Vitamins and Superstition

[cjsmith]

OK, let's get the teasing and the "You Should"s out of the way: I eat Flintstones chewable multivitamins. They're the "Complete" kind, the ones that aren't too too awful for adults. Done now? Good, here's my story.

I like the orange ones best. The red ones are distinctly mediocre, and I have never liked purple. (Yes, red and purple are flavors. Eat a berry and a grape, then eat something red or purple. Completely unrelated, I tell you. Red and purple are separate flavors in their own right.)

I've developed a little predictor of my day. I tip over the bottle and get a vitamin. If it's orange, which I like, I say I'll have a good day. If it's purple, which I dislike, I call it a gray day. If it's red, I'll have a Red-Letter Day, which could be good or bad but won't be boring.

There. I feel sure every single reader of this journal desperately needed to know that.

Comments

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

How do you read the oracle if more than one vitamin comes out at the same time?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I pick my favorite. :-)

And if I'm going on a job interview, I will keep putting vitamins back until I get a good one.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Good on you! Your luck is only as good as you make it, after all :)

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

We used to have pink and purple yogurt in the dorms in college. Everyone agreed that they certainly weren't "strawberry" or "blackberry," or whatever else might have been on the packaging. We just said they were pink and purple flavors. :^)

Hope you're having a nice orange day today!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I am indeed! Thank you! :-)

[mighty-sam.livejournal.com]

If it is any consolation, I, too, take childrens vitamins.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yay! Adult Children's Vitamin Eaters, unite!

[kimatha.livejournal.com]

Sam's vitamins are animal shaped chewable vitamins. I bought them for him because I thought their cuteness would inspire him to take them. And I was right.

And I agree that red and purple are flavors in their own right.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

So you've got a big jar of leftover purples? :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Nah, I eat the purples sometimes. But on really important days I'll put them back. :-)

[hermit-crab.livejournal.com]

That's a really cool ritual. I would take children's vitamins myself, if I didn't like the taste quite so much. I'm worried that I'd eat the whole bottle and OD on them.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I do indeed like the taste. When I bought my first bottle of 'em I ate two. Then I decided it would be smart to stop. :-)

I chew Vitamin C tablets too, on the rare occasions I spike my dosage of C. Sooo much better than swallowing a pill whole.

[hermit-crab.livejournal.com]

I think it's a childhood thing. As a kid, I loved the taste of those chewable vitamins so much, and then duh, my mom would only let me have one, which made me want them that much more. Forbidden fruit complex, I suppose.

I mean, I could just eat sweetarts or something, but they don't taste as good.

[usqueba.livejournal.com]

I eat Flintstones chewable multivitamins. They're the "Complete" kind, the ones that aren't too too awful for adults.
I take children's vitamins, too! The ones I take only have 50% of an adult's daily nutritional whatever. That way, I don't O.D. on my nutritional values. Presumably, I can get the rest of my needs thru foods I'm eating.

(Yes, red and purple are flavors. Eat a berry and a grape, then eat something red or purple. Completely unrelated, I tell you. Red and purple are separate flavors in their own right.)
I'm totally with you on this one. We have similar flavors for "ice pops" - blue flavor! red flavor! Those are artificial flavors aren't even CLOSE to being "orange", "grape", etc. I hate cherry in what ever form it comes >;P

I've developed a little predictor of my day. I tip over the bottle and get a vitamin. If it's orange, which I like, I say I'll have a good day.
Cool! I like this Day Predictor. Maybe I'll try it :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I agree with you about cherry. That is just awful. It must be very popular with SOMEbody, because it's in every assortment -- popsicles, Starbursts, vitamins, everything. It's the one flavor of Starburst I won't even put in my mouth.

[ansley.livejournal.com]

I will be happy to take any unwanted cherry flavored vitamins, popsicles, etc. at any time. I <3 cherry, and often don't like the other flavors.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

ooo cool! Next time I have a big wad of cherry Starbursts left over from a variety bag, I'll be asking for your snail mail address. (Alas, popsicles probably wouldn't make it.)

[ansley.livejournal.com]

That'd be cool! :-)

Popsicles would probably survive in our current weather - but probably not yours!

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

flintstones vitamins, the new magic 8-ball for adults everywhere. ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! When I'm out of vitamins, I can always fall back on this one. But it doesn't taste as good.

[busysuzy.livejournal.com]

CJ, that's very cute!
I can't swallow vitamins to save my life. I considered taking childrens' chewables, but I found that Centrum makes an adult chewable. I should compare the labels some time and see what (if any) the difference is.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip! Adult chewables? Wow, what will they think of next? I'll have to go looking for those! Flintstones Complete doesn't have much calcium...

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

If you can't find 'em, eat yer flintstones, and then chomp on a Tums. They too are chewable, flavored, and come in a variety of colors, though they're all a boring circle-shape. Kind of like the window of a magic eight ball...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

If you gaze into a Tums long enough, perhaps it too will reveal hints about the future!

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

You remind me of my son Tim. It's just the sort of thing he'd do. (Rondo says Tim reminds him of me.... but I ain't sayin'.)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*chuckle*

I like Tim. He's cool. Reminds me of a friend of mine, in fact, a friend living far away. ;-)

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

*grin*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Say hi to him for me? And Chris and Jacob and Rondo? And Widad?
I can't believe I was just there and yet you're so far away that I may not be able to visit again. BOO HOO!

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

You mean you're not coming back this summer, to experience the glory of an empty, hot, smells-like-burning-trash Cairo-in-August experience??? ;)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Gee, you make it sound soooo inviting!

This year I expect to have no available vacation days from work. Check back with me next... wait, January is Japan... um... winter of '05-'06? Oh heck, maybe I'll just quit and be unemployed again. :-)

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Woah, wait, hold on, back up ---

CJ -- you're employed again? What did I miss? When, where, huh?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh no, not yet, but I sure will be soon -- I can't afford not to be. If it's a job scrubbing car tires with toothbrushes and that's all I can get, I'm taking it.

I'm in the send-out-resumes stage. I am guessing I will be employed in a month -- less if the economy's improved a bit, like some people have been saying.

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

When Meredith was a kid she would do the same thing with cereal bowls that you do with vitamins! We had these melamine bowls that were white, pink and brown. Pink was the best -- if she got a pink one, she'd expect a very good day. White was in the middle -- that meant an "okay" day, not great but not awful. Brown was the bad color -- if she got a brown bowl, she was unhappy because it meant she would have a terrible day. At least occasionally it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

She grew out of that, but she does still get children's chewable vitamins rather than taking vitamin pills -- and gets her calcium from Viactiv for the same reason!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

When Meredith was a kid she would do the same thing with cereal bowls that you do with vitamins!

*grin* Very few people have ever accused me of growing up. :-)

Meredith's predictor sounds adorable.

At least occasionally it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I'm watching for that, actually, silly as it may sound. If I think I'm getting to that point, I'll have to break the association somehow.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I'll have a Red-Letter Day

I was thinking you meant that all words spoken by you would show up as red. *ducks & runs* ;-)