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The Bipolar Housewife ExperimentFind out what happens when homemaking, motherhood, and mental illness collide! February 06 Moving this blogI've decided to move my blog to blogger, just to try something new. Anyone coming to read this should just click HERE, or go to http://bipolarhousewife.blogspot.com/. Thanks for reading! :) Take care, R February 03 We have snow . . .It's mostly melted, but that's okay. It still feels weird to see snow at all in the winter, since in SA we usually wore t-shirts well into January. Not much going on, just feeling tired. I think I might have some sleep apnea or something similar. Maybe there's something I can do that doesn't require drugs--maybe those nasal stickers. I still need to go to the store. Today is a leisurely lunch with the fam, then maybe a teeny bit of shopping. I guess I need some groceries and such. I should get in the shower. Well, take care, and I'll write again soon. R February 01 Back to normalMore or less. CJ has gone back to San Antonio and I'm by myself again. It gets lonely. It was nice to have someone to go shopping with. She wants to lose some weight, too, so she wanted some information about Weight Watchers. I went to my meeting on Tuesday night, and it turns out I lost another 2 pounds! Always glad when the numbers go down . . . I hope to keep up the trend. I'm sticking to the plan. I have dreams I break my diet and just start eating without counting the points. I wake up disappointed in myself, discouraged, and depressed. Then I realize as I get my breakfast that I never broke my diet after all. Whew! I hope it's not some kind of premonition, but more of a warning against that kind of thing. I'm definitely motivated to lose this weight, and it's encouraging for me that I've actually lost a few pounds on this plan. It's been a long time since I found something that would work in spite of the health situations I face. Anything that works, I will stick with. CJ mentioned the possibility of moving up here. I hope she can. It would be nice to live in the same city again. It hasn't been that long, really, but since we've never lived away from each other, it's weird. Just doesn't feel . . . comfortable. I don't know, it's the only way I can think of to explain it. She's the only member of my family who has made a consistent effort to stay in touch with me, and I appreciate it. Everyone else just gets caught up in their own lives. Even when I don't talk to her on the phone, I at least visit her blog so I can see what's been going on and how she's been feeling. Don't know if anyone else does. Well, I didn't really have much to write. Not much has been going on. I just go to WW meetings once a week and do housework. I did lots of laundry and vaccuuming yesterday. E is a bit under the weather today. He looks a bit stuffy and he's been sneezing. Poor sweety. I know he's bored staying at home, but it's rainy and cold today and if he's getting sick I don't really want to take him out in that. Maybe later. Maybe tomorrow. I will write more soon, as soon as I get a chance. I'm in a blah kind of mood, so my writing today is blah. Take care, R January 26 Everyone I meet . . .. . . is doing Weight Watchers! :) It's so funny, I will make a passing comment about points or just mention WW and then the person I'm talking to says they are also on WW. It's cool, no one thinks I'm a loser for trying it! And I have the accountability I had been lacking on other diet plans. I want to get stickers every week! ;) I hope I am going to get more on Tuesday. So far, I haven't had any problems sticking to the plan. The only time I've used Flex Points this week was at Medieval Times. I don't know if anyone else has been there, but if you have, you know the food isn't spectacular. It's just somewhat incidental. It's there, you eat it, and then it's over. Not memorable. I hate having used Flex Points on that. Quite frankly, I want it to be worth it. And that roast chicken was hardly worth it. Why couldn't it have been Papa John's pizza or something? Oh, well. But I've still been following the plan. CJ said she was feeling better yesterday. She's sleeping late today, and I understand. I hope we get to do some hanging out. We got to watch some tv together yesterday afternoon and do some chatting. It was nice. Perhaps we can get out of the house today. It's supposed to be a nice day, sunny and warm. At least it's not raining. I've had my fill for a while. Well, I'd better see if I can get a shower in. It's an emergency now! I never could squeeze it in yesterday, and I almost took a shower at bedtime, but I was too tired. Now it's a priority today. It might have to be a quickie, but I'll take it! Better get some more morning business taken care of. Talk to you all soon! Take care, R January 25 CJShe's been sick with a severe stomach flu since Monday afternoon. At first, she thought it was a migraine, which she gets all the time, so I went to my plastic surgeon appointment anyway. When I got back, she was still in the bathroom throwing up. Later, she was still throwing up. I gave her some water to make sure she didn't get to dehydrated, but it didn't really help. No offense to her, I love her dearly, but she has a way of not really telling you what she need or wants, but just kind of letting you figure it out on your own. I didn't know if she needed to go to the doctor or not, or what I should do. I asked if she wanted to talk to her doctor in San Antonio on the phone, see if he had any advice. She just told me he couldn't do anything from all the way over there. So I let it go. Later, she started crying and said she thought she was vomiting blood. I had to get C to help drag her out to the car to take her to the emergency clinic. They said it was stomach flu. They gave her a prescription to stop the vomiting and nausea, and I took her home. It makes people sleepy, so she has basically been sleeping since then. She had Pedialyte on Tuesday, and some crackers. Yesterday and today she was able to eat bagels and light cream cheese. I hope she's doing better soon. We really haven't had much of a visit. She's just sleeping and eating occasionally. I hope she's okay. She doesn't really say. I think she likes it when people worry about her and take care of her. I don't always know what to do, so sometimes I get frustrated trying to read her mind. I hope she doesn't take it the wrong way. C, E and I went to Medieval Times last night. We got free tickets from the tv station or else I'm not sure we would have gone. It seems kind of expensive to me. It was fun, but E got scared a few times, especially during the sword fights. I think it was loud for him. But he seemed to have a good time anyway, and he's still talking about it today. He mentions the horses, the castle, the king and princess, and how he wanted one of the horses. Oh, and I went to my Weight Watchers meeting on Tuesday night. I have hypothyroidism, antidepressants, and an ovarian cyst keeping the weight on me, but somehow I actually LOST 4 POUNDS! I couldn't believe it! I'm still in shock. I'm definitely sold on this program, and it isn't even hard to follow. It's genius, let me tell you. And that I can still have Starbucks, I'm a happy camper. Any diet where I had to restrict what I had or cut it out all together has failed. I just snap. I miss my Starbucks. Speaking of Starbuck, he's barking like mad and driving me nuts. He keeps barking at E. I think he's fascinated by him. Then Benny barks because he thinks Bucky is barking at some kind of danger. Then Bucky barks because he thinks there's really a reason to be barking at E, and it goes on and on. They set each other off. I keep making them go outside to bark. I'm sure the neighbors love me right now. Sorry. But I don't want to go nuts in here. I am under stress as it is. Now Ben's barking at nothing. UGH! He gets out of the gate, though, so I don't want him to go outside too much. He's going out in a minute, though, if he doesn't shut up! Okay, guess I'd better go. I need to change E's diapy and take a shower. I'll try to be back soon. Take care, R |
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