I Did A Thing: Juice Cleanse

Hello dear readers,

For the last 3 days, I've been a miserable, tired, hungry wreck. If the title didn't already give it away, I did a juice cleanse. You're probably thinking 'but Annie, why?!?!' and to be honest, I don't have a logical explanation for you. Sorry.

Let me walk you through what happened. Note, this was not a solo adventure, my sister Chrissie also suffered with me.

DAY 1
Juice 1: Banana, spinach, chia and something else. I was too distracted by the look of the smoothie. GREEN. Not attractive.

Chrissie and I doing our best 'excited' faces

 Juice 2: Lemon, water, cayenne pepper and agave.
So gross and peppery. This is what Beyonce lived off during 'Dreamgirls'?!? Also, this was my face the whole time:

Artist's impression of me drinking this juice

Juice 3: Pineapple, apple and mint.
This one is good apart from the aftertaste where it feels like you have just swallowed a whole tube of toothpaste. I get it, there's mint, MOVE ON.

Juice 4: Lemon, ginger, water.
So much ginger, it's like a Weasley family reunion.

Juice 5: Carrot, orange etc
This one made me squirm so bad. Single-handedly the most disgusting thing I've ever put in my mouth.

Actual footage.

Juice 6: Banana, chia, cacoa

'Cacoa is like chocolate, right?'

NEEDED MOAR CHOCOLATE THEN. Also quite nutty and because of the seeds, chewy. This was supposed to be the fun 'desert' smoothie. Comparatively, maybe, but at that point I would have given my first born for a brownie.

DAY 2

Same juices/smoothies as the day before. However, I felt exceptionally tired and in a zombie like state even though I had 8 hours of sleep. That almost never happens with me! (the 8 hours, not the tiredness). Also had a pounding headache. Well done everybody!

By juice 5, which I sculled btw, I had had enough of it. Chrissie and I were considering what to do with day 3 and 6 MORE JUICES. We decided to do a half day and introduce solid foods back in. Oh that's right, apparently you can't eat straight away, you have to slowly introduce protein back to your body :|

DAY 3

I had arrived on Struggle Street. I couldn't make it through juice 1 at all and my stomach was on the fritz.

Juice 2 was sculled, thankfully, and I just made it through juice 3. My stomach was audibly present in the office. I was done with this.

I went home from work and made myself a big old sandwich and coffee. TAKE THAT, JUICISTS!

After all that, I sadly did not turn into Gwyneth Paltrow nor did I really see any benefits (clear skin, energy etc). Would I do it again? Probably not. Actually, most likely, no.

I'll stick to my flat whites, you can have your carrot juices *flips hair*.

Toodles

Annie A

Summertime Sadness

Dear readers,

It has been a long and frankly, uneventful summer. As it so happens, I'm taking the first day of Autumn to reflect on the last three months, you know, call it out on its bullshit, remind it of the good times etc.

I think I've realised that I'm more of a glass half empty person, which is weird because I always said I was pretty optimistic about things. Silver linings and grass is greener jazz. I guess I'm just not. Finishing my degree  on a high didn't happen and I still cannot get over it, and I don't think I ever will. Still unemployed. I don't even think a pimp would give me a job. And if they, by some miracle, did, I'd still be broke. Still don't have my licence because of my intense anxiety of driving. And still single- not that that's a big deal or anything but, it would be nice to have a S/O. At some point. I also put on a little weight during thesis, which in hindsight, makes me more angry than it should because it seems like I gained weight for nothing. Not that I did purposefully- I didn't. But had I received a better mark, it would have seemed like I gained something in losing something else. So now I'm trying, very slowly, to get myself back into shape.

All this is making me sound like I'm super depressed and had the worst summer ever. I guess it wasn't all that bad. I did get to chill a bit, went on a quickie holiday to Queensland with the family, tried some fabulous and some not so fabulous eateries around Sydney with my definitely amazing sis Chrissie. Also became incredibly addicted to 'Girls', possibly because I identified with it so much. Shoshana, you are my spirit animal! I'm also a bit of a Hannah. But not a Marnie or Jessa /coolstorybro

But in the immortal words of Marina and the Diamonds, 'Guess what? I am not a robot!' So I kind of have to deal with being crap at life, my jealousy at those of you who are androids amplified to a 10. Did I learn anything else from these past few months? The honest answer is no. I think another Summer just passed me by without me giving it a life-affirming 'grabbing of the balls'.

I give Summer a 6/10. Needed to try harder in class but was nice enough. Very sociable with the other kids but should pay more attention to their school work.

Autumn/Winter; I am coming for you.

Toodles!
Annie A

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A break from our normal programming: some notes about myself

Dear Readers,

This is sort of a weird interlude to my blog in which I use its powers for good, and not for evil. This post is about myself and why I'd like to be the content and community coordinator for The Fetch.

Off the bat, I have always been very media/pop culture/ savvy and in tune with the zeitgeist. This pre-dates to my primary school years where I was the go-to-girl for anything that was news worthy outside the school gates. Fun fact, I also had a very limited run one month in 1997 of performing an impression of Celine Dion around the playground. That was a dark time in my life *cringes*.

My interest and love of media carried on all the way to uni, where I completed a Science/Arts degree with majors in Psychology and Media, Culture and Technology (respectively). During this period, I fell into social media; having already hooked myself up with a Facebook page at the end of year 12, I become aware of Twitter, blogging sites, Tumblr etc. My Honours Media thesis solidified this as the career path I should go down, or at least explore before I get stopped by an evil troll and have to turn back.

I wouldn't say I'm addicted to social media- I've gone weeks without it. But it has become a fundamental part of my daily life and I know that it is going to be an essential part of society in the not too distant future. I would say I am highly literate with social media- I tweet, I blog, I facebook, I google, I youtube and I tumble. Can I pin, wiki and instagram? Yes. Yes I can. And if don't know, I muck around or research how to do something until I figure it out.

Twitter

Tumblr

Blogs: Nonsensical Whimsy, 3 Minutes 30 seconds and fade out

Facebook

Now, some of you might not know, but I'm the middle child out of 3 (ethnic) girls. And it's been a struggle my entire life! Kidding, though the early years were a bit of nightmare. It's been this predicament that has taught me that if there's anytime I would like my voice heard, that I really do need to speak up. It's not in my nature to be rude or dominating- I'm shy and consider myself to be selfless as I do enjoy helping others. But when you're stuck in the middle of an argument, you have no choice but to be the peace-maker and give a rational, logical opinion to settle situations. I'd like to think that this is a skill that I've honed over the many years of being the middle man (or girl).

So, this brings us nearly up to speed. Since April of last year, I've been the social media marketer for Vibewire, an amazing non profit organisation. I've learned A LOT and really enjoy working there. I wouldn't have come across crowdfunding, startups and not least of all the brilliant other interns I get to collaborate with. I'm really happy with the way my internship has turned out and I'm *possibly* ready for the big bad world.

On a final note, I'm also a super quick reader (*coughIhaventreadElementsOfStyleyetcough*), am pretty flexible with my availability and think The Fetch seems really...fetch.

Thank you for reading!

Annie Armenian