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I thought, rather I hoped, it was a joke. I saw a commercial passing HFCS off as all-natural. The commercial dialogue between two moms went something like this: 

Mom 1 to Mom 2 who is pouring unnamed punch for kids: Why are you giving the kids that? It’s full of high fructose corn syrup.

Mom 2: (giving a condescending look) So?

Mom 1: Well haven’t you heard that high fructose corn syrup is bad? It contains unhealthy ingredients. 

Mom 2: (condescending) Like what? Corn? All natural ingredients?

Mom 1: Uh…uh…oh…I like your top.

That’s not verbatim, but you get the idea. Even better, there’s a website using FDA quotes and studies funded by who knows who claiming that HFCS is natural and beneficial. It’s all propaganda. I never thought I’d see something so blatantly contrived and produced in my life time, but here it is.

I went to the website given at the end of the commercial so I could “get the facts,” and they’re saying that HFCS is the same as sugar so it’s not bad for you. In fact, both have many benefits! Like sugar is helpful and beneficial because it makes ginger snaps crunchy! How important to one’s health! And HFCS is beneficial because it makes soft cookies soft! What a relief!

If you want to read more of this shit, and trust me there’s more, visit sweetsurprise.com. 

I am blind with anger and very, very sad. I can’t believe our nation has come to this. Over half our population is battling obesity, and the corn corporations are doing all they can to keep their profits up even if it harms the health of our nation. sick sick sick. Don’t ask me why I’m not a “patriot” because I don’t understand how anybody can be proud of a nation whose citizens crawl and stomp over each other trying to get to the top. Our country is full of greedy bastards who will do anything and harm anyone to get ahead. I fear that a sad dystopia lies in our future.

Boyfriend and I are fasting. It’s hard. I’m hungry. My mom did the same fast, but she only did it for six days. We are doing it for the full ten because we are crazy. The fast was my idea, of course, but I’m having a much harder time than boyfriend. He’s just breezing through it while I’m dragging along. Today is day four and my mom said that I’d wake up not caring about food and that I’d probably even be a little grossed out by food. Instead, I woke up craving a Belgian waffle. I still think the fast is a good idea because its cleaning my system out, but I’m pretty sick of drinking salt water and “lemonade.”

Boyfriend and I actually did it. We drove across the country with a car full of our most valuable/personal possessions and today, in a half hour in fact, we will sign the lease to our new place. Sometimes I stop and think, oh my gosh, we are freaking crazy. But we are trying something new, and this is the best time to do it.

We really enjoyed our road trip out here and we didn’t encounter any problems. We didn’t get too sick of the road and we had many laughs along the way. For our road trip and our new adventure in Portland, we decided to create a new blog:

portlandbound.wordpress.com

We’ll be using this blog to put pictures up of our apartment and make entries about any adventures we have, but I’ll use this blog for my personal thoughts and reflections.

So to begin, I’m scared to death. I’ve never lived in a big city and I’ve never been on my own so far away from my family and friends. I’m glad that we have Seth and Nikki in our same building and Dan and Kim not too far away, but I’m feeling very small in this big place. However, I do not regret this decision nor do I think I will. It’s important for people to leave their comfort zones and try new things. I hope to emerge stronger and more sure of who I am and what I am capable of.

Before that happens though, many struggles to come.