Day 1:
Juice: Eve's Downfall
Eve's Downfall:4 Apples
Eve's Downfall is simply fresh apple juice processed through a juicer. Not squeezed, not blended. I use a Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Pro Juicer purchased off Amazon.com for about $40.00. It works great, though one must be diligent in cleaning it.
For More About Juicers: http://www.all-about-juicing.com/review-juicers.html
You can use any Apples you like, but please try to use organic produce and please, please, please wash it. I used Granny Smith from Washington, but they were a tart for my liking in straight up Apple Juice. I think next time I'll try it with some ripe ole Red McIntosh. Yum.
Fall 'tis the season for Apples, especially where I grew up - Vermont.
Apples are, in fact, immigrants to North America brought by European colonist. Clearly an essential both then and now, because it is apparently packed with healthy goodness. We've even got an old adage about how awesome apples are: An apple a day...blah, blah, blah.
Apples are inexpensive, come with their own wrapper (so they're good on the go), low in calories, and jam-packed with phtyto-nutrients and anti-oxidants that freshen the breath, aid in digestion and more. See University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for more: urbanext.illinois.edu/apples/default.cfm
They are also delicious.
AND they come in hundreds of varieties, so even if this juice looks boring an uncomplicated - chin up - because you can try every kind of apple or even mix and match to play with flavor. Heaven.
Emotional Lifestyle:
I just turned 25 on Aug. 1st 2012 and I know by adult standards I'm still a baby. Fresh faced and just outta college, I should be enjoying the endless opportunities and promise, but honestly I have been feeling a lot of post college anxiety (like most of my graduating class).We are the recession babies.
Born into the eighties, raised on hope and the "you can be anything you want to be" mantra. Our primary school years were all about "grunge", which elegantly provided a safe space for body image because the whole point was to look "grungy". Preteens through Y2K, when nothing ended, but the internet began to explode. Teenagers through the early 2000's with 9/11, George W. Bush, the war in Iraq and the ipod. College students through a time of skyrocketing tuition costs graduating in the fallout of the 2008 crash. Jobless, in debt, an arts degree in hand (in my case) and the crumbling economy....yaaaay....
But you just have to get on with it, right?
So, here I am - now 25 - working three part-time jobs (not including writing, which is my craft), no benefits, living in New York City, not a lot of money and trying to budget a healthy lifestyle, meaning - Good food, good activity and good fun. Does this sound familiar? Probably a huge percentage of New Yorkers are trying to do this too, so don't judge them when they're grumpy, most likely they're tired from all the juggling.
I decided to do this pretty much on a whim, because "you never know if you don't try", right? I also had a few bad months, basically March, April and May sucked for me and it crumbled into June, July and by the time it got to my birthday I was ready to start reassembling.
Why did those months suck? Does it matter? No.
But mainly, I had been in New York a year and a half and I thought things were going to happen with this guy (hate to be this cliche) - it really looked that way - and they didn't happen.
I also hurt myself training for a race (which I ran hurt - not recommended). I thought it was a pulled muscle and I stopped training, but it didn't go away. I bought new sneakers, bought new work shoes - I work at a museum giving tours, so I stand 75% of the day - and it still hurt. I went to my long time chiropractor and she told me it was Plantar fasciitis.
And I don't know how to fit everything I want to do into my life, especially writing.
With these next 400 Days I am going to try to give myself a healthy dose of something I love everyday. Fresh Juice and Writing.
Stick around.
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