So nice to hear from you all! ♥♥ ♥♥ <--------I feel surrounded by love!
My blanket is in the dryer right now (getting warm and cozy) and...MY MATTRESS TOPPER IS ON THE BED! HALLELUJAH! (Or at least I'm hoping "hallelujah", but a night's sleep will tell the tale.) I washed and dried my sheets and pillowcases, too, so if this doesn't work to relieve my back pain, it'll be back to the drawing board for relief.
Today is a big day for me in several ways, but tomorrow will be even bigger! We actually loaded up all the HUGE black garbage bags (36 gallons each - and there's maybe 6 of them) FULL of crushed aluminum cans PLUS our old microwave (our recycler takes "e-waste" we just found out today by calling them), so DEAREST SON OF THEM ALL loaded the whole mess up in the pickup bed! I had gotten up "early" (Noon-ish ), taken my shower, and gotten dressed. By 2:30pm, we hopped into the truck, I turned the key...and NOTHING! The battery had DIED. AARRRGGHHHH! So AAA came out and replaced it (a little over $150) - and DS and I instead went through quite a few tapes, boxed them up for donations, and put together my bed instead of doing what we had planned to do because we ran out of time. The NEW plan is for tomorrow, and we'll do the same (almost) as we had planned for today. But we have to do it by 2pm or leave it until Monday. No big whoop. BUT the Donation Center is open 7 days a week until 4:00pm! So Sat. and Sun. we can do donation runs, no problem! We just keep on truckin'!
I also got the whole shebang from Amazon that I had ordered (besides my mattress topper/down mattress pad): new smaller sized pants for DS whose old pants are falling off of him , a new backpack for his trip to TX for a convention next year (a BIG trip for him!), even his new bed skirt to hide his new under-bed storage. He really likes my new mattress topper, too, and if I don't like it after sleeping on it for some time, he gets it. If I do like it, I'll get him one for his bed, too, or whatever topper he chooses. His attitude has changed so much and I don't mind making him comfy, too. He still needs to clean his room, but he's starting on it and it's a HUGE JOB, as is his bathroom! When it's clean, he asked for and I promised him a new dresser to put his clothes in. (New concept for him. They usually just end up tossed onto the floor and forgotten.) I think something happened that I missed and he's growing up. (YAY! )
And he's working on the stacks and stacks and boxes and boxes of VHS tapes, too. What a time consuming job THAT is!!!!!!!! Some aren't even marked and we have to look at them to see what was taped on them. I was going to toss them all out, but he insisted that we go through each one, and I'm glad we did. We are watching the first 5 min or so (even shorter if it's horrible from the first or the subject written out on it is "definitely donatable"). If we wish to transfer the contents to a DVD, great, and then we'll toss the VHS into the donatables box. Most of the ones I taped were either recipes which I can no longer use (TOSS!) OR some painting shows that I can't get anymore, even on YouTube (SAVE! to put onto a DVD and THEN toss the old VHS). And so it goes.
So yeah, it's slow, but steady...and isn't that what wins the race?? The boxes of tapes should be coming out from beneath my kitchen table in the next few days. Any and all tapes are donations, so can be shuttled down there 7 days a week. Each time the Donation Center gives me a new slip of paper for my taxes. It's just a win-win situation. They get stuff to sell and I get a clean house. N's things are finally easy to let go of, but I ran across some of my old size 3Xs still in their wrappers! NEVER WORN or even taken out of the bag! But today when getting dressed, I accidentally grabbed a 3X and put it on and it BAGGED on me, sagging so badly that my bra was showing a LOT! Unacceptable! I can't wear those blouses anymore. It really kills me to let those brand new, unused blouses go, still in their packages, but it would also be embarrassing to wear them bagging like that and showing my bra! But I will try to be gentle with myself, because I KNOW that eventually the release will come and I'll be able to let go without pain or feelings of loss. I was a 3X for so long...! (Once my auto insurance is paid up for the year next month [I do it all at once so I don't have to pay the interest, however after paying that $7200 for the a/c in Aug., I'm feeling the pinch a bit], I think I'll allow myself to buy some smaller blouses, exactly the same as the other 3X ones, so letting the "too big" ones go will be easier.) I like being kind and gentle with myself these days.
