Day one of Reboot began with me wandering around the house for 5 minutes trying to figure out what to do instead of making a pot of coffee.  I was lost.  Sitting on the back porch and reading didn’t feel the same without a mug going to my mouth every few minutes.  I am pretty sure this is a sign of addiction. 

We made our first glass of juice: peach, carrot, orange, rhubarb, blueberry, spinach.  It tasted really good.  As I drank it down, I thought out loud with Elizabeth, this won’t be so bad. 

About two hours later, we were hungry, so we made glass of juice number two.  This time we went with beets, ginger, apple, carrot.  The color of the juice was a stunning purple.  The flavor was not so stunning, but it made us feel healthy, so we drank it up. 

Shortly after glass o’ goodness number two, my head began to feel sloggish.  Not sluggish, so much, but sloggish.  I attributed this to the lack of caffeine.  Another unfortunate sign of addiction.  So I took a shower, shook it off, and we went on with our day.

The full on Reboot project officially ended at 2:30.  That sloggish feeling in my head was now joined by waves of nausea.  I thought to myself, I am in the middle of my only week of summer vacation.  I don’t want to feel like crap.  So I texted Elizabeth and told her I was caving on the coffee.  Then I headed through the Starbucks drive thru.  Unfortunately, I was past the point of anything a tall misto could do.  The waves of nausea kept getting worse.  I put a tomato, a carrot, and some celery into the juicer and forced myself to drink it.  Shortly after Elizabeth called and informed me that she was feeling great.  She had eaten a salad for lunch and was sipping an iced coffee.

Traitor.

I immediately made a bowl of oatmeal, ate it, and took a nap.  Reboot aborted.

We had another glass of juice around dinner time, which was followed by a vegetable wrap at the Tin Caps game.  Nope, it wasn’t juice, but it wasn’t a beer and hot dog either.   

As I type this, I am sipping a nice mug of coffee.  We are planning on having some juice today, we have a kitchen full of fruits and vegetables and a $300 juicer, we have to have some juice.  But we are opting for a little more balanced approach to this Reboot thing.