We don’t have time to carve pumpkins this year (“ain’t nobody got time for that” 😛 ) so here is last year’s video from when we carved pumpkins and roasted seeds.
Pumpkin carving is a great fall activity. Just to go to a local farm and pick them out can be fun too. In the future when we have a house, I think I want to be more creative and carve something really cool and more advance than what we did in this video and I want to have lots of them:)
Anyway, I hope you’ll enjoy this.
Good morning! How’s your Monday? I was the one taking Thor for his first walk today and for some reason, every time, Thor drags the leash to go eat clovers and then tries to throw up. He doesn’t do that with Jim, only me. He’s been doing that for months. I just want whatever it is that needs to come up to do so and we can go back to lovely morning walks again. These days I don’t enjoy it and I’m happy whenever J takes the first round.
My coffee doesn’t taste awesome today either. I have cleaned the coffee maker, but I might have to buy actual coffee cleaner to rinse out whatever that’s stuck in places I can’t reach. Cause this doesn’t taste very good:(
Ok, enough about this blah morning. A new week has begun. What do I have planned?
Not the most exciting week of all time, but I still feel like I will be pretty busy. And then I’m looking forward to a weekend away with my man.
Hubby and I went to the gym yesterday. It was raining all day, so working out was a good idea. I still felt that discomfort in my knees like I had the other day, especially the right one, so I really tried to do things that wouldn’t put too much pressure on them and not too much “wear and tear”. I felt a bit limited when it came to warming up my legs, but I did my best. Jim left after 45 minutes or so, but I stayed longer. Warm-up, pilates, the “lazy bike” as I like to call it (you sit more like in a chair and bike than right on top, feels better in my knees on that one) and finish with stretching. I’m sore today!
We went out for oysters for early dinner, went for a walk with Thor, fed the kitty and then spent some time by the fireplace downstairs in our building. Thor ran around and I walked after him, he’s like a little kid, you have to keep an eye on him at all times 😀
Jim took Thor out at 7 this morning. 30 minutes later, my alarm went off and I went over to the neighbors to feed the cat. We all went back to bed and we didn’t wake up until 10 am! Walked to Dunkin and J bought donuts for breakfast (so much for being healthy and lower my sugar intake). Around lunchtime it was time to do my Halloween makeup. I didn’t go all in this year, just hair and make to match Thor, but more about that on Tuesday. I cooked an early salmon dinner and then I filled up a nice bath. Our neighbor gave me bath salt to see if that might help my joints. I had actually been thinking about that I should start taking baths and see if it makes any difference. But, I don’t really like baths, so I’ve been dragging it out. Well, tonight I spent some time in salt water. It was nice with some alone time, but I have to give it a few more times before I can say I enjoy baths, hehe.
Ok, now it’s sleepy time. Little fluff monster is already sleeping here next to me in bed. Good night!
Hello lovelies! I am so tired today. When we went to bed last night, I said to Jim that I’m so happy now when we have thrown away the soft mattress topper (did that a few days ago) because I sleep like a little baby now. I love harder beds and I’m always so happy every time we stay at a hotel cause hotel beds are usually on the harder side. J loves softer ones and the last topper we had in our bed was memory foam and it drove me crazy. Anyway, I said last night that I’ve been sleeping so good all week. Of course, I woke up around 2am and couldn’t fall asleep until closer to 6:30am and then Thor started to make noises around 7 and J took him out. I’m helping our neighbor with feeding her cat now a few nights and mornings here and there (her mother is in the hospital and she has to stay over some nights, and I’m happy to help when I can), so I had to get up before 8 and go down there. I spend some time feeding and just keeping the kitty company and I thought about maybe going back to bed once I was back home, but nah…that’s not my thing. I love mornings and if that means I have to be tired today, then so be it. Coffee is so far my best friend:)
We don’t really have any real plans for this weekend. We have two weekends of travel coming up so to not do anything too crazy sounds good to me, but we’ll see:)
Mr George
Yesterday, I was in a really good mood and super motivated. An awesome day. I went to the gym. As I was warming up I felt the familiar crack in my right knee. I thought it was probably because I wasn’t warm yet so I started to warm up differently to not put any major pressure on the knees. It sort of worked. My legs are weak and I wanted to build some muscles but both knees now hurt so I decided to focus on arms and upper body instead. Couldn’t even stand or go in-out of whatever I was doing for my arms/back without my knees feeling like they would break. So frustrating.
I got so angry at my legs.
When I couldn’t do anything without feeling some sort of pain in my knees, I could feel my tears coming. I was alone at the gym but I still didn’t want to let tears out and I didn’t want to go out in lobby with a crying face. I just sat there on the floor trying to hold it back. Then I remembered that I could go the outer way (there’s a door directly to the outside in the gym). I could avoid people and go home. Once I had closed the door behind me and I was inside our apartment, I burst into tears. Major cry fest. Not necessarily due to pain, because it wasn’t that bad, but the fact that I really wanted to work out, feel my body move, do the things I love, work my muscles and get them fatigued. I love pushing myself, but half-assing things is just too boring to me. And even if I know there isn’t anything seriously wrong with my knees, that they can’t really break, I’m still scared and it pisses me off.
I have decided that I want to find a rheumatologist that can tell me if I actually have arthritis and if so what kind. I tried to ask the doctor I went to this summer but he didn’t give me an answer or take it any further, so I’m definitely not going back to him. I hate going to doctors. I know that the rheumatologist will, just like all other doctors, prescribe me a bunch of pills and I refuse a life with pills. I’m so sick of that people try to fix everything with pills and unnecessary medicines. But I want to actually know if it is arthritis in my knees and possibly my feet.
Oh, f*ck this sucks!
(excuse my language)
One thing that I know I have to do is to cut out sugar completely. And there’s lots of other stuff I have to cut out as well from my diet. Yesterday when I searched on google what triggers arthritis, psoriasis and cold sores (cause I have that too), it seemed like I can’t eat basically anything. I might have to become one of those “raw-food-diet” people. Sigh.
It was just so much feelings bubbling up yesterday. My awesome day and my good mood was gone. But, a bad day doesn’t mean a bad week or a bad month or a bad life. It just means that I have to take this shit seriously. I wrote about it in the beginning of the summer, that I have to focus on eating more anti-inflammatory foods and choose the moves and exercises that fit me, but honestly, I’ve done a bad job and now my body is telling me to get my shit together.
We only have one body, at least in this current life, and we should take care of it. Feed it with nutritious food, exercise, exercise our brain and tell our bodies that we care and love it. I have to do a better job. I want a long life and I want to be able to experience as much as possible during my time here. I don’t want my stupid knees to limit me.
Sorry for a long post, but I needed to get this out. This is part of me and I can’t ignore it any more.
