Monday's writing on Monday
Posted 08-16-2010 at 09:20 PM by CSD610
It is still officially Monday so I sit and write again. Not much going on today and I am still more tired than I should be. One of the medications I take daily for Blood Pressure has been changed recently and my body is not adjusting very well at all so we struggle with fatigue, hopefully that will get better soon.
I spent part of my day doing dishes, part of my day doing nothing, part of my day doing things on the Farm and the Frontier on Facebook part of my day cleaning out things from the freezer and the pantry and giving them away and the rest of my day in bed; what an exciting life I lead I swear.
Once again my Mother is sending one message after another on AIM while I am trying to write. I'm sure she has some sort of internal radar when it comes to this. She has not messaged me all day then I sit to write and she shows up armed with a minimum of 15 AIM messages within a few minutes, cripes. I'll be right back.
I'm back and my Mother is going to tuck herself into bed so I can continue here and hopefully be uninterrupted for a wee bit.
Anyway back to my day, pretty exciting I know but I feel compelled to share in the excitement at times.
The day started like it usually does up early, coffee, potty, computer, breakfast, take the dog out for a bit, more coffee, dishes started, etc. etc (you get the idea). Then I go to the Farm and do what I can there and on my friends Farm then I head to the Frontier and do what I can there. Not much on either parcel of land since I am new to this and still cannot figure out how to get more horseshoes and have very few neighbors but no big deal to me. It is a few minutes with coffee during the wee hours of the morning before the roosters are even crowing.
After that I decide it is time to go back to bed since I am feeling fatigued again. Too much work on the Farm and Frontier I'm thinking. When I woke from my nap I put away dry dishes, did another round of dirty dishes and came back to the computer.
The rest of the day pretty much went the same way until R. called and told me he was going to stop by and pick up what I had in the freezer and pantry for him so I had to get that out and ready to be picked up and carried away.
You would not believe the things that have been given away from our pantry and freezer since July 15, 2010. It is amazing to me how much stuff has so much bad for you stuff in it and it does truly affect the way your body processes everything. Our 30 minute grocery runs have turned into 1.5 hour label reading marathons and calculations for servings, carbohydrates, sugar, sugar alcohol, high fructose corn syrup, sorbitol, fructose, lactose, gluctose, and any other 'ose' or 'tol' ending word you can think of or make up.
Yeesh, what a stinking mess processed foods have made our bodies. No wonder there is so much disease and destruction concerning the human body. We were not made physically to process properly all the chemicals that are willingly consumed by humans. Our bodies are equipped to process foods as close to their natural state as possible without all the chemical additives and processing.
What a lesson learned once we left that appointment with the physician with no information, a prescription for a low dose medication and a diagnosis of Type II Diabetes. I know I've written about this before but let me tell you without a doubt it is a long time learning and adapting when it comes to this. You think things are under control and stable then WHAM the numbers on the meter are high for 3 days in a row and you cannot figure out why. So you process, cypher and go over every detail of what you have done and eaten the last few days. Then you think you have it figured out and decide what to do to adjust and the numbers are back within the acceptable range.
Now the question becomes do you go ahead and adjust or stay status quo? What a dilemma. I'll keep updating this topic and how we are progressing and leave it as it is for now.
The next thing that came to mind is a few of the things I've read here posted by different people. I find it interesting how things can go on for so long and for whatever reason the one posting is just now finding it to be an almost intolerable issue.
For example, one poster has been married for 13 years and has finally decided the spouse is lazy. Well one would think that would have been figured out well before 13 years passed. The poster was asking for suggestions on how to get the spouse to quit being lazy, from what was written in the post my only suggestion was to cut off the cable, sell the television, put the kids in day care and send the spouse off to work then hire someone to come in the house once a week to clean. There are reasons I suggested all of the above and I will present them here for contemplation. Keep in mind these are my reasons alone and I own them and I live in a very black and white world. The way I see things is more often than not very different than the way others see things. I tend to think and act literally and logically. So here goes.
