So yesterday I took Tuvok for a walk in the park. It was beautiful outside and he knew it; he wasn't going to give up until he had a walk. I don't blame him, really. We haven't been to the park in several weeks. It was a leisurely walk. We took the short path, and then the long way back from the short path. I have no idea how far that is or how long we were gone. I know that poor Tuvok was worn out two-thirds of the way through. He doesn't get much exercise in the winter and especially this winter. I felt ok afterwards. Not really energized or anything like you're supposed to be. It was nice to get outside. I collected a few seeds. I might try wintersowing them.
We went to Dave and Froggi's for dinner. We had a good time. I discovered the free Kindle App for my iPhone and subsequently discovered free books. Hehe!
Today was a bad day. I feel exhausted. My arms weight 10 pounds each. I didn't do anything with my arms yesterday, especially not more than I do on a regular day at work. I can only assume it was the walk, and one of the symptoms of "Stupid Tired Disease" (aka: Chronic Fatigue) is significant muscle weakness following exercise. Grr. And then of course Binary DH says, "So you can't even go for walks now?!" Ugh. I know he tries to understand and he usually does well, but today was a bad day for him too. He really wanted us to go to work and me tend his plants while he cleaned his coffeemaker but I just didn't have it. We went to the mall and got him some new suits, courtesy of his parents and that was about all I could do. It was very frustrating for both of us. I was having weak arms and legs the whole time. It is a wierd feeling. I can move them but I can just as easily let them hang limp. They are heavy, like the electrical impuses don't quite make it there efficiently. It's a similar feeling to taking a muscle relaxant like Flexeril.
Anyway, I watched 3 hours of TV on the couch when we got home and ate a snack and felt better. Then I messed on the computer a little more, read some of one of my new free books, and took a long spa-like shower.
The book I'm reading is by a naturopath. I think she calls herself a Natural Hygenist. She began life as a poor malnourished rural Canadian, went to nursing school, mastered in Psychiatry, Doctored in Psychiatry and Gastroenterology or something like that. She kept being convicted by the Hippocratic Oath- she felt that traditional medicine often did more harm than good. She started caring for phych patients in her own home with great success and then created the Great Oaks School of Healing in Oregon. It was successful but stressful so she sold it and then had a series of live-in patients at her home until her death in like the 90's or something.
So far I'm in Chapter 3. I am skeptical of natuopaths as a rule. I like science. But I feel that modern medicine is lacking. There's too much emphasis on the symptoms and not enough on the cause of the illness. Naturopaths aim to fix the cause of the illness. This one believes that the source of (almost) all illness and healing is what we put in our mouths. While I was reading I thought of an analogy. Think of your body as a lawn, or a garden. You want your lawn to be lush and healthy and disease free, so you water it and feed it and mow it. If you do those things in the right proportions, you end up with a lush green lawn that makes you the envy of your neighborhood. However, if you skimp on the fertilizer and water (expensive, you know) and mow it irregularly and cut too much off at once and stress the plants, you end up with a diseased, unhealthy lawn. You can pour chemicals on it but the only real way to heal the lawn is to give it the water and fertilizer and maintenance it needs. So it is with the human body. We need lots of water, high quality food, and regular maintenance to be able to feel our best and resist illness.
It is a very thought provoking book so far. I don't know if I agree with everything she'll say but she makes sense and doesn't get all mystical or whatever. All of her theories and practices are based on real life things (not energy or chi or anything) and she tested most of the practices on herself. She tried all the different types of fasts to figure out what actually worked best. She experimented with foods and stuff. So at least at this point, she has earned some trust. We'll see if she goes all wacky later in the book.
My plan is to continue to eat as much whole, healthy food as I can and avoid as much processed junk as I can. I'm not going to be perfect but I hope that as I eat more good food and start to feel better it'll be easier to say no to the 'comfort foods'.
Also, I realized that even though my fasting blood sugar is 90, I still experience pretty severe hypoglycemic symptoms when I don't eat RIGHT NOW!!!! So I should treat it like hypoglycemia and see if that helps. So instead of only eating one type of thing as a snack, I'll make sure I get all three macronutrients each time I eat to keep my sugar stable. The naturopath lady mentioned something in the introduction about not mixing food groups but at this point it seems like the best way to deal with the weak shaky sick faint feeling I get when I need to eat RIGHT NOW!!!!!
