Be normal. BE NORMAL!

I'm having a hard time breathing normally today... Don't worry. It's just stress. I have deadlines looming and I know it will all work out in the end. I've written 3 books. I know how it goes ... so I know I just have to put one foot in front of the other and eventually all the things that need doing get done. It's just that it seems like every day 1 thing gets done and another 3 things are added to the "to do list". I think this is the part of the book writing process where I start to freak out. Don't mind me. I'm just trying to be normal over her. BE NORMAL! Breathe. Deep breathes. Normal. BE NORMAL!

In other news... I've recently found out that 2 of my girl friends (who are in their early 20's) have decided to start smoking. Who in their right mind decides to start smoking as an adult?? It's not 1952 and all the cool kids smoke. It's 2008 and we all know smoking kills. I could understand it if they were 12 years old - but to start smoking as an adult? Idiotic. There's no reason to start smoking. None. Give me one good reason. It doesn't get you high. It doesn't make you smell better and it doesn't make you cool. Yeesh ladies. Get it together and make me proud.

Aloo-Yoop Curry Potato Roti Wrap

I had a few people test out the Aloo-Yoop Curry Potato Roti Wrap from Vegan a-go-go and Krista sent me a photo of her test ... yum!

Sucks...

I worked all day yesterday on recipe blurbs and arranging the order ... only to find my saved file was corrupted and I couldn't open it. ALL THAT HARD WORK is gone. :(

Luckily all the recipes are backed up. Yeeesh. Stupid computer.

Check out...

Check out this beautiful painting that Barbe Bowen Sáez dropped off for me at the tattoo shop!

Thank you Barbe!

karaoke

Went to karaoke last night with some of my vagina friends ... I've NEVER been before. I always thought I'd be too shy to sing in front of people. Ha ha. I was a microphone hog instead.

It's true... I feel it all!

tease...

I wonder what this is from ...
And I wonder if it goes with this...

Stuffies The coffee table book!

Stuffies

By sarah kramer

I took the day off from Vegan a-gogo yesterday. I really needed to get creative in a different way, so instead I took photos of all my stuffies and made a coffee table book. :)

If you're interested you can purchase Stuffies and Good-bye Dreads at my BLURB Store.

I HEART VAGINAS!!

We have some left over "I heart Vagina" t-shirts from The Vagina Monologues show if you'd like to buy one!! All the $$ from the shirts will go to the costs of producing next years show. :)If you're not in North America please send me an e-mail and we can discuss shipping.
Let me know if you have any questions.


MENS LARGE:

LADIES LARGE:

LADIES MEDIUM:

(limited quantities) LADIES SMALL:

Teddy!

Do you know how I knew Gerry was my soul mate, lover, partner for life?? Well it's because we both had the same stuffed teddy growing up. I think it was a kleenex offer where you'd get the teddy for free if you sent in box-tops. Gerry obviously loved his teddy a little more than I did. :)Isn't that crazy that we had the same teddy?? It was meant to be!! :)

Happy 12th anniversary old man! I love you.

What to do??

So I have a tupperware container of stuffed animals. Not just any stuffed animals... but my childhood stuffies. I've gone through my collection several times over the years and carefully reduced my collection to the ones that are really special. You know... the ones that talk back to you when you smile at them. What? Is that just me?? Anyhoo... ...What am I to do with these stuffies? Do I hang on to them till the day I die? I don't have kids. I can't imagine giving them to anyone. Do they have to live in tupperware waiting for the 1 time a year I take them out and look at them? Or do I put them on a shelf? Is it normal for a 40 year old woman to have stuffed animals? Well ... nevermind. We all know I'm not normal in any way. Hmmmmm.

So...

According to my childhood friend Shoshana (who remembers everything that I've forgotten)... when we were little I told her that when I grew up and had a baby it's name would be Noah Snow. Ha ha ha. that's a soap opera name!! How does she remember this stuff?

She has so much dirt on me... she should write a Tell-All. :)

Wikipedia

I'm not allowed to spruce up the Wikipedia entry ...cause I'm myself. But anyone else who feels like adding to it is allowed. :)

WTF?

