Organic bananas, grapefruits, avocados, soy milk, 2 tubs of Breyers ice cream (mint chip and cookies & cream), peanut butter (crunchy AND creamy): $17.
Feeling better from eating better and cutting out the chemicals: priceless.

I ate lunch w/coworkers and retired coworkers on Tuesday instead of working out, and it was heavy Mexican food that made me feel bloated all day afterwards, so I pushed myself to run an extra mile today at lunch. (Hey, if a retired coworker is gonna drive 70 miles one-way to see us for lunch from Banning, CA, the least I can do is attend.) So now, four miles, a grapefruit and two bananas later, I’m feeling good. The whole digestive system seems to be working better. I feel clean.

Tonite, I’m planning to blanche broccoli and have celery w/peanut butter before jujitsu. Maybe I’ll even open one of the tubs of ice cream. I’d wanted to eat an avocado today, but they’re not ripe enough. I keep pressing on the avocado I brought in today, as if ripening occurs in sudden, 5-minute intervals. While running today and thinking about the avocado, I remembered a story told to me about my ex’s dog, Osa. She would pick some avocados up from the ground under the avocado tree, and bring it back to “her spot” under some bushes that line the side of the house, and she’d guard her avocados for days until they ripened, which is when she’d eat them. I don’t know how a dog knows when an avocado is ripe. I almost cut into mine just cuz it has a sticker on it that says “Mission: RIPE 4225 Chile”, until my court reporter stopped me and said it’s not ripe, it’s too hard, and there may be parts that are edible but I’d have to waste the rest of it. Damn misleading sticker.