Fibro

I have Fibromyalgia as some of you know and I am pretty sure I have had it since I was quite young.  Say grade school or so.  I didn't get diagnosed until my very early 20's and spent a good portion of my teenage years having doctors tell me I was crazy.  It wasn't fun.  Anyway, since I was diagnosed I hardly ever go to the doctor anymore and never for my pain and other symptoms, it's just not worth it.  I mostly just deal with it and try not to over do it and live on ibuprofen when it gets really bad.  This week was a bad week.  I stayed home yesterday and almost stayed home today, but I had a meeting to go to.  I love spring weather but hate what all the ups and downs in pressure do to me.  I was feeling okay by the end of the workday tho, but when I got home I looked at the weather and realized I was only gonna have sunshine today most likely and our backyard HAD to be weed sprayed again, the first round just didn't quite cut it.  I also decided that it really needed to be mowed before I gave it a second dose so it would get to the roots this time.  Needless to say, I am now hurting again.  Oh well, it had to be done and hopefully I will be rewarded with a weed free back yard soon so I can lay grass seed and actually have lawn back there!

Where I was going with this is my boss also has fibro and has been gently pushing me to try a gluten and sugar free diet.  She has also gone vegetarian, but I'm quite sure I will never go that route unless I was going to literally die if I didn't :)  I have practically eliminated sugar already as it was starting to cause me far more problems than it was worth and am doing better for it so I am starting to wonder if going gluten free would help too.  I have also cut way back on greasy/fried foods and have noticed a good improvement from that as well.   My boss mentioned gluten again today so I did some research about gluten and fibro and found lots of accounts of people doing so much better without it.  Apparently about 1 in 7 fibro people have a gluten intolerance (not Celiac) which I found very interesting.  Maybe next time I do go to the doctor I'll see if she can run a test for it.

I talked this new idea over with my husband today and I think I may start trying to work gluten out of my diet.  Maybe.  I really love my breads and have a feeling it will not be fun, but if it helps then it helps and if I have enough of a change happen it will make it easier to stay away from it.  One article I read said to go cold turkey and stay away from gluten for at least two weeks and then try some and see what happens, but I don't know if I can do that.  With sugar I worked it out gradual and then found the more I stayed away the worse the reaction when I gave in and that has made it much easier to say no.  I may try that method with this as well.

I haven't fully committed myself to this idea yet, but I am mulling it over.  I have been trying a lot of gluten free things from my sister and a few from my boss, and they aren't all bad. My sister had to eliminate gluten from her diet as well (and practically everything else) but for much harsher health reasons.

My husband has been making some very wonderful and much healthier dinners lately and they have been wonderful and we have both been feeling better and losing weight.  He's such a great cook, anything he has attempted to make has always turned out and is always tasty with the exception of some of the baked goods he has tried, but he is a chef not a baker and you have to think quite different to do one from the other.  Cooking does not have to be exact and most times tastes much better if you only use the recipe as a guideline, where as baking you must follow the recipe precisely or it turns out like crap.  He is getting better at the baking tho.  Yummy.  But that will not help me if I choose to do this.  :)

Psycho Washer

I have been on a cleaning kick and it has been awesome.  Each day I get home from work sit for a bit and then have this demanding need to clean something or pick something up, it's weird but wonderful.  Today I got home and tossed the upstairs bathmat down to wash later and then unloaded and loaded the dishwasher (oh how I love that), and took out some trash and recycle stuff.  Later I finally put the bathmat in the wash.  Just a bit ago I went to get it so I could drape it over the shower rod to dry and this is what I found:

EEK!  Our washer isn't that old!  It's gone mad!  What do I do?  Now I'm afraid to use it, what if it did that to our clothes?  But then a friend had a great idea and I went to put some old towels in there for a test.  The only towels I could think of are our dog towels and we have a pile of them in the hall downstairs.  They have been shoved to the back of my mind but needing to be done.  I went to get some and realized they'd been there a while.  A long while.  And then I realized that Chewy's towels from the day he died were in that pile.    I miss that mutt terribly so.  How can it be so hard to wash his towels? 

I need to go find something happy to do.  Night all.

