Attack of the Green Monster!

Late last week I started to feel a bit of sickness coming on.  Wednesday I had gone to give blood and felt fine.  I think the lady doing my preliminary work up must have made me paranoid.  She seemed very concerned about my blood pressure, which was 102/60 or something similar (totally normal for me) and she was also very concerned about my temperature - 99.0.  Okay so maybe it's a teeny tiny fever but I felt fine and honestly, working at a hospital it's not that unusual for my body to be fighting something off all the time.  

Anyway, I gave blood and felt like a champ (especially after eating my Krispy Kreme doughnut).  Until the next day at work that is.  I felt sluggish, feverish, and had a scratchy throat.  When I went to the cafeteria at work I walked around to see what my choices were and when I walked past the fruit bar I honestly don't think anything had been so appealing in a long time.  It was delicious and wonderous.  Yes I just made up a word.

That evening I stopped by the grocery store to pick up some oranges and a few other things jumped into my cart.  Frozen strawberries, bananas, plain yogurt, spinach it just all sounded like things that would help me fight off the pending sickness.

I honestly don't even know where the idea came from, I've heard of green smoothies before but they always seemed weird and scary - way too hard core for me.  I decided that it was time to put on my big girl pants and give it a shot.  So this is the chronicle of the beginning of my green smoothie experiment.