So yeah. Hardly anything got accomplished this weekend. It wasn't a very good couple of days for my body. But tomorrow is another day.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Here's shelf #1 of the new plant shelf. It is the shortest of the three. It is also going to be the dimmest with only one light fixture. So far all the plants seem happy and the cats haven't even touched it.
Here is Lillibutt and Bones hanging out in the box that our new Tuvok-proof trash can came in.
Once again I have a list of things to get done, most of which are fun things. But I still don't want to do them. I watched a couple hours of TV and now I'm messing around online some more. It is 55 degrees outside. I should take advantage of the weather and paint the rest of my plant shelves. But meh.
I made sugar cookies this week. They were yummy. I made two batches of the fluffy recipe. I have 3 sugar cookie recipes. One is flavored with mace, one is yummy with little to no frosting and one is fluffy and good for lots of frosting. I made those. I made some with chocolate and some with cream cheese frosting and I still ran out of frosting.
One of my coworkers got married yesterday so I'm going to make a congratulatory cookie cake for him tomorrow.
My grandpa's 83rd birthday is Monday. He had colon cancer last year. He still maintains a huge garden and sells the best produce in the area. I should learn his secrets I think. He uses old style farming methods though, with tractors and tilling and stuff. Maybe someday I'll have a garden that's so big I need a tractor! He made a couple thousand dollars from his produce last year and he didn't feel good for the first part of the year. The profits were from August until frost. He has waiting lists for his watermelons and cantaloupe. If there's a gardening gene, I hope I got it!
This year most of my vegetables are going to be in containers. I went out and measured all my large containers and now I'm going to go pick the brains of the gurus at Garden Web.
Here is Lillibutt and Bones hanging out in the box that our new Tuvok-proof trash can came in.
Once again I have a list of things to get done, most of which are fun things. But I still don't want to do them. I watched a couple hours of TV and now I'm messing around online some more. It is 55 degrees outside. I should take advantage of the weather and paint the rest of my plant shelves. But meh.
I made sugar cookies this week. They were yummy. I made two batches of the fluffy recipe. I have 3 sugar cookie recipes. One is flavored with mace, one is yummy with little to no frosting and one is fluffy and good for lots of frosting. I made those. I made some with chocolate and some with cream cheese frosting and I still ran out of frosting.
One of my coworkers got married yesterday so I'm going to make a congratulatory cookie cake for him tomorrow.
My grandpa's 83rd birthday is Monday. He had colon cancer last year. He still maintains a huge garden and sells the best produce in the area. I should learn his secrets I think. He uses old style farming methods though, with tractors and tilling and stuff. Maybe someday I'll have a garden that's so big I need a tractor! He made a couple thousand dollars from his produce last year and he didn't feel good for the first part of the year. The profits were from August until frost. He has waiting lists for his watermelons and cantaloupe. If there's a gardening gene, I hope I got it!
This year most of my vegetables are going to be in containers. I went out and measured all my large containers and now I'm going to go pick the brains of the gurus at Garden Web.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
I discovered how to put a picture at my header! This is Tuvok playing in the snow last Christmas when we had our blizzard. I'm usually not good at action shots so I'm really impressed that I got this one.
On Friday night I went to bed at 8:45. I woke up the next day at 11:30. It was awesome. I just kept sleeping until I finally had a good dream. (Playing with and photographing a fox in Canada) I hardly ever have good dreams, unless I've had a ton of sleep. So that's how I knew to get up. I felt really good all day yesterday. I puttered around and did stuff on my weekend list. We had dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings with Dave and Froggi and Froggi's mom. Froggi's mom is awesome and we love spending time with her. Then we went shopping and got groceries. I got a pan for my plant shelf.
HEY!!! IT'S SNOWING!!!
Anyway. We got an aluminum automotive drip pan that is 25" by 48". I'm going to hammer the sides so they're straight up and then it should fit in the shelf just perfectly. Then I got some Rust-Oleum to waterproof the pan. I got the primer and a satin black. It should work. I hope this all works out!!
I'm working through the process of coming to terms with my Chronic Fatigue. When I talk about it or think much about it I feel really depressed and a little indignant. I was really hoping to avoid all this autoimmune crap but I guess I didn't. So basically here's the deal (according to the rheumatologist): My immune system is attacking various parts of my body. At this point my body is holding up pretty well but I feel very tired because it's like I'm constantly fighting an infection, except the infection is my own body tissues. Also, the Mono I had has stayed with me. Some people who have mono recover completely, some develop Epsteinn-Barr (autoimmune), and some develop chronic fatigue. That's what I did. So I kind of got both possible causes of being tired all the time.