So we recently sold the rights to HIAV to a UK publisher ... their plan was to change the measurements to UK measurements so the book would be more appealing to a wider European audience - thus sell more etc etc. Sounded like a good idea.

Well I recently got a letter from a buddy asking why the cover was different in the UK. I went to Amazon.co.uk to look and check out the cover they've decided to use people!! How freaking horrible is this?? My 12 year old niece could do something more creative with MS Paint! So pissed ... so I e-mailed my publisher (bless his heart) and he check with the Grub Street Publishing to see what was up. This was their response:

"Yes, it is our final cover. Sorry to hear Sarah doesn’t like it, we’ve had very positive reactions here from the trade and key accounts and no one has said they don’t like it. We obviously did not feel we could go with your design since the authors are not known here and no one puts photos of authors on the front covers of cookbooks unless they are TV chefs."

Huh? How does that make any sense? Why mess with success?

I can't believe that I've been working this hard for 10+ years to end up with a shitty cover like this. I feel sick to my stomach. It looks like it should be sold at the dollar bin in Costco.

The only thing that makes me feel better about this cluster-f*ck of events is that at least I'm not alone. Look what Grubb street did to Isa's amazing book. :(


If I had known they could change the flavour of HIAV ... I would have said no. I'm so heartbroken.

What a beauty!

Sunny.
10+ degrees.
The smell of freshly cut grass in the air.

Fergus, Gerry and I went to the beach today and I left my jacket in the car and only wore my hoodie. Ahhhhhh. I love me some island weather.

Vacuumed out a years worth of sand from the smartcar. Cleaned the windows of all the dog snot. Took out the garbage.

I love Monday.

I might have a messy office ...

... but I have a happy dog!

Update

A very sheepish young man wrapped in bloody bandages came into the shop this morning and handed Gerry $400 for the window.

Ahhhh ownership...

Nothing beats being woken up from a deep slumber by the police calling to tell you your window has been smashed at 3:30am. Not good.



Lucky for us it was just a after the bar closes fight on the streets and nothing was stolen or broken except for the window.

I'm so tired... and poor Gerry has to work today.

SSOV blog...

SSOV has started a blog! Send in photos of you in your SSOV gear so you can be famous like Gerry! :)

Henry...

I went and saw Henry Rollins spoken tour last night... holy crap. I laughed non-stop for 3+ hours. It was a really great show and if you get a chance to get tickets to see good ol'Hank you should.

It was in the same theater as The Monologues and it was weird being in the seats rather than on the stage. I even got a little weepy about the play... I miss it.

Thank goodness I have my cunt pillow to come home too ... even though someone has taken it as his own. So yesterday was "recipe tweaking day" for the new cookbook. I worked on Go-Go Gadget Green Soup ...
And Pita Potato Pizza...
And the dishes... my GOD the dishes. Every time I do another book I complain about the dishes but there are so many.... SO MANY! I need a slave boy... I wonder what Rollins is doing after the tour. We could talk about what Gray Hair shampoo works the best and then he could make me work on my fitness.

busy busy busy...

And even busy...

Guess how much...

...money we raised for Woman's Transition House??

My darling Vagina friends...

...made me this wonderful pillow and presented it to me at the cast party tonight. Now I need to find a nice place for it... perhaps the bed. :)

Dear Sarah...

Your copy of Veganomicon was underneath a pile of clothing... you should really clean your room more often!


I'm so embarrassed.

Vegan-a-gogo!

Is coming along slowly but surely... what I'm wondering is what you'd like to see in this new book? What are your hopes and dreams for the new book? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Last night

Got to hang out with my fantastic wonderful friend Greg Bennick last night and watch his movie Flight From Death that he produced with director Patrick Shen. If you haven't had a chance to see this move yet you can pick up the DVD here.

The best part of my visit (beside the hanging out) was watching the expression Greg's face when he bit down on the Nanaimo bar I brought for him. Nothing more satisfying then blowing the mind (and mouth) of a vegan.

