progress on my life plan + all about smoothies

i think in march i will go here. thank you lynnea.
still doing some comparison shopping, but it's a start.

about a year ago, i went to stop and shop with some friends and ended up randomly buying a smoothie mix. it was one of those things that cost about 89 cents, and called for bananas, milk, and ice. as many people have pointed out, those are pretty much all the ingredients of a smoothie, so it's unclear what the mix actually does--but, whatever. so i bought this mix and i figured that, living in tenney, i would actually have milk and bananas around, so maybe i would use it someday. that never happened. it's unclear why.

this year, while home for thanksgiving, i found the mix lying around my room (along with other items such as, well, everything i've ever owned and everything that my family has decided to put in storage. when i go home these days i have to carve out a little channel to walk to my bed; the shit piles up at least 3 feet). so i decided to bring it back to dc with me and see what could become of it....

OMG. BEST SMOOTHIE EVER. seriously, soooo good. i was amazed. but also saddened, because where would i ever find such a smoothie mix again?

well, my friends. well. this evening, i went to safeway to pick up a box of cheerios, some more fake meat, and a tomato. while trying to pick out the perfect tomato, i saw some bananas and thought, perhaps i should get one of these too. and then--lo and behold--at the top of the banana stand--tons of packets of my smoothie mix!!!!

but first, an obstacle. the banana stand was surrounded by several rows of boxes. a fortress of boxes, if you will. i tried to put my cart down and reach for the mix, but it was to no avail. now, when it comes to height, i would definitely not say that i suffer from height oppression. included in my invisible knapsack of privilege (how many times can i link to that article??) is the fact that i generally never have to worry about not being able to reach something. however. this smoothie mix was completely out of range. i tried to look around for someone that could help, but short of moving all of the boxes away, i wasn't really sure what they would even be able to do. so i stood there, completely baffled, for a minute or two. i walked around the banana stand, trying to find an opening. was this some kind of joke? i was reminded of miranda's favorite computer game, super tux, which features an adorable penguin with a red hat who sometimes has to jump around randomly until a thing pops up saying he's found a "secret area," and can now reach something really high up. i wondered what would happen if i, too, started randomly jumping around the banana stand.

instead, i found a pen in my pocket. i leaned over the boxes, reached toward the smoothie mixes, and started to jab at them with the pen. the pen barely reached the mixes. i jumped up, terrified that i would knock the whole stand over, and jabbed again. on the third or fourth jab, i finally loosened the mix enough that it came falling down to me. it was quite a moment.

then i came home and made another awesome smoothie. all in all, i'd say it was worth it. this may cut the amount of money i devote to smoothies in half.




in otherrrrrrrrrrrr news. miranda managed to come up with the movie i've been wanting to see forever, as well as sicko, which i've already seen but would see again and am happy to own by proxy. i'm so overwhelmed; i don't know when we're gonna have time to watch them. tuesday and wednesday are big nights (tuesday is the dc usas alumni meeting, as well as tila tequila night with zack, and wednesday is our huge tv night--kid nation AND project runway. and america's next top model, but that's on at the same time as kid nation, so we usually wait until thursday and watch it on youtube. the reason for this is that that way, we get to watch kid nation with our surrogate third roommate via the internet, mary dishes), and then we leave on thursday. might have to wait until next week. sigh.

ok, i should go to sleep. highlights of this weekend:

-doing dinner and a movie with jess, while miranda was in nyc. we are becoming actual good friends, perhaps even "automatic friday night friends," (at least when she's not traveling), which is really nice. we came up with the chapters of a book jess is gonna write, called "the inside scoop on the labor movement." the best chapter will be the permanent shit list. then there will be other chapters about why various organizing drives are about to fail, and then a chapter called the permanent awesome list. we think the shit list will be longer. in jess' words, "i'm not sure we're actually gonna be able to publish this book. even if i use a fake name, everyone will know that it's me."

-skype date with stina in the middle of the night. it's pretty awesome that insomnia means i am often on swedish time.

-smoothies

-in general, i feel like i was on the phone with a lot of people this weekend, which is always nice.

-had a deep but also very funny conversation with my mom about racism (hi mom!)

things i am looking forward to:

-tila tequila night with zack!!! he has been traveling for weeks, so we've had many zack-free tila nights, and i'm excited that he's back.

-babydaycare tomorrow

sometimes, i think that the length of my entries often suggest more substance than there really is. and with that, i leave you.