Monday.

It's an ordinary Monday, I guess.  Our new ordinary, in which one of our children lives in another state.  I'm still a bit under the weather, not too bad, but I'm probably contagious so I'm not going to volunteer at the children's hospital tonight.  I'm going to continue taking it easy.  I talked to the oldest son this morning on Facebook and he said that he was having an earache and so I looked online and found a walk-in clinic near him that takes our health insurance.  Hopefully he will go.  It's very hard to make kids do something they don't really want to do when they are so far away. 

I'm trying to lose weight but not working too hard at it.  I made a veggie lunch and I am going to try and eat more green beans and broccoli since they are low cal and healthy foods that I like.  However, I'm also trying to fight the urge to get up and go in the kitchen and make a crustless pecan pie.  I'm craving it and we have the pecans in there.  Do you all think a pecan pie and green bean diet sounds reasonable?  I doubt I'd lose much weight on it.  :-)

My youngest son is counting down the days to Christmas on www.xmasclock.com and it is 21 days, 8 hours and 34 minutes and 52 seconds until Christmas and I haven't even really started shopping! 

Sunday, resting.

I'm resting today.  I got up sick this morning and realized that my husband had shared his cold with me.  He is braving it and went to work, and I wimped out of church and stayed home.  This morning, I had no voice at all and couldn't even speak, but now I can but I don't want to.  I'm watching TV and playing The Sims and just generally not doing much of anything.  It's actually kind of nice, since really I don't feel all that bad.  I'm taking Cold-Eeze in the hopes that it will go away quickly.  I may do some work on the Christmas lists today.  They need organizing.  Seriously.  It's already December second!!!!  I am going to switch into my before-Christmas-stressing-out-because-I-think-Christmas-is-coming-too-quickly mode, just like I do every year, but not until after today.  My little unplanned break from the business.

 

Craft Sale!

Next week is the annual kids craft sale my daughter usually participates in.  It's kid's crafts and hers are pretty advanced, so I never really feel like she gets very good prices there.  All the crafts are priced low and that seems to be what people expect.  This Wednesday, we heard from a friend about a craft show today and we were invited to participate in it.  The fee for a table was 25.00 but our friend negotiated my daughter a better rate, since she is just a kid.  :-)  So anyway, we got there today and it was really nice and there were some serious shoppers there who were willing to pay real prices.  She made over 60 bucks and was very, very happy.  The really good news is that they have craft shows several times a year and actually the fall ones are better attended, (way better) so next October, she'll be cleaning up and earning college money!  :-) 

Sleepy.

I wasn't prepared for how sleepy giving up my one cup of coffee a day would make me.  I just want to nap.  Instead I'm working, albeit kind of slowly and in between typing jobs, trying to get the teenagers to wake up. That is not an easy task.  The waking the kids up part, I mean.  They really are not morning people.  My oldest, in Mississippi this morning, forgot to set his alarm and slept through his first class.  Oh well.  These things happen, I guess.  I want these younger 2 to wake up soon because we've got piano lessons today and I don't want school going on still at midnight tonight.  I really want to be in bed, asleep by then. 

My new diet.

I'm trying now to follow the anti-interstitial cystitis diet, which, let me tell you, is kind of crazy.  I started out trying to do an elimination diet, where you only eat about 10 different things for a week and then add in things and watch your symptoms and that way you can tell what's triggering the discomfort.  But I just couldn't see myself living for a week on turkey, lettuce, peeled potatoes with nothing on them, rice and yams.  I guess I could and it may come to that, but I decided to go about it from the other direction and look up the top worst offenders and try to eliminate those. 

I found this list that has a bunch of the worst.
Coffee.
Tea.
Fruit juices.
soda.
Tomatoes.
 

Also implicated are
Artifical food colorins
Sugar, vinegar and other foods that promote yeast overgrowth.
Gluten.

I strongly suspect that the reason I've felt so horrible is that I got glutened the other day when I went for mom's day out although the nurse practitioner I saw yesterday said that gluten had nothing to do with it.  

So anyway, this morning, I'm coffee free and tea free.  Those are my biggies but I'm willing to give them up if it will make me feel better.  Surprisingly, I haven't (yet) gotten a headache from going without my caffeine. 

In the rest of life, oldest son called last night and he's doing fine.  The younger 2  are busy with school and my husband and I are off work today. 

Not spam!!!!!

I just realized with a little help from my bloggy buddy Amy that I have had all kinds of good genuine comments from friends going to the blogger spam folder.  I had no idea!  Now today I've had so much fun going back and reading everyone's comments for the last month or so.  Thanks you all for reading and thank you all for commenting and for being my blog friends.  I appreciate having my own little outlet for my thoughts, opinions and ideas.

I am having a problem with blogger in that they say I have used up all my picture space on Picasa and will now have to pay for pictures to be placed on my blog, so I have been using old pictures from the blog, but I'd really like to publish some pictures of the latest crochet and art projects and  things like that, but I can't.  I may have to go to another blog hosting service.  Blah.

This is a recycled photo from last November.

Check out Technology Rocks, Seriously.

They  have put together a collection of on line Christmas educational games.  I even enjoy playing some of these and I'm old!  :-P   Technology Rocks, Seriously.

Tired, but kind of glad.

I'm tired from all the running for the past week and a half or so, glad I did all those things and now I am equally glad that I don't have to do much of anything for the next few days.  Whew.  Then next 4 or 5 days I don't have anything special written on my calendar (yes, I use an old fashioned paper calendar, not a device!).  I do have the usual stuff, choir practice, piano lessons. etc. but that's all.  I have nothing at all today except work and school and I may take a nap this afternoon.  I could use it.  

I'm also going to get started on my Christmas list and possibly even my Christmas shopping.  Okay, I have begun it.   I have already picked up a few things.  Okay, 3.  Three things.  Not too bad.  For me.  It's still November after all.  :-)

It was supposed to snow today, but it didn't. I'd kind of like to be able to use snow as an excuse to HAVE to stay home for a couple of days, you know?  It's harder with a 4 wheel drive truck at my disposal, but I might be able to pull it off.