Well I did speak at the Selectmen's meeting on Tuesday night. The reasoning behind the odd-even parking was explained to me, and I agree that it can't be taken on a street-by-street basis, and some streets in the town are too narrow for emergency vehicles to get through, were there to be cars parked on both sides of the road. Meanwhile, we will continue to park in front of our house (and in the wrong direction) and play the odds that another ticket won't be forthcoming. In any case, beginning January 2014, we will be on the correct side of the street!
I saw my doctor this morning and had a long - non-scolding - talk about my blood test results. For now I refuse to take a statin drug. He agreed to let me try fish oil twice a day and diet with less meat - including chicken - and see where my numbers are two months from now. I concede that if the cholesterol counts are too high that I will take a statin (my father died from heart disease and stroke, and at a rather early age, so that's why my own doctor is so concerned about me - even though my numbers are not astronomical, they are still a concern because of family history) - BUT a different brand, and half the dosage. My blood pressure was perfect, but I didn't have the nerve to tell him that I had also stopped taking - on my own decision - blood pressure medication, which was never prescribed for blood pressure, anyway (but rather something else non-recurring, that they thought the blood pressure medication could - and did - help). So right now I am a supplement-only, prescription drug-free gal.
Speaking of drug-free - I am also blow dryer and curling iron free! I have ventured into letting my hair dry naturally. It has a soft wave bordering on curl, and if I use just the right product it can look nice - and not frizzy - all day long. But the best curl comes from after I've been in the pool, so I actually have filled a bottle of (chlorinated) pool water and spritz my hair in the morning with it. I know I know... but hey - it brightens the highlights in my hair, makes a nice soft curl, and I use a leave-in conditioner every day. So what's the harm? Maybe there is a way to combine chlorinated water with conditioner, bottle it, and become a millionaire!
This weekend my brother is coming up from Florida to visit my mother on her 97th (!) birthday. Afterwards we (he, my other brother, perhaps spouses, and myself) are going out to lunch at the British Beer Company. They have a lot of really lovely healthy menu choices, so I am going to try not to be swayed by the (probably) 2000-calorie burger! Other than lunch out, and the usual housework and laundry, I'm free as a bird this weekend (I just had to check my calendar to make sure!) and even though I don't take work home with me, I am hoping to get through one paper I am editing (if I can't finish it this afternoon). I have one waiting for me next week, and another one coming in tonight, so it's best I finish up with the one at hand. I am so grateful that I do this work!
I'm also intensely doing Karly Pitman's program, and have been working on "Acceptance" for about a month now. I have to tell you, nothing I have done up to now has provided such a strong breakthrough in the eating-disorder work that I have been doing for years now. For this entire past week I have not even thought of food after dinner, and I have no desire at all to eat anything but what I have planned and what is in front of me -- not even seconds! She explains night-time eating (and general bingeing) in such a way that now that I have that insight I find that what I eat really provides everything I need - both energy-wise and emotional-wise. It's nothing I haven't heard before but she puts it in such a way, and her workbook is so intensely wonderful (but is only good if you actually use it) that for the first time I can see my stressors just floating by and not attaching themselves to me in a way that makes me hungry or craving anything. The weirdest thing is that I don't even THINK about food when I'm not hungry, instead of the usual hunt through the kitchen at night to see what there is. The three steps before "Acceptance" have been "Grounding", "Nurturing" and "Flowing". I worked through each one of those (about 3-4 weeks each) but "Acceptance" is the one that has really touched my heart. So anyway, another plan this weekend is to do some work in the workbook - I have to take small chunks at a time, they are so powerful and meaningful.
I hope it's nice weather as I also want to enjoy the pool. Gotta keep my hair curly, you know!
Miriam.
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