A friend challenged me to continue on my path to getting fit by getting some more healthy greens. I think it's revenge for challenging her to the 30 Day Shred. So I've been making these crazy smoothies with lots of green things in them. Spinach, lettuce, mint, cukes, avocados, grapes and some sweet things like pineapple and peaches to make it all palatable.
I cannot tell you if I feel any change in health but it can't really be hurting me, unless you count the fact that I've been looking at the world through greenish lenses. Now every time I pass a produce section I find myself scanning the bins for potential smoothie ingredients. Hot peppers? Nah. Beet greens? Maybe! Leon mowed the lawn on Sunday and I found myself ogling the pile of yard waste he left for collection, wondering how it might go in a smoothie. I opened my wallet yesterday at Target and wondered if a dollar bill would add some hefty fiber.
I have seven more days to go on this challenge before I'm not really committed any more. While I like green smoothies and how they taste, I don't really like having an extra task to do in the morning. I could see myself making these once a week maybe.
Cheers!
My parents still have boxes of my old stuff (sorry guys!), including tons of teen magazines that I subscribed to in the early '90s. I had Seventeen, YM and my favorite, Sassy! Of course, we found the boxes with Seventeen and YM, but no Sassy. I fear they may have been tossed out! Anyway, looking through both old Seventeen and YM mags, I started to notice the vast difference between the two.
Seventeen was more focused on fashion, beauty tips and shopping. There were some music reviews that were so all over the place. Everything from rap to country, to a huge feature on the Grateful Dead one month. Wha?! Were 14 year old girls in 1992 interested in the Dead?
If Seventeen was the teen girls version of Elle, YM was the junior Cosmopolitan. Borderline smutty and all about boys, boys, boys! A sampling from the cover features from several issues include the following:
Special Guy Issue [A lot of guys have issues, don't they?]
Clothes Guys Love [Skimpy ones.]
Lies Guys Tell for Sex [I need it bad or I'll die!]
Do Guys Notice You? [They probably notice your boobs first.]
Guys Exposed! [Isn't this a magazine for teenagers?!]
Guys Decoded! [They're not that complicated.]
Don't Let Him Read This! [Because he will think you're nuts.]
Guys Confess ["We're dogs sometimes." Signed, TEENAGE GUYS]
So YM's demographic was 14-17 year old, boy-crazy vamps. I don't remember being particularly boy-crazy at these ages. I was more of a sad and confused tomboy. Yet, I had a subscription to these magazines! I can't tell you what I expected to get out of them. Period questions answered? Kissing advice? How to get him to notice me? I must have liked them for some reason. Right?
One of the best parts about finding these old magazines are the ads. Remember Bold Hold? Ten-O-Six? Buff Puff? Love's Baby Soft? Caboodles!!! I also found a huge advertorial in a lone issue of Teen Magazine for a line of cedar hope chests. Did girls in the early '90s still fill up hope chests? I sure didn't know any. It was also funny to see Denise Richards, Rebecca Gayheart and Jennifer Connelly featured all over these magazines not as actresses, but as models.
Unfortunately my Sassy magazines are currently missing. I think they might have not survived a certain "big trash" day at my parents' place. Those are the magazines that I'd love to find in some dusty box. I asked them to keep an eye out for them for me. Hopefully they'll turn up and I can have a Sassy party for anyone who wants to look at them.
Like, totally fresh.
