Raspberry beret

from google..cool raspberry photo


I have fond memories of the first time I saw the Prince video for Raspberry Beret. It was 1985 and I was a young 21 years old. I was staying at a Days Inn in Macon, Georgia for a couple of days to take the Nursing state boards test for my Rn license. It was 5 am and I couldn't sleep because it was the second day of tests and (OMG! there were no maternity questions on the first day of the exam, so I was cramming). I'd just gotten up to take a shower and turned on MTV ( yep this was when they actually showed videos). Suddenly I'm dancing around in my pink pjs (coinkydink) and I'm feeling good and I remember thinking "I must remember that this was the first time I saw this video". Because it was so fun and I needed to lighten up -even though my whole career was sitting on this one test. And, I passed the state boards and became an RN.

So sometimes when I eat raspberries I take that little trip down memory lane. It was a raspberry kind of day.

Breakfast -raspberries, Morning star maple flavored sausage, almond butter, mixed Berry scone.
Lunch: 2 pieces of thin crust veggie pizza and a salad of arugala/ spinach/raspberries/shaved parmesan/walnuts/basalmic vingegar.
Snack: cottage cheese with raspberries, strawberries, kashi warm cinnamon cereal, cinnamon and a little sugar free maple syrup.
dinner--only raspberry-free meal of the day
dessert-50 calories Vitamuffin chocolate thingee heated, a few spoons of toasted coconut/vanilla yogurt, and Raspberries.

And on the rare occasion I hear Prince singing that song, I still dance.