So I'm developing a plan. The first part involves eating better. Yesterday at Walmart I got lots of fruits and vegetables and salad stuff. I'm going to have a salad at lunch every day. My goal is to have 5 different ingredients in my salads with as many colors as possible. I'm still going to eat my popcorn every day but half as much. I have some fruits for snacks. I'll probably have fruit for one snack and nuts for the other. At dinner I'll have meat, one green veggie, one colored veggie, and one whole grain (or not whole sometimes)(because some things just aren't as good with whole grains). Breakfast is still my soy milk and protein powder. This plan leaves me with enough calories left over to still have chocolate! I like that a lot!
I've eaten like this before and I remember feeling really good. I'm hoping that the diet will increase my energy enough that I can start exercising. Right now even the thought of exercising is too overwhelming. Also, as the weather warms in the spring I'll be going for walks in the park with Tuvok and doing more yard work.
DH has really come around recently and he is now as supportive as I could ever ask. He used to freak out about me being tired but now he understands a lot better. He encourages me to rest and not overdo it. He encourages me to do things that are good for me like eating better and exercising. He is even trying to eat better with me. He had an epiphany that just like being blind isn't something he chose, so is this. I don't want to be tired. I want to have boundless energy. But I don't. DH wants to be independent and drive a car, but he can't. We both just have to adapt and live our life as best we can. That alone has reduced my life stress tenfold. Over Christmas I got so stressed out that all my conditions flared up. I was exhausted, my muscles refused to work, my brain was mush, my sebborhea flared up (itchy rash around my nose and in my ear), I got a huuuuge cyst on my face, my back broke out, and it was awful. So stress plays a big role in how I feel.
DH's dad is over and they're watching the football game. The pizza should be here any minute. After lunch I'm going to put together the plant shelf. I have a little bit of repotting to do. I'm going to plant some lettuce. I have some leftover cookie dough in the fridge and I'm going to bake it. That's pretty much it.
On Friday night I went to bed at 8:45. I woke up the next day at 11:30. It was awesome. I just kept sleeping until I finally had a good dream. (Playing with and photographing a fox in Canada) I hardly ever have good dreams, unless I've had a ton of sleep. So that's how I knew to get up. I felt really good all day yesterday. I puttered around and did stuff on my weekend list. We had dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings with Dave and Froggi and Froggi's mom. Froggi's mom is awesome and we love spending time with her. Then we went shopping and got groceries. I got a pan for my plant shelf.
HEY!!! IT'S SNOWING!!!
Anyway. We got an aluminum automotive drip pan that is 25" by 48". I'm going to hammer the sides so they're straight up and then it should fit in the shelf just perfectly. Then I got some Rust-Oleum to waterproof the pan. I got the primer and a satin black. It should work. I hope this all works out!!
I'm working through the process of coming to terms with my Chronic Fatigue. When I talk about it or think much about it I feel really depressed and a little indignant. I was really hoping to avoid all this autoimmune crap but I guess I didn't. So basically here's the deal (according to the rheumatologist): My immune system is attacking various parts of my body. At this point my body is holding up pretty well but I feel very tired because it's like I'm constantly fighting an infection, except the infection is my own body tissues. Also, the Mono I had has stayed with me. Some people who have mono recover completely, some develop Epsteinn-Barr (autoimmune), and some develop chronic fatigue. That's what I did. So I kind of got both possible causes of being tired all the time.
So I'm developing a plan. The first part involves eating better. Yesterday at Walmart I got lots of fruits and vegetables and salad stuff. I'm going to have a salad at lunch every day. My goal is to have 5 different ingredients in my salads with as many colors as possible. I'm still going to eat my popcorn every day but half as much. I have some fruits for snacks. I'll probably have fruit for one snack and nuts for the other. At dinner I'll have meat, one green veggie, one colored veggie, and one whole grain (or not whole sometimes)(because some things just aren't as good with whole grains). Breakfast is still my soy milk and protein powder. This plan leaves me with enough calories left over to still have chocolate! I like that a lot!
I've eaten like this before and I remember feeling really good. I'm hoping that the diet will increase my energy enough that I can start exercising. Right now even the thought of exercising is too overwhelming. Also, as the weather warms in the spring I'll be going for walks in the park with Tuvok and doing more yard work.
