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It’s of the Devil.

Man, I really screwed up today.

I got sick over the long weekend. Fine on Thursday and all of Friday, but early Saturday morning I woke up nauseated and spent most of the day in bed or in the bathroom. Sunday I felt much better, but still not great and only ate a bit.

This morning I woke ravenous and couldn’t seem to eat quick enough. Even after breakfast I still felt wonky and I wasn’t sure if it was from needing to eat more or needing to slow down – so I opted to slow down to avoid being naseated at work.

But then I blew it and drank a small cup of coffee because I was so tired (didn’t get to sleep until 2am & woke at 4:30am). Which suppressed my appetite – until my workout at 11am. I was determined* to workout today, and knew I wouldn’t make it if I waited too long so I was just going to work through my hunger.

What a mistake. At first I felt great! I was lifting more than last time and I felt revived in my health quest! Then I started to feel tired. Then shaky. Then I couldn’t even get to six reps on a low weight and eventually had to stop before the end of my workout.

Even after eating my lunch of pasta and greens, I’m still shaky. Why or WHY did I drink coffee?! I know how much it effects me! How many times have I said somewhere about my need to skip coffee anytime BEFORE my workout? Too many times.

*I skipped working out for nearly the last three weeks. I’ve worked too hard to stop now! I verbally beat myself into a frenzy this weekend about starting it all up again on Monday.

Buff it off, slather it on.

I came down with some kind of stomach bug on Wednesday morning and was out of work on Thursday as well. Since Friday was my scheduled day off, I unintentionally had a 5 day break from work. I’m back today, feeling fine, spending time catching up.

Buffy - Lush Body Butter

Over the weekend I broke down and drove to the nearest Lush store and restocked a few items. I had originally planned on just buying another Buffy, but left with quite a few more things. I got my Buffy (two, in fact) as well as some more Dream Cream and some other appealing soaps. I wasn’t going to buy anymore Dream Cream, as I felt like the lotion I was currently using was working well – but then they did one of those demos and slathered me with the Dream Cream and I just couldn’t resist. I’m actually really glad, because I’ve begun to use the Dream Cream and my skin has calmed down dramatically.

 

Dream Cream - Lush Body Lotion

I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this, but I have this skin condition where individual pores clog and become infected with or without proper hygiene - I can’t remember the word my doctor used, but she seemed to recognize it as soon as I got the guts up to ask her about it. The result is a multitude of itchy red bumps that cause the skin to break easily – so I end up with a lot of healing lacerations. It gets worse when I’m under stress, which has been a lot recently, so my skin is constantly in need of calming. Once my skin heals enough I can begin to use a medicated cream regularly to hopefully combat it before it happens, but until then I’m stuck.

Between the exfoliation and moisture lock of the Buffy bar every other day and the Dream Cream twice a day, my skin is looking tremendously better. I just wish that Lush products weren’t so expensive, because I actually do see a lot of improvement when using them.

I’m emerging, slowly but surely.

Its official: I’m an allergy sufferer.

This year in particular has been eye opening as we’ve had such a nice wet year (quick fact: California has declared the drought over!) that has resulted in lots of blooming, thriving plant life… that has been killing me.

I finally went to the doctors two weeks ago and begged for some relief. I was happy to know that I had a lot of options and so I was prescribed Allegra D, some eye drops, and told to take Benadryl at night for 3-5 nights to dry everything up. Well the Allegra D is keeping the allergies under control but I haven’t completely dried up so I had to go back. Now I’m taking some “awesome” nasal spray – and if that doesn’t dry it up then it’s a steroid and some antibiotics. The only reason I went back a second time is because I’m still unable to hear well out of my left year and my cough & sore throat hasn’t gone away – apparently all linked to dripping sinuses, yuck.

The coughing has made working out – strenuously – difficult. I can do yoga, but I can’t do the bootcamp at work as I start to huff & puff and then cough & cough and can’t catch my breath. I’ve already missed two sessions (out of five) and I just hope that I can make it to tomorrow & Friday. I’m down less than five pounds since I’ve REALLY started dieting and that’s disappointing – and surprising. I’ve removed SO much crap and salt from my diet I thought for sure I’d show better loss than five pounds. Just got to keep trying…

We’re live, you can’t say that!

I feel like shit. Allergies – they stink. It’s like being sick ALL THE TIME. I realize, in order to get help, I’ve got to keep a symptom tracker so that I can go to my doctors and point at what I’m experiencing when. Maybe then she can prescribe me the right kind of medication. Drove through McDonalds for some sweet tea, which gave me A LOT of relief from my throat pain, but now it’s gone :( I’m so tired… Can I go home with allergies? Is that all right? Ugh.

Airborne.

Today was the first day of my vacation! I’m off all week, as is Paul, and we need it.

Christmas was hard this year – because EVERYONE got sick with the stomach flu. I left work early on Thursday, and began getting sick before getting on the freeway. It was horrible! Was sick all night and sore and tired the next day which was when we were celebrating Christmas. The actual celebration was really great – but it was hard to prepare and then clean up. In stomach flu recap oldest nephew on the 17th, youngest nephew & Evy on the 21st, my husband on the 22nd, my sister, brother-in-law & myself on the 23rd, my father, mother, & both parent-in-laws on the 25th. That thing was quick, vicious & obviously airborne.

