Thursday, September 24, 2009

Cleanse - Elevensies


Below follows one of my favorite exchanges from the first Lord of the Rings movie:

Aragorn: Gentlemen! We do not stop 'til nightfall.

Pippin: But what about breakfast?

Aragorn: You've already had it.

Pippin: We've had one, yes. But what about second breakfast?

[Aragorn stares at him, then walks off.]

Merry: Don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip.

Pippin: What about elevensies? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he?

Merry: I wouldn't count on it.


"Elevensies" for me means two things today. 1) It is the eleventh day of this cleanse and 2) Since starting the cleanse, on a daily basis I probably consume every meal Pippin references. Second breakfast is an apple at 10:00am. Elevensies today was a celery stick. Lunch was a whole wheat bagel with some honey. Afternoon tea was green and included unsalted almonds. Dinner was chicken sausage stir-fried up with onions, peppers, broccoli, and cauliflower. Supper was some flax seed chips.


I would have made an excellent hobbit.


2 comments:

aurelia said...

I'm a great hobbit too! Second breakfast and elevensies are two of the most important meals of the day!

Rebecca Snavely said...

I'm imagining your head sticking through a special "Paul" hole in the hobbit hut.