Baring It All: Losin’ It

November 12, 2010 By 4 Comments

You may have noticed, sadly, that Flash Me Friday has stopped.  I kinda miss doing them because it always gave me something to blog about on Fridays and it was fun to see what everyone’s houses looked like.  I’m so glad that my bloggy friend, Darcy, decided to continue the sharing, with her own twist.  So, she’s given the invitation to bare it all each week as she asks random questions about anything and everything.  Take a walk on The Wild Side and check out her blog!

BrainThis week she asked if anyone else has had an “I’m Losin’ It” moment…

For the last week or so I have been losin’ it big time.  I think it’s mostly because we have been so busy my mind is going in too many directions.  My allergy doctor also told me that confusion and memory loss can be allergy symptoms, but I’m not sure I can blame it all on that.  I just can’t fully concentrate on what I’m doing.

We’ve all had moments when we walk into a room and can’t remember why we were there, but this has been happening constantly.  It is most frustrating at work.  The accounting person asked for a report, I got it and instead of walking to her office (10 feet from me) I found myself out in the middle of factory.  What am I doing here?  Oh yeah, the reports!

At work I’m responsible for ordering all the supplies for the factory.  Lately, unless I am at my desk, writing it down when someone tells me they need something, I completely forget about it by the time I get back to my desk.  What the heck?!

The other night I made pork chops for dinner.  When we sat down I realized I didn’t have anything to cut with.  I asked Jesse to please get me some scissors for my pork.  He just smiled and asked if I was sure I wanted to use scissors.  Obviously I meant knife, but my brain isn’t working all the way.

It has been a super long week.  I can’t wait for the long Thanksgiving weekend coming up.  I SO need a break!

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So Much To Do, So Little Time

November 9, 2010 By 3 Comments

ClockLately I have been so overwhelmed with everything there is to do.  There just aren’t enough hours in the day to fit it all in and I feel like I am getting further and further behind on things.  I just can’t seem to keep up with everything… how do people do it??

Work.  I have been lucky enough to cut down my work schedule to four days a week now.  I have most Wednesdays off and then I come in a bit earlier the other four days to catch up on what I missed.  This has made a huge difference since traffic is much lighter at that time and it gives me an entire day to catch up on things.

Food.  Everything on our new diet is so time consuming to prepare.  I feel like my life is being planned around my allergies.  We can’t go out without first planning what food I need to bring with me since I can’t order from restaurants anymore.  Everything needs to be made from scratch.  This is taking a lot of adjustments for me as I’m used to quick and easy meals, not to mention the amount of dishes I accumulate cooking that way!

Shots.  One of the reasons I chose Wednesdays to be off was that it is my shots day.  Going in for my shots is not a very quick appointment.  After checking in, going over any reactions from last week’s shot, and then getting all four shots… they make you wait in the waiting room for thirty minutes to make sure you are okay before you leave.  I’m gone for at least two hours, on a good week, to get shots.

Life.  Between all the new time demands in my schedule, I haven’t found much (or any) time for fun stuff… no scrapbooking, no reading, not so much blogging.  All of that time has been replaced with extra grocery trips for more fresh foods, chopping fruits and veggies, chopping, more chopping, and cleaning (since I’m not allowed to have dust anymore)!  Plus there are always little projects we need to work on around the house, such as cleaning out the hall closet since it wont close anymore.

My brain is just too full always thinking ahead about all the stuff I need to do next.  I find my self sitting on the couch stressed out about all the stuff I need to get done that day, but I’m stuck there because I just don’t know where to start.

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Make up Your Mind

November 8, 2010 By 4 Comments

Jesse has been so, so supportive of all of my new diet requirements. However, I just have to make fun of him a little bit for how quickly he can change his mind about what foods he likes. This weekend it was pineapple. I had just cut up a whole pineapple for us to have with breakfasts.

When we were at the store the next day he said, “Can we buy another pineapple, so that it will be ripe and ready for when this one is gone? I love pineapple.”

PineappleSo we did and I cut up the next pineapple yesterday. Then this morning he didn’t take any and I told he had to have some or else it would go bad before we could finish it.

He said, “Pineapple just really isn’t my thing…”

This is very annoying because he does this all the time! When we go shopping together, he is always wanting to try new things. I’m all for it… as long as he eats it. The problem is that he will often change his mind about liking something before it’s gone. So, I try to talk him out of wanting to try new things as we walk down the isles at the grocery store.

Also in our pantry right now is a bag of mini bagels (which he was going to love with cream cheese), bags of almost stale chips (because he always loves chips), a humongous unopened jar of jalapeños from Sams (because he was going to go through them so fast now), and a few other items.  I wouldn’t be so bad if it was things I could eat, but I can’t have any of these things anymore… so they just sit there.  Maybe he will change his mind back soon?

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