Day 12 - The Shadow

Today was more of a 'new experience' for me. I had 2 people job shadow me throughout the day. I have never really had that before, for that long of a time. Mondays are my busiest days when it comes to holding groups at work. I would have these thoughts throughout the day that all my sessions would not go well, and that it would just be a "bad" therapy day. I realized though that this was just 'stinkin thinkin' and that it wouldn't be true. I thought it was funny though, how I would go into the group with an idea of what we would do, and than realize immediately that the "plan" was not going to work. So I would have to improvise during the entire session. Luckily my instincts were correct and the new plan I came up with worked out well. One thing I realized though, was how nice it was to have people help you out throughout the day. The time went by a lot faster, and made the slower times a lot more enjoyable.

Day 11 - Got Ink'd?

Have you seen the commercials for "Bubblicious Ink'd" gum? I haven't either, but I was just told about them tonight. I found this gum at the store and was wondering what it was like. It looked interesting, and I am a huge sucker for image packaging. I tried it tonight with my cuz'ins. It tastes really good at first, but the flavor doesn't last long, and it's not the best to use for a bubble blowing contest. It's fun to have though with friends as it turns your gum a good blue shade.

Day 10 - Cactus

Saturday I was at Harmon's Grocery store and saw the prickly cactus fruit. It looked interesting to me, and I was thinking "I wonder what that tastes like." So I decided, why wonder, why not try it. Word of caution though... even though there aren't any "cactus pricks" on it, don't just carry it around, place it in a bag.

The way you prepare it (according to the sign by the cactus), you wash it, peel it, than eat it. This is what I did. This is what it looks like inside.

It's a really pretty bright red fruit. It tasted different than what I thought. Although I didn't know what it would taste like to be honest. The best way I can describe it is that it's a mixture of a kiwi fruit and watermelon. I enjoyed it though, and wouldn't mind having it again.

Day 9 - Liver Cleansing

I have been working towards getting off some medication the past couple of weeks. At times though my body has noticed this slight discrepancy in chemicals. One thing I have heard that helps with this is to do a liver cleanse. My mom just completed this, and didn't have any problems while doing it. I decided to try this as well to see if it may help me out a bit. I got the recipe from her, and chose to start it TODAY. It just consists of orange juice, lemon juice, garlic and ginger root. Then you follow it with dandelion tea. Generally I can handle eating or drinking anything. Well, after I did it I decided to end it TODAY as well. I realize now that I messed up on the formula and added WAYYYYYYY to much garlic. It just made me sick all morning. So this may actually work, and if you do decide to do it, just watch out on how much garlic you add. But at least I had the courage to try this out.

Day 8 - Spoons

Soon I'll be able to add "playing the spoons" to my resume. I ventured into this new area of instrumentation today. I didn't do too bad. It's still a bit hard to keep them steady, but I'm sure with practice I will be able to figure it out. It may even help me out with my technique of using chop sticks. Perhaps at our next Family Reunion Talent Show I will be able to have an act down like this one:

Day 7

FYI - It has been 1 month since my birthday!!! Just another 11 more months to go :)... and today I used a carrot as a spreader to spread hummus on a tortilla. Quite an interesting experience. Never done it before, but may do it again.

Oh, and today while I am sweating and trying to lift another set of really heavy weights, my trainer decides to make me work harder by starting up a conversation. He casually asked me if anything interesting happened this week. As I am panting and trying to talk and work I told him "yes, I planted an herb garden." He began to laugh and stated "that was the last thing he would have expected to hear." I thought that this would have been one of the most common things to do around here. Perhaps not everyone is "into it" like I thought.

Day 6

Today my escapade took me to Lowe's where I found some really cool herb garden kits. I've always thought it would be fun to have an herb garden (and cheaper), but have never done it before. No excuse now though. It is done. Now I am just needing to have faith that I planted them right, and that it will be able to get enough sun to actually grow. I'll keep you updated.

I was able to plant - Lemon Basil, Oregano, Italian Parsley, Genovese Basil, Catnip, Mint - Spearmint, and Peppers (Santiago Fi, Hot Portugal, and Sweet Cayenne).