Life, or something like it, continues.
Life, or something like it, continues.
And Ima start keeping track of accomplishments, so I feel less lame. I'm probably not as lame as I assume, but my life is very different than it used to be, and I've lost all points of reference :-/
Accomplishments
-Reorganized my hall closet again. Never more will I lose track of how much canned fish I already have before going to Costco. (Note, its a LOT right now.)
-Made corned beef and cabbage, with sweet potatoes, for my lunchables. Albeit a couple days after Imbolc. Never cooked a cabbage before, so that came out pretty well. Just boiled it in the leftover corned-beef h20. And the sweet potatoes were left over from last week, so I got to be a tad more lazy this weekend. A week of work-lunches done, woot.
-Made meringues, again. My oven doesn't seem able to bake at temps below 250 degrees, so I'm making the cookies smaller, and will probably have to start baking them for less time. Still slightly burnt, but in a 'caramel honey' way. But letting them dry out in the oven for 2-3 hours is working well.
-Tried making mayonnaise again, this time with the immersion blender. Still fail. And I don't like canned fish without mayo, so sometime soon I'll have to see if Whole Foods has a paleo-friendly brand. Grr, soy.
-Plotted out my options for food at Wicked Faire, my first event away from home where I'll be trying to stay on the paleo diet. I'm going with the "bring a big bag of shelf-stable groceries and horde them in my hotel room" option.
-With the seed bead kit that I somehow keep remembering to take to work with me I've made 2 necklaces and 2 bracelets. Would have made a 3rd necklace, but ran out of that bead color. And I'm doing a good job of working through my backlog of supplies. Its nice that I feel the jewelry inklings coming back, what with the color mis-matching I like for my woven seed bead things, but I'm still a bit frustrated that the rest of it hasn't come back yet. Patience, I guess?
-Ordered fabric online for *one* project, a copy of one that wears well. After going through my fabric stash to see if I had something suitable already (nope). I've had a yen for sewing, but no energy/focus, and would probably be best to wait until after WF. But yay for having a tad more self control than usual.
-Organized outfits... eventually. Some on Sunday and some Tuesday nite. This gets tricky when I've just washed the laundry. If it were warmer outside, or if I could do laundry more often, would be less tricky.
-Went to brunch at the Magnet training center with comedy friends Saturday morning! Was fun to hang out with comedians in not-a-bar. And I brought paleo banana-batter pancakes, which were well liked, and were the only thing I could eat at the party. But I got enough to eat, and other ppl tried them, so it went well.
-Did all-the-tarot for Imbolc. Will make that another post. And lit all teh candles. I really want to get back into Bridgit mode. Sekhmet is a clearer go-to for pestilence-resistance health, but in the brain fog I forget that Bridgit is all about teh healths, crafts, inspirations, hearths, etc. Brain fog makes me a bad pagan. Haven't heard from Coyote in a while either, I don't know if this means he's done his job, or if I'm just that boring now :-/
-Queued up a bunch of Etsy spam on my bizness twitter, three a day for the next 2-3 weeks. Tweetdeck gets a bit buggy with that much queue-ing, tho. I'm playing with different times to see if there's an effect on my shop stats.
Am more than a little annoyed that this time last year was my most active time of 2012, but so far I've been mostly stuck in my old pattern of "want curl up in ball and hide". On the other hand, last winter was a lot milder.
Oh, and back then I also thought the CF thing had come from a mono infection, b/c my doctor found antibodies. Apparently 90% of adult humans have those antibodies, whether or not they remember having had mono, evar. Oh, Dr. Lame :-P
I'm still having more good days than I used to, but I seem to be on a decline. In the last week and change I'm having trouble getting to bed on time, I was a lot better at that after the new year started, and right after the year's first S.I. The lack of sleep seems to be making my life suck, tho.
Quite a lot of my energy goes towards advance-planning, but I'm not sure if this is helping me or adding to teh issues. Taking an afternoon/evening each weekend to do all the cooking for a week of lunches. Planning a week worth of work outfits on the weekends so I don't have to think about it in the mornings. Packing a bead kit for my lunch days at work. Etc.
Am getting more curious about what happens when I start treatment for sleep apnea. But not curious enough to remember to call them and set up an appointment yet. *sigh* The brain fog is still rather relentless. But I hope 'treatment' is more than a patronizing lecture about my weight :-P The CF started *before* I got chubby.
Tho now that I think about it, the CF started with the overdose of S.I.'s in the Spring of '11, and those are by nature a respiratory infection. It would be interesting if that constant chain of illnesses did something to F up that part of my body in a more long term (sleep-apnea) way. Not sure if that's how it works tho.
Wicked Faire is in little more than a week. As this week drags on I'm less and less happy in general, but I'm framing WF as a reward for weeks of annoying grogginess. Hopefully it will be fun enough to make that true, and luckily I have Pres Day off to recover.
This weekend I'll be cooking two work-weeks worth of lunches at once, plus prepping my WF food stash. All of that shopping can be done in my neighborhood, so hopefully "Shrodinger's Storm" won't crimp my plans too badly. Will probably try to get some of my groceries tonite, tho.
