be there, I’ll be bouncing around with Mr. Waits all day on Saturday, and then I’ll be hanging around the Herbivore booth signing books all day Sunday. If you see me, please come introduce yourself!

2. The First Bonzai Facebook Chat.    Aw, that was so fun! If you missed it, you can still read all the questions and answers over at the BA Facebook page. We’ll have another one in a few months!

3. Getting caught up on my email inbox and Bonzai comments.    Gosh, I can be bad about letting this get out of hand. And it always feels like a world of stress is lifted once I get it back under control. I really need to work on this!


Also! Feeling fall in the air and being inspired to hunt down a can of pumpkin puree because I got bit by the baking bug –> the maple-glazed pumpkin cornbread that ensued, tatter-punk inspiration folders overflowing with amazing fashion, cilantro green juice, secondhand rain boots for Waits, awesome writing opportunities, hours spent in the city of books researching for my next big project (!!!), toddler-sized Bacon Had A Mom t-shirts, oh there’s so much to love . . .

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Alright guys, now it’s your turn – tell me what you’re loving this week!


My darlings, this happy little post will stay at the top of the page all weekend, so stop by any time to leave your Love List, ask a question, or offer some feedback! Or if you’re new, please introduce yourself and say ‘Oi!’! This is your community, so get involved!

I hope your weekend rocks the casbah!

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  • Kathryn B.

    First and foremost, well wish to poor Mr. Waits. I hope he is feeling better.

    My vote is for food porn! Oh how I love it. It gets me inspired!

    Love list
    1. Having my husband home after a long week away.
    2. Picking up our freezer this weekend so that I can freeze more produce for the winter.
    3. Ordering my diva cup! I’m loving the road to Vegan. I am proud to say that I am 100% organic right now and I feel great!

  • http://www.freshyoungcoconut.blogspot.com/ Nikki

    “Rawktoberfest” haha. We play that game at my house too. It’s horrible and hilarious. On that note, I would love to see raw! This will be my first year of MoFo and my theme is raw vegan Fall inspired food. Lots of pumpkins and apples.

    This week I’m loving Fall. To the max. I want to go to Herbivore and pick up a pair of vegan boots because I purged all of my leather over the summer. So, boots & cardigans & pumpkins = love.

  • Deirdre

    Sayward-
    Holy Guacamole- I love your blog…I’ve been devouring every morsel of content for the past week…it is that good. Thank you for standing firmly in what you believe in and who you are…it is like I breathed a deep gulp of fresh autumn air when I came upon your site (or maybe that was some green smoothie- delish.) Thank you, thank you a thousand times thank you.
    ~Deirdre

  • Deirdre

    Sayward-
    Holy Guacamole- I love your blog…I’ve been devouring every morsel of content for the past week…it is that good. Thank you for standing firmly in what you believe in and who you are…it is like I breathed a deep gulp of fresh autumn air when I came upon your site (or maybe that was some green smoothie- delish.) Thank you, thank you a thousand times thank you.
    ~Deirdre

  • http://eerosa.wordpress.com erosan

    Oh Oh Oh! le Love List! I have items to share!

    1. Ran my first 10K this past Sunday. My time sucked almost as hard as a black hole, metaphorically speaking of course — And I mean suck as in the 3rd place from the veterans women’s category could’ve run a second lap and still get ahead of me. But! WHO cares. 10K? not everyone can run one amiright? so there.

    2. Found out about THE best workout tracking site. Social and gamer/geek friendly. It is called fitocracy.com and although it is still in closed beta, you can get in if you put ‘lifehacker’ as the invite code… It helps you track your workouts and gives you points for them… and you level up and stuff.

    And last but not least…

    3. Molecular Gastronomy. I took a quick course that lasted 2 days and I now know how to do crazy stuff with food like spherification, gels with agar, winds, etc. Oh also cook eeerr… freeze with nitrogen. Some of these techniques could be used to cook RAW too ^_^

  • http://eerosa.wordpress.com erosan

    Oh Oh Oh! le Love List! I have items to share!

    1. Ran my first 10K this past Sunday. My time sucked almost as hard as a black hole, metaphorically speaking of course — And I mean suck as in the 3rd place from the veterans women’s category could’ve run a second lap and still get ahead of me. But! WHO cares. 10K? not everyone can run one amiright? so there.

    2. Found out about THE best workout tracking site. Social and gamer/geek friendly. It is called fitocracy.com and although it is still in closed beta, you can get in if you put ‘lifehacker’ as the invite code… It helps you track your workouts and gives you points for them… and you level up and stuff.

