yowza

yowza it's been a while since i've done this...
march 20? jeepers.
well let's see what's been happening since then, shall we?

the lithium working very well! dressing like a girl everyday, makeup in place, nails painted red to match any one of the 10 shades of red lipstick in my purse, new shoes, new clothes, new outlook, new mood. i'm eating right, despite today's lapse of 20 ounces of dr pepper taken to try and kill a sinus headache that turned into a migrane...adderall needs reinforcements, though. i'm not paying attention to stuff like i had been. i find myself drifting or multi-tasking too much and not concentrating on whoever is talking. it's better than it was before the meds but not that much...

i've been working really well. we have a big meeting coming up on the 12th and i've been booking flights, personalizing maps, reserving rooms, conference rooms, arguing with the hotelier, arranging catering and what not - very busy but i love it!

i met with the nutritionist again. i'm not hating it...actually, i like it. the only downside is writing down every single thing i eat - not because i have anything to hide, just because i can never remember to do it. if i didn't have a blackberry it'd never get done. my entries go something like this:
breakfast - 16 oz n/f milk, 1 metrx big 100
snack - 1.5C cut up fruit
lunch - jason's deli - chicken salad salad, 1 sm fruit cup w/no frosting, s/f lemonade
snack - 1/2 cucmber w/2T caesar dressing
dinner - 1 lg salmon steak, 1 srv broccoli w/chz, 1 whole cucumber w/caesar dressing, s/f popsicle, s/f lemonade
does that make sense to you? could you figure out the abbreviations? n/f is non-fat, s/f is sugar-free, chz is cheese, T is tablespoon, C is cup. easy, huh? in the future, n/f+l/f will be non-fat+lactose-free but i'll save that for later.
that's a helluva lot of sugar-free lemonade, isn't it? i'm addicted, i think. wyler's has the best s/f lemonade and it's only a buck! and it's pink!!! their orange sunrise or whatever is awful but their pink lemonade rocks! i think it's my new blood type...i drink a lot of it, usually watered down with melted ice...

this eating plan is pretty easy but it's about to get a whole lot harder. 3 months before the surgery i'm going on a really strict no carb diet. right now the only restrictions are no sugar, no white flour, no potatoes and no rice - unless it's real brown rice with the bran hull on it. i can have multi-grain bread if there is no enriched flour listed in the ingredients, but not for much longer. i've been eating really well since we finally went to the grocery store last weekend. in fact, tonight was the first time we've eaten out since saturday! i've been cooking but i couldn't handle the fluorescent lights in the kitchen or the smell of food cooking because of the headache so we went to jims - i had soup, a ham & chz omelette with a side of bacon (2 strips), rye toast (rye flour, not enriched flour), fruit (subbed for hashbrowns) and s/f tea. yum! i tend to gravitate towards diners so i can order omelettes and fruit.

my headache finally vaporized but not without its stupid hangover - most of the time, the hangover is not remembering anything i did while i had the stupid headache, but today it's not being able to spell. i'll sleep it off in a bit, i'm sure. i plan on going shopping tomorrow so i hope it stays away. i'm off for the holiday and need something to wear for the family's easter saturday eggstravaganza. and i want a purse. wish me luck!
thanks for putting up with me...
pax,
m