The Mighty Credit Card

Apparently all it takes to lift my mood, at least temporarily, is a small trip to a large mall. Using my credit cards for superfluous personal purchases is a bonus. Buying presents for other people works even better. And to think, all of these things occurred today, thus lifting me into the great mood I'm in now. Well that, plus I just spent a day and a half with Susan, mostly focusing on the fact that she's going on a blind it's-just-drinks-and-not-a-real-date meetandgreet tomorrow and trying desperately to avoid thinking about myself, which only sort of worked.

So now I feel ok... not perfect, because I still think that either I suck or that something must be going on for me to still have those ohmanwhyisn'tmylifejustfullofsunshineandsmilesrightnow? feelings, but ok. Whatever though-- I'm a big girl. I'll get over myself soon enough.

And I promised all you noodle fans that I'd let you know when something entertaining was going on in my life. Not that this is particularly good, but it's funny for everyone except me. So I bought this protein powder the other day... it's soy based, is fortified with TONS of vitamins and minerals, and seemed like a good idea while I was standing in the organic market thinking about my dietary intake of good stuff. Right. So I got the powder and as soon as I got home, jumped to try it. The directions on the side of the container say to mix two scoops of the stuff with 8oz of water or my favorite juice. Well, juice is good, so I grabbed some orange juice and plopped in one scoop of the powder, just to see what it tasted like. Ugh. It was so thick and grainy and terrible. I'd mixed it up really well, but somehow the "natural vanilla" flavor it boasted did not mix well with citrus (think grapefruit juice and toothpaste here). So I choked down the rest of the glass and attempted to mix it with water. WOAH! One sip of that crap and I almost vomited. I couldn't even stand it enough to take a second sip-- I had to dump it down the sink. So then I gave it a try with soymilk, the plain kind, and a banana and some vanilla extract and voila, a nutritional and not-so-terrible tasting shake was developed. So then tonight, coming back from Long Island and realizing that my protein intake with Susan had been slightly limited, I decided to make another one of the shakes, only all the bananas were used up, and I was running out of soymilk. So I dumped into the blender what soymilk I had left, a container of raspberry flavored soy yogurt (sounded like a good idea, right?), some vanilla extract, and then for good measure, I unfortunately added pineapple chunks. Mix. Pour. Sip. Blech. What was I thinking? Hadn't my first brush with vanilla-meets-citrus taught me anything? Apparently not...

Anyhow, so here I am, choking down the rest of this terrible beverage and letting all you readers know that even though I find things to be [insert sad violin music here] sort of a bummer lately, that I am at least a little bit able to find humor in life. Wahoo. Ok, that's it for now. I'm working tomorrow and the next day, so I suppose I should try to get some sleep. More humor to come later!