Making Smoothies

A few weeks ago, I had a craving to add more fruit to my diet, and decided to pick up a long-lapsed habit of making smoothies at home. I've been enjoying them ever since. 

How I'm making them:

• enough orange juice to cover the blades at the bottom of the blender
• two big spoonsful of vanilla yogurt
• a banana (cold from the fridge), sliced
• frozen fruit, some combination of:
• mixed berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries)
• cherries
• peaches
• pineapple

One blender full, more or less, makes two good-sized smoothies, and I find that the second one stays pretty good in the fridge for the next day.

I remember that years ago, I added protein powder, but I also remember having trouble finding one I liked, so I haven't done that yet. I wish I could get samples of ones before committing to the big-ass containers in the store. I think I used a vanilla one, after trying a chocolate one that was terribly fake-tasting. If I found a good-tasting vanilla one, I could use plain yogurt instead... but I need to watch out for artificial sweeteners, sometimes those give me migraines so I try to avoid them all.

It's all so complicated! Any suggestions?

Plates

There's a proposal in Florida to make it so that cars would have to have a front license plate, as well as the rear plate currently required, and while we don't know if it will become law, my mother and I were talking about it recently and I said that I would be sorry to give up my current, decorative front plate.

I told her that I knew someone in Massachusetts who had a specialty plate that said KNITTAH, which is pretty funny if you are familiar with the Boston accent, and I said I'd have to look into what I could get in Florida. The state has a website where you can check to see if a plate is available, which is nice so you can play around with choices before you have to go in. 

Just for fun, I checked on KNITTER, and hey, it was available! Because of the length, it's not available on all plates (of which the state has a million different ones), so I did go in to the tax collector's office to ask about it (as the sample plates online didn't make it clear how it would really look, most samples showing 6 letters, not 7).

The woman there was super helpful, and in about ten minutes, my "reservation" was in and she will call me when they come in. Here's what it looks like, in black and white, at least.

I told her my local knitting friends would be jealous, and she looked and said that KN1TTER with a 1 was still available, FYI. 

Anyway, if you're ever driving around Florida and see a Kia Soul with the KNITTER plate, give me a wave!