DH has really come around recently and he is now as supportive as I could ever ask. He used to freak out about me being tired but now he understands a lot better. He encourages me to rest and not overdo it. He encourages me to do things that are good for me like eating better and exercising. He is even trying to eat better with me. He had an epiphany that just like being blind isn't something he chose, so is this. I don't want to be tired. I want to have boundless energy. But I don't. DH wants to be independent and drive a car, but he can't. We both just have to adapt and live our life as best we can. That alone has reduced my life stress tenfold. Over Christmas I got so stressed out that all my conditions flared up. I was exhausted, my muscles refused to work, my brain was mush, my sebborhea flared up (itchy rash around my nose and in my ear), I got a huuuuge cyst on my face, my back broke out, and it was awful. So stress plays a big role in how I feel.
DH's dad is over and they're watching the football game. The pizza should be here any minute. After lunch I'm going to put together the plant shelf. I have a little bit of repotting to do. I'm going to plant some lettuce. I have some leftover cookie dough in the fridge and I'm going to bake it. That's pretty much it.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Anticipointment
So I waited in the waiting room of the rheumatologist for 45 minutes. THen I sat in the room for 15 minutes. Then the doc came in and talked to me for an hour. His conclusion? Sorry, I can't help you. I paid $30 and took 3 hours off work for nothing. He rambled on about lupus and sjogren's and blah blah.. But he didn't think I have any full blown autoimmune disorders so he can't treat anything. There isn't very much available to treat fatigue. He thinks I probably have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. That's just about the most worthless diagnosis I can think of. We don't know why you're tired, but you are, so you have "tired disease". Gee, thanks.
So I'm supposed to exercise. I don't understand how the body knows when you're at work and knows not to count that as exercise. Granted, I don't get my heart rate up every day but I do a couple times a week. It wears me out. How does my body know to ignore that? I lift heavy things all day and I hardly ever stop moving. Oh well. Now I get to come home, utterly pooped, and run up and down the stairs for a few minutes. Yay. I'm going to start that on Saturday so I have a couple of days where that's all the exercise I'll do before trying it after work.
I wish it wasn't cold. During the nice part of the year I take Tuvok on walks in the park. We go 1.5-3 miles depending on time. That gets my heart pumping pretty good. But the cold air makes my lungs freeze. I don't like that feeling. I thought about bringing the Total Gym downstairs. It is technically weight training but I can make it so I'm not lifting very much weight and do lots of reps. I'll get to breathing hard with that too and I can watch TV while I'm doing it.
Sorry I'm bummed out today. I just need to process this stuff. I'll probably be ok soon.
On to nicer topics...
We bought the shelving unit that I'm going to convert to a plant shelf. We got one 4-foot T8 flourescent fixture that I'll mount this weekend and then we'll see how the plants on that shelf do. If they want more light, I'll put two fixtures each on the other shelves and use that shelf for lower light plants. If they're good, well then I'll just put one fixture per shelf. I got one warm light bulb and one cool light bulb to make sure the plants get the whole light spectrum. At first I was going to use the middle spectrum light but then I thought maybe it wouldn't have red OR blue wavelengths in it. Plants need both to do their best. So they'll get one of each. The plant-specific lights are twice the price for half the lumens. What a rip off!
Ok, we have to get up at like 5 tomorrow so I'm going to bed now.
So I'm supposed to exercise. I don't understand how the body knows when you're at work and knows not to count that as exercise. Granted, I don't get my heart rate up every day but I do a couple times a week. It wears me out. How does my body know to ignore that? I lift heavy things all day and I hardly ever stop moving. Oh well. Now I get to come home, utterly pooped, and run up and down the stairs for a few minutes. Yay. I'm going to start that on Saturday so I have a couple of days where that's all the exercise I'll do before trying it after work.
I wish it wasn't cold. During the nice part of the year I take Tuvok on walks in the park. We go 1.5-3 miles depending on time. That gets my heart pumping pretty good. But the cold air makes my lungs freeze. I don't like that feeling. I thought about bringing the Total Gym downstairs. It is technically weight training but I can make it so I'm not lifting very much weight and do lots of reps. I'll get to breathing hard with that too and I can watch TV while I'm doing it.
Sorry I'm bummed out today. I just need to process this stuff. I'll probably be ok soon.
