On May 1st of 2012, I decided to take an "endurance challenge" to go off all refined sugars. No sweets, no cake, no candy, no chocolate. In addition, there would be no honey. The only sugars I have ingested since that day are ( Read more... )

Well, day 158. Thought I'd tell you how it was going ( Read more... )

So, for weeks now, my sinus pain has been quite bad. As takayla has been quick to point out, this happened last year. Last year, some of you may recall, I had some kind of mysterious pan that was in the back of my throat. It felt like a swelling of some kind like a slug had attached to the back of my throat from the roof of my mouth. It made it hard ( Read more... )

So, this Christmas was almost canceled at my house. This hits me pretty hard because, well, Christmas is special to me for reasons that are not always made clear ( Read more... )

I have to say, I feel kind of bad I have not been updating my LJ. I think I already have 3-4 posts that say this, but it bears repeating in my tiny universe. Here's a kind of update for those who want to know "the status of Punkie" near the end of 2010 ( Read more... )

I forgot to post this a few days ago but:

Takayla got a new job today! Well, she got it last week, but she doesn't start until today. To keep you up to date, up until June of last year, she was working for a shipping and travel company in Baltimore. She worked from home three days a week, and traveled to Baltimore twice a week. The company was really ( Read more... )

As explained in a previous post, I wanted to see just how far I could walk without stopping. I never tried that before. Today was a great day to walk, since it was breezy but not cold. The weather was amazing ( Read more... )

While attending aksident's Sweet 16 "brunch" last weekend, I tried very hard to think of what I did when I was 16. I can only recall a few things ( Read more... )

Well, here's my results ( Read more... )

So, since Thursday of last week, I haven't had more than about 2 nights of steady sleep. I have these massive sinus headaches that start in my skull, spread down to my left ear, and then to the front of my head via the teeth. Then my neck starts to hurt, my glands swell up, my ears hurt, it's hard to swallow... I started having these in ( Read more... )