Tristan Prettyman checked in with fans on her blog at tumblr this evening, talking about her diet. The singer songwriter tells readers:

Generally speaking, I hate processed foods. Anything found in the middle of a supermarket, I stay away from. My basket is always filled, with fresh produce, and the occasional boxed drinks of coconut water, or boxes of quinoa.

Its interesting though, because now that I have been told to lay off the dairy & wheat items, I have been trying to find replacements..gluten free english muffins, pasta, vegan cheese, pizza dough, etc…when in reality, i never ate much of this stuff to begin with. I guarantee that the replacements, are filled with the same calories as the original stuff, or in some cases more. Plus most of the vegan/gluten free/low fat/nonfat options are worse for you, than just eating the original form of the food.

That is something I always followed. Even when I was vegan, I never liked to eat the soy sausage. Its probably worse for you, and more ingredients than regular plain sausage. Dairy free cheese, while I love it, often uses more ingredients than just plain cheese, from the cow..hopefully a happy cow.

I’ve always felt its important, that if you are going to eat something, whatever it is. Eat it in as close to its natural state as you can eat it.

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Tristan Prettyman checked in with fans on her blog at MySpace, talking about how she’s been dealing with a polyp on her vocal cord and how hopes for it to heal haven’t been successful, forcing the singer songwriter to postpone her fall tour to have surgery done, sidelining her for three months as it heals. Tristan writes:

I don’t want to perform live for my fans without being able to give the best performance I can. So for now the tour is on hold, but I PROMISE the tour will be rescheduled. Everyone should receive a full refund if you had purchased your ticket. Apologies if ticketing companies don’t refund ticketing fees!!!

I will be getting surgery now, and taking the next 3 months to properly heal. Right now my voice is more like a rickety old appliance. You have to hold the cord this one weird way for it to work, and some days its works and some days it doesn’t. So I’m sending her in, I’m getting her fixed. She’s going to come back so shiny and new, and purring better than ever!….

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Tristan Prettyman updated fans on her blog at MySpace on Tuesday (December 29), discussing yoga and the New Year. The singer songwriter tells readers:

My wish for you, for 2010. Do what makes you happy.

Acknowledging your surroundings, be apart of your community.
Branch out, get challenged, stay put, be content.
Do it all, be it all.
Do what makes you happy.

Whatever it may be. Enjoy yourself.

Happy New Year!

Its gonna be a great one :)

Thanks you all for your continued support! I am seriously having the time of my life.
Its been amazing being able to be this open and honest with everyone I know.
I have so much love and light for all of you.

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Tristan Prettyman checked in with fans on her blog at MySpace, talking about getting fellow singer songwriter pal Anya Marina hooked on surfing, and how humans have impacted the oceans. Prettyman writes:

My family has been an active member and participant in the Surfrider Foundation since as far back as I can remember. When I started playing music, I was able to get even more involved; I donated a track I did with Dave Quicks to the ‘Music for other Mother Oceans CD’ and this past year I did a whole bunch of beach cleanups around the country… from the beaches of Montauk in New York, to Lady Bird lake in Austin, Texas and onto Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Picking up trash and raising awareness everywhere we went. Our oceans, lakes and waterways are becoming so polluted these day, and its up to us to turn it around. I cant even believe how many cigarette butts I saw at some of the beaches, and to be honest, I can’t even imagine why anyone would have the desire to smoke on a beach in the first place… but if the beach inspires you to light up, HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTT! Something I noticed when I was England; there are a lot of smokers, but everyone holds on to their butts, they even have these nifty little containers they put them in… especially in the beach communities I visited. No one litters, it’s highly shunned upon, it’s not cool. Littering in general is not cool, so put your shizzy in the trash can already. So much of our litter, even yours – beautiful person that lives in the middle of the country, ends up on people like me’s local beaches. So put it in the trash, put in the recycle or throw it in a compost bin.

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Tristan Prettyman checked in with fans on her blog at MySpace on Thursday (August 13), discussing her dreams and touring Europe. The singer songwriter tells readers:

Had a really strange dream that I had a baby….
Weird thing was, in my dream, I didn’t even remember delivering the baby.
But next thing I knew I had one, and she looked just like me when i was a baby.
And she even inherited my crooked pinkies!
I just remember, in my dream, I had no baby things, so we had to go to Target, or something of that nature.
I was stocking up on diapers and baby bjorns and things of that nature.
I remember in my dream, they had bio-degradable baby accessories, so I was pretty psyched about that.
I also remember in my dream, it was a lot of work. It was about a full day in the life of having a baby, day one.
Except in my dream my baby was already acting about how a 5 months old would.
Also, I didn’t even breast feed, or change any diapers in my dream, and I left the baby in the car seat with the dog and my cousin for about 4 hours.
So def didn’t not get the full taste of having a real kid, in my dream.