My Day

I had a horrible nightmare about camping with my family during a tornado.  I woke up with a killer headache.  I couldn't get my hair to do what I wanted.  I tried to leave the house without the keys, then I tried to leave without my badge.  I got to work and emptied my water cup into the trashcan instead of the sink before refilling it with fresh, I spilled really hot water all over my desk in an attempt to try an orange tea.  The day was long and tiring and took all day to get rid of my headache.  I came home to an ornery husband.  I tripped up the stairs but not in my usual manner, I caught my right foot in my left pant leg and popped my hem that I was so proud of.  But amazingly enough, after all that, I am in a good mood.  Weird.

On a side note:

This is our sad pathetic grill

 This is our grill on birds

Any questions?

One slightly used grill for sale, $25 (tank not included)

God Sniped Me

Last week sometime (or maybe the week before) Andy bought me a new (used) phone off Ebay that I was very excited about but we sadly had to return it today.  The kid we bought it from could not get it released from his account for some reason (he has no clue what he is doing) and so we couldn't activate it on our account and use it.  I was very disappointed by this as my phone sucks, but my husband came to the rescue and found another one that is actually cheaper than the one we returned and won the bid.  I had to laugh tho because the first one he told me he was bidding on today he lost and he sent me an email saying, "God sniped at the last second!"  I laughed so hard and told him maybe I wasn't to have a new phone at all (He meant to type, "Got").  He then got sniped again, and then again and I knew it wasn't to be so.  When he told me he was bidding on yet another one, I told him God really didn't want me to have a new one and I was to suffer the one I have.  But I guess God wanted me to have that one cause he won it.  hahahaha

This one better be usable!

New Mattress

Last weekend we went and saw Paul.  It was an awesome movie, I haven't laughed that hard or that long in a movie in a long time.  The R is for language, it is very vulgar so I wouldn't see if you don't want to hear it.  Andy also tried making an oven roast for the first time ever on Sunday.  It was delicious!  I may never do one in the crock pot again unless I really want one and won't be home to tend it.

Last Saturday we finally made it over to RC Willies to pick out another mattress.  When we walked in, we both looked left, then both looked right and then did a double take.  If only it had been that easy when we were actually looking for one!  There was a beautiful sectional couch sitting there with a soft fabric on it and we both had to sit.  And wouldn't you know, it was comfy too.  Too bad it was $1400 even with a free ottoman.  If I knew we could handle the payments right now, that set would have been ours and in the basement right now and Tony would have to figure out what he wanted us to do with his furniture right quick LOL. Sadly, we had to walk away.

Anyway, we started to head further into the store when we ran into a really great salesman named, Jeff, who promptly swept us on over to the mattresses.  We explained about the warranty and he started having us lay down on ones within the limit of the credit we got.  We tried out several, and thought we had found one we liked, but we were at odds on the firmness.  Jeff had us lay on a much more expensive mattress at that point, and darn him, we both liked it (of course).  As we were laying there debating on our ability to go over the credit amount I had relaxed enough to realize I was laying on one of the most supportive pillows I had ever put my head on and pointed it out to Andy.  We have become very picky about our pillows and have a huge stack of ones we have bought that quickly got uncomfortable due to going hard or flat or lumpy.  Jeff told us that he and his wife had earlier versions of the pillow I had my head on and they had had them for almost six years and they were still like new, they hadn't gone flat.  Jeff also made us a great offer to sell us the floor pillows (they had just put them out too) for less than half of what the new ones cost.  We were sold.  Once we agreed on the pillows, Jeff took us in the back with an idea and he started looking thru the clearance mattresses and guess what?  He found the much more expensive mattress back there and offered it to us for only $25 more than our credit.  We had to debate about it (clearance means used for up to 30 days by someone and returned for who knows what reason, but are guaranteed sound and clean) but finally we took it.  It has a shorter guaranty on it, but we took the chance on it.  We ended up buying a new office chair as well, as Andy's current one broke.  Jeff was very happy with us!

I ended up sick this week, got whatever Andy had last week, and am very glad to have a new mattress.  It's very comfortable.  Our backs are adjusting to actually being supported tho and so we are both a bit sore, but it's a good sore.  Poor Lily tho, the new bed is several inches taller than our old one and she already had a hard time getting on that one.  She has to really try hard to get on this one to her great frustration.  I took pity on her yesterday and moved my stool into the bedroom so she can use it to get on hehe.