Days 4-5

On my fourth day my recyclying went as planned and nothing new happened. All i can say is that i'm happy its almost over.

Finally, my last day of recycling, i am so glad that im done. It is truly amazing to see just how much ive wasted over the years.

Days 4-5

Day 5- the end.

I didn't get a chance to blog Friday or Saturday since I was so busy. Friday went fine with the meatlessness. (Is that a word? No? But that's okay.) The only decision I had to make was choosing a veggie sandwich over one with meat. It wasn't bad either. But as I said in my previous post, being a vegetarian for one week is not difficult, nor does it provide an adequate preview of this lifestyle. I think that I will make healthier decisions in the future with the type of food I choose. I don't know how long that future will last, but it will be there!

Day 5

I was unable to blog on friday or play any instruments besides my saxophone due to having to stay after school for a football game, and I did not get home till past 11 and I was extremely busy on Saturday, but this week has helped me a lot since now I have been playing other instruments instead of just my guitar or sax.

Day 5

I had technical difficulties last night. I could go and blog but yesterday i did go my 10 minutes at my friends Ashley's house. I got it done while be quite. this experiment was very fun and usefull i enjoyed it extreamly a lot :)

LAST DAY

This was for yesterdays post.. Being a vegetarian was not too bad but I don't think I will stick with it. I didn't feel a difference in my health but I'm sure you need more time in order to really feel a difference. It was a great experience!

LAST DAY!!!!!

Today is the last day of the sitting up straight and the leg crossing and the everything. I can't wait to finally pull on a pair of jeans and feel more comfortable in myself. However, surprisingly, I really enjoyed this week. I like looking pretty and nice and I liked the feeling of being presentable. It think this was a good thing for me because now I feel more comfortable in dresses. I don't feel like people are looking at me and wondering why is Sarah McCaffrey in a dress? I really liked Walden week and it was good because I feel like I have grown as a person to be more comfortable with who I am and what I like regardless of what people think or say. I'm glad Walden week is coming to a close but I do intended to wear more dresses and skirts in the future just because I want to. :)

last day

I failed. I did not walk today, it was pouringgg. I danced, a lot, if that counts.

LAST DAY!

Friday was a sucess! now all thats left to do is wake up tomorrow, and enjoy a nice tall glass of orange juice. I think that this experiment affected me in positive wasy. For example, I will without a doubt going to drink more water AND watch what else im drinking. In the long run, all you really need is water.

Final Day 5!!!

The last day I didn't walk but was outside at the football game tonight for marching band. It was really cold and windy plus there was a little bit of a drizzle but not too bad. At the end of the night I was able to see the moon and the stars on the bus ride home. I'm happy to be in the warm comfort of my bed.

LAST DAY!

I finally finished the week of only drinking and I am so happy that I can finally drink something other then water. but I do have to say i didnt mind drinking just water the last couple of days. I did get use to it and stop thinking of drinking other things. Just drinking throughout the day actually had me fuller throughout the day and I ate less. So I might consider drinking just water all throughout the day and just having something other then water for dinner. Walden Week was a Success!

Walden Pond at sunset (photo by M. Rowinski)

Damron Last Day

Well, today we celebrated my dad's birthday with the family, so I didn't take a walk. But I did throw the football for a while with my son under the trees, so at least I was outside. It was nice out (after the storm). One thing I realized this week is that I often think it isn't nice out until I get out and walk. I need to really try to get out for a walk as often as possible, even when I am busy. Especially when I am busy. Being outside makes me happy!

Last Day!?!?

that was one fast week my book just started to get juciey and then its over but i think im going to keep up my read i liked and i like walden week wish i did it next year

Coffee on day 5

So far I have has six cups of coffee today :(. Haha I guess that means I didn’t do so well. Oh my god I have so much energy right now! I am never giving up coffee again. It just tastes so good! I am actually really surprised I made it four days, I didn’t think I was going to be able to do it for that long, so I guess I’m actually proud of myself. I will try to only have one cup tomorrow, but today I’m not limiting myself, sometimes I just need to spoil myself. Coffee make life good (:

I can go on facebook again yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Day Four!

Wow. This week has gone by fast.. But not fast enough due to my lack of meat intake for the past four days. Throughout the course of the day and week, the only time that I am affected by this change is when I am eating so it hasn't impacted my life as much as I thought it would have. I have only slipped up once so far and ate one small piece of meat so I am feeling extremely confident for the last day of this experiment. Even though i have enjoyed this experience, Saturday cannot come fast enough for me!!!