Been working on unpacking, which as been going well we had to unload and reload the storage unit in order to fit it all.

Have to do a second walkthrough on the rental property, ends up it wasn’t clean enough. I’m worried we’re not going to get our money back from the cleaning service, and they obviously didn’t do a well enough job to begin with so I don’t have a lot of faith they’ll do a well enough job the second time. I really just wanted to be done with the whole thing…

Hope everyones holidays were good – I’m on my vacation :D

Been QUITE a few days…

I haven’t posted much in the last few days because when I wasn’t working at the house, working at work, sick in bed, or cleaning up after a sick child – I’ve been stressing out. No one wants to read about that – least of all me. I thought to get it all down though, as I do like to look back – even on the bad stuff - so check out some brief details below if you’re interested.

We moved on Saturday. It was a so-so operation in the sense that while we had our failures – we had our successes as well. One friend bailed out on helping to move, three others replaced him. Had two toddlers instead of one to take care of, but with the extra help I was able to leave with them and keep them entertained. It was raining, but just a drizzle when moving out and a break entirely when moving in and THEN the big storm came. We’ve had to make multiple trips to the rental house since, but we’re surviving and Thursday is the absolute last day we’ll have to deal with it all. The animal situation is not that great; with I half-feral cat in the backyard, having Junior & Ripley join the pack is hard – not to mention the big Akita that found a rotting board in the fence and has been visiting until his owners can get it fixed.

I left work early on Monday – my allergies (or whatever it is I’m dealing with) were killing me and I was useless at work as I was loosing my voice as well. Stayed home on Tuesday as well, so I feel pretty good today (plus, I got another refill on my allergy medication). However, last night I crept into Evy’s room after she went to bed to get my phone to hear her puking. This was the first time Evy has ever gotten sick (stomach wise) so it was all a learning experience. Luckily, that kid is mighty resilient! After we cleaned her up and took her into our bed – preparing for a night of vomit by covering the bed with towels – she was fine! Elmo made it all better and by midnight she was jumping on the bed. I popped her into her crib then, I was exhausted, and she slept through the night.

Today the rental house is being cleaned, then the carpets are being cleaned, and tomorrow we’re handing the keys over! I’m so excited to be done with this – then next week I’m on vacation :D

If anything, I’m a little itchy.

Elvira Kurt - "Kitten with a Wit"

Not feeling too great today. Whenever I start feeling a cold “coming on”, I think of this comedy CD I have by Elvira Kurt (click here to download the track). She talks about when you’re a kid you never felt anything “coming on”. One day you’re doing fine the next you’re standing in the driveway with a fever of 104° melting snow – it’s all so sudden. Not anymore. I hate being only slightly sick. Functional enough not to be home alone, but still feeling like crap. I’m looking forward to my vacation, that’s for sure. Running myself ragged these last few weeks.

 

 

Days like this…

I’m having one of those days where I can think about are the negative things. I hate it, but I always feel better after venting about it all :D

Evy woke up last night at around 11pm and would not go back to sleep. This morning I woke up exhausted, and when we woke up Evy I could tell she wasn’t feeling well. Luckily she lacked a fever, so we went ahead and sent her off to my sister’s anyhow to see how she fares. I may still have to go home early today, which I would feel terrible about because that would leave one of my co-workers high and dry, but if it’s necessary – it’s necessary. I just talked to my sister and she said that Evy’s over there and so far in a good mood so let’s keep our fingers crossed!

I got my paycheck today. It’s the first paycheck where one of my two Aflac policies had been removed. On advice of my financial planner, we’ve decided to cancel Aflac because of the limitations and the cost. With a proper emergency fund, Aflac would be needless. I was disappointed to learn that I was not given an adequate amount of information about which policies I could cancel at any time and which policies I had to wait until open enrollment (once a year). It ends up that our most expensive policy – at over $100 a month – could have been canceled at any time and yet I waited a good six months thinking I had to wait until open enrollment. That really upsets me, money down the drain. Its in the past though, you live and learn.

I bought two pairs of work pants from Lane Bryant last week, and I was excited about the cost (40% off!) and the fit. I washed them and this week I wore one pair once and then tried to wear them again this morning. Seeing a long black thread coming off the bottom hem of one pant leg I realize that the entire hem has unraveled and now one pant leg is about an inch and a half longer than the other! Didn’t realize this until I had to get dressed and go to work so I’m wearing them today and hoping no one will notice. Going back to Lane Bryant TONIGHT and getting a new pair – I’ve only washed them once and this is frakin’ ridiculous!

I ordered an awesome custom netbook skin from SkinIt, only to realize that the skin model I bought did not fit the model of my netbook :( I went online to see if I could find any place that made skins that fit my model and no one does. Its just too old (in regards to technology) and so my only options are a skin that only covers the lid and not the wrist rest or nothing at all. Haven’t decided, going to wait until I get a refund for the SkinIt product.

Okay. I think that’s all the “atrocities” I’ve had to deal with as of late. I feel better!