Juicing: Day 4

Today's juice: Smashing Success!

Here's the recipe:

1/3 bunch kale
4 handfuls of carrots
1/2 c. pineapple
4 apples

It tastes exactly like apple juice, so Stu drank it down really quick! I am transitioning to raw food + juice, so yesterday I had juice, a salad for lunch (with tomatoes, carrots, & peanuts), and steamed veggies for dinner (with garlic, onion salt, and pepper).

Today I had juice for breakfast, and I'll have steamed veggies for lunch along with a piece of fruit, and then I'll probably have a plate of raw veggies for dinner - we got green beans, carrots, and more spinach yesterday.

I'm also preparing to freeze, for the first time. We have a big bag of green beans that I need to put up, as well as strawberries. Woohoo! Although if I had canning equipment, I'd put up the beans in mason jars.

My mom always canned apple-pie-in-a-jar (delicious in or without a crust), green beans, salsa, pickles, peaches, applesauce, and apple butter. I aspire to some of this one day.

We did have to laugh when she heard I was juicing - I'm becoming more and more like her, which tickles us both, since I was so like my father growing up. It's weird to see how much you are like your parents, while at the same time soooooo different in a lot of ways.

I'm 13k into my novel for NaNoWriMo (goal today: hit 15k), and it's going pretty smoothly, although I already have a list of things I want to go back and fix. But, it's a first draft. Time for that in January after I've had a break.

Pottermore is back up (they took the site down for three days for technical maintenance), and I FINALLY was able to get through chapter 16 into the last chapter of the first book. All of us are waiting for the Chamber of Secrets to open - most of us hope that it includes a chance to play Quidditch, or to find out what our Patronuses are, or new potion/spellbooks. We are still waiting for Wizard Duel to open back up, so for now I'm just brewing a couple potions a day for house points, since poor HufflePuff always lags behind! But since we're not too competitive as a house, we're not too concerned. ;)

It's very interesting to see the personalities play out - for the most part, everyone is perfectly sorted and it is strange to see everything play out just like you'd expect it too - for example, the Slytherins found a way to cheat at potions, and the HufflePuffs were in an uproar because cheating is not allowed, even in games! We decided we wouldn't be joining in the cheating (but not all Slytherins are bad! Some of our friends are in that house) and continue to toil away for hours to make two good potions.

This is the first online gaming experience I've ever had, and so far, it's a lot of fun.