    And last but not least…

    3. Molecular Gastronomy. I took a quick course that lasted 2 days and I now know how to do crazy stuff with food like spherification, gels with agar, winds, etc. Oh also cook eeerr… freeze with nitrogen. Some of these techniques could be used to cook RAW too ^_^

  • http://simplybeme.com Jenny @ Simply Be…me

    Awe! Poor Waits! Here’s hoping for a speedy recovery.

    I would love to see a month devoted to raw recipes/food/info. I’ve always been interested in raw foods and am always looking for easy ways to fit it into the family meal plan.

    Love list:
    1. It’s Fall Fair weekend!
    2. Pumpkin EVERYTHING!
    3. Seeing friends for the first time since they moved!
    4. Exclamation points!

  • http://simplybeme.com Jenny @ Simply Be…me

    Awe! Poor Waits! Here’s hoping for a speedy recovery.

    I would love to see a month devoted to raw recipes/food/info. I’ve always been interested in raw foods and am always looking for easy ways to fit it into the family meal plan.

    Love list:
    1. It’s Fall Fair weekend!
    2. Pumpkin EVERYTHING!
    3. Seeing friends for the first time since they moved!
    4. Exclamation points!

  • cheli

    oh that is so sad! i actually gasped!!! poor waits!!! how annoying to have a cast on his little arm! how long will have to keep it? my god, my kid would be breaking people’s jaws flinging that thing around… poor monkey. i bet that was a scary experience. hope you’re all recovering
    oh love list:
    1. i m not vegan (i m from argentina). i always feel kinda dirty on these lists not veganizing myself to y’all. so hey, item 1, being an unapologetic carnivore
    2. started working out. once a week. i should really try to pace myself and do like once a trimester to start with, haha. but serisouly, it’s the best i can do, so hey.
    3. vaccination. not loving it. but having it go smoothly
    4. finding patience
    5. not loving anything about summer ending, especially the shorter days. trying to find somehting to like about it. at least i’m trying
    (i do cut myself a lot of slack it seems)
    6. you know what i do honestly love, these darn love lists, it makes me look back at the week, re-evaluate, consider myself over. nice work. saves me a bundle on therapy ; )

  • Kate in SB

    Poor Waits, hope he heals fast!

    My love list this week:

    1. Getting a cat! My first real pet. He’s so cute! It’s so much fun to come home to him after a day of work.

    2. Finally being totally moved out of my old apartment and getting totally moved into my new apartment. So much work. I turned in the keys to the old place last night, so glad it’s nearly over.

    3. Having bad luck in the lab at work and being able to laugh it off. Shit happens, it’s how you handle it that matters.

  • http://spabettie.com Kristina @ spabettie

    YAY – Jason and I will be at VegFest tomorrow – I’ll definitely keep lookout for ya! poor Waits – little sweetie.

    what I am loving this week – my new camera lens, my noocho cheese, the feel and smell of fall in the air…

    hope to see you two tomorrow!

  • Melisa

    Looking at an itty bitty with a cast always makes my heart hurt. It’s comforting that in the photo he’s sleeping peacefully, though. He’s so beautiful.
    1)Now that I’ve decided to not let myself off the hook about going vegan, I love it so much more than I expected to!! I feel confident, and I have noticeably more energy already, which is something I’ve always struggled with. And that is with my previously mentioned junk food littered diet! Imagine how good I’ll feel once I move to a more normal, healthy style of eating!
    2)My awesome hubs who was so not excited at first about the change but said recently that he admires me for it, and has been really supportive. I got lucky when I snagged that one. (;
    3)I gave into y’all’s peer pressure and requested Jillian from the library! BRING IT ON!!!
    Bonus #4: In a couple weeks I’m going to volunteer to answer phones for our public radio station’s fund drive. It’s something I have ALWAYS wanted to do, and I’m jacked that it’s finally going to happen.

  • Kate

    1. Going from hating Jillian Michaels to loving her (amirite?!)
    2. Chicago next week. Bring it, you beautiful city you – which will also be filled with LOTS of IMPROV in IMPROV MECCA LAND OMGOMGOMGOMG
    3. Short hair. Yup, it’s just better.