Day 4

I am going to drink coffee tomorrow. No doubt. I am addicted. I miss it. I have not really found throughout this experiment that I don’t need coffee, but rather how much I love it, and that is suuuper good, and I don’t think I’m going to last.

Day 4

On the fourth day of the experiment, I drew what I observed in nature. The art work was of what still exists and of what no longer exists because of urban development and pollution. I drew the sunset, the dark sky, the mountains, and a dead tree. I appreciated that where I live gives me beautiful views of the mountains and clear views of the stars. There are plenty of areas that do not have natural environment to gaze out. In the case of the dead tree, it shows how we have destroyed nature or the natural process of life and death. Just sitting on my deck and looking at nature, I become calm even after a rough loss in soccer. It relieves my stress, which is one benefit of living in Lambertville, but my drawings did not do justice to the scenes. However, since I knew what I was going for, I could still feel that power of nature. Now, I look forward to the activity on the last day of the experiment, swimming at the gym. It is going to be fun.

day 4

milk...it is so difficult to drink only milk...but im gonna keep on keepin on

Day 4

I went out to dinner tonight and couldn't order meat. Going through the menu I saw all the yummy looking meat dishes and thought, how on earth do vegetarians calmly pass by the pages of steaks and chicken and order only a salad?

I just want a cheeseburger. I plan on having one as soon as this is over. One more day!

I'm feeling As if I should just drink water from now on after my detox I feel like water is better then all that other stuff:)

day 4 part two

Well today I actually didn't get a chance to learn a song but I did do some nice solo work on a few backing tracks for my guitar and I went to a guitar class today where I finally learned to change my strings and get some because I really needed them so it was pretty good work today even though I didn't actually get a song done.

Thursday part 2

My day went good. I guess. So I managed to get through school without meat, and it is getting eaisier. I think that something that you decide to quit or stop doing takes a while to do. I think of it as if somebody had an addiction. It takes people time to just stop doing something. I also think that if this project went on longer that it would just get eaisier everyday. Trying to do something like this makes me realize that the simple things do matter and that life would be soo different. People get a lot of protien from meat so if we didn't have meat they would need to find other suppliments of protien. Overall I am seeing that things get eaisier to "give up" over an extended time. I was proud to say "NO" to taco night! Something of which I thought I would never say but I did it! I can't wait to eat tacos next Thursday:):):):):):):):):):):):)

Day4

Today was very difficult. I couldnt find a single spot that was quite. I also kept getting interupted by my phone goin off. I did do ten minutes though. It was just a little mor difficult then normal maybe tomarrow will be eaiser.

So it has been 88 hours without facebook and it is driving me nuts not knowing anything it seems like i have been out of the loop all my life. i am this close to cracking.

Day 4

Day four has been pretty solid......not much to report at this time except that a juice box sounds pretty good right now. Day 5 here I come!

Day 4

i read 10 pages more tonight. The team has now started thier first practice ansd there is alot of hype around the town to see if they can go undefeted for an unbeliveable 5 straight years.

Day 4

I successfully went outside and took my walk yay!!! So it was lightly drizzling and chill like yesterday and I survived my walk even though I slipped (I blame my boots). I was also lucky to get pictures today. The walk was very quite and like too quiet cause the only noise there was my footsteps and swimming ducks at one point. Honestly it was nice and relaxing aside from the terrible weather.

I didnt do it

ok the past 2 days i forgot about posting on here but i didnt have soda both days. today i failed i had a 1.25 liter coke at lunch.

Day Four

We had another soccer game today....I raised my voice. But I did a lot better in school today and didn't raise my voice once. So over all I did pretty good today and I am definitely improving. This thing is working!

Day Four.....

Today I failed. I did not spend my hour outside. It was cold, misty, and all-around unenjoyable. I didn't have the effort to even try, really. *sigh* However, my meatless diet is going swimmingly. I had no conflicts today, but I'm sure I would have chosen to eat chili if I had been able to. 4 days has been too easy and it can't nearly be enough to fully appreciate the life of a vegetarian. I haven't had to get through Sunday dinner without meat, let alone a holiday. I now know that I would not be able to choose to this vegetarian lifestyle... I like my cheeseburgers, thank you very much.

