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I'd say that I was having a lazy day but really, I'm getting a lot done, just in 'as you go' sort of spurts. Mostly, I've been sitting in front of the computer reading or else in bed sleeping - the worst phase of my head cold didn't hit until yesterday afternoon, thank goodness after Drea had headed out and the fighter's practise was winding down, so I've been a bit uncomfortable, headachey, and too whiney to really be around people at the exact moment that there is no need for me to actually be around anyone.

But that also means that I'm restless when I'm not sleeping so laundry is getting done, dishes are (finally) done after a weekend of "Ugh!", shopping lists drawn up, bills paid, guest bed broken down and put away, jammies ordered from a mail-order company (Woman Within), picked up Shawn for a late-night dinner and chat and had three (!) phone calls with his brother Zackory, the last one while he was standing in line to vote early since he can't on election day. (He is voting the same presidential selection as I am. I'd say "good boy" but really, I'd say the same thing if he weren't - 'cause he's participating in his franchise and that makes me feel like we raised him well.)

Tomorrow is a dermatology appointment followed by a l-o-n-g walk through the commissary. The cupboards are bare, they are, and that's not right. As I'm in my break from the Atkins-diet, I have certain foods I'd like to eat before I saddle the low-carb horse back up.

I definitely must have:
Grilled cheese sandwiches & tomato soup with milk in it.
Pot roast with potatoes, carrots, onions and celery.
Vegetable beef soup w/barley
Baloney & cheese sandwiches with a granny smith apple. Or maybe a lady one, if I can find one
and a peanut butter w/apple butter sandwich with a PEAR! I want a pear!

After that, I think I'll be reconciled to returning to my low-carb lifestyle. I really like the short break/long observation cycle. I find that I can only go so long before the food choices begin to feel restrictive (mainly because I just don't spend enough time cooking - mostly I use the counter-top grill) and then I want something different - not necessarily high-carb, just different flavors and textures. This scratches that itch every couple of months. Already I'm starting to crave the foods I'm more accustomed to on the Atkins plan and I suspect that by the end of the week I'll be happily back on it.

Dryer dinged. Time to go fold clothes.

Samhain observance

I'm not going to do a public-ish week of observation this Samhain - it seems as though I've said about all I can about folks and the latest losses are still a bit too raw to write about. Since no one else on LJ actually participates I can't get my gumption up by reading other folk's stories first, darn it.

So I tagged all my entries and I'm just going to re-read those. :)


(Edit) *sniffle*
That was a good read. I probably shouldn't have read them all one-after-the-other but oh, well, I did.

[Edit the second]
Hey, it's The Night of the Bards.
Farethewell, Tony Hillerman. Like Louis Lamour, you brought parts of our mountains alive for us - the living desert, the clear air, the people who live their lives in isolated clumps yet hold a close community with each other and their land, the special bond that the Dineh have with their world.

Thank you.

I have to laugh...

Just read attack_laurel's latest post and while I didn't read the sort of comment she was sure would pop up, I did start chuckling at at self-congratulatory one from a guy who is one of our worst offenders in the realm of "can't allow a woman to decline his 'courtesy' offer".

Eyup. Some folks just can't hear "no" when it goes against their grain. As she pointed out so well...