DIY Fancy Water
In case you’ve ever wondered how my mind works, here’s an example. One day, a friend had a water bottle with cut-up strawberries and bananas in it. Interesting idea, I thought, but it looks kinda gross. Someone else asked her about it. She said she read that it’s something Katie Holmes does. You know, one of those “diet tips” in magazines to humanize celebrities who probably don’t actually eat fruit, they just use it to flavor their water.
Later in the day at the grocery cooperative, I saw a display of Vitamin Water. “Wow, I wish they still had that lemon-cucumber one,” I thought.
Picture a lightbulb over my head. I bought a lemon, and a cucumber, which together cost less than a bottle of Vitamin Water. Each of the next few days, I put slices of both in my water bottle, refilling throughout the day, and washing thoroughly at night.
This is NOT an example of how I think I’m clever. In fact, I think it shows my mind is working at less than fantastic speed these days, no surprise given my depression. It is, though, an example of how my mind ties together this ‘n’ that, often around food-related things, (gossip magazine + sadness over defunct product + “this experiment doesn’t even require cooking” = “hey, look at me go”) and coughs up something interesting.