  • Kristinfriesen

    For mofo I would love to see some kind of vegan 101. Like recipes of simple/easy foods for new vegans. I am still omnivorous but wanting to give veganism a try. I do love seeing the raw stuff, but for me its not at all realistic. My hubby and very picky 4 year old are clinging on to our old diet so I’m looking for recipes that would appeal to the not so seasoned vegans so I can show them how good it is! Eventually I woukd like to be high raw but not all raw, but for now I need to keep it simple and familiar so I dont scare them away :)

  • http://twitter.com/andanin Neysa

    Oh, poor Waits! Makes you want to pick up and hug him even more!

    Rawk-toberfest sounds awesome. My bf and I have decided to try high-raw over our summer (Starting sooooon, yay!), since its so hard to find good fresh produce here in winter. Actually, that’s number 1 for my love list!

    2) Running again. My physio finally cleared my knee to run, so I’ve been getting out every few days. Feeling alive!

    3) Submitted my PhD confirmation document yesterday. Felt so good to go over the first 2 years of my project, collect my thoughts, and then hit the deadline on the head.

  • Kate

    Oh, and I would LOVE a ‘sneak peak’ at your raw cookbook with a month of raw recipes! We’ve hardly seen anything from it! No fair! :)

  • Anonymous

    Oh no, the poor little guy! My best friend’s toddler got the same fracture this week :(

    I would LOVE to hear more about your diet experimentation! I have been wanting to mix things up, get more gutsy + become more inspired with a nutritional change and I am sure we would all love to hear about what you have been doing!

    I am loving…

    1. Yoga Journal’s Fall detox! It is the first one to be Ayurvedically-inspired and it has been a week of yoga, meditation, cleansing + bliss!

    2. Our water purifier. We have been wanting to get one for so long and kept putting it off…

    3. A dear friend visiting this week! Because sometimes, an old friend from home can be just the shot in the arm that you need, ya know?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=602205227 Kris Cox

    i would love to hear ab

  • cass

    Poor little one! Good choice on the green though?

    My vote is for the whys & wherefores behind your diet choices – I’m forever asking “why?”. Vote #2 is for recipes, because my other question tends to be “how?”.

    Things I love this week are few & far between but def include 1. a super amazing box from my mom, with ten new spices…hello Hawaiian red salt, have we met? 2. Hummus avocado red onion cucumber tomato sandwiches, greatest treat ever, 3. Realizing that I’ve been reading you for way over a year now. Can I take this moment to say thanks? BA is the bright spot in gloomy days, always inspiring (and so well/designed, I’m a firm believer in aesthetics) and delightful to this 23 yr old herbivore wanderer. Thanks for unknowingly being my someone to look up to!

  • http://www.growingraw.com GrowingRaw

    Poor Waits. Poor you! I’ve braced myself for a broken limb sometime on at least one of my adventurous duo, but had my fingers crossed for a postponement until toddlerdom was finished. I’ve heard they heal very quickly when they’re so young though.

    Love List
    1. The way my daughter paints parrots.
    2. Wattles coming out. The view from my deck is so yellow.
    3. Black coffee. After years of soy lattes I have retrained my palate.

    My Vote: Can’t go past the food porn…. I’m eating high raw at the moment so some raw in there would be nice.

  • http://www.vegansunshine.wordpress.com Whitney

    Vegan MoFo is in October?!?!? I thought it was November! Ahh I better get prepared that is my all-time favorite time of year for blogging!

    Whitney

  • Meghan

    Waaat?! Friday already?! I guess I’m ready for it… remember how last week I was lovin’ my work/life/school balance? This week it feels like it has all come crashing down, what with the sleeping 12 hours a day and the injured husband. (Bicycling accident! Ouch!) So I am do for a love list

    1. Okay. Surely you have seen this, but I am totally loving it. I used to think the Bert and Ernie rendition of Ante Up was awesome, but it does not compare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5X4N2exOsU&feature=feedlik Although I am curious about what is going on in the scene where Cookie Monster appears to be attacking Prairie Dawn in the woods… I don’t remember that from my Sesame Street years. :-P

    2. Medieval music theory. Okay, even when I’m feeling overwhelmed and frustrated about school I still love it. I’m such a geek. :-)

    3. Faaaaaalllllllllll!!! Fall fell rather suddenly here in the midatlantic. After the silly hurricanes (Irene and Lee remnants) knocked out the tomatoes with their torrential rains I was ready for summer to be over. If I can’t have tomatoes, I don’t want the heat or mosquitos either. :-) It is currently 66 degrees. Awesome. Fall is my favorite season.

