master cleanse

Oh boy, tomorrow is the big day! It's day one of my cleanse.

Mike is doing it with me. I've been thinking that it will be a lot harder for him than for me, but who knows. Everyone's body reacts differently.

We are doing The Master Cleanse where you basically go on a diet of one drink- a mixture of maple syrup, cayenne pepper, lemon juice and water for ten days. There are also some teas and water that you take but all of your nutrition comes from the drink.

I've been weaning myself off of alcohol, caffeine and food for the last few days- eating only fruits, veggies and water. I feel kind of good, I must admit. My intestinal discomfort that I have been having whenever I eat meat is gone, because, well, duh, I haven't been eating meat.

This will be an adventure. It's funny because the people who are against people doing this cleanse are often the ones who would see nothing wrong with feeding children fast food. The people I know who have done this (and being a hippy massage therapist, I know a lot) are some of the healthiest and happiest people I know.

So I'm a little nervous but also excited to see how it goes. Ten days. Wish me luck.

christmas spirit

I am not feeling the Christmas spirit this year. All I can think about is how much money it is going to cost me. That's sad. That should not be what Christmas is about at all.

The thing I get most excited about for Christmas is that it is close to the shortest day of the year and that means the days start getting longer again! Which is certainly something to celebrate in my book.

Plus Mike and I really don't have any room to decorate the apartment. He sort of wants a tree... and suggested putting it on TOP of the dining room table- which to be fair, we never use so it WOULD work... it just seems like so much work... and for what?

Jeez louise. Bah humbug. What is wrong with me?

I'm not unhappy, I'm just not into Christmas this year. Which, you know what, is totally fair because we haven't even had Thanksgiving yet. So I don't have to be. So there!

I just miss being a kid and having that excitement of "Christmas is coming! Christmas is coming!"

today

Two momentous things happened today.

Well, not really momentous. Perhaps not even worth mentioning but here you go...

I bought my first eBook.

Yup. I did it. They suckered me in because there is a writing contest in which you write in the style of the book (use the characters, etc.) and they gave you the first three chapters to let you get a taste. But of course I am now sucked into the story and want to read it. But they only have it available as an ebook. So I got it and am reading it on my iPhone which is fine but weird since you can only read about a paragraph at a time.

I also saw a pair of identical twins today. Now identical twins who are dressed alike are always fun. But identical twins who are dressed alike who are ninety year old little white curly haired ladies?!? It was almost too much. They were getting on the bus as I was getting off so I didn't have time to get their picture. You'll just have to take my word for it that it was AWESOME!

I done thunk her up

I love how you can think about someone and then suddenly they appear. It doesn't ALWAYS work and it seems to work best if you aren't trying to do it purposefully.

Yesterday my mom and I were at Target and as we were checking out my mom made the comment about how she wonders if Kathy (my older sister's childhood friend) still works there. She worked there like fifteen years ago.

I didn't think much of it and continued on with my day. I got to volleyball last night and we were going to be short a girl. So Peggy called a bunch of people but no one could play. I tried a friend but she couldn't make it. And then who does Peggy finally manage to get to play for us?? Why, none other than my sister's old friend Kathy! What are the chances of that?!?

pandas rule

Okay, for some reason I am obsessed with pandas. Well, I mean, the reason is because they are AWESOME! My last minute Halloween costume this year was Pandemonium the fighting panda bear.

Talking about that at work led to my coworkers showing me an awesome website about pandas and how Chinese scientists are dressing like panda bears so that the babies will have as little "human" interaction as possible.

Here are the pics from the website:

You're welcome!

autistic basketball player

My friend posted this on Facebook today. I've seen it a million times and it still gets to me EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Today is a crappy sort of day. It's a nice reminder that there is good and love in the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZtU676jA_k&feature=share

things I didn't do

Isn't it funny how a bad book makes you want to shoot yourself, yet a good book wakens part of your brain and soul that you didn't even know you had?

I'm thoroughly (you break that up and it is Tho Roughly) enjoying my bookclub book which is great because I just started it today (yes, we had five weeks to read it!) and I have to have it done by Friday. It's called The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland and there was a section that talked about looking at people not for the traits they possess but for the traits they don't possess.

And Kyle said to me, "I saw this show on the Discovery Channel, and it said that beauty isn't only about the traits you possess, it's also about the traits you don't possess." He then said, "You're really beautiful, Bethany, because there are so many bad traits a lot of girls have and you don't have any of them."

I asked him, "Like what?"

"You're not greedy. And you don't plot or scheme, and you don't go all slutty or manipulative if you don't get what you want."

I didn't know what to say, so I didn't say anything, but I've been floating ever since.

It's always good to have a fresh new way of looking at things. And the "be thankful for what you don't have" thing has always worked wonders for me.

I don't have bells palsy, or a hare lip, and I only have five pimples on my face right now. I'm doing pretty damn well, thank you very much!

I don't molest children, do hardcore drugs, rob banks. Really, I'm a pretty good person. Whoops, I guess I'm not modest. Shoot, I was doing so well.

The whole concept is not a new one, however. When I was in the Pyramid at the Field Museum last week there was a section that talked about how the ancient Egyptians when they died would have to go basically stand trial for their lives and recite this whole list of things that they did NOT do to prove that they were a good person. Things like, "I did not kill anyone. I did not drink wine that belonged to the gods."

As for me... I did not waste the ENTIRE day doing nothing. I did not forget about my wonderful blog readers. I did not take my poo and fling it at passerbys like a caged monkey. (yes, random example, but I did NOT do it so it still counts.)

Sometimes when Mike comes home and we talk about what we did with our days it can be a little boring (I mean, all of our conversations are WONDERFUL obviously but still, our days are not always that exciting.) From now on if my day was a little boring and I don't have much to report, perhaps I will tell him what I did NOT do that day instead of what I did do. So many more possibilities.