Welcome to the third attempt at making this blog
stick! Hopefully this time it will - it definitely helps that my activity on
here for the next couple of months will be graded. (Hi Tim!)
At
one point, I had high hopes for becoming a blogger. I was on a gap year and
looking for something to do after work that would make me happy - and the
popularity bloggers (and vloggers) were on the rise. I was watching people like
Zoella (a UK based beauty blogger/vlogger with a current following of 11
million people) reach 1 million followers on YouTube and reaping the benefits.
Cosmetic companies were sending her products - she got paid to sit at home and
talk about make up! What a dream job!
So
I started a blog. The motivation to keep it going was never there. As much as I
loved playing with make up, I didn't love it enough to keep talking about it
every day, and this blog fell by the wayside.
I
tried again a couple years later, fresh out of college. I had every intention
in joining the ranks of travel bloggers this time - chronicling my month long
graduation trip to Scotland, England and France. It was an amazing trip,
but I didn’t take the time out of the trip to chronicle enough to make it blog
worthy – and returned to working 44 hours a week immediately upon my return,
with no time to get over jetlag much less write about my experiences. C’est la
vie.
So here we are, shifting the focus and starting
this blog over again, shedding the concerns over gaining followers. This blog
will be for me – an outlet for my writing, and a way to hold me accountable for
the lifestyle changes that I’ve been trying (with only a modicum success) to
make.
This blog, for the most part, will chronicle the
ups and downs of my journey towards living a cruelty free lifestyle. The first hurdle
is to remove cosmetic products that have been tested on animals from my product
line up, as I do not want to actively contribute my hard earned money on products
that have caused suffering in vulnerable animals.
The biggest hurdle will be the process of slowly
scaling back the amount of meat and dairy products in my diet, with the
ultimate goal of removing them completely. Can this picky eater learn to love
chicken nuggets made from vegetables? Can I give up the delightful squeak of
real cheese curds and beef gravy in poutine, my favourite Canadian delicacy? Can
I learn to survive on tea with no milk? Only time (and surely several missteps)
can tell.
So stick around for more on the baby steps I’m
taking towards this lifestyle and other musings I'm sure to make. I’ll see you in the next one.
Megan
