TOWEL DAY!!!

For those of you who know me well, you know I never go anywhere without my towel.  I have one in my purse, one in my car and one is always close by in my house.  I have done this as long as I can remember, but after reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I am much more adamant about ALWAYS having a towel!

Today is May 25, Towel Day... so today I am proudly wearing my favorite towel (from the Australian Open... the one time I did forget my towel, so I had to pick up a fancy commemorative set) proudly around my shoulders and answering 42 to every question I am asked.  And remember that sometimes knowing the answer doesn't mean you know the question.

So long and thanks for all the fish Douglas Adams... you are truly an inspiration to my life!

Done!

I'm officially DONE with the cleanse... I didn't quite make it the 4 days but I'm not mad at it.  I'm building up to a longer cleanse, and that one will NOT involve lemons.  I hate citrus and I'm not sure what I was thinking when I said oh hey drinking nothing but lemonade for 4 straight days sounds like a great idea... I can't even remember the last time I had a lemonade before this!  Long story short, I realized I was fasting rather than cleansing... instead of drinking 6-12 bottles a day like I was supposed to, I was drank 4 on day one, 2 on day 2 and 1 on day 3 and had to supplement with some rice to get some calories in me.  Fasting was not the point of this whole exercise.

I've cleansed once before and was much more successful.  It was a brown rice and fruit juice diet and gave me enough variety that I didn't feel bored. Back into research mode I go!

Timezone?

This is a test.... it is only a test.  Apparently blogspot think's I'm still in Australia!  You would think these things would update automatically...

Day Two

I knew this was going to be difficult, but oh man! I was about 3 seconds away from just giving up yesterday... I did great all the way through work (was barely even hungry) but then I got home and there is just so much delicious food around the house and SO many good looking foods on TV!  I banished myself to a long epsom salt bath where food couldn't taunt me, then about 9:00 the headache started.  It was relentless!  Probably mostly a caffeine withdraw headache combined with the releasing of the toxins but oh my!  I gave myself a tiny tiny bowl of cottage cheese and it seemed to help a bit, then I went to bed.  Still woke up with a headache but thank God I didn't have to work until the afternoon so I had plenty of time to sleep it off... only way to describe it is like the worst hangover ever.  But then I realized, hey, I'm not hungry and it's lunchtime... maybe this thing is working after all!

With a new lease on cleansing I set out for the health food store and bought some more organic maple syrup (my awesome Canadian souvenir bottle was only enough for one day!) and some tea to give myself a bit of variety tonight.  I've decided to try and do 4 days so I can still have Sunday lunch with my mom and BOTH grandmas on Mother's Day.... I can only imagine the lecture I would get for not eating Mother's Day lunch at Franke's! I can do this.  I can do this!!

Time to Re-boot

This is what will be in my lunchbox every day for the next few weeks.... yuuuuum.  That's right, I'm doing a Master Cleanse.  Fingers crossed that I can actually stick to it and that it does some good because I'm tired of feeling like this isn't my body that I'm currently living in.  

For those of you who aren't aware (and most of you aren't because I rarely speak of it), I suffer from chronic pain due to a crazy case of endometriosis.  I've probably had it since I was a teenager... I've always had the symptoms, but since I always had them I thought it was normal.  It's gotten progressively worse and finally last year about this time got to the point where I could no longer ignore the pain or be in denial.  Call in the medical calvary... after cutting my year in Australia short, surgery, various different hormone therapy attempts, way too much poking and prodding and finally losing my health insurance and being deemed "uninsurable", I've decided the natural route must be the answer! Things like yoga and massage have always been very helpful for the pain, but it't time to take things up a notch and completely re-boot my system!  I'm still wonder woman underneath all this crud!

It's the little things....

It's been a while... trying to find inspiration to start getting bloggy with it again and I found something that really excites me... a font that looks like my handwriting!  Almost makes me feel like this is an analog blog (i.e. my journal) instead of a random collection of my thoughts that the whole world can see.

Also... how cute is my dog?