Rejected Offerings
April 5, 2009 § 1 Comment
Ever since I can remember, I have been terrified of puking.
The last time it happened to me, I believe I was around eight years old, and I was sick with the stomach flu. My family was having lunch at the place next to Diho Market [my mom loves to eat 豆浆油条] but I couldn’t eat anything because my stomach was hurting, and I thought it was just indigestion so I went and sat on a toilet in the dark and dirty bathroom for a long time with no progress, and when we got back home to Downer’s Grove, I threw up the little I had eaten.
I came close a couple of times since then. During high school, all sophomores were required to take swimming for a quarter. The first day, we underwent a sort of test to place us in either the higher or lower level swimming class. My mom put me in swimming classes when I was younger, so I was never bad at swimming, but as I got older I acquired a dislike for the activity, so by sophomore year it had been a few years since I had gone swimming — I wore my swimsuit from middle school — and my stamina had decreased significantly.
After swimming a complete lap as quickly as we could, along with some other things that I forget, we returned to the locker rooms where I sat on a bench and tried to control the nausea that had suddenly sprouted within me. Thankfully, my lunch period was right after PE, so I was free to recover while the rest of my classmates left and the next class started arriving. I honestly thought I was going to vomit, and didn’t want to partly because I knew it would be unpleasant, but also how embarrassing would it be to puke in the school locker room, especially after a mere trial run of PE swimming? I prayed like crazy for my insides to calm down, and eventually I made it out of the locker room okay.
Meet Mini-Me
March 16, 2009 § 1 Comment
I’ve realized that I haven’t posted about video games on this blog yet, which is amazing because you don’t know me until you know how much I love Nintendo. I mean, I’m certainly not a super-fanatic [if I had the money, though, I’d be all over that], but I am deeply in love with my Wii.
At Walgreens over the weekend with Roomie #1, we were browsing the candy aisle and checking out the balogna and hot dog gum when my gaze fell upon a candy dispenser shaped like a Wii controller. OMG! It looked exactly like the real thing! Here is a comparison:
It’s so cute!!! I immediately knew that I had to have it. The fact that it dispensed candy was negligible; I just wanted a mini Wii controller. Unfortunately, none of the buttons actually press down except for B, which shoots out a Smarties shaped candy. The battery compartment does open, though. It fits, um, a battery. Or backup candy?
It came with a couple rolls of candy, two of which were labeled “Bubble Gum Smarties.” The taste is alright but the gum consistency is inferior. The two other rolls of candy, called “Au’some Candy Roll“, was literally the worst candy I’ve ever had other than black licorice. Some candy tastes wonderful, some taste just alright, but this candy tasted straight up NASTY. The website looks cute, but I urge you to never buy it. You would regret it.
In the meantime, my mini Wii controller is just hanging out uselessly until I buy some SweeTarts.
Punica Granatum
March 13, 2009 § Leave a comment
My little shrine of pomegranate food items.
I have unofficially undertaken the task of consuming and reviewing every pomegranate-flavored food item I come across.
At Target a few weekends ago, Roomie #1 and I were flitting around in the snack aisles when I saw the sign for the section titled “Good For You.” Laughing, I went over to investigate, and was delighted to discover Archer Farms Organic Pomegranate Fruit Strips. I have been a fan of the health benefits of fruit leathers since being introduced to them by my badminton coach, especially when compared to the high-fructose corn syrup content of Fruit Roll-Ups, which do not come in the trendy pomegranate flavor.
Unfortunately, pomegranate was the third ingredient on the list, after apple and pear juice, so the fruit strip just had a general fruit flavor with only a hint of the dry tanginess of actual pomegranates.
Oh Nasty
March 8, 2009 § Leave a comment
I woke up early this morning [9AM is early if you sleep at 4AM!] to attend the last day of the Missourian multimedia workshop that I’ve been working on this whole weekend. My partner and I worked in the editing lab from 10AM-1:25, then headed upstairs to the large room to watch other people’s projects as well as our own. It was 3PM by the time the workshop ended, and I was starving from not having eaten all day.
I was supposed to meet another partner for another class at Memorial Union at 3:30, so I ran back to the apartment, grabbed a hoodie and my Starbucks gift card, and headed over to Mem U.
I got there early so that I could buy something from Starbucks to munch on. It was a toss-up between food or hot chocolate, but in the end the need for solid food won. I ordered a plain bagel and a butter croissant – mmm, carbs. The crossant was delightfully huge, so I tackled that first. When I opened the paper sleeve containing my bagel, I discovered that I had actually been given a glazed donut instead.
Some people might have been pleased, since I’m pretty sure that a donut would cost more than a plain bagel, but I was slightly upset. Although I have an enormous appetite for sweets of many kinds, I do not eat donuts. They just don’t taste good to me; it’s probably because I don’t like deep-fried food. I thought about returning to Starbucks to exchange my pastry, but then my partner appeared and so I decided to just eat the darn thing.
Bad idea.
It was disgusting. I mean, I kind of wolfed it down without noticing because I was so hungry, but then I realized that it was just horrible. And now I have a stomachache, which is really no wonder because I discovered that a Starbucks glazed donut has 410 calories. What the freak?! Gross. But a plain bagel has 430 calories, apparently [but much less fat, obviously]. Um what?
Ugh. Anyway. Lesson learned. I will never go near another donut again. Not worth it. And next time I will SHOUT MY ORDER so they don’t get it wrong. Jeez!
auradis 