First Bambi Feast

As I entered the kitchen for my morning toast, peanut butter and tea, I noticed a bowl with thawing meat in it. It was too dark for any conventional (by North American standards) sort of meat and I knew what was about to come my way.

Venison. For dinner. Yes, my friends. I, Jacquie Fleet, have now crossed the line that I fought my way back from for years with my family. I didn't go kicking and screaming. I made no face. I didn't once give in to my past urges to grab the hunter by the face and ask what he was thinking when he decided to take life from a creature.

Instead, I took a double portion (yes, two steaks) and dug in whole heartedly. I had to pretend that I didn't know what it was I was eating - I had to take myself out of my own mind and not let it process the fact that my meal was once frolicking through these mountains happily with its mother.

And to be honest, it tasted quite good. I enjoyed the little to no fat content (ask my parents, many a good beef steak has been wasted from cutting the MEAT away about 3 inches from the fat and refusing to touch it). And it was cooked just right - NO juice. I think I might've had a slight issue had there been.

Anyways, it was not a terrible experience. Which is good, considering I've been told that this family eats quite a lot of it. Again, as long as I detach myself from the idea...it's really quite nice.


On another note, I'm starting to really fit in a bit better. And by that, I mean that Vanessa and I are getting along well. She's already adopted me as her new big sister and we've got a few secret handshakes borrowed from a couple Disney channel TV shows. So it's nice to have someone that I'm really starting to feel completely comfortable around - then again it should've occured to me earlier that my best bet for comfort was within the youth aged kids. Duh!

There hasn't been too much going on as far as experiences and events - I don't start work until mid February and it's been too cloudy, rainy and windy (except one day that I got sunburnt) to do much sight seeing and wandering around town on foot. Tomorrow is a "walking into town" day though so hopefully the weather holds up...and other than that, the next few weeks are going to be spent working on my correspondence course material that I've put off for so long.

Well that's about it - it's time for bed, methinks. 11:30...my internal clock's right back on schedule! Woohoo!