    4. I went “to the motherf*cking BANK like an ADULT” this morning and am feeling rather self-congratulatory about it. This is probably a bad sign, but uh… whatever. :-) I’m totally an online bankin’ sort of gal but I’ve really need to go to the actual branch for like… months now. Finally did it.

    5. Vegan Pregnancy! I need to get myself together to write a review for the veganpeople and pregnancy livejournal communities. :-)

    Um, okay, I am sufficiently cheered with my loves, time to get back to work! :-)

  • @tishushu

    Hello all! Especially Waits! Happy Healing, buddy!

    My Love List:
    1. The feel of Autumn in the air! After a blistering summer here in Atlanta, I appreciate needing a light jacket at night!

    2. The Harvest Moon! I love every second of seeing this magickal moon! And this year, I watched it with my honey! So you know what this means….

    3. VEGGIES! Its HAAAAAAARRRRRVESSSSSSTTT TIIIIIIIIIMMMME! Nuff said!

    4. Healing! I had a puncture wound due to biking, and its healing. Watching the process has been amazing… Bodies are awesome!

    5. Pecans! They are so delicious and I cant wait for the harvest, which consists of me pestering neighbors for their pecans from their trees… Ahhhh, Georgia!

    6. YARN! I have been inappropriately touching farics that are knit and crocheted because I caught the craft bug. I’m about to open my Etsy store soon, too!

    That’s all! Carry on!

  • http://eerosa.wordpress.com erosan

    nope, November is NaNoWriMo… ^_^

  • http://jenthevegan.wordpress.com/ Jen

    I would love to hear about your diet experimentations! For mofo I like the idea of a different theme on each day? Then there’ll be lots of variety! Can’t wait!

  • Shamima

    Hope Waits heals quickly! Big hug to him!!

    I am loving Autumn and the anticipation of big pots of soup!
    I am loving that its almost pumpkin and persimmon time.
    I am loving that my boys (hubby and son) are napping so mama can enjoy a little quiet time.

    Have a wonderful week!!

  • Shamima

    Hope Waits heals quickly! Big hug to him!!

    I am loving Autumn and the anticipation of big pots of soup!
    I am loving that its almost pumpkin and persimmon time.
    I am loving that my boys (hubby and son) are napping so mama can enjoy a little quiet time.

    Have a wonderful week!!

  • Rebecca

    I hope little Waits heals himself up quickly. It is always a little heartbreaking to have a little one in pain. :(

    I’d love the hear about the diet experimentation that you do. I head to this blog to learn about new and inspiring food so that would be super interesting.

    Course “RAWK-toberfest” is a totally hilarious them name too.

  • Joselle Palacios

    So sorry to hear about Waits’ injury. Wishing him a speedy recovery.

    I’d love a feeding vegan kids series during vegan mofo. Would also dovetail nicely with the subject of your book.

    My love list:
    1. Assessing newborns and listening to brand new hearts beat and watching babies being born during my nursing school clinical. Makes waking up at 4:30 AM on Saturdays worth it.

    2. Lots of extra time in bed with the husband this morning after lots of sleep and then a great date of seeing Drive (mmmm, Ryan Gosling) and then Green Smoothies and bagels at Satellite Cafe in West Philly.

    3. Hobbling myself at my first spinning class this week. Still in pain but what an intense workout.

  • http://cjousnamer.wordpress.com/ Cassandra

    Poor beautiful baby! Hope he gets better soon :)

  • http://cjousnamer.wordpress.com/ Cassandra

    Poor beautiful baby! Hope he gets better soon :)

  • Alexandrakaul

    I love love the raw idea and how to make it feasible!
    Love List:
    Exploring my new home Berkeley
    Living alone! For the first time.
    Living 10 minutes away from Whole foods makes dealing with my gluten and dairy allergy sooo much easier.

  • Sara Ann

    I will read and enjoy anything you post haha. So do what excites you! But I really would like to see some raw recipes, especially while the weather still makes me feel like raw food. Also! I would love to hear about your diet experimentation.
    I hope Waits feels better!!!! Poor thing.

  • Sonja Gaedicke

    I hope, Waits gets well soon! I love his Shirt :-)
    For MoFo: Lots of recipes (vegan or raw) would be so so great! And of course I would like to read about your diet experimantations!
    My love list:
    - starting yoga classes again
    - lazy sundays in bed with my loved one
    - reading food blogs
    - autumn weather

  • http://windycityvegan.wordpress.com Monika {windycityvegan}

    How is it Monday already? Things I’m loving on right now:

    1. MoFo, of course! I spent all weekend cataloging bits of inspiration and started xgfx-ing recipes for next month. In an effort to keep my theme not-entirely-unhealthy, I’m going to try and make at least 25% of the recipes I post raw, as well as vegan and gluten free.

