SMOOTHIES!!

Smoothies. Some people love them, some people hate them. Before I came to Virginia Tech I was not really a fan. It is not that I did not like them; it is just that if I had the choice, I would not get one. Well since coming to Virginia Tech, that has drastically changed. I have now discovered this new found love for them and I cannot go a day without having one. I crave them all day. It will be nine o’clock in the morning and I will be walking to calculus class; and what am I thinking about? Smoothies! I sit in calculus class and think about them. I get severely side-tracked during class. Maybe that is why I did so badly on the last test, I was too busy thinking about smoothies when I should have been learning, or maybe I did not do well on that test because it was freaking impossibly hard. I do not know. It is really a tossup between the two. You can make the call on that one. So when I am sitting in class thinking about this, my mouth starts to water and I begin to think about what flavor I want to get. Planet Raspberry? No, that has a little too much banana flavor in it. Strawberry Banana? No way! Way too much banana. Coconana? Possibly. It may have a lot of banana flavor in it but somehow it is amazing but I had that yesterday and I really do not want to get sick of it. Peach? Definitely a possibility however I do not know if I am really in the peach smoothie kind of mood. Pina Colada? That is definitely the right choice for today. Especially today considering it is cold out and pina coladas remind me of the beach and summer and warm weather and no school work. My mom and I had pina coladas almost every day when we were in the Bahamas. That was my graduation present to go to the Atlantis Resort for eight days. It was amazing. Anyway, getting back on the topic of my addiction to smoothies. The pina colada just brings back some really nice memories for me today so I think I am going to go with that. So I will walk out of calculus class and come back to my dorm and I usually make the decision to get the smoothie later in the day, say for lunch or dinner. I just think it goes better with those kinds of food. So I will think about this smoothie ALL day long until I get it. I am not really sure what happened to me but I suddenly became addicted to these smoothies. Now I do have to clarify. There are two places to get smoothies on campus that I know about. There is one in Owens and there is one in West End. For me these two are completely different. I prefer West End’s smoothies. I cannot really explain why so you will just have to try them for yourself. I am already running low on my meal plan money. They have those charts in the dining halls telling you where you should roughly be right about now, yea, I am a month ahead of where I am supposed to be so I should probably start cutting back on the smoothies every day, but then again I can just keep adding money to my meal plan and get smoothies every day J I feel that most people have addictions, whether they are bad or just a friendly addiction. For instance, my addiction is smoothies. My roommate’s addiction is diet coke, bran cereal, and splenda. I think all of those things defeat the purpose of trying to stay healthy. Diet coke and splenda are extremely bad for you, but I will not be the one to tell her. My dad is addicted to coke. He must have at least one every single day. His body basically goes into withdrawal without it. Some people are addicted to more superficial things such as Facebook and magazines. I have an addiction of People Magazine. I would be so excited to come home on Fridays after school because I wanted to read People. That was the highlight of my Friday every week. It has been so hard not having it here with me. Some people have to get on their Facebook all the time. They have to know everyone’s status updates, new pictures people add, they have to watch a video someone posted onto someone else’s wall. I do not know but I find this a little strange. An addiction I have only found since coming to college is Farmville. Everyone is obsessed with this. They have to get on all the time to harvest their crops or collect chocolate milk from their brown cows or transform their ugly duckling to a swan or harvest the lemons out of the lemon tree. This sounds so outrageous to someone who has never heard of Farmville however being that I am one of the many people now addicted, it is so much fun. The only thing I dislike is how you cannot speed up time. Everything is in real time so it takes a lot of patience. Some other people are addicted to what I would call bad things such as alcohol and drugs. Their bodies will not let them go a long amount of time without smoking a cigarette or chewing tobacco or having a few beers. It is something they have grown so addicted to they will do anything they can to get their hands on it and find time to do it. These addictions are completely different than my addiction to smoothies or college kid’s addiction to Farmville. They are harmless, innocent addictions that you will always find somewhere in our life. But these addictions will most likely not make you unhealthy and kill you in the long run. So when you are done reading this, tell me what your addictions are. Good and bad.