November 7th 2013,
Well I just love hearing all of the crankies complain about daylight savings and it being dark at night. It beats being pitch black in the morning and your kids complaining that you are getting them up for school in the middle of the night! And I like it getting dark early at night and light when I wake up. It makes me feel like a pioneer! It sets our internal clocks better if you get up with the sun and winds you down when the sun drops in the sky. I wake up refreshed during this time. I feel like I spend all of daylight savings in half a fog and acting like a zombie. Oh I was so born in the wrong time period...ok yes I do love my conveniences....like indoor toilets...but I miss the work ethic, the fact that a mans word was good on a handshake only, and that neighbors were friends, not just neighbors by proximity!
It is that time of year when you stop eating all the wonderful berries and you get your fill of pumpkin filled food items and drinks and fall beans. You eat chili, stews, soups and sit by the fire and drink hot chocolate while watching old movies. I am hopeful that I do not gain 2000lbs this winter b/c I love to cook holiday sweets. I love cakes and pies and cookies...I have Pioneer Woman on the DVR for ideas with all of her recipes. I ride my spin bike and watch cooking shows...or home improvement shows depending on my mood and what is on. Unfortunately, my healthy eating has me only maintaining my weight currently...my portion control has gotten WAY out of hand. It was time to take matters in to my own hands! And then I got sick...
I manage to keep fairly healthy except for my pesky hormonal headaches. I get the usual cold after wiping noses all winter and usually get over them pretty easy. But once every 2 years it seems I get something that takes a strangle hold on me and puts me down and out. I felt yucky almost two Saturdays ago at night. I woke up the next morning with flu like symptoms then the fever went up and I generally felt like dog poop. I took the last of the Thera Flu....of course we were out! And then hit the expired knock off flu medicine that made me vomit the last time I took it. (Yeah I felt that bad to give that one a go!) My sickness then progressed into what felt like a horrible allergy attack with constant sneezing and my eyes watering so bad I look like I was constantly crying. At that point, I gave up (b/c I was avoiding going to the doctor) b/c my fever would not go away and I felt like someone was beating me with a stick at night. I found some left over antibiotics from a prescription last fall when I had the crud so I got desperate and took them. Bad move on my part. I really like to avoid antibiotics when I can but I lost my noggin and I forgot that I really don't like that particular brand I had b/c it made me feel funny. (Note- I am allergic to several antibiotics so my choices are limited oh and also codeine...so much for cough meds.) Then I had the bright idea to take my husbands expired cough meds with codeine so I could sleep and not hack out my left lung lobe! I kept the Benadryl close....Between the expired cough meds, so much Vicks on my chest that I stayed greasy, and breathe right strips I made it without major night time cough fits or a sore throat from mouth breathing. Well, I made it until this Tuesday....I still had a dry hacking cough thanks to my asthma that I got from both my dads smoking like chimneys (I have a step dad so hence the multi-daddy comment) when I was a kid. I coughed so hard that at my age you better have protection...and then the bladder infection hit. Sheese. When I get sick. I GET SICK. Sucks really. So then after all that I HAD TO GO TO THE DOCTOR THAT I WAS TRYING TO AVOID. Grrr. But I am feeling better and hubby can quit having heart attacks b/c he thought I was dying....when actually I was taking special bladder pain pills that turn your pee pee almost orange... or red if you aren't used to it. No dear I am not bleeding to death I just have very dark orange pee....its perfectly normal...really.
So the Lawyer is off her probation and got to get on the computer for the first time tonight in a month. She was quite the happy camper. I loved it when we grounded her b/c she actually asked me, "What am I going to do all day on the weekends?? I will be bored!". Well she discovered her lost love of reading. She has had her nose in a book constantly to the point I have had to use that as a threat too b/c she was ignoring us. Meanwhile Monkey is still having the occasional meltdown. She is beginning to eat better though so that might help. She actually wanted tacos again last night b/c she told me she wanted to go eat at "Maci's! You know the one with the power wagon!" This is a typical conversation for us where she gets things half right and expects me to just figure it out. After many questions, I finally figured out she wanted to go eat at Moe's. And have the kids meal called the power wagon...my brain hurt after that exchange.
After this morning's meltdown, (she didn't have enough time to play before school b/c she spent 10 minutes looking at herself in the mirror...) she was very mad at the lack of time she had to play. And it was all my fault, so she thought. We have been playing the "hear are consequences to YOUR actions" game a lot lately. She is beginning to see that I do not cave and she has to alter what she does to avoid something that upsets her. I really think I need to get her back on her vitamins again since she is not eating as well and see if that helps her turn things back around. It is such a subtle thing that I am not sure exactly what works and what doesn't...it is more of a gut instinct. So I cook the family as healthy of a meal as I can and try to get each kid eating one or more of what I cook so it feels more like a family meal and I know what ingredients the kids are ingesting. Tonight I fixed GF fried chicken nuggets, and had left over warmed up pinto beans and butternut squash risotto (from a box) and a yellow potato. I had great ideas the week before I got sick but I am kind of stumped this week and just winged it. I got a few more ideas but I need to flip thru some mags or watch more cooking shows to get inspired again. I hate to repeat meals too often or become predictable. I think it is more fun to surprise and mix and match flavors. Sometimes I hit a home run...sometimes I strike out. Just like a pioneer I tackle new ground to make it my own.
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