    2. Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “Never Let Me Go” – I am completely absorbed in his writing. The film adaptation is stunning, and I *also* just picked up the audio recording of this book, which I plan to listen to later this week.

    3. Autumnal weather – our daytime temps dropped by 30 degrees last week! I pulled my boots out of storage and reinstated my cool-weather uniform of skirts and boots.

  • http://windycityvegan.wordpress.com Monika {windycityvegan}

    Oh yeah, and whatever you go with for MoFo is fine by me – but I would love to hear about your food experimentation, and how can you pass up RAWK-toberfest? You *have to* use it now, or someone else will! it’s just too good to pass up.

  • http://windycityvegan.wordpress.com Monika {windycityvegan}

    Your first 10K – sweet! I wondered this summer if you’d been training for anything. Have you gotten a jogger to take Damian out in?

  • http://eerosa.wordpress.com erosan

    I got one before he was born :P We’ve gone out for 2 or 3K runs a couple of times since he turned 7 months. Loads of fun ^_^

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=38914961 Sarah Jessi Smith

    So, Carlos and I just decided to do it, to become vegetarians. Him for the first time, and for me it’s returning after a 5 year hiatus. We are going over animal treatment in our ethics class, and C couldn’t justify it any longer, and I couldn’t justify my laziness! All that to say, now I REALLY want to find some vegetarian cat food recipes, and of course, I thought about you before google! I know you mentioned a while ago possibly doing a kind of pet series, and if that ever happened, I’d be super excited.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=38914961 Sarah Jessi Smith

    So, Carlos and I just decided to do it, to become vegetarians. Him for the first time, and for me it’s returning after a 5 year hiatus. We are going over animal treatment in our ethics class, and C couldn’t justify it any longer, and I couldn’t justify my laziness! All that to say, now I REALLY want to find some vegetarian cat food recipes, and of course, I thought about you before google! I know you mentioned a while ago possibly doing a kind of pet series, and if that ever happened, I’d be super excited.

  • http://www.healthifulbalance.blogspot.com Shannon @ Healthiful Balance

    Aw! Hope he heals quickly! :) <3
    I'm loving the cooler weather this week!

  • Jess22

    Aww, your poor baby! I hope he heals fast.

    I love everything you post, and the huge variety is half the fun. I’d almost be sad to see a theme all month, because I feel like I’d be missing out on so much!

  • http://bonzaiaphrodite.com/ Sayward Rebhal

    THANK YOU everyone for all the well-wishes for Waits! You guys are too sweet and it makes me feel so good to know that there are so many people out there who are sending their loving and healing thoughts towards him. He is doing great, he throws that cast around like it’s nothing and mommy and daddy are barely dodging black eyes left and right, ha!

  • Melisa

    I second this! My lacto-ovo hubs and picky four-year-old would benefit from these types of recipes/tips as well! :)

  • http://bonzaiaphrodite.com/ Sayward Rebhal

    Aw, thank you so much! I’m so glad you like it, and – welcome! =D

  • http://bonzaiaphrodite.com/ Sayward Rebhal

    Bummer I missed you guys at VegFest!

  • http://bonzaiaphrodite.com/ Sayward Rebhal

    Hmm, I guess I stay away from this type of stuff because I feel like it’s pretty well covered elsewhere. But, now that I’m thinking about it, maybe it’s not really laid out all in one place? I don’t know if MoFo is the right place, but maybe I *will* think about doing a vegan 101 series. What sort of stuff, exactly, would you want to see? Food? Nutrition? Meal plans? Social aspects? I’d love some ideas!

    Also do you read the blog PeasAndThankYou? Her recipes are really familiar, traditional American food. Easy and relatable and definitely omni-friendly!

  • http://bonzaiaphrodite.com/ Sayward Rebhal

    I’d love your thoughts on the above stuff as well Melisa!

  • http://bonzaiaphrodite.com/ Sayward Rebhal

    I’m so glad you found the Bonzai community, and all the amazing vegan community online. You are definitely not alone!

  • http://bonzaiaphrodite.com/ Sayward Rebhal

    Thank you for attaching the photo, totally made my day! kid art is SO AMAZING! Gets me excited for what’s in store in the future. =)

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