pina colada under the microscope: tres awesome!
Well my darlings, the time has finally come – today is my Final Full-Time Friday! I’m a bit all over the place this week, and while there have been some very crappy bits (including a scary panic attack on Tuesday and then breaking a tooth yesterday – meaning a dentist mission today, eek!)… there have also been some fab bits.
Highlights of the week (and highlights upcoming this weekend) include:
* Comedy at Zula on Monday (seeing our buddy Blade go through to the next round was especially rad!)
* Lovely dinner and bubbly at Harveys @ Winchester Mansions with DT, Alice and Chris (shitty service aside, lovely place!)
* Finding the most beautiful vintage leather bag at the Church Street Antique Market yesterday (see my post over here).
* Work farewell this afternoon at Fat Cactus (hopefully by 4pm I will be able to drink frozen margaritas – dentist trip is at lunchtime!)
* Very possibly going to my first 27Dinner afterwards – assuming I am in any state fit enough to network after the farewell.
* A lovely lunch at Beluga tomorrow with lovely people… this means I get to enjoy delish oysters and ice cold bubbly or yummy cocktails!
* Some party party at The Fez on Saturday night with my soon to be former work BFF, his GF and other work types and other types.
* Payday weekend… say no more!
Perhaps I will swing past Wardrobe or The Lot tomorrow morning to find a bright, beautiful dress for Saturday night. After all, it’s going to be an awesome weekend so I need an awesome dress to match right? 
Love the idea of the leather bag, going to get one for myself to. I got some leather shoes yesterday. Walking on animal skin is surreal. I love it!
Vintage leather is especially awesome, it’s worn and soft and has a history!
LOL! Ignorance is bliss they say.
Well, I generally give stupid replies to stupid comments and I didn’t have time to try and explain my views on vintage (or recycled) leather when it was clear that you hadn’t bothered to read my About Me page or my Animal Wrongs section – both of which could have told you that I was not exactly a ‘pro animal skin’ type.
But now that you’ve brought up ignorance, you may want to think before a) jumping to conclusions and b) making a stupid comment without thinking on this blog. As a lifelong vegetarian who is very anti-animal cruelty, I am still permitted to have my own views on recycled leather – either make a valid argument to the contrary or don’t bother commenting at all.
Thanks for stopping by.
c) assuming that leather, however vintage it is, grows on tree’s and that buying such products seems a bit – dare I say it – hypocritical??? Just putting it out there.. but it’s coming across quite strong though.
Ha! That ever important ABOUT ME page. ME, ME, ME. Look at ME. The most important page to any blogger. That’s actually what made me post that sarci note. Leather, oysters, sushi – these all seem to have quite a status associated to them. So does “look, I’m into animal rights”.
Sometimes I wonder how much of it is real vs. the image people want to portray.. .
For someone who isn’t prepared to show their real name, you sure like to jump to conclusions, phew!
I’m in a good mood, so will answer your concerns one by one…
1. Leather obviously doesn’t grow on trees, but it is a by-product of meat, which I may not eat, but is still one way of making it a bit more sustainable. Also, ‘recycled’ leather is old and buying a battered old vintage leather bag is not exactly creating a huge demand. I own maybe 2 or 3 leather items, and every one of them was either inherited or is older than I am.
2. On the hypocritical note – not once have I ever professed to being vegan. I am 90% vegetarian, and for the first 26 years of my life, I was 100% vegetarian. I made the (extremely informed) choice to eat seafood, and even now I do not eat a huge deal. This does not mean that I cannot be against animal cruelty however, and I don’t see how only vegans are allowed to care about animals.
3. As for that about me page. This is MY blog, so obviously my about me page is going to be about me. If it was a blog about kittens or evil vintage leather buying people, then perhaps the bio would be less ‘me’ focused, but this is my personal blog. That means I have a profile page.
4. The status thing is also kinda amusing to me. Since I was born and raised vegetarian, and made the choice to eat seafood on my own, as an adult – resisting the tricky teen peer pressure years where I could have so easily eaten meat just to be cool, I don’t see how eating seafood (and preferring oysters and sushi to calamari or prawns) is a status thing. Surely it comes to personal choice and preferences? I know WAY more people who become vegetarian because they think it’s cool, and manage to keep it up for maybe a year or more before they revert back. Being ‘green’ and vegan and angry about any grey areas seems a lot more superficial to me somehow.
5. As for the real vs. image thing… you have based your entire opinion of me, and you have made some pretty hectic judgments too, all from the fact that I have a vintage leather bag, and that I eat oysters and sushi and therefore, I have no right to consider myself against animal cruelty.
I am all for interesting debate, and I can appreciate why you would jump to conclusions and get emotional – especially if you are a straight up pleather and soy milk type of vegan. I tried that route, and I lasted about a month, so big respect to you if you are able to keep it up.
Personally, I am happy to have been meat-free for 30 years, and even if I DO eat oysters and sushi sometimes, and even if I DO have a vintage leather bag, I am still a person, just like everyone else.