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

[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.