Day Four

I WANT SOMETHING OTHER THEN WATER!! but I havent drank anything other then water today so I havent failed for day four.

Damron Thursday

I really didn't want to walk after rehearsal today. It was wet and unpleasant and I was tired. But I made myself go and, just as I thought, I felt much better once I was out there. It was actually kind of refreshing. Tomorrow is the last official day, but I hope I can keep walking (maybe not always in the woods). I am proud of everyone who participated and hopefully, we'll get everyone who experienced tech glitches onto the blog soon so that your insights and observations can be shared. One more day.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Rainy Day Four Blehh

Its rainy out and most likely i will not be going for a walk. Well i did walk home from the bus, so if that counts at all. But most likely i am not going for my walk.

Day 4!!!! (one more)

So today has been nice besides the weather and the cold. I honestly can't wait to put on my jeans again. However I think I may wear skirts more often then I used to. I still miss my jeans a lot. I also miss sitting like I used to and doing ninja stuff(yes I am a ninja) Any way I'm almost out of skirts and dresses to wear it's good that this week is almost up. However, I did enjoy it a lot and I think it made me think more about what I get to do everyday. I've always been a tom-boy and not having my pants isn't fun. :(
Counting down to getting my jeans back :)

Daiii Fooooourrr

I havent read the bible today and lemme be honest i dont want to. It seems like a dumb thing to do given my mood. I really dont feel like it..................BLEH hopefully i'll decide to Kk peace out cub scout.

Thursday

I am in class and I would like some tacos:/

Day 4

Well today doesn't look good for a walk cause it looks like its going to rain. So I don't if I should walk or not after school. I think it might be possible but probably not pictures.

day 4 part one

Well today I have no clue what song I will be doing today so can someone give me an idea of a guitar song that I could learn since I have nothing left to learn and I can't think of anything now.

Day 4

I had tofu for dinner last night.. Yum. :/

Day 3

Day 3 went pretty well, i didn't crack. I find myself eating healthier. Especially more fruit. I think its because its has alot of natural juices which is making up for the lack of juice that i normally drink which is now substituted by water. Wish me luck on Day 4!

--ps it wouldn't let me upload a blog yesterday so this blog is not my one for today.

Day Three!

So today was normal (by today I mean yesterday, but my Internet was down so for the sake of this blog today means yesterday) The testing wasn't fun, but it never is, and I successfully didn't get a run in my tights. Well the run in my tights thing only lasted until I got home after the game to put them on to go to school of rock. Also yesterday at the field hockey game it was freezing cold and I realized that I couldn't wear sweatpants. That was upsetting to say the least. So back to the run in my tights after that it went all down hill. Some of the kids stole my shoes so I ended up slipping and falling on my face (more or less). Basically yesterday at school was OK after that is was down hill. (Also I still can't comfortably drum in a skirt, but I still have until Friday)

Days one-three

Day one today, And my goal is to recycle all of the items i use and also to use as little non-recyclable items as possible. Luckily my moms school has " State of the art" recycling bins so I won't have to worry about finding any myself. Lets see how it goes...

Day two, I'm surprised how many things we use on a daily basis actually are recyclable. It makes
you think about just how much we casually throw away and never even think about.

Day three, yeah its getting a little annoying now to sort things into different groups and constantly check to see if you can recycle them. I like how people always ask "why don't you recycle, your destroying the planet!" Its because the alternative to destroying the planet is as you probably guessed, having to recycle. ):

Day 3

I failed today. For lunch today I had milk. I have had been drinking water throughout the whole day but i did have milk for lunch. That is the only other thing I have had besides water. Other then that I'm doing pretty well this week. Its kind of refreshing just drinking water.

And on the third day...

Today went rather well. I didn't even have to cheat and wear shorts for field hockey since we wear skirts for our games. Both Sarah and I resisted the temptation to wear sweatpants after our somewhat cold field hockey game. I've got to say, I'm missing my blue jeans, but I can make it until Friday!

Day Three

So.... I have refused the temptation of meat for three days now and I do not know how people can do this in their everyday lives. Tonight my family had chicken for dinner and it looked so good!... But instead of having that, I had corn, pasta, and a pepper which actually made me feel really healthy. So after seeing how much healthier this experiment is making me, maybe I do not always have to eat meat when it is available to me. I am becoming more used to this situation of being a vegetarian and hopefully I don't crack in the next few days!