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Tristan Prettyman checked in with fans on her blog at MySpace on Saturday (June 20), talking about her limited college experience, living it up lately, and visiting Bali. The singer songwriter tells readers:

From time to time, I trip out on the fact that I never completed college. I mean I went to community college for a couple years, but like all my other peers who had no idea what they wanted to do with their lives at 19, I was studying business communication. I thought I might like to be a rep for a surf company, that way I could be creative, yet still be social, remain in the surf scene that I grew up in, all while holding down a good job, with a steady income. It was a safe bet. Then music came along, and changed everything.

I’ll never forget my parents pulling me aside, after one of my first shows at the Belly Up Tavern, and saying, “We think you should go play music, this seems to make you really happy, you can always go back to college if doesn’t work out”. I was psyched, and confused. Was this some sort of reverse psychology move? I was cautious and didn’t want to seem to enthusiastic just yet. I enrolled in some music classes, guitar and vocal lessons. The guitar course was a nightmare, I already knew too much, one day the teacher said to me, after failing the last 3 quizzes, ‘You’re like trying to teach english to someone who already knows the slang’. I quickly dropped that class. I did however, last a bit longer with the vocal lessons, I recall being really shy and nervous singing in front of my other classmates… I completed the course and began seeing the teacher privately. That was the extent of my college experience.

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Tristan Prettyman checked in with fans on her blog at MySpace on Sunday (December 21), where the San Diego singer songwriter responded to a fan wondering why she hadn’t posted an update lately. The 26-year-old suggested that it may be a while, if ever, until we see a follow-up to her second studio album ‘Hello…x’. Prettyman writes:

Yes I am drifting a little bit, I’m a bit lost…don’t really know what lies ahead, what I want to do next. I haven’t written anything in a year and a half or maybe more. I had a light year compared to the last record. I really wish I would have gone on some more tours, really wished my record would have done better. Especially with the bit of success I had at radio, I thought this was gonna be my year. I still love my record to pieces, in fact I love all my records. If anything, I think I will alway be happy with the records I have made. I have 3 now, if you would have told me I was gonna get this far, I would have looked ya in the eye and said, ‘get outta town!’.

With the radio success across the country, came more and more pressure, to go sell myself, my songs, my album. I think my record label has never really figured out how to market me, they tried the surfer girls thing, but I don’t really see myself as a female Jack Johnson or anything. I see myself more as a girl, that likes to multi-task. I write about what I know, and I am a bit of a weirdo, a bit complicated and I’ve been surfing since I was a little kid. But I can’t say that surfing has ever really influenced my music, or has ever really played a very big part in it for that matter. I do know that I love to surf, and I love summers in San Diego more than anything, and the one thing that I can’t live without, is being able to surf in the summer time in nothing more than a bikini. Needless to say, I thoroughly hated being away all summer long in a rental car, driving from radio station to station, sometimes visiting up to 6 stations in 3 different cities a day. Some stations were fans, and some looked at me as if I they thought I thought I was really cool and they could see right through me. I tried to remember why I was doing all this. You know, why I play music in the first place, and that in the end, this all benefits me, that I should get out there, mingle, mingle, I quickly realized that forcing a smile through closed teeth is not the way I want to go through life.

…I have no plans for the future. I’m not really sure what I’ll do. No tours scheduled, no travel, no recording. Nada. The world is my fishbowl. Maybe I’ll get married and have 6 kids. Maybe tomorrow I’ll wake up and finally be inspired to write a song. Maybe I’ll stumble upon a new path, go back to school, get my degree. Maybe I’ll become a raw/vegan chef… I’m getting really good at that.. Or perhaps I will become so dedicated to my yoga practice, I will become a Yoga teacher. I’m not really sure. But I do know, that everything happens for a reason, and getting lost is usually the most memorable part of the adventure.

I might seem like I’m losing touch, drifting away from internet land… and it’s because I am. If I stay here too long, I end up wasting my whole day, looking at ex boyfriends websites and trying to figure out what makes Katy Perry so interesting. I get sucked into Perez Hilton and wonder if I should reinvent myself into something more like Lady GaGa. The internet is a sensory-overloaded, sequenced mess. I once was entertained, but I’m quickly loosing interest. I realized that any true inspiration, or enlightenment isn’t gonna come from technology. In my experience, it never has.

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