healthy eating?!

The bf and I have decided to go vegetarian. Not that we had been eating all that badly before. I don't miss meat at all, it had been a habit more than a taste for it. I am semi-vegan anyways as I'm lactose intolerant. 

So here is what I pay attention to in terms of food and drink:

no meat

no caffeine

no artificial additives (especially glutamate)

low soy

low lactose

low gluten

When it comes to beverages I have always been rather good. I don't like overly sweet carbonated drinks anyway. At home I would drink fruit juice, water or herbal teas (unsweetened).

Right now I'm going a month without alcohol and after that I am going to do a month without Starbucks. Sugar is the only thing I should cut down on, but can't make myself do it, because it's my comfort food and stress relief.

Bf and I are looking into buying a vitamix for making smoothies :) Also I'm on the hunt for some decent kitchen knives and pots. 

filofax

Ever since my school days I've used a planner. I started off with a ringbound faux black patent filofax-wannabe and then upgraded to an original 80s filofax in dark brown leather (personal size, windsor). Then I switched to book-bound planners until I got a smart phone a few years back- thinking I might not need a planner anymore. Now I'm back to using a filofax (personal size purple domino). I really want a personal size purple malden, but they are hard to come by.

I have seen so many youtube videos on how to organise your life using a planner and it still boggles my mind how some people need several different ones. Here's how I do it:

My filofax has six dividers. I tried making my own, but as I'm as yet unsatisfied with the outcome I am simply using the cream-white numbered filofax ones that came with my domino.

#1

birthdays, anniversaries, important dates throughout the year

#2

calendar (week on two pages, white filofax inserts)

#3

important stuff (to do, to buy, work info)

#4

ideas (for my blogs and for writing)

#5

addresses

#6

A-Z (this is where I keep all my bits and pieces neatly sorted)

I use two kinds of colour coding. The first is using different coloured dots to mark days that are birthdays (then I refer back to #1), on which I have been writing/crafting or posting on my blog,...

The second system are different coloured friction pens for work appointments, private appointments, my bf's appointments and appointments I might go to but am unsure about.

Then in pencil I mark on each day what I mustn't forget doing, for example prepare stuff for a class.

At the bottom of each day I put in a nice glitter pen the things that made me happy/thankful that day for my happiness project.

Other than that I have a LiveJournal where on Sundays I will put the past week's happiness things, I have a goodreads where I keep track of books I've read and I have another blog for keeping track of my progress in writing. As those are things I wish to share it is better to have them online instead of on paper.

NOTE: I might add photos to this post once my camera is fixed.