fivebyevif

More ruminations on being in a relationship, and how sleep medications have changed my life.

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So I’m going on a great vacation (I am convinced!) starting Sunday. This is why I scheduled my sleep study for the Thursday before we left. The contrast seemed appropriate. During a study, you get numerous electrodes glued to your face, arms, legs, and chest. If you are lucky, you get Doug the Awesome Technician [...]

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Today marks me going to an endocrinologist for the first time. Some tests came up weird, but I’ve been assured that’s normal because I’m weird to begin with. Ha ha. I kid. I went in because I can’t lose weight. Six months at 150 without budging, and I kind of think it’s not a plateau, [...]

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I don’t get sick. Oh, I get sinus infections. I get run down. I get days where my “allergies sure seem out of whack!”, but I don’t get sick. Nope. Never sick. I get ten sickdays a year. It’s a point of pride for me to use as few of these as possible. It helps [...]

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Seriously, no one out in the Internet-lands has ever tried to make baked home fries? Seriously? Man. As if I needed an invitation to try. Last Friday I weighed in at 161. I’m 157 pounds as of today. Both numbers reached using the scale at the gym, which always adds three pounds due to me [...]

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Friday night a few of us went to Riddle’s and had some good wine, decent appetizers, and a stunning lack of desserts. Though I know we’re hitting the end of the year, I still crave sweet, tart, airy things for my desserts. Raspberries, blackberries, peaches. Creme anglaise and meringues. Alas. The boba tea place had [...]

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I bought a fast-food grilled chicken sandwich, got it home, threw away the bun, and put it on one of my own. Call me crazy, but it did save me about 160 calories. Houston, we have gender. I’m going to need to order girly colors. I am very excited, because this will perfectly balance the [...]

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Okay, so, my workout routine. Which is working, might I add. It’s behind a link, so those of you who don’t care, don’t have to read it.

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Fact: it’s easier for me to clean other folks’ place than my own.  My brain shuts down at some point when I start thinking of all the cleaning I really should be doing here. Not true in a three-story ex-convent, oddly enough.  I enjoy doing it, so if anyone asks why I’m going to Joliet [...]

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Sugar scrubs? Pfft. So 2001. All the cool girls nowadays are using sanded grout. On their arms. On their hands. On their bare feet. In their hair…. I don’t actually have money, but I went and hired a personal trainer anyway. We shan’t discuss cost. Mom pitched in, but it only covered about 1/4 of [...]

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