Treed and Fumbling

IT'S AUTUMN, A TIME OF the year that seems to always bring with it change. Not major changes, since the obvious major changes earlier, but the minor changes of May. Small deviances in lifestyle that has turned my habits into freed, tumbling leaves.

I stopped rolling my work shirt sleeves up before I leave home in the morning. I now need warm forearms for the walk to the train. I am trying to delay the advent of wearing a jacket to work for as long as possible, but every cold morning feels like it will be the last before I double my layers.

I stopped flushing my used dental floss down the toilet every night. Now I carry it to a bin after brushing. I miss peeing on it.

I stopped drinking Pepsi Max the day before Anzac Day. So that's fifteen days without soda. I'm not sure when exactly I became a Pepsi Max fiend, somewhere between the 29c can sale during BULKtember and this day. What I do know is that I have averaged two cans a day since. I stopped mainly to help preserve my teeth, and also because I was feeling paranoid about drinking a Pepsi Max at 1:30pm every single day at work and I couldn't stop thinking that my predictably presented the perfect opportunity for someone to poison me.

Not posting journal entries very often is a change.

I had my hair cut on the weekend, mainly so I would look less awkward in my new baseball cap. I spent a whole day dealing with my trimmings falling from my head like freed, tumbling leaves.

I have eaten a minimum of four pieces of fruit each day this week, and cut out all baked goods and processed foods. It makes me feel tingly at times.

I started posting my journal entries on weird backgrounds.

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Sam

Four Pink Lady apples each day? I thought they had vanished, so switched to Jazz. But the other day they returned, at $2kg.

May 9 2012 - Like
Brad

May is Pink Lady season, Sam! They'll be cheap all winter.

The fruits available to me has expanded now that I've at long last taught myself how to gauge the ripeness of a pear.

May 9 2012 - Like
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