1. Y'all are just lucky I don't think Thirty Things Thursday is a good idea!
2. Thanks for all the recent comments! Amazing how once you stop posting about how crappy you feel all the time, etc., that people are interested to read the stuff that's not about that :)
3. Speaking of crappy... I continue to crawl out of the hole I had found myself in. One of the insidious things about depression is you just don't realize you're in it until you're IN IT. And often not until you're coming out the other side. Depression is much better, mostly just a whisper. Sinuses are good, asthma is under control. And I finally made an appointment to see a new chiropractor, who hopefully will snap, crackle, and pop me out of this weeks-long headache I've had. Something feels not quite right at the very base of my skull where the spiny things start. Plus there's the source of the gigantic knots that my cute massage guy Kyle always finds in my shoulders. And my low back. Didn't I say I was feeling better? I really am, I swear!
4. Once this pesky persistent headache goes away, it will give me the oomph I need to cut back on my soda habit. I haven't been horrible, almost always only two a day, but I'm drinking Diet Coke again and that doesn't do good things to my system. If I can get back to just Pepsi Throwback -- minimal chemicals and real sugar, not HFCS -- then I only seem to want one a day, if that. I think it's the real sugar that maybe makes it more satisfying? I don't know. But it's much easier to drink a case of Diet Coke than even two or three Pepsi Throwbacks. Not that I want to drink a case... last time I did that there was a fifth of Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum and the Muppet Christmas Carol involved and I woke up at 3:00 a.m. drunk and wired.
5. Some of the headache could also be from grains. I've slowly been consuming more and more over the past two months -- ever since I got so sick back in March. Today my tummy is pointing out just why I don't eat a lot of that stuff typically. Just this week I've had pasta salad, tortellini with scallops, bacon and mushrooms, burgers, and bagels. Ugh.
6. My grandfather isn't doing so well -- early onset Alzheimer's, starting definitely to set in where it's just a matter of time before he will have to go into care -- so I'll be making a high-speed run to Idaho in a few weeks. I'll have to text Kim to see if she'll be at the airport on those days; we have a tequila bar to check out!
7. And.... I've completely lost all my motivation for today. Good thing I'm leaving early for the chiropractor's!
8. Yep, still no motivation.
9. I'm having this urge to run a marathon. Which is good, because I'm running one in five months and two weeks.
10. The fun thing about going to visit my grandparents is that it's chock full of the Standard American Diet. Cereal for breakfast. Toast too if you're lucky. Sandwich for lunch? Sure! And don't forget buttered white Wonder bread with dinner, it really makes the meal. I tend not to eat much at Grandma's. Even before I learned that grains were the devil, I was never really a cereal person. Always a bacon and eggs person. And I like a good deli sandwich -- I love a great deli sandwich -- but not so much with the sandwiches at home or for school lunch. It could have something to do with the sandwich-making materials we had at home: mayo, white Wonder bread, plastic orange cheese, plastic lunch meat. When I discovered fresh sliced rare roast beef at the deli counter? Love at first sniff!
11. That's not to say that Grandma has a horrible diet, just a typical American food pyramid diet. There's a meat, there's always veggies. Always leftover veggies too; my grandparents were both born shortly after 1930 and have that Great Depression mentality about waste. I expect we'll have a frozen pizza or lasagna one night, probably rotisserie chicken the next. My dad will probably want me to take him big grocery shopping at WalMart, and we'll pick up Burger King on the way back. I think Grandpa is too sick to go for Chinese food like they (and I too) like to do when I visit. His Alzheimer's has progressed slowly, it's been at least five years since he was diagnosed but it still seems too soon. He hasn't had problems remembering people all that much so far, just the mechanics of life, like how to work the microwave or trying to change the channel on the TV with the telephone and vice versa. I hate this disease. He's only just 82.
12. Have I mentioned how happy I am to be going to the chiropractor today? I think my back knows I'm going because it's busting out all the aches and pains as the day goes on.
13. In the next few days my coworker and I are starting a 30 day ab challenge. We're going to do the ab work here in the office. We may be a while each day.
Cheers,
the CilleyGirl
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