I am sorry! I fail! I haven't talked to you in months! I will try to get back to blogging. I think it is because I just didn't feel anything was new, different, exciting, or just worth blogging about. I mean little things, wonderful things, have happened, but I didn't feel they were important to you!
So let's see, what has happened? Well I took a class last semester at Mesa. Philosophy. It was a nice class! I think a good one for me to start with! Did well enough too. I got a C. Mom was appalled, I think she believed I could do so much better. True... I have been able to do better... but my brain is out of practice and I do not care about grades. A C means nothing to me when I have nothing I can do with it. I am not looking to start a career, so it doesn't matter what I get. What matters is that I am doing it. This spring I took 2 classes. One was health and wellness and the other was an activity class. I still don't feel that I should have to take either of them, but the state requires it. They were just 1/2 semester classes and so they are done. Well, the health and wellness is done. I just need to turn in my exercise log for my activity class.
I had planned on going to the gym every day this week. I just walk for 20 minutes on the elliptical and then do some stretches and such. But I got sick. Yeah, I was exposed a little over a week ago and thought I had made it out of the woods. NOPE!! Damnit. I am doing my best to hydrate, and eat every now and then, but my body isn't retaining anything. I just hope I don't have this too long, I am afraid to loose too much weight.
Just before Christmas I went gluten free. I was having so many digestive problems I was miserable. Man has that helped!! It took me a while to really get into the swing, but now I am all there. Ant gave me 3 cookbooks that have saved my life! I have also found a blog I love to get ideas and recipes from. http://glutenfreegirl.com/
She apparently has a cookbook out too. If I get a scale I will have to get that book too! She uses weight to measure ingredients, not cups.
Niki has come home from Alaska, as have the girls. Her and Joe got a divorce and I hate his mother. I am glad she is home though. I think things will go better than others expect it will. She has support here that she didn't have there.
I also moved my room. I (well, mostly Pat) painted the room down the hall and moved me and my shit over! I am loving it! I think I will be happier here, I can grow plants in my room!
At my last doctor's visit we found that my lupus is VERY active (we knew that) and that my PH is not doing well. We are hoping that the latter is just a fluke. I will go back mid April and hopefully things will show that it was false. Cross your fingers! I am now on Medicare. That is both a good and a bad thing. We will see how it goes! March 1 was the start, so I have no idea yet!
So that is about it. I will leave you with 2 questions... anyone have a gluten free recipe for the girl scout Thin Mints? It is killing me to even smell them!! And... how do you keep a cat from using a raised garden bed as a litter box?
