This is my shape of work out after sitting at home, stuffing myself with food and drink. As the climate was horrible, a usual walk outside was actually merely for "mad dogs and englishmen" as the proverb goes. Anywaay...my preferred pasttime in malls is browsing thru electronic device shops, and bookstores. As I had previously stressed the budget of electronics purchases the preceding 12 months, I determined the bookstores would be it.

Big mistake!

You see I am one of those people that purchase far more reading stuff than I can ever expect to complete, short of giving up my job and just reading. As such, a lot of self-improvement books, finish up as shelf-improvements books.

This time I limited myself to 2 books and a periodical. They are good books, on marketing (can you say geek) and on life enjoyment. But the magazine was the cruncher. My significant other (I love you darling) hijacked it and did what significant others do so well- namely reading it and stopping every 2 minutes to inquire "did you know that...." whatever had just been read in the magazine. This is irritating, since I would have ultimately read the magazine for myself and then I would have known (well that was the intent anyway). The difficulty that came up now was, that I really heard something, which I obviously did not know, but which made me actually sit up and listen.

"Did you know that the word "vegetarian" is in fact not derived from the word vegetable, but from a latin word meaning enliven"?

No, I did not know that! It seems these guys in 1847, The Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom (England) coined the term "Vegetarian". They in fact already knew that a vegetarian diet is a more energetic and life enriching way to eat.

Mmm, maybe I should give this vegetarian thing one more try. More energy and fitness does sound tempting, particularly after the holiday binges.

My son, who is an energy worker and healer, says he cannot be a non-vegetarian as the energy of animal protein is too low, or something to that effect. Now, I am not going one way or the other, but to say that we owe it to ourselves, to at least get some more information in this regard. This is for entirely egotistic reasons. if we can be more healthy and alive, that would mirror back on our life in general, our love life and all our relationships. Saving the planet in some minute extent would just be an extra bonus.

I personally have not yet succeeeded in becoming a total vegetarian, and might in no way actually manage it.

However having read some information, I will re-evaluate my philosophy at least.

So I have set up a website with more information, and some surprising facts.