And now for another round of Monthly Love as I reflect back on some of the awesome things that I have discovered this month.
If any of you have followed this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that I’ve been on and off Weight Watchers which means I’ve spent a god awful amount of time eating various types of diet foods. I do it partly because I’m lazy and don’t have to think much about what I’m eating and partly because it’s cheaper in the long run, particularly when it comes to lunches. But the frozen foods (I favored Lean Cuisine) were getting old and I needed something new. Lo and behold, I found these Healthy Choice Fresh Mixers in the pasta aisle and bought them because a friend had recommended them and boy, was she right. So far I have tried the Ziti & Meat Sauce and the Rotini & Zesty Marinara. I wasn’t too keen on the Rotini because the sauce has fire roasted peppers in it, which was a little odd tasting my opinion but the Ziti was delicious! And the key to these is that you add water to the dry noodles, cook them in the microwave for about 3 minutes, strain them and then add the sauce packet. So you are essentially getting a nice helping of FRESH pasta for about 300 calories. I’ve been able to pick them up at Bi-Lo for $3 a pop, which is about the same that I paid for the Lean Cuisines. But I would only buy them on sale because normally they are $4 something and I can’t justify spending that much for the portion size you get (adequate enough to keep you satisfied until dinner).
Note: For those of you reading through a feed reader, I have a new design that nice and fresh and clean with updated content. And I did a massive update to my Delicious links, which comes through the feedreader as well, so yea, sorry about that! I also preemptively thank you for reading this because it’s a long post! *grins*
Today has been one of those crappy, cold and rainy days here in the Lowcountry. In Yankee times, I would have hoped for snow and truthfully, with as cold and bitter as it has been the past few days, I wouldn’t have been surprised. No lie, we were downtown last night and there was a fountain in the garden of a hotel that was FROZEN! It was a sight to see. Regardless, this is South Carolina and snow is pretty much non-existent so we just have to be accepting of gray skies, crisp air and puddles and puddles of rain.
Even Charleston gets cold!
But dreary, rainy days give me the perfect excuse to do absolutely nothing but surf the Internet, watch TV and wear my pajamas all day. Steve hates this! He tries to act like he is all good with having a relaxing weekend where we have no obligations, no errands and spend nothing but after a few hours of doing nothing, he is as antsy as a five year old. Whereas I, on the other hand, relish days where I can veg out and do nothing and not feel guilty about what needs to be done and hasn’t or what rooms I could be cleaning. Sometimes I feel bad about him being bored – like maybe we should use the free time to go out as a couple and enjoy something and just get to know each other again. Or something like that. Other times, when he whines that he’s bored, I want to whack him in the face with his XBox controller, just to get the point across that he’s a grown man with hundreds, maybe thousands, of dollars of fancy toys and tools and he STILL can’t find something to entertain himself.
Meanwhile, I never have enough time to fit in all the things that entertain me.
Thailand? I don’t think I’d get a discount vagina from Thailand.
- Steve, after hearing the transgender roommate on The Real World: Brooklyn explain that she had sex reassignment surgery in Thailand.
The compression stockings I have to wear everyday!
I want to start this post off first by thanking every one of you for your thoughts and well wishes when I first posted about being diagnosed with blood clots back in December. It meant a lot to me to know that there were people out there thinking of me.
And since I’ve been posting about a lot of normal things lately, I figured it’s probably time to update you on how things are going, since it’s obvious I’m not dead or laid up anymore.
When I first posted about it, I was enduring two shots a day in the stomach of Lovenox. The purpose of this was to immediately administer anti-coagulents right into my bloodstream to insure that the clot did not break loose and pass to my lungs, heart or brain. The goal was to get me on an oral dosage of Warfarin but it can take about five days for it to manifest in the system and start doing some good, so the shots needed to sustain me until then. I was also on Augmentin to counteract any infections I might have gotten (since they were initially thinking it was cellulitis) and Darvocet for the pain.
It’s okay for me to post this now, ten days late, because my decorations are still up!
Aside from EVERYTHING else, one of the worst feelings I had when they diagnosed me with the blood clots was the idea that I might miss Christmas. I had no doubt in my mind that we would still celebrate but I was very unclear as to what capacity I would be able to participate.
Thankfully, after a week or so of intensive treatment, my condition improved and we slowly got into the Christmas spirit. And I couldn’t have been more grateful that on Christmas morning, I was healthy enough to go to my parents house and eat delicious food, exchange gifts and watch movies with my family.
The thing with being as sick is that I was forced to reorganize my priorities. In years past, I’ve stressed myself out to the point where I couldn’t even enjoy the holidays because there was baking to be done, cards to be completed and mailed, presents to buy, travel plans to fulfill and just general chaos surrounding what was supposed to be a joyous and heartwarming time. But this year – this year I had an amazing holiday! I had to step back and pick only the most important things because my body wouldn’t let me push myself to that breaking point. It was already there.
