Dear Arizona,
It’s June! My last month as a college freshman and my last month living on campus/ in the dorms/ in my tiny closet home! (Okay, well, actually… if I am able to move into the summer house I have my fingers crossed for then the room I’ll be staying in will be smaller than the one I’m in now. But! I’m totally okay with that. It’ll only be for the summer and I plan to get a job and go on many sunshine adventures so what would I even need a big room for?!
I can barely believe that it’s already June and my life is about to change again! Pack everything I own into boxes 2.0! It makes me a little anxious and nostalgic (already), but I’m also really excited as well as looking forward to going back to Arizona for the first time in almost six months! Luckily, I have my project all finished and ready to turn in. All that’s left are my evaluation edits and- I just found this out tonight- one more tiny essay reviewing my entire year. The only big thin to stress about is packing, which was a little stressful to begin with but then…
This happened! This being my “stage two sprained and displaced” left ankle, as said by the ER doctor. This also being the inability to put any weight on my left foot and needing to use these (painful!) crutches and wear this robot-boot. This also also being a very innocent (and yes, sober, which they asked me at least ten times at the ER) time jumping on a trampoline in some slight drizzle rain and landing on the outward-left side of my foot while, coincidently, the trampoline lost it’s major give (due to an accidental “double jump”/ “jump steal”, terms by past friends-and-me but known by new friends as well.) and all of my weight went into my sideways foot. Which then made me promptly fall over and sit in shock, wondering if that loud crack I heard was my ankle breaking in half or not. But, fortunately, it wasn’t! So, I just have the boot and crutches, which I will be “on and off for a while”, (also said by ER doc). But, it takes about a month and a half to heal, so for the next six weeks I’m going to be really careful. Which is why I’m making smoothies in my dorm at midnight on a Saturday.
Tonight’s smoothie is a very flavorful vegetable-fruit mix that I came up with myself. If you look at the first picture you may notice it’s quite green! That’s from the vegetables: cucumber and basil leaves off of the plant I have growing in my room! The fruit I have in with that is one whole, small banana and one peach. There’s a little coconut water in to help with the blending and some raw agave for sweetness. It’s delicious but definitely has a… different taste to it. None of the ingredients are very prominent unless trying to taste it, which I really like because all of the flavors really went with the other. It’s got a very refreshing taste to it but the basil give it this subtle spicy hint. I recommend it to you, desert home, especially because it’s getting so hot there. Oh! It would be great as a frozen bar!
Hah. Anyway! I want to share two other smoothies I’ve made recently.
The first being a chocolate almond smoothie that I made post-workout this last week. It contained almond butter, dark chocolate almond milk, and then two small bananas. SUPER delicious and an extremely satisfying treat after a long run.
The second one was inspired from a vegan website’s “Pin-avoca-lada”. Mine contained: coconut water, half of an avocado, a banana, and orange-pineapple juice. Also really refreshing and pina colada-y! Definitely a success. Some time I want to try it with more of a coconut taste and actual pineapple.
Okay, yeah. So now that I’ve spent a good amount of time writing about smoothies… hahaha, I think maybe it’s time to retire to bed. Goodnight, AZ.
xoxox
E.
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