Their next movie is The Philosopher Kings. I really can't wait to see it... weeeee!

I am a sucker for good design...

And I'm in love with these little light bulb shaped travel bottles designed by Paul Koh!

Where is Veganomicon??

I lent someone my copy of Veganomicon and I need it back. The only problem is I can't remember who I lent it to. Anyone??

Feed me...

Do you ever...

... look through your cd collection and pull out a band you totally forgot about??

My pal Gavin...

...made this movie with his sister Kieran. Enjoy!

**warning**
movie contains claymation violence, claymation blood and loud punk rock music. You have been warned.

ha ha ha...

De Groovy

I woke up today and before I even got out of my pajamas it already feels like it's going to be one of those days. Trying not to stress.

Trying to remember that groove is in the heart!

I think I may need to put this on repeat...

writing writing edit writing

Finally got some good work done today ... so I was able to take a break and head to the beach for a nice walk with some friends.As you can see Fergus leads the way...

It was SO windy today ... but the sun was shining and the birds were chirping and the flowers were blooming. Yay!

ha ha ha

The cover

The cover of the new book is so FANTASTICAL! I can't wait to show you...

Lime green is not Gerry's color...

I have a lime green - almost brand new- Fred Perry shirt for sale!! $40! Anyone want it? Size 40-inch.

ATTENTION VICTORIA!!

My amazing wonderful friend Greg Bennick is bringing his movie Flight From Death to UVIC on Friday March 14th in the Human Social Development Building (HSD) A240 at 7pm. Hope to see you there!

Spring has SPRUNG!

You know it's spring when the flowers come out ... weeeee!
We went out to the University for a walk with Fergus yesterday. Uvic is known for having a rabbit problem... Not sure I'd call it a problem but there sure are a lot of rabbits and they were having some serious fun.At one point we felt like we were being watched...But we turned around and he was chill - just wanted to see what we were up to. Then we saw BABY bunnies... oh my lord.
They are so cute!They're about the size of a tribble and Fergus just about lost his shit he was so excited. I'm pretty sure he just wanted to play with them... but Gerry didn't want to take any chances of baby bunny carnage so we held him tight. What a nice day!!

Nanaimo Bars!!

I can't believe I've been working on these cookbooks for 10+ years and I haven't yet tried to figure out a vegan Nanaimo Bar recipe so thanks to Rizzarizzrazz for getting all up in my face about my procrastination problem ... I got up this morning and started working on perfecting a recipe.

My pals Stuart and Sly got to be taste testers today... I think they like them. :)

Vegan Sweeties...

... is trying to kill me with kindness. Or at least cookies. :)

They sent me more of my fav Russian Tea Cakes and also sent some Brownie Cookies which are so good they make my loins quiver.

CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS!!

... unless you're in Saskatchewan.

Swing of things...

Wow... the play was over 13 days ago and I'm still trying to adjust. Can't quite get back into the swing of things they way they were before I got Vagina Fever. I miss all my vagina friends like crazy and while I've been trying to put my head down and plow through the work I need to do for VAGG I just don't have the brain power.

Probably because my brain sounds like this: "Ok. Must get serious. Must get to work. Oh... what's that? My closet is so messy. Eeek! Let's clean out the closet. Ok. Closet clean now I can get back to work. What? Ryan Gosling has a band? Oooh he's dreamy. What a talented actor. Let's see what he's working on next. Ok. Seriously. Do some work. Man ... my desk is messy. Let's clean it and then I'll be able to concentrate. What? I got an e-mail from Afra. Let's chat back and forth. NO! Get to work. I wonder if anyone has messaged me on facebook. Oh look someone posted photos...."

Seriously... I need help. Vagina fever has messed me up!

Hey friends in the Europe!

The Secret Society of Vegans has a new UK webstore. Check it out...

For those of us in N.America ... go here.

grumpy...

Boy Howdy... I was having a grumpy kind of day until I saw this!


Thank you Henry! :)

Herbivore

Sad news...

Hey Vancouver Island...

Go get tickets! :)

SCORE

I just scored a vintage Tulip Table for $20. That's right... $20!!