We’ve had a pretty decent day but
I’ve been in a foul mood all day. I cannot explain why. Some of it is just
plain old stress. Also, it has a lot to do with menopause and retaining water
and surfing the dadgum Hormone Highway from Hell.
We went to church and went out to
lunch. That was fine. As the day wore on I just got progressively more
irritated. At one point Alesia asked me if I was upset because I had had to
throw out some bad meat from the fridge. I burst out laughing.
I finally just
told the kids, look, I hate that you have a Menopausal Mama but there’s not
much I can do. The maca root is great but it doesn’t solve everything. Some
days I will be singing, some days crying.
I also woke up with a sore ankle
from water retention, so I have been hitting the water all day and even took a
mild diuretic. It’s summer. It’s 88 degrees. I’m hot. I’m fat. Aaaaargh….
I am pondering what to do about my
weight. Obviously it needs to go. Diets don’t work. I am looking into a program
of meditation and visualization, called The Gabriel Method. That’s all I have to say about it, at this
time.
I never have time to do those
Facebook thingys where you name your favorite drinks or take quizzes or list
your favorite books or whatever. If you send me something on Facebook and get
no response, please don’t be offended. I can barely navigate the thing.
Here’s a list of my All Time
Favorite Books – the ones I would take if I had to go live out my life on a
desert island.
The bible
The complete works of Shakespeare
Gone With the Wind
The Journeyer, by Gary Jennings
[huge book about Marco Polo]
The Prince of Tides, by Pat Conroy
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
All the other books by Diana
Gabaldon
All of Greg Iles’ books
Swiss Family Robinson [great book,
plus tips for desert island living, eh?]
Queens of England, by Nora Lofts
Adopting Alesia: My Crusade for My
Russian Daughter
Jack’s New Family [yes, so I’m
biased!]
The poetry of William Butler Yeats
The DaVinci Code, plus the new one
coming out soon by Dan Brown
