{"id":1100,"date":"2012-10-04T20:21:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T00:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2012-10-04T20:21:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T00:21:37","slug":"vegan-mofo-things-i-love-thursday-tilt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/vegan-mofo-things-i-love-thursday-tilt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan MoFo &#8211; Things I love Thursday #TILT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done Things I love Thursday (aka TILT) posts before, and usually aim to do them at least once a month, otherwise, there is weekly list of things\/people\/etc on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mdgee\">twitterstream<\/a>. The premise is to simply list or photograph or share things you love, and talk about them (or not). It was once upon a time started by <a href=\"http:\/\/galadarling.com\/tag\/things-i-love-thursday\/\">Gala Darling<\/a>, and took on a life of it&#8217;s own.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing I like about it is that it can show me how much things change, or completely stay the same. I looked at one of my last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/vegan-mofo-things-i-love-thursday-tilt\/\">VeganMoFo<\/a> TILT posts, and so many familiar themes came up.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Just like last year I still love tea in big black polished museum style mugs. I&#8217;ve since added similarly styled mugs from Harvard when JC and I visited <a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/category\/boston\/\">Boston<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Thanksgiving - Got Food? by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6227564728\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6056\/6227564728_47b5d97447.jpg\" alt=\"Thanksgiving - Got Food?\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love that (Canadian) Thanksgiving is coming soon (THIS WEEKEND!) We still haven&#8217;t decided what we&#8217;re doing, but I know I&#8217;m looking forward to cooking something great up. The benefit of blogging and cataloging everything as I do, is that I get to both <a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/special-event-sunday-vegan-thanksgiving\/\">look back<\/a> and see all the stuff I&#8217;ve done, as well as all the stuff I have yet to do. I&#8217;m thankful that I have a lovely person to cook for (and you know, share my life with.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"photo.JPG by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8054955710\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8030\/8054955710_c764f7099e.jpg\" alt=\"photo.JPG\" width=\"374\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started getting a bit more actively involved in my community, in organizations that are doing cool innovative stuff and combining my love of technology with the love I have for my adopted city and food.\u00a0 One of those is the <a href=\"http:\/\/tyfpc.ca\">Toronto Youth Food Policy Council<\/a>. I&#8217;m excited and looking forward to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/162832087188302\/\">our first meeting<\/a> (on October 15th, at Metro Hall&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I love lunch dates with friends, and book sales at the TVA.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"photo.JPG by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8054957173\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8174\/8054957173_2c02745145.jpg\" alt=\"photo.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love that Fall is here. Ontario&#8217;s slow rolling autumns, filled with colours, the harvest, and sweater weather. I&#8217;m looking forward to winter in an odd way this year, with dreams of hot chocolate and lighting the fireplace curled up on the couch with a blanket and a cat (and maybe a human.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Soma Hot Chocolate by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6942995701\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7069\/6942995701_4ccc4085aa.jpg\" alt=\"Soma Hot Chocolate\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love that I&#8217;m going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedxtoronto.com\/\">TedxToronto<\/a> this year. They announced the first round of invites last week, and I cautiously checked my email, and there it was. Welcome, and you&#8217;re invited. I suppose this will give me the courage to sometime apply for the original TED. Either way, I can only imagine the interesting speakers and other folks I&#8217;ll be meeting or learning from\/with.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"shoulder cat by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8054183476\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8449\/8054183476_a818b981e4.jpg\" alt=\"shoulder cat\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love this Cat. Even when she demands to sit on the table. Even when I find her (toy) mice in our bed. Even when she wakes us up by jumping from one belly to another. She is a sweet little thing and I am so glad we found her. I&#8217;m happy that organizations such as the <a title=\"Toronto Cat Rescue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.torontocatrescue.ca\">Toronto Cat Rescue<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/annexcatrescue.ca\/\">Annex Cat Rescue<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/streetcat.ca\">Street Cat Rescue<\/a> exist in the world. They are powered by selfless volunteers that have decided to take action, and do something to improve the lives of other creatures. Every step in a positive direction is important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done Things I love Thursday (aka TILT) posts before, and usually aim to do them at least once a month, otherwise, there is weekly list of things\/people\/etc on my twitterstream. 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