Karmic food balance

Since the last post was so tasty looking, the world decided to karmically balance my luck with food.

Today I made a giant salad for lunch with the snap peas and broccoli.  And! I discovered after tearing up half the lettuce, I got extra protein because the lettuce had aphids!

I washed them off of the second half of the lettuce and killed the ones that crawled onto my desk, but mostly just tried to chill out about it and think of all the dirt I must've eaten as a child.

Aphids apparently are very robust because the lettuce had been in the fridge since Thursday and the ones that made it out onto my desk had been salad-dressing-ed in addition to being refrigerated.

Sadly, even without the aphids, it wasn't a very tasty salad. Maybe some dried cranberries or other sweet sort of thing would've helped.