On to nicer topics...
We bought the shelving unit that I'm going to convert to a plant shelf. We got one 4-foot T8 flourescent fixture that I'll mount this weekend and then we'll see how the plants on that shelf do. If they want more light, I'll put two fixtures each on the other shelves and use that shelf for lower light plants. If they're good, well then I'll just put one fixture per shelf. I got one warm light bulb and one cool light bulb to make sure the plants get the whole light spectrum. At first I was going to use the middle spectrum light but then I thought maybe it wouldn't have red OR blue wavelengths in it. Plants need both to do their best. So they'll get one of each. The plant-specific lights are twice the price for half the lumens. What a rip off!
Ok, we have to get up at like 5 tomorrow so I'm going to bed now.
Friday, December 31, 2010
New Year
2010 is basically over. The first part was pretty good but fall and winter kind of sucked. I'm glad to be rid of them.
This week I pretty much crashed. I still did all the things I needed to do- like go to work and hang out with family, but I was so exhausted. I wasn't very productive at work and I felt bad about it but I didn't have the wherewithall to do anything about it. Next week should be better.
DH's brother and his wife were here all week. We hung out with them practically every night. They live in North Carolina so we really miss them. They went home today.
Today I slept until 11-something. It was awesome and I feel much better. I need to make molasses crinkles, german chocolate cake, and potato soup. Dave and Froggi are coming over for dinner. Tomorrow I need to make cornbread and then the cornbread and the molasses crinkles and DH and I are going to visit my mom's side of the family. I don't know if anything is happening on Sunday.
Next week I visit the rheumatologist. I'm hoping to get a second opinion on the Hashimoto's along with his thoughts on the other possible autoimmune stuff. Perhaps he'll have some insight into why I'm so easily worn out.
This morning I made looseleaf tea with my new Perfectea Maker from Teavana. It brews the loose tea in the device, then strains it into your cup and you have no tea leaves in your cup! It is really awesome. Now I am eating hazelnuts. I have searched all season for them and just now found them. Yum!
I have seed catalogs to peruse and Christmas money to spend. What a chore! Lol!
This week I pretty much crashed. I still did all the things I needed to do- like go to work and hang out with family, but I was so exhausted. I wasn't very productive at work and I felt bad about it but I didn't have the wherewithall to do anything about it. Next week should be better.
DH's brother and his wife were here all week. We hung out with them practically every night. They live in North Carolina so we really miss them. They went home today.
Today I slept until 11-something. It was awesome and I feel much better. I need to make molasses crinkles, german chocolate cake, and potato soup. Dave and Froggi are coming over for dinner. Tomorrow I need to make cornbread and then the cornbread and the molasses crinkles and DH and I are going to visit my mom's side of the family. I don't know if anything is happening on Sunday.
Next week I visit the rheumatologist. I'm hoping to get a second opinion on the Hashimoto's along with his thoughts on the other possible autoimmune stuff. Perhaps he'll have some insight into why I'm so easily worn out.
This morning I made looseleaf tea with my new Perfectea Maker from Teavana. It brews the loose tea in the device, then strains it into your cup and you have no tea leaves in your cup! It is really awesome. Now I am eating hazelnuts. I have searched all season for them and just now found them. Yum!
I have seed catalogs to peruse and Christmas money to spend. What a chore! Lol!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
I am baking. I am making peanut butter cookies, chocolate chip cookies, pumpkin muffins, and a peanut butter pie. And I'm getting paid for them. I think I've decided I'm just not going to bake at Christmastime unless someone requests something. This is the time of year when all the little bakers come out of the woodwork and there are bags of puppy chow and chocolate covered pretzels as far as the eye can see. I am more than happy to sit back and enjoy their creations. And it's probably best if I don't learn how to make Oreo truffles. Those things are like crack.
Like most years, I am ready for Christmas to be over already. I didn't even bother to decorate. We didn't do very many presents. I'm just blah about it. Maybe its because I've had health issues this fall. I just want to hunker down and wait for spring.
The house is full of animals. The hissing has really diminished today and that is nice. Spike and Ripley and Kayla are staying under the bed for the most part. Millie(dog) just paces around and Ash is a chinchilla. He sleeps all day.
I need two ovens.
