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?

[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!

[mighty-sam.livejournal.com]

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

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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 :)

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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'.)

[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!

[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* ;-)