Juice Cleanse

IF YOU DO A JUICE CLEANSE MAKE SURE ALL THE JUICES TASTE GOOD OR YOU WILL HATE YOUR LIFE. AND BE POOR.

David and I got the bright idea of doing a 3 day juice cleanse.

After watching the Documentary "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" about four years ago, I got a juicer because I was sure I'd use it all the time. I think I used it for a week.

Since we had the juicer, we thought it would be a nice way to just get a quick health spurt into our lives. We chose to do a 3-day cleanse that I found online from that documentary.

It.

Was.

Awful.

First of all, we bought over $100 worth of fruits and veggies for THREE DAYS worth of eating:

(these grocery bags are big, and this food filled up an entire cart to the top)

Most expensive 3 days of food in my life. And then when we juiced all of it, we had a whole trash can full of fruit/vegetable pulp. It just felt like a waste.

Second of all, some of the juices tasted so bad we chose to go hungry rather than drink them. Most of the juices were fine, but there was one that had David and I gagging. 

We stuck with it and finished the three days, but if I could do it over I would choose more yummy juices instead of swiss chard and tomatoes. But I did learn what swiss chard is, so there's that.

Allergies

I moved to Utah 6 years ago. Last year, I learned that seasonal allergies can be developed in adulthood.

I got allergies for the first time in my life last year. It was a constant tickle in my nose. This year, the allergies have progressed to include itchy eyes and swollen eyelids.

Without any warning, my right eyelid swells.

It's great fun, really.


UPDATE: IT GOT WORSE AFTER SLEEPING!

 I was hoping I would go to bed and wake up with the swelling gone. Nope. The swelling went down after a few hours, though.

Boiled Egg

I boiled some eggs the other day and wrote "B" on them in sharpie so I could distinguish them from the non-boiled eggs, and then put them back in the carton. Today David went to make brownies and grabbed an egg without looking and tried to crack it into the brownie batter but it was a boiled egg and it made me giggle because he was so confused for a second.

Surprise Casserole

David was sweet enough to make dinner tonight. It was a chicken, rice, and cream of mushroom soup casserole.

Once the timer went off saying it was done cooking in the oven, we served ourselves up and I found a little surprise in the casserole.

He dropped a fork in there while preparing it and didn't notice. Made me giggle. 

Rice

Today I looked up how to cook brown rice in the microwave. This website told me to put 4 parts water and 1 part rice, cook for 5 minutes covered, then cook for 20 minutes uncovered. It had great responses saying it worked. I trusted it.

Bad idea.

I only wanted to make a small portion of rice, which might be why mine failed. I did 2 Tbsp rice, 8 Tbsp water. I cooked it for 5 minutes, added some more water, then cooked it for 8 more minutes because I thought 20 sounded like way too much.

I went about doing my business until I smelled some burning.

And burning there was.

I guess it ran out of water and got really hot and my tupperware couldn't handle it.

On the bright side, once it cooled down a little bit I was able to cleanly scrape off the melted plastic.

Patriotism

David had a meeting to go to at 5:30 yesterday. His meeting was in a building right behind the flag pole on campus. At 5:25 he rushed away from me because he was so worried about being late, and I started walking home.

At 5:30, I realized David had the only set of keys to our apartment.

I ran back to the building his meeting was in, frantically calling him, hoping he would have a chance to answer his phone. Unfortunately for me, flag take-down occurs right at 5:30. This means that people in uniform where patriotically taking down the flag while the national anthem blared over the speakers and 30+ people in the area stood still with their hands over their hearts out of respect.

I was frantically walking past all these patriotic people and was so embarrassed that I had act so rude so that I could get the keys from David.

Murder in the Kitchen

Today I was attempting to make this recipe for homemade Twizzlers.

My counter was covered in stuff from trying to make these.

One of the ingredients was a cup of beet juice. I was trying to mix all the ingredients on this really crowded counter, and as luck would have it, I spilled the leftover beet juice.

I had no idea until today that beet juice is the the most stain-worthy type of color. It looks like blood. Pure blood. And that is how it looked like a murder in my kitchen.

PS the recipe tastes nothing like real twizzlers and mine looked nothing like the picture, but they taste yummy anyways. They taste like fruit leather.