I'm very tired of drinking water I want flavor it's ok I guess now I understand I now I now how lucky I am

Wednesday

This is once again getting worse. I just really want some meat. It sounds soooo good right now! I was looking foward to eating tacos this week, not gonna happen:( I feel like I should have done something eaisier now because I would never be able to do this for more than a week... This is changing my life, but not in such a good way. This was supposede to teach me a lesson about the simple things in life and I realized that without meat, I could not function. I also realized that if something was never found than it cannot be missed. Ya know? If meat was never a factor of life than I couldn't miss it. Right? So maybe if we didn't have the "simple" things, such as meat like we do today, people just wouldn't be able to live... I LOVE MEAT! End of story.

Damron Wednesday

I had to take a very short walk between school and rehearsal today. The leaves were really bright and pretty. I wanted to keep walking, but time would not allow. The thing that struck me today was how full of life and color even my suburban woods are. It seems like the perfect time of year to be going outside each day because everything is changing so quickly.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

day 3

my day started off with a bowl of oatmeal and a side of bananas. for lunch i had the usual peanut butter sandwich and a granola bar with a bottle of water. for dinner i ate a caesar salad. im forgetting about eating meat more easily now then i did in the beginning of the week.

Day 3

In day three, I enjoyed time playing chess with my father after not having played for ten years. It was a great experience and I hope we will continue to do things together not just sports but educational things to. During our first game, we were both really bad, and I lost quickly even though I took his queen in four minutes. I was told by my step mom that my brain is getting mushy and needs to be exercised by playing more chess. Even though she was just teasing, I wonder if she may be right, just a little. Our next game did not last much longer because my little three year old sister woke up and wanted to join us in our game of chess. It was a fun day, spending time with the family. I hope later tonight I will be able to play with my dad another game. Either way my life was altered by having to use my mind and engage in friendly competition with my dad.

Day 3

Today I decided to play my ocarina (small 12-holed flute) and it went pretty well even though I haven't touched it in awhile. I don't really have sheet music for it so I just played some short songs from a book and also improvised to a backing track so it's gone pretty well so far. Walden Week is definitly working since I've been wanting to play other things instead of my saxophone or guitar which I play all the time so this is good for me to work on some other kinds of music.

The Third Day

I'm starting to get used to the no animals thing. I don't really think about it too much anymore, and I've realized what a wide variety of options are still available despite the lack of meat. I was expecting for my body to react to the change because lots of vegetarians felt different after giving up meat, but I don't feel any different! Maybe it's just too early on to notice anything...I guess we'll see how everything goes tomorrow!

Day Three

Today I didn't go for a walk but don't worry I was outside during Marching Band, I think for a good hour. So the weather wasn't really my cup of tea cause it was drizzling and cold. The ground wasn't as mushy as I thought it would be but I still got mud on the bottom of my shoes yay! We made progress I must say, on the other hand I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow cause I would hate to walk in that hot mess and possibly get sick. No pictures today but maybe tomorrow if I'm lucky.

Day 3

Today the exprement was interesting.. I had to find a quite spot in my moms pizza shop.. It was hard but i ended up in the basement.. No one bothered me.. Someone almost turned the lights out on me but i stayed quite and not doing anything

Day 3

i read 10 more pages of my book and they are talking about how these guys can't be the team from the passed four years so they are working hard to become that. but i am really enjoying this walden week thing because the book is good.

Day trece (3)

Well no facebook for 66 hours the longest that i have ever been off facebook and it feels weired not have facebook in my life. I am getting along better with my family and everything.

2 days to go

Day Three

I didn't do any better today. Soccer is really what is making me fail at this. I completely forgot about the whole thing in the beginning of practice today and was yelling like a mad women. It is also really hard when I'm in my room and my mom yells something to me from the kitchen....I just want to yell back to her without having to get up! So today this had made me less lazy. But I need to do better and concentrate more.

Day Two

I'm not doing a good job. I yelled probably about 5 times in the soccer game today, and a few times in school It is a lot harder then I thought it was going to be. I can do I good job if only I i concentrate really hard, which usually lasts for 2 minutes. I hope I do better tomorrow.

Day 3

I came very close to making myself a cup of coffee so that I could be more awake for the tests today, but I resisted! I decided to make myself hot chocolate instead. It didn’t work at all. I took like 2 sips and let my brother have the rest… very disappointing. I am very excited to have coffee back in my life at the end of the week.