I was standing in line at Costco, when I suddenly noticed how ridiculously practical my foodstuffs were. Bread, eggs, milk, peanut butter, jelly, batteries, and 2 gallons of White Cranberry Peach Juice, because Justin and I like to live on the edge.
When did this happen?
It seems like just yesterday I was a wide-eyed college freshman walking into a supermarket alone for the first time...able to buy ANYthing I wanted.
Granted I left that shopping trip with 8 bags of Oreos and some Lucky Charms, but that's what you DO when there's no parents around!
No one tells you when to eat or what to eat or that you maybe SHOULDN'T microwave animal crackers with peanut butter on them, even though it sounds totally awesome.
No one says, "Hey, clean up that bowl of Spaghetti-Os you just spilled down the back of your TV. It will make it not work!"
I didn't even hear my mom's voice echoing in my head when I decided to be on a diet of french fries and honey mustard sauce that one semester.
But, somewhere, a transition occurred.
Maybe it was senior year, when disgusted by my then-boyfriend Sean's tendency to eat only pimento cheese sandwiches, and fueled by my competitive nature against my roommate Chris who was known to whip up delicious dishes with the swoosh of his afro, I decided that I should buy food with a little more variety.
And now here I am -- a girl who voluntarily buys green beans and worries about my daily balance of the fruits and grains, and who gets more excited about a new blender than I did about an Xbox360.
Well, in my defense, Oblivion wasn't out then, and...this blender is REALLY awesome. It's no ordinary blender. It's the Magic Bullet. Buy two! One to use in the 10 seconds your other one is mixing up a delicious smoothie. That's right, I said 10 SECONDS!
Anyway, I guess I'm proud of my food-related maturity, although sometimes all I really want is 8 boxes of Oreos and some Lucky Charms, but I'd just end up blending them up into delicious smoothies, and I have some kiwis I have to go through before they go bad.
Well, in accordance with my obsessive-compulsive need to do things at a time that is an even 15-minute interval, it is now half past, and I can go to sleep. This site will be down for a couple hours tomorrow. I know. I don't know what I'm gonna do with myself, either.
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Thank you very much for pushing the infomercial.... though a smoothie does sound really good... what was that company's phone number again? **wanders off to order a bullet**
Mmmmmmmmm.... smoothie....
Posted by: Wayne- - - - - - - - - - - - -
Oh, Costco has great deals on frozen strawberries for smoothies, add a Bannana, ice, some vanilla, and perhaps some yogert. Yummy.
Great treat to mix up during your lunch hour.
Posted by: Kerjack- - - - - - - - - - - - -
I can relate. As a non-vegetable eater for the first twenty-something years of my life, lately I've been known to eat spinach. And last night I tried zucchini for the first time, and it wasn't bad. Zucchini! I'm scaring myself. I must be getting old.
Posted by: Kev- - - - - - - - - - - - -
The magic bullet is way over rated! For what it costs you could almost get a delonghi blender with all the bells and whistles. Now thats living the high life!
Posted by: WCR- - - - - - - - - - - - -
I don't know where you shop, dude, but I got mine for $50 at Kohls. I believe it's around $40 at Targets and Walmarts.
Posted by: Kitsune- - - - - - - - - - - - -
they are As Seen on TV only here. I have yet to see one in the stores, well at least at the hieght of their popularity. Anyways since they are mail order they charge an arm and a leg. Some where around $150 I believe I dunno I haven't stayed up late to watch the infomercials in a while.
Posted by: WCR- - - - - - - - - - - - -
Oh my, that made me laugh - as I just got back from the grocery store today with milk, bread, jam and a package of double stuff oreos!
Somehow even with being a semi-reasonable adult - it's still fun to know I can buy 8 packages of oreos if I want to!
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