I'm going Nuts!

So moving day has come and gone, and I am now once again living with my parents. This in itself poses its own unique challenges and changes. However the biggest challenge right now is trying to fit my house into my room. Everything fit so nicely into my apartment, however it is really hard to put all that back into my childhood room that was never completely emptied in the first place. I am in the process of cleaning out my room and throwing out a lot of stuff I didn't realize I still had. However this process is made difficult by the large amount of things I have in my room- I need my clothes and some things in my room and easy to access but this is hard since there is no space or empty drawers for them. Basically I have resorted to an old college trick of moving stacks of stuff from my floor to my bed and from my bed to my floor depending on which space I need the most. It's not the most efficient system however so the cleaning needs to happen sooner rather than later.


Today was my second day working on this monumental task. To date I have emptied:
4 milk crates/ milk crate sized bins
4 1/2 large cardboard boxes
3 1/2 dresser drawers
as well as gone through my closet and drawers and identified a large stack of clothes for the second hand store.

Today I was mainly working on some boxes in my closet which mainly contain old compositions, knick-knacks, crafts, etc. from kindergarten to highschool. Some of these items are treasured momentos, others are humorous stories (perhaps I'll post some sometime.) and there is always a hefty dose of junk and detritus. Perhaps one of the strangest things I found was this:  (pic from google)

What would you do if you found something like this lying on your closet floor? Perhaps you already know what this is, I however did not. So I did the only sensible thing a person could do. - I took it outside, smashed it with a rock, and examined/ smelled the remnants. Turns out it was a Brazil nut. I have never seen or eaten a Brazil nut, and as far as I can tell neither has any of my family members. Yet somehow a Brazil nut ended up in my bedroom closet.

In honour of this strange occurrence here are some interesting facts about Brazil nuts:

• They are an excellent source of selenium, copper, magnesium and phosphorous
• Perhaps they are too good of a source of selenium- you can easily eat way more than the recommended daily intake of selenium with just a handful of nuts
• They also contain high quantities of Barium and Radium (not enough to take an X-ray but still 1000x higher than many other foods)
• They are a very fatty nut and can apparently be lit like a candle
• The Brazil nut tree relies on a special bee to pollinate it so it produces fruit, this bee relies on a certain orchid to reproduce, this orchid is sensitive to rainforest deforestation, so without a healthy rainforest there are no brazil nuts 
• Botanically speaking the Brazil nut isn't really a nut but a seed
• Most wild Brazil nuts are planted by a guinea pig- sized rodent called the Agouti. The Agouti chews through the hard outer casing to get to the "nuts" it eats a few and then buries the rest- forgetting about them like North American squirrels and chipmunks.
• Brazil nut oil can also be used for a lubricant for clocks, artist paints and cosmetics