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

[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!