Random Thoughts

So, I'm rotating in the ER right now, which I am not really loving, but I did have some fun the other night (I'm on nights), when I got to sew up a quit large laceration on some one's forehead.  It took forever (it didn't seem like something to rush), but I was quite pleased with the results.  Yay for sewing people up :)

Anyway, I was doing Nutrisystem to lose some weight, and I did lose 10 lb, but all the nutrisystem food is processed crud that's been sitting around in the package for who knows how long and tastes like it.  At the same time I was reading this book,

which I borrowed from Jessica, about eating only local food for a year. While I'm not even close to taking a step like that, I agree with the principle. Then I watched the "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" movie on netflix. All these things combined in my brain along with my yearly spring urge to eat lots of veggies and the up-shot was that I decided to give the nutrisystem the heave ho. Even if I did get a really good deal on it. With free shipping as well.  I decided instead to make a huge effort instead to eat lots and lots of fruits and veggies, and I bought a juicer.  Not an expensive one, nor a big fancy one, but then I'm not intending to go on a 60 day juice fast with it.

Anyway, all that was buildup to a funny story.  I got off work this morning and had every intention of coming home and juicing some stuff.   The guy who made the above-mentioned movie has a web site with, among other things, recipes for juices that combine well.  I had the ingredients to make a certain juice that I wasn't that excited about because I made it the other day too and didn't like it that much.  So perhaps the cucumbers sat around a few days too many.  By "perhaps" I mean "mushy, sunken-in, smelling-weird, and gross".  Also "directly into the trash".  So much for that.  But the other ingredients had in fact already been juiced and were sitting in the cup looking lonely.  I should interject that juicing things is quite fun; its kind of like shoving things down the dish disposal and watching them get chewed up (I'm thinking of a "Home Improvement" episode involving an industrial-strength dish disposal and Tim shoving ever-increasingly large items into it).  Anyway, I decided that instead I'd throw in some red cabbage that I had, and some broccoli (tip - not much juice in broccoli) and some strawberries...  I pretty much stuck in everything I had sitting around needing to be eaten.  The results actually tasted ok, so more experimentation with the juicer is probably in the future...