Rambling On

I don’t envy her

My sister in law was just informed that she needs to lose a pile of weight and needs to lose it quite quickly. Apparently the excess weight that she is carrying is doing some damage to her heart. And if she doesn’t get rid of it quickly, this could really turn into something bad. So for the last three days she has been driving herself crazy looking at different diet pill reviews. There is a lot of information available on the Internet and it is taking her a while to sift through it all. But she wants to be safe so she has decided to take as much time as she needs to find the perfect solution. I really don’t envy her in all this.

So gray

A couple of weeks ago I went to the hairdressers and had my hair cut and dyed. For the past couple of weeks, it’s looked really good. But my husband noticed this morning that my hair has started growing and the roots are totally gray. So he started teasing me about all my gray and the fact that he doesn’t have one gray hair on his head. Well, at least he has no need to tease me about weight loss or taking an ephedrine product. But seriously, I’m only 41, but if I had no color in my hair, I would be completely gray. This just saddens me….

The economy is starting to look up

Here in Canada the economy is starting to look up a bit. When you turn on the news now, it’s not all doom and gloom so this is why I am thinking that things must be improving. Last week I was watching a show on TV and was quite impressed on what I seen was happening with social security disability claims in the US. One company, Allsup, in particular seems to making great strides in this area. They are the leading nationwide provider of financial and health care related services to people with disabilities. Since 1984, they have helped more than 110,000 people receive their entitled Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare benefits. So, with these stats, I would have to say that the economy in the US is starting too look up as well.

I’ve reached my goal

Finally after years of trying I have finally reached my ideal weight. For as long as I can remember, I have been seriously underweight and have been trying to gain weight. Now you all have to understand something. Gaining weight is just as hard for a person like me as losing weight is for others. But with one very big difference. If your trying to loose weight, you can always take an appetite suppressant. But, if your trying to gain weight, there is no magic pill. So finally after years of trying I have put on the weight that my doctor has recommended. I just hope that it’s not as difficult to keep this weight on as it was putting it on.

Unexplained illness

For the past three weeks now, my husband has been going through some serious health problems once again. The last time he had these symptoms, all the doctors could discover is that he has pretty high stress levels and this is why he is sick quite a bit of the time. At the time I was content with this diagnosis and was just happy that it wasn’t something serious like mesothelioma, but now I am getting worried once again. So, here we go again. He is scheduled for more testing and now we have to wait and see if this time around it’s more serious then stress. Hopefully not, but these doctors really have to find out what is wrong and treat it accordingly. This way, we won’t have to go through this type of illness yet again.

I need a good night’s sleep

Life really does need to change. Here I am a 40 year old woman and I can’t seem to stay up past 9:30 at night. I don’t know if this is because I’m bored in the evening with really not much excitement going on or if it’s because I’m not getting a good night’s sleep and by this time in the evening this has all caught up with me or what? But, I really have to determine what the problem is so that I will be able to stay up longer than the kids. lol

I think the first thing I need to do is replace the bed that we currently sleep on. I would really like to have a sleep number bed. Every time I see a commercial on TV for these beds, I start drooling. If I replaced the bed, maybe I would get a better night’s sleep and be able to stay up later in the evening. But if this isn’t the problem, then I may have to figure out something different to do in the evenings to keep myself awake.

The pedometer challenge

My children’s school is always coming up with different types of physical activities and contests to keep the kids motivated. Well they have come up with a new contest. The contest is called the “pedometer challenge”. In this challenge, the children all wear a pedometer for one week during the school week. At the end of the week, all their steps are counted. The class with the most steps wins either a skating party or a sledding party.

Well, my son’s grade 3 class one the challenge for his grade level. It really didn’t surprise me as I know my son probably put on the most steps of anyone in the school. At home this kid never stops so I honestly can’t see him slowing down at school. If he keeps this type of energy level up through his teens and adulthood, he will never need to use fat burners, that’s for sure. Well I’m happy he won and so is he and he is now looking forward to his party.

I think I need to get my eyes tested

Yesterday and today I have been experiencing the worst headache that I’ve had in a very long time. Now yesterday I could blame in on the two little people as they spent most of their day fighting, but I can’t do that today as they are both in school. So I’m thinking that it’s probably not the kids and more likely it’s my eyes. And since I haven’t had my eyes tested in well over two years I’m really starting to think that I need to make an appointment. But for today I have been popping headache pills and am now sitting here wearing my glasses. I really hope this headache goes away before the kids come home, otherwise I think this is going to be a very long afternoon.

All I ever do is whine…

It seems like I’m never in here updating my blog and when I finally am able to stop in, all I do is whine. Well, I’m sorry for this. All I can say is that it’s been a pretty rough month for illnesses in our house. I have been sick now for almost a month and haven’t been able to get very much accomplished. Because I’m coughing my head off most of the night, I don’t get a whole lot of sleep so during the day I’m pretty exhausted and don’t have the energy for anything. Here it is only three days before Christmas and I still don’t have my tree up. The main reason for this is I lack the energy to move out all my books from my bookshelf so I move it and set the tree up where it normally sits. Even though I’m still not feeling good today, my goal is to finally get this tree up.

On a more positive note, I do now have some pretty powerful cough medicine. So hopefully I’ll start to feel better soon and be back posting a little more frequently.

Attempting to cook

I’m not much of a cooker or a baker. The interest is kind of there, but if I can get away without cooking or baking, I normally do. But, my aunt sent me an e-mail the other day with a ton of links to different types of Christmas recipes so I thought I might give a few of these recipes a try. Most of these recipes are for Christmas candies and sweets so I can actually see my family possibly needing some Fenterdren after the holiday season if I am able to make some of these creations. If I do end up doing some of this cooking, this will be my first year at doing this. If it all works out, maybe I’ll try it again next year.

Wish me luck!