I had tofu scramble with vegan friends for breakfast at Cup & Saucer right by my apartment. Then I helped them move. All the while, my husband worked at a job where he drives around the city for a living!

Then, I walked to Sweetpea Baking Company to knit and sugar up for the next awesome part of my day.

THEN I went to Food Fight, a vegan grocery store, to get more sugary things.

And at 1pm I went for my appointment with Aron Dubois at Scapegoat Tattoo!

A couple months ago, I offhandedly stated that all I wanted for my birthday and Christmas gifts for the next few years were Scapegoat gift certificates to get more tattoos! Well, Kyle remembered this! When my birthday rolled around, he didn’t get me a gift certificate, but he did tell me I could get a new tattoo for my birthday. I emailed Aron, the artist who did my other tattoo, because I love his art and I wanted something custom done by him. I told him that I wanted either a whale, elephant, or hippo…that he should pick one and design something to permanently scar my arm with. He picked the elephant, which I knew he would based on the stuff he likes to do. I didn’t see the design until I got to Scapegoat the day of and I LOVED it.

It’s pretty swollen there, but it’s mostly healed now. I’m sure I’ll post a better picture soon. Isn’t she beautiful?! I want to name her but don’t know what yet; suggestions are welcome! I never knew I’d be so obsessed with tattoos. Now I already have the whole rest of my arm planned out; I think it’s going to be a sleeve full of big animals! After the elephant, perhaps my whale and hippo, and then maybe a walrus! OR a giraffe! OR a rhino! Any other suggestions on that are welcome, too.

In the middle of my getting a tattoo my husband got off work and joined me while I was getting inked. Then we went back to Sweetpea to get real food before going home and relaxing in our awesome apartment.

See what I mean about having such a wonderful day I could only dream of in SC? Vegan food, vegan friends, vegan tattoo?

As you know, Veggies Have A Heart has been down for a about a month and a half. In the process of being moved to a new server, my site got screwed up completely. Apparently it’s due to me not having the most up-to-date WordPress. If only I’d known! Well, this caused quite a calamity which lead to a very slow solution. The only way to fix the problem was to create a totally new WordPress account on the new server and manually copy/paste every post and comment from the old site to the new one. Not only did I have to copy and paste the stuff over, but reformat them because all the formatting went haywire on the old site. I had to keep asking myself if it was worth it after spending a week working full time on copy/pasting, but I know it is! And now it’s done and I don’t regret it.

So, right now, all the old posts are on this new site, but they are private. The dating on them is all wrong right now; the old site didn’t show what day the posts were made on; I only had the archive to go by and that only told me the month so they are all dated the first of the month they were actually made in. I’m going to slowly release them as I try to pinpont their actual posting days. I also will have to add Categories and Tags to them as I make them public, as I didn’t do that as I was moving them over, so bear with me!

I also have to add some content to all the pages at the top of the site, so I’ll be working on that slowly over the next couple weeks in between making blog posts.

Also, this new theme is adorable right?! Sara put it together for me. She said she had been wanting to design a new one for me since we moved to Portland and I think the wait was worth it!

I’m excited to start reviewing restaurants here in Portland, posting recipes, covering vegan events, and sharing our adventures again!

HAPPY SPRING.