Well it’s definitely officially summer now because the honeymoon period where it was nice out but not too hot clearly is over and now three long months of afternoon misery from the heat can begin.
Clearly I have still not caught up with the increased need for hydration, as I feel quite heat sick right now. I have a headache throbbing away in that special place in the middle of my forehead that causes me so much pain. The food I am eating seems too dry and lands in my stomach like wet cement, which is a sure sing of dehydration based salivary deficit. And I feel fluttery and faint.
Welcome to my world. Summer edition.
Luckily, I have fans. And I love both of them. Both the one on my desk and the one on my bed. And as long as I keep them pointed at this all too easily fever’d brow of mine, I can keep the worst of heat madness at bay.
My problems actually started last night. I was watching stuff via Zoom with Le Gang and feeling fine when I felt this squishy, gurgling feeling detonate approximately two inches above my navel and when you are an IBS sufferer like me, those are never good.
Sure enough, pain and nausea started radiating from that spot and in less than a minute, I went from feeling fine to feeling very ill.
Ergo, I had to go to bed directly after the Zoom meeting as opposed to the usual hanging out with Le Gang in the living room watching stuff off the PVR for around 90 minutes or so.
And I hate that it came to that. I need my social time. And I hate feeling like my friends are off having fun without me.
It makes me feel excluded, even if I am the one excluding me.
What can I say. I got issues.
Since the initial incident, there have been two aftershocks of, thankfully, diminishing severity. And there has been nothing all afternoon, knock on wood.
So hopefully this was just a little of the random weirdness to which my body (and my life) are prone, and not a sign of something worse to come.
Knock on wood. Redux.
I am getting sick of the shenanigans of the DLC expansion for Pathfinder : Wrath of the Righteous that apparently has a death grip on my mind lately.
tt’s called Midnight Isles and it’s pretty lame. Feels very slapped together at the last minute as it takes the assets of the original game and sort of bolts together a plotline based on randomly generated dungeons and the search for these purple gems.
What is pissing me off now is a sudden nearly vertical jump in difficulty after I got my second or third gem.
I went from fighting zombies and cultists to being AMBUSHED BY DRAGONS and fighting my way through hordes of enormous Fire Elementals in one step!
So now I am contemplating having to start over at the beginning AGAIN because my party is clearly not up to handing all this shit.
The thing is, the fights were quite easy up until this point. Nothing my peeps couldn’t handled fairly easily, No big whoop.
Then BLAMMO, motherfucking dragons.
I will give slogging through with my current party one more try. If I can make it back to port, I can resurrect my dead party members and get back to normal.
But if that doen’t work, sigh, it’s reset button time.
More after the break.
Two eggs, over extremely easy
I have discovered that I can buy hard boiled eggs sans shells with my grocery order,
I ordered some last week and they are quite good. And I feel extra happy about them because I made the logical leap to think to look for them.
I was hoping such a thing existed because it is a great solution to the problem of how to get something with vitamin B12 in it in my diet once a day with minimal effort.
Two eggs makes for an egg-elent entree and eggs have lots of B12 so I am covered there. And they are tasty too, natch.
They are not cheap. It works out to about a buck an egg. But they are so convenient that I know I will get more when I order groceries tomorrow.
And it’s just so nice to have whole and wholesome food like eggs instead of all the PB&Js and trail mix I eat otherwise.
It’s odd. I eat a lot better than a lot of people I know. I credit my early childhood education in nutrition for that. It taught me about the body’s need for variety.
A lot of people I know (not naming names) eat almost unintentionally. They either eat a random assortment of whatever they have lying around or they eat bizarre and eclectic meals like gas station sushi and a Cinnabon.
There is no planning or intentionality to it. Reason is not involved. They are just following the most vague self-feeding instincts.
And that saddens me. Quality of nutrition equals quality of life, people.
And I am no paragon. But I have managed to cut a lot of the crap out of my diet.
I don’t buy Smartfood popcorn any more. Don’t need to eat popcorn with EVERY meal.
And I buy way fewer packages of Voortman’s sugar free cookies because I don’t eat them with every meal any more.
In both cases, I only have them with my midnight snack these days.
And I don’t really miss them, either. The cookies I don’t miss at all. Never do I finish eating a piece of fruit (my real dessert) and wish I had cookies to eat next,
The popcorn I miss a little. It’s tasty stuff. But I think I am better off in terms of bowel health without a constant barrage of roughage and low grade cheese.
I know that when and if I have a boyfriend or husband, I will nag them about their eating habits. There is no way I would be able to stop myself.
What can I say, I get pushy when I care.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.