First the cable and the television: I am not a big fan of the television anyway so to me if one is disregarding home and family because of the distraction the most logical way to get rid of said distraction is to get rid of the cable and the television.
Children put in daycare: Again, I am not a big fan of children being put into daycare however, if it has been proven over a long period of time that whomever stays home with the children cannot keep up with home and family it is time to work outside of home and help provide with finances.
Hire someone to come in once a week: This to me is literal and logical. Yes it is an expense that is probably not absolutely necessary however, if both are working, the children are in daycare and either spouse is not very adept at housekeeping spend the money, hire someone and quit arguing about it.
It is in my opinion better to find a solid solution to said issue than to continue to argue about the issue if there has not been and more than likely will not be any change. The key is to not hire someone unless both spouses are working outside of the home.
Currently my home is not where I would like it to be as far as organized and clean but we are getting there. I have been going through a "I'm a beginning hoarder" stage in my life and it has been hard for me to see so much out of place and disorganized. I am truly not a beginning hoarder by any stretch of the imagination but I feel that way right now because of all the disorganization in our home right now. I have never in my life owned so much as far as material possessions go and it is driving my batty, well more batty than usual.
Sneakers has a better understanding of this now that we have discussed it in depth and he is helping to get things better organized and cleaned up. Not that we live in a completely filthy, bug infested pig sty or anything close to that but the house needs cleaned, things need to be put away and organized and marked appropriately and other things need to be tossed, sold or donated. We are working on all of the above together and it makes things a lot easier because we are doing it together.
I find so many things written on different areas of this site that are silly, tragic and just downright stupid (in my opinion) but very human and very real to those who post here.
Am I critical of some posts, absolutely. Am I sympathetic to other posts, absolutely. Do I think the rest are somewhere in between, absolutely. I question my own posts at times and wonder "Where the hell did that come from"? I am still amazed I actually have those who take the time to read what I write. I am very appreciative but surprised at the same time.
So that is it for today I think and we move on to the Farm and the Frontier and wander the timbers of slumber along the way and dream the dreams that can only be dreamed in dreams.
Put up your dream catchers, say a good long prayer and close your eyes and rest. Tomorrow is another day.
More later ~~~~~~~
I spent part of my day doing dishes, part of my day doing nothing, part of my day doing things on the Farm and the Frontier on Facebook part of my day cleaning out things from the freezer and the pantry and giving them away and the rest of my day in bed; what an exciting life I lead I swear.
Once again my Mother is sending one message after another on AIM while I am trying to write. I'm sure she has some sort of internal radar when it comes to this. She has not messaged me all day then I sit to write and she shows up armed with a minimum of 15 AIM messages within a few minutes, cripes. I'll be right back.
I'm back and my Mother is going to tuck herself into bed so I can continue here and hopefully be uninterrupted for a wee bit.
Anyway back to my day, pretty exciting I know but I feel compelled to share in the excitement at times.
The day started like it usually does up early, coffee, potty, computer, breakfast, take the dog out for a bit, more coffee, dishes started, etc. etc (you get the idea). Then I go to the Farm and do what I can there and on my friends Farm then I head to the Frontier and do what I can there. Not much on either parcel of land since I am new to this and still cannot figure out how to get more horseshoes and have very few neighbors but no big deal to me. It is a few minutes with coffee during the wee hours of the morning before the roosters are even crowing.
After that I decide it is time to go back to bed since I am feeling fatigued again. Too much work on the Farm and Frontier I'm thinking. When I woke from my nap I put away dry dishes, did another round of dirty dishes and came back to the computer.
The rest of the day pretty much went the same way until R. called and told me he was going to stop by and pick up what I had in the freezer and pantry for him so I had to get that out and ready to be picked up and carried away.
You would not believe the things that have been given away from our pantry and freezer since July 15, 2010. It is amazing to me how much stuff has so much bad for you stuff in it and it does truly affect the way your body processes everything. Our 30 minute grocery runs have turned into 1.5 hour label reading marathons and calculations for servings, carbohydrates, sugar, sugar alcohol, high fructose corn syrup, sorbitol, fructose, lactose, gluctose, and any other 'ose' or 'tol' ending word you can think of or make up.