I honestly think that slowly MD's harsh and critical INNER voice inside my head is fading away and my dear grandmother's, which is more kind, gentle, and PATIENT with me, just as I am, is becoming more pronounced. That's a really GOOD thing!!
Speaking of a kinder, gentler self attitude, one of the things I was going to do today but had to postpone with the dead battery "excitement" will have to wait until Monday: double checking that I've successfully switched health insurance to the way my former doctor's group finds acceptable. I got a letter from my current insurance stating what I've done to switch so far. Once my former doctor's group office girls tell me, "Yes, that's what we wanted.", then I'll breathe easier. And ws, you are RIGHT about relationships helping with our care! Not only did I lose my ability to see this doctor, but my T retired at about the same time and moved 100 miles away. I had been with these two (who knew each other and were equally kind and supportive of me) for about 15 yrs. with each one. It was really difficult for me to suffer such a loss! But now at least I can see my former doctor again. YAY!! I just want to MAKE SURE that I'm doing it the way they want me to.wolfspirit wrote: ↑Fri Sep 21, 2018 6:00 pm Happy that you'll be going back to your beloved doctor soon. Relationships help a lot with our care.
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Slept well, but woke up HOT. The problem wasn't my bed (in fact, I slept soundly for 14 hours + minimal MORNING BACKACHE! ), but it seems the a/c has gone out (THE $7200 ONE that was just installed in Aug.!). It was in the mid-to-upper 90s here today, and inside it was WAY over 80 degrees, which I felt immediately and can still feel! I tried to call the a/c company and while finding the number for them, I noticed that my computer had scrambled ALL my desktop icons...again. AARRGGHH!!!
But on the positive side (yes, there's always a bright side ), I found two new "unbelievable fluffy delicious biscuits!" recipes that are keto friendly. (To see what I found, type in "best almond flour biscuits" on Google and follow the trail...) And I can make hamburger buns with the dough for DS and sandwiches for me! YAY!! I get plenty of rich and/or fatty foods on this WOE, but what I really miss are bready things: biscuits and breads and pizza crusts which are usually made with wheat flour and "shortening" like Crisco or margarine to AVOID the (falsely-)dreaded "saturated fat" or any other fat for that matter. The incredible geniuses that are also on this journey with me back from the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) or CrAP diet (Calories as Prime) have come up with using shredded cheeses (mozzarella or cheddar) and almonds (in flour form) instead of wheat flour, soy flour, or other atrocious things that make up "normal" bread including liquid at room temperature oils (corn, canola, soybean, etc). Nearly ALL salad dressings are made with soybean oil (check your labels on your favorites), which is why I make my own mayo/dressings with the healthier olive oil. I need to do this today in fact, but it only takes a minute with my stick blender.
I just found a recipe for cheese + egg yolk PASTA! These cooks are amazing! They come up with some really terrific recipes using only what is considered keto friendly. And if these biscuits are as "unbelievably fluffy" as they are saying, then I say, "YIPPEEE!!" I have EVERYTHING already in my kitchen, so I may just try one of them today to have with my OMAD (One Meal A Day). A nice "fluffy" biscuit with butter next to whatever else I'm eating would be heaven to me. That + my new super soft bed!
I should get to doing something now. I did sleep for 14 hrs. today (while my computer desktop went crazy and my house became unbearably hot). It's 7pm ATM and it's still 85ºF outside right now! UGH! So...start on the front room? Yes, and sort tapes. DS is doing it even when I'm not in there, but I can cut up old Amazon and Chewy dot com boxes and sort the things only I can sort. Off I go, recipes in hand...!
Honeybera