Work is still insane. We have 4 enormous mailers that have to drop by Friday. We have the first one ready to go, the second is done with the machine part of the inserting and is getting the rest inserted by hand, and then the third just started on the machine today. The second and third mailers have to be sealed after they are all stuffed and I was doing that at the end of the day. We brought down the metering machine because is is the fastest sealer we have. I got a rhythm going and I got about 50 trays sealed in an hour and a half. The metering machine hardly stopped the whole time. I got compliments from both bosses that were there and I even got an exploding fist bump from the President. Exploding fist bumps and "good job"s are about the highest praise you can get from him so I'm pleased.
Oh, and the 4th mailer? Yeah, we get to put stickers and address labels on magazines and sort them all wierd. That will hopefully start tomorrow. Then we have to finish up a really pain-in-the-butt book that we've been working on for like a week now. We've had help from the other stores working on that book so I'm not even sure what is going on with it. Oh, and we had 115 big posters that had to be done yesterday but it took like 4 days to print them all out. Other than that its just normal bindery stuff. In fact, other than all that, we're pretty slow right now!
Ok, I gotta go find a peanut butter pie recipe.
Like most years, I am ready for Christmas to be over already. I didn't even bother to decorate. We didn't do very many presents. I'm just blah about it. Maybe its because I've had health issues this fall. I just want to hunker down and wait for spring.
The house is full of animals. The hissing has really diminished today and that is nice. Spike and Ripley and Kayla are staying under the bed for the most part. Millie(dog) just paces around and Ash is a chinchilla. He sleeps all day.
I need two ovens.
Work is still insane. We have 4 enormous mailers that have to drop by Friday. We have the first one ready to go, the second is done with the machine part of the inserting and is getting the rest inserted by hand, and then the third just started on the machine today. The second and third mailers have to be sealed after they are all stuffed and I was doing that at the end of the day. We brought down the metering machine because is is the fastest sealer we have. I got a rhythm going and I got about 50 trays sealed in an hour and a half. The metering machine hardly stopped the whole time. I got compliments from both bosses that were there and I even got an exploding fist bump from the President. Exploding fist bumps and "good job"s are about the highest praise you can get from him so I'm pleased.
Oh, and the 4th mailer? Yeah, we get to put stickers and address labels on magazines and sort them all wierd. That will hopefully start tomorrow. Then we have to finish up a really pain-in-the-butt book that we've been working on for like a week now. We've had help from the other stores working on that book so I'm not even sure what is going on with it. Oh, and we had 115 big posters that had to be done yesterday but it took like 4 days to print them all out. Other than that its just normal bindery stuff. In fact, other than all that, we're pretty slow right now!
Ok, I gotta go find a peanut butter pie recipe.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Bones and Lillibutt have been playing! He charmed his way into her evil little heart. We've had him out for the last couple of days and everything has been fine. Anytime Tuvok does something Bones doesn't like he lets him know and Tuvok backs off. Bones does about 3 things right now: play, sleep, and purr. He is incredibly cute. I need to give him a bath. Not sure how that's going to go over but he's got crusties from the infection and he stinks from being in the shelter.
Today I wrapped presents at the in-laws and then we went to the mall and Sam's and WalMart. We are POOPED! I hate the mall. I hate it even more at Christmastime. But we found a good parking spot and then we discovered our favorite winery has a booth there for the holidays. So DH got a Rose of Chambourcin and I got blackberry. Then we got 3 wrinkle free dress shirts from Jos A Bank for $90. So, for a holiday mall visit, it was pretty good!
Here in an hour or so we are going to get 3 more cats, another dog, and a chinchilla. Dave and Froggi are going skiing over Christmas and we are babysitting. The feeding will be quite an ordeal I'm thinking. Nobody ever wants to eat their own food. I don't know if I have enough rooms! LOL!
Today I wrapped presents at the in-laws and then we went to the mall and Sam's and WalMart. We are POOPED! I hate the mall. I hate it even more at Christmastime. But we found a good parking spot and then we discovered our favorite winery has a booth there for the holidays. So DH got a Rose of Chambourcin and I got blackberry. Then we got 3 wrinkle free dress shirts from Jos A Bank for $90. So, for a holiday mall visit, it was pretty good!
Here in an hour or so we are going to get 3 more cats, another dog, and a chinchilla. Dave and Froggi are going skiing over Christmas and we are babysitting. The feeding will be quite an ordeal I'm thinking. Nobody ever wants to eat their own food. I don't know if I have enough rooms! LOL!
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