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Enjoy! This is posted in lieu of a good day of eating--I ate almonds and 2 bites of peppers today, and that's all I can brag about. Click here to read an article that made me smile today. I will eat rabbit food (tomorrow)!

Taste the Rainbow

And I'm not talking about skittles (that would be breaking Lent). I'm talking about plants.

After eating some of my peppers and then sticking my tongue out at a particularly sassy mirror in my room, I made the discovery that bell peppers, not unlike lollipops, dye your tongue--granted, it is the back of your tongue, and it's not nearly neon enough, but it's there. Despite my (somewhat misleading title), I can't actually taste the rainbow (only a sunset, because I have only red, orange, and yellow peppers), but now I'm curious: What Lent-safe things can I use to dye my tongue? I get that this is a somewhat immature experiment, but I believe that an objective analysis will make me seem more like the college student that I am and less like the 4 year olds I babysit. These are the things I know:

--Watermelon does not dye your tongue. I presume that this is because there is so much water in it--so melons and other water-heavy things do not result in colorful taste buds.
--Grapes do not dye your tongue--given that grapes are not water-heavy (despite the awful bursting sensation when you eat them), I can only presume that this is because grape interior is not the same color as grape-exterior. Therefore, your tongue gets all confused, not knowing what part of the fruit to listen to. Same with apples, which also don't dye your tongue, but do make your teeth feel squeaky.

So:
In order to make your tongue colorful, the plant must be the same color throughout, and not incredibly watery. I think an observational study on the tongues of people who eat bananas and strawberries is in order...

I ate really well today (almonds and peppers and celery and what is still my favorite cereal), and am really looking forward to dinner tonight with my superwoman mom. I will eat rabbit food.

Spring Break Frenzy

Yesterday was a good day--peppers and celery and an apple and cous-cous and a long nap in a funny position in my reading cubby in my room.

That was the best part of my whole day--there's this tiny little cranny next to the window in my room. It's about a  3'x3' space, with 2 plants and enough pillows to outfit a mattress store. I read boring assignments and eat apples in there, and when I'm feeling sleepy (for some reason yesterday, I thought that the sleepy might be food-related? I was feeling crazy starved all day), I can curl up into a tiny ShaunaBall and nap. I'm usually too busy during the day for naps (have you seen this site? It's like crack for type-Aers), but I feel like I need to stock pile my energy. It's a week before spring break, and the rush to get everything done and turn everything in is worse than the rush to eat everything in the fridge before it expires. It's like Holidaze in mini. The fact that it's also Holidaze in Lent means that I can't sink as low, but we'll see.

P.s. I've never really loved living in Austin (far too many buildings/cars/people/poorly designed streets), but I do feel some pride that this blog hails from my city. Check it out--even if you're far too normal for ATX, it'll convert you. There are quite a few pictures of the Farmer's Market (which shows that this is a good place for me to eat rabbit food).

Moon-walking

I'm back--it's been a long time since I wrote, but I promise I've made progress! Since my last entry, I've:

--eaten my first apple (defined as my first whole apple--a golden delicious, consumed over a boring Mexican Government assignment)

--grown to like celery (with peanut butter, which may negate some of the health benefits? But perhaps not. I like protein)

--had pounds of carrots (no joke. Pounds)

--started Lent (No sweet things for me until Good Friday--though this doesn't much feel like an accomplishment any more; it's my 4th year doing it)

--Conquered peppers (!!!!)

--missed writing about the Olympics on here. :( Oh well. Hopefully this blog will be superfluous in 4 years, but if not, I'll catch up then...

I've started gauging my plant intake by weeks. Every Saturday (or Sunday, if I was a lazy bum on Saturday) I'll go to the store and buy X amount of some plants, and then come home and ritualistically wash them and cut them and place them into these cute tupperware containers that I bought specifically for this purpose. I think it is the tupperware that keeps me motivated--I can never get the $8 on tupperware back. I'm stuck with them forever, and if I don't fill them with vegetables, then I have WASTED money, and that is right up there with cheating Lent, or stealing candy from sweet starving babies. Anyway, the goal at the end of each week is to consume all my tupperware veggies, so that they are clean by Saturday. So far it's worked out well--this is what has led to pounds of carrots and celery snacks and pepper-conquering (which continues this week--I have a festive container of red/orange/yellow bell peppers I'll be starting on today).

A final note on conquering peppers: that accomplishment is like walking on the moon. I bought them Saturday, hated them Sunday, miserably shoved them into my mouth Monday and Tuesday, and they were gone by Wednesday, missed by Thursday. I can do it. I ate icky plants and LIKED it by the end of it. I could swim across the Atlantic now; I could do anything, for I have the ability to eat plants. I'm still milking that (deceptively small-sounding) victory, because it reminds me, all the time, that I WILL EAT (and am eating?) RABBIT FOOD.