06.24.011; clean food challenge, day four.

my head is feeling better today, although i am still tired. but we're always a little tired.

today was almost an exact carbon copy of yesterday.

breakfast; fruit salad with oats and almonds, cold brewed coffee.
lunch; salsa and leftover quinoa (i microwaved this today, and it tasted a lot better than the cold salsa and quinoa i had yesterday).
snack; sugar snap peas.
dinner; leftover baked tempeh, roasted spinach with nooch.
snack; watermelon.
water; about a gallon and a quarter, as of 7:30pm.

i seem to recall having this problem last time where, because i am not very good at gauging how much food any given recipe will make, i get into these ruts where i have to eat the same things day after day because otherwise it will go bad and go to waste and i'm not very good at reinventing leftovers into amazing next day meals. plus i am a rather picky eater, so that doesn't help. the good news is that i ran out of fruit salad and left over baked tempeh. the bad news is that i still have a boatload of quinoa (i made a cup of the dry stuff) and salsa. it'd be nice to be able to mix things up a bit more, but oh well. i am still feeling good about the cleanse overall. hillary even bought chinese food today and it didn't make me hungry for it at all (of course, i have kind of lost my taste for chinese food this year. i don't know why). i've lost two pounds since tuesday.

if you don't have any interest in feminine issues, you should skip this part.

i started my period today, andso i kind of just want to eat a loaf of bread and a bunch of chocolate. i'm wondering if my cramps will be less terrible since i am more hydrated and eating cleaner. i have a theory that they might ease up a bit. or they will be completely unbearable. it will be an interesting few days.

resume reading.

today is my brother's 30th birthday. i am next up in the family queue to turn thirty. that seems weird. of course, it's not happening for another three years. i think the weirdest part is the thought that my parents are old enough to have two sons who in their thirties and two daughters who will be joining them in the next three-five years. i really don't understand how that's possible. time is such a weird thing that exists and doesn't exist at all.

i am singing some parts on a song for a friend of mine, and it is fun. i don't know what has compelled me to be less shy about singing or why it is happening right now, but it has happened, so i am singing. i should sing and spend more time trying to make music. as tom waits said, songs are just interesting things to do with the air.