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sick in bed

30 Wednesday May 2007

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. . . all day long!

It’s been a long time since I’ve been sick like this. And I’m not even sure what it is. Last night my stomach felt a bit queasy just before bed and then today from about 6am – 4pm I had the most incredible lower abdominal cramps and serious ‘dire rear’. It finally eased up around 5 o’clock and for the past couple of hours I’ve been gently wandering around the flat. Too much time in bed tends to made my lower back seize up and I definitely don’t need a bout of sciatica along with aching hand in sling and painful abdomen.

Anyhow, it’s been just an awful day. I can’t remember ever experiencing pain like that before – or at least not for so long. It’s rather ironic that I’d get so sick shortly after starting on a healthier lifestyle thang, but can’t be food related because Nog & I ate the same stuff yesterday and he’s fine.

I’m starting to feel a bit hungry now – it’s almost 8pm and all I’ve had today is water. But I’m kind of afraid to try anything solid at this point. Maybe some chicken soup?

Ah well, tomorrow’s another day . . .

making changes…

28 Monday May 2007

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I’ve got a new blog!

Well, it’s actually an old private blog I started last year with a few friends who were interested in creating a fitness & weight loss support group. After awhile it started to fizzle out and yesterday I noticed that nobody had posted there in months.

And since today I am yet again embarking on new and healthier chapter of my life (Mondays are nice starting off days for me) I decided to revamp and revive this old blog and also change it into a public one.

So if anyone else doing stuff related to health & fitness, weight-loss, general well-being and lifestyle changes, and if you would like to contribute, please feel very welcome to do so. And though it might appear at first glance to be ‘women oriented’ it isn’t meant to be just for women. I’ve started it off with a few of the original posts.

nothing ventured…

honesty

22 Tuesday May 2007

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Always the best policy?

I tend to think so, but it seems like I’m in the minority. I mean, no matter how hard or painful a truth is to accept or to swallow… isn’t it always way worse to be fed a regurgitated pablum-like semblance of truth? As in, what people think you want to hear. As in … lies.

Who are people actually protecting when they lie or are otherwise ‘easygoing’ with the truth? Well, themselves first of all. Aren’t all lies acts of cowardice? I mean sure, the liar might say they were trying to protect you … but in most cases you will find they were just covering their own sorry arse as a particular truth might have meant serious repercussions for them.

The very worst thing about the truth is that it ends up being something possibly very difficult you have to face, whether you want to or not (well, unless you end up lying to yourself). But at least it’s something real that you can work through.

The worst thing about lies is that they never stop. You tell one, you’ll end up having to tell another one to back it up, and then another one, and so on and so forth. And being unreal, there isn’t a damn thing you can do about them.

So you end up having no place to feel secure – no solid bit of ground to put your own two feet – when the people around you are lying to you or about you, often saying it’s ‘for your own good’. Which is just another lie as the only ‘good’ it serves is to make things easier on the liar.

The truth may hurt at times, but it’s actually lies that have the power to destroy.

what if . . .

15 Tuesday May 2007

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. . . we had bought the IKEA sofa cover?

As I mentioned over here, we didn’t buy it in the end because it looked too big to fit into the washing machine. And so we decided to use the same cotton throw we’d had on the old sofa, which was no problem as it looked fine and did the same job. But then we had to get that quilted waterproof mattress cover as well (what if there had never been any ‘pee wars’?) which now means that the cotton throw doesn’t tuck into the overlap where the top bit of the mattress folds over onto the bottom bit (see photo). This means that it needs ‘smoothing down’ and arranging after someone has been sitting on it. And Sunday evening was no exception after Nog had been sitting on it for ages with his laptop …
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