Yeesh, what a stinking mess processed foods have made our bodies. No wonder there is so much disease and destruction concerning the human body. We were not made physically to process properly all the chemicals that are willingly consumed by humans. Our bodies are equipped to process foods as close to their natural state as possible without all the chemical additives and processing.
What a lesson learned once we left that appointment with the physician with no information, a prescription for a low dose medication and a diagnosis of Type II Diabetes. I know I've written about this before but let me tell you without a doubt it is a long time learning and adapting when it comes to this. You think things are under control and stable then WHAM the numbers on the meter are high for 3 days in a row and you cannot figure out why. So you process, cypher and go over every detail of what you have done and eaten the last few days. Then you think you have it figured out and decide what to do to adjust and the numbers are back within the acceptable range.
Now the question becomes do you go ahead and adjust or stay status quo? What a dilemma. I'll keep updating this topic and how we are progressing and leave it as it is for now.
The next thing that came to mind is a few of the things I've read here posted by different people. I find it interesting how things can go on for so long and for whatever reason the one posting is just now finding it to be an almost intolerable issue.
For example, one poster has been married for 13 years and has finally decided the spouse is lazy. Well one would think that would have been figured out well before 13 years passed. The poster was asking for suggestions on how to get the spouse to quit being lazy, from what was written in the post my only suggestion was to cut off the cable, sell the television, put the kids in day care and send the spouse off to work then hire someone to come in the house once a week to clean. There are reasons I suggested all of the above and I will present them here for contemplation. Keep in mind these are my reasons alone and I own them and I live in a very black and white world. The way I see things is more often than not very different than the way others see things. I tend to think and act literally and logically. So here goes.
First the cable and the television: I am not a big fan of the television anyway so to me if one is disregarding home and family because of the distraction the most logical way to get rid of said distraction is to get rid of the cable and the television.
Children put in daycare: Again, I am not a big fan of children being put into daycare however, if it has been proven over a long period of time that whomever stays home with the children cannot keep up with home and family it is time to work outside of home and help provide with finances.
Hire someone to come in once a week: This to me is literal and logical. Yes it is an expense that is probably not absolutely necessary however, if both are working, the children are in daycare and either spouse is not very adept at housekeeping spend the money, hire someone and quit arguing about it.
It is in my opinion better to find a solid solution to said issue than to continue to argue about the issue if there has not been and more than likely will not be any change. The key is to not hire someone unless both spouses are working outside of the home.
Currently my home is not where I would like it to be as far as organized and clean but we are getting there. I have been going through a "I'm a beginning hoarder" stage in my life and it has been hard for me to see so much out of place and disorganized. I am truly not a beginning hoarder by any stretch of the imagination but I feel that way right now because of all the disorganization in our home right now. I have never in my life owned so much as far as material possessions go and it is driving my batty, well more batty than usual.
Sneakers has a better understanding of this now that we have discussed it in depth and he is helping to get things better organized and cleaned up. Not that we live in a completely filthy, bug infested pig sty or anything close to that but the house needs cleaned, things need to be put away and organized and marked appropriately and other things need to be tossed, sold or donated. We are working on all of the above together and it makes things a lot easier because we are doing it together.
I find so many things written on different areas of this site that are silly, tragic and just downright stupid (in my opinion) but very human and very real to those who post here.
Am I critical of some posts, absolutely. Am I sympathetic to other posts, absolutely. Do I think the rest are somewhere in between, absolutely. I question my own posts at times and wonder "Where the hell did that come from"? I am still amazed I actually have those who take the time to read what I write. I am very appreciative but surprised at the same time.
So that is it for today I think and we move on to the Farm and the Frontier and wander the timbers of slumber along the way and dream the dreams that can only be dreamed in dreams.
Put up your dream catchers, say a good long prayer and close your eyes and rest. Tomorrow is another day.
More later ~~~~~~~
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