<3 Chrysilla
Crossposted from Dreamwidth, http://chrysilla.dreamwidth.org/
And Ima start keeping track of accomplishments, so I feel less lame. I'm probably not as lame as I assume, but my life is very different than it used to be, and I've lost all points of reference :-/
Accomplishments
-Reorganized my hall closet again. Never more will I lose track of how much canned fish I already have before going to Costco. (Note, its a LOT right now.)
-Made corned beef and cabbage, with sweet potatoes, for my lunchables. Albeit a couple days after Imbolc. Never cooked a cabbage before, so that came out pretty well. Just boiled it in the leftover corned-beef h20. And the sweet potatoes were left over from last week, so I got to be a tad more lazy this weekend. A week of work-lunches done, woot.
-Made meringues, again. My oven doesn't seem able to bake at temps below 250 degrees, so I'm making the cookies smaller, and will probably have to start baking them for less time. Still slightly burnt, but in a 'caramel honey' way. But letting them dry out in the oven for 2-3 hours is working well.
-Tried making mayonnaise again, this time with the immersion blender. Still fail. And I don't like canned fish without mayo, so sometime soon I'll have to see if Whole Foods has a paleo-friendly brand. Grr, soy.
-Plotted out my options for food at Wicked Faire, my first event away from home where I'll be trying to stay on the paleo diet. I'm going with the "bring a big bag of shelf-stable groceries and horde them in my hotel room" option.
-With the seed bead kit that I somehow keep remembering to take to work with me I've made 2 necklaces and 2 bracelets. Would have made a 3rd necklace, but ran out of that bead color. And I'm doing a good job of working through my backlog of supplies. Its nice that I feel the jewelry inklings coming back, what with the color mis-matching I like for my woven seed bead things, but I'm still a bit frustrated that the rest of it hasn't come back yet. Patience, I guess?
-Ordered fabric online for *one* project, a copy of one that wears well. After going through my fabric stash to see if I had something suitable already (nope). I've had a yen for sewing, but no energy/focus, and would probably be best to wait until after WF. But yay for having a tad more self control than usual.
-Organized outfits... eventually. Some on Sunday and some Tuesday nite. This gets tricky when I've just washed the laundry. If it were warmer outside, or if I could do laundry more often, would be less tricky.
-Went to brunch at the Magnet training center with comedy friends Saturday morning! Was fun to hang out with comedians in not-a-bar. And I brought paleo banana-batter pancakes, which were well liked, and were the only thing I could eat at the party. But I got enough to eat, and other ppl tried them, so it went well.
-Did all-the-tarot for Imbolc. Will make that another post. And lit all teh candles. I really want to get back into Bridgit mode. Sekhmet is a clearer go-to for pestilence-resistance health, but in the brain fog I forget that Bridgit is all about teh healths, crafts, inspirations, hearths, etc. Brain fog makes me a bad pagan. Haven't heard from Coyote in a while either, I don't know if this means he's done his job, or if I'm just that boring now :-/
-Queued up a bunch of Etsy spam on my bizness twitter, three a day for the next 2-3 weeks. Tweetdeck gets a bit buggy with that much queue-ing, tho. I'm playing with different times to see if there's an effect on my shop stats.
Am more than a little annoyed that this time last year was my most active time of 2012, but so far I've been mostly stuck in my old pattern of "want curl up in ball and hide". On the other hand, last winter was a lot milder.
Oh, and back then I also thought the CF thing had come from a mono infection, b/c my doctor found antibodies. Apparently 90% of adult humans have those antibodies, whether or not they remember having had mono, evar. Oh, Dr. Lame :-P
I'm still having more good days than I used to, but I seem to be on a decline. In the last week and change I'm having trouble getting to bed on time, I was a lot better at that after the new year started, and right after the year's first S.I. The lack of sleep seems to be making my life suck, tho.
Quite a lot of my energy goes towards advance-planning, but I'm not sure if this is helping me or adding to teh issues. Taking an afternoon/evening each weekend to do all the cooking for a week of lunches. Planning a week worth of work outfits on the weekends so I don't have to think about it in the mornings. Packing a bead kit for my lunch days at work. Etc.
Am getting more curious about what happens when I start treatment for sleep apnea. But not curious enough to remember to call them and set up an appointment yet. *sigh* The brain fog is still rather relentless. But I hope 'treatment' is more than a patronizing lecture about my weight :-P The CF started *before* I got chubby.
Tho now that I think about it, the CF started with the overdose of S.I.'s in the Spring of '11, and those are by nature a respiratory infection. It would be interesting if that constant chain of illnesses did something to F up that part of my body in a more long term (sleep-apnea) way. Not sure if that's how it works tho.
Wicked Faire is in little more than a week. As this week drags on I'm less and less happy in general, but I'm framing WF as a reward for weeks of annoying grogginess. Hopefully it will be fun enough to make that true, and luckily I have Pres Day off to recover.
This weekend I'll be cooking two work-weeks worth of lunches at once, plus prepping my WF food stash. All of that shopping can be done in my neighborhood, so hopefully "Shrodinger's Storm" won't crimp my plans too badly. Will probably try to get some of my groceries tonite, tho.
<3 Chrysilla
Crossposted from Dreamwidth, http://chrysilla.dreamwidth.org/