all ready to go

In my ongoing effort to find some way to eat fruits and vegetables more often, I decided to give the old smoothie/juice route a try. I bought a bunch of fruits and vegetables and sandwich bags. An hour or so of chopping and dividing gave me a dozen servings of various sorts of smoothie ingredients ready to throw into a blender. I discovered yesterday our blender, which I'm not sure I've ever actually even used, can't handle chunks of frozen fruit and made an unpleasant burning plastic smell. So hopefully the new one will be here by tomorrow. I briefly entertained the idea of buying a crazy expensive blender from work and then I came to my senses.

I'm modifying recipes a little, mostly because I don't like yogurt/dairy so much as an ingredient. I'm using a mix of unsweetened coconut & almond milk as well as passion fruit juice instead. Some packs are just strawberries & coconut. Some are apples, spinach & ginger, and some of those have bonus blackberries. There's some pineapple and spinach ones too.

The local Girl Scout organization changed their cookie supplier this year. Apparently there are two big companies that make all the Girl Scout cookies. Sadly this other supplier makes an inferior cookie. They really aren't as good this year. It's hard to pinpoint exactly why. I suspect just lower quality ingredients. Disappointing but I suppose this means I'm only going to eat one box of Thin Mints this year.

My hip still aches. Nothing new there. I'd really like this to get better so I can go back to dancing. I'm going to start looking for a gym with many heavy objects for lifting.

Still making cranes. Some are better than others.