I though so. I could be wrong, but….

For years, people have been eating egg white omelets, which in my opinion are an abomination, and today I have seen an article explaining that egg yolks contain choline, which helps stave off Alzheimer’s. My daughter once said to me that she no longer knew what to eat, because the list of what is good for you and what is bad keeps changing all the time. We evolved eating real food. The entire egg, meat, fish, fruits, veg, whole grains. Then food companies thought up new ways to make food more profitable and started scaring us about this so we would buy that instead.

Eat real food, as it comes from the garden or the tree or the ocean or the animal. Eat a variety. Stay away from sugar, stay away from artificial sweeteners, which only allow you to eat things that are really bad for you with less guilt. Remember fat-free? In order to have taste, fat-free was actually sugar-laden. Duck Duck Go sugar. Sugar is not your friend. You can have cake, pie, candy, etc., just don’t eat the whole cake, don’t have pie every single day, don’t snack on candy all the time. Make those things a special occasion treat. A once a week reward for eating really well that week. (Duck Duck Go is a search engine, if you didn’t know)

I have this MS weather thingy in my side bar, and if I accidentally hover over it, it opens up Microsoft Start, which has literally hundreds of articles about which food is good for you, which is bad, which food you should never buy from which store, etc. Thousand of words that amount to click-bait meaningless drivel about food. Zillions of diets out there. This one is THE one this year, it’s really bad for you the next year and another one has taken top spot.

What are the food groups? Who knows? Meat, fish, and poultry. Fruits and veg. Whole grains. Dairy if your body tolerates it. Everything else is not food. It is gimmicks and chemicals and garbage designed to entice you to give that company your money and forget about nutrition. And everything you eat does not need to have sugar in it. I have read that people from other countries consider our bread to be more like cake, because of the sugar content. You can add maybe a teaspoon of sugar to a yeast dough to feed the yeast. No more is necessary. Bread is flour, yeast, salt and water. Read the labels of your store-bought bread. Read the labels of any processed food. Some things have five or six different forms of sugar as ingredients. Why do young people get cancer more now than ever? Why is there so much obesity? Sugar and chemicals in everything we eat. We did not evolve to eat these things and our bodies struggle to manage having them ingested.

Wow. No idea why I am ranting about this today, but something clearly set me off. LOLOL

By the way, this rant is by a person who had a Pure Protein bar for breakfast, and two hot dogs for lunch. Oh, and a Kombucha, but that is a good thing, I think. 🙂

To me, anyway. did not sleep well at all. Finally got up at 11:30, in a lot of pain. Took pain meds, made coffee. LOLOL Forgot to put the mug under the thing. Remembered at the last minute. Put the lid on the coffee holder backwards, so water going everywhere except over the grounds. Unplugged and fixed that. Okay. Feeling really awful, so much pain, but PT person coming. Would have cancelled but I have decided that people need to see me as I am, not just as I am on a day well enough to deal with them. So she came, we hit it off right away and did a lot of laughing along with the exercise, and before I knew it I was feeling much better. Laughing, moving, or just the pain meds kicking in, I don’t know, but it kind of demonstrated that lying on the couch reading when I am in a lot of pain is not necessarily the best solution. As my friend Beth told me, Motion Is Lotion. Guess it works. PT person said every time I choose lying on the couch for one day, I lose three days of progress I have made. Been doing it wrong for years, but nobody told me. LOL

Last week I had the best week I have had in eons. No idea why, but loved it while it lasted. Walked about a block to a restaurant with a friend, using the Rollator, so two blocks total, and the next day had two medical things and took my laptop to the computer guy, so a lot more walking, with the cane, not the rollator. Doctor says I should be using the rollator all the time, will have to work on that. The restaurant was fantastic, btw. Very expensive, but the food was so good. Tiny little place, very Mediterranean vibe, really nice. And a block away. One block. Just the other side of the post office. Who knew? Not me.

Been really hot and humid the past few days, dew point in the upper 70’s, which is like being in sauna. Thank goodness for air-conditioning. Even it struggles to keep you comfortable when it is that humid, but without it I don’t think I could function at all. High humidity is very bad for you, it seems.

Getting more and more concerned about what is happening in my country, and all the things I’ve been seeing about the 2025 project the Republicans plan to implement if they get in. The end of my country, and stepping right into something very similar to Nazi Germany. Vote BLUE people, for god’s sake. VOTE BLUE. However much you disagree with some of Biden’s policies, at least you will still have freedom and safeguards and you can vote him out next time. If you vote Red, or don’t vote at all, it will be the last time you even have the opportunity to vote, to have any say at all into the kind of country you will be living in. Think about it. It is getting scary, people.

Just read a book description from my library wherein the main character was described as ‘unhoused’. Like ‘unalived’ which I see everywhere. Homeless and Dead or Killed are good words people. Prettying them up does not change the meaning. I do not understand humans, even though I am one, as far as I know anyway.

https://www.thoughtco.com/doublespeak-language-term-1690475

The best description of Doublethink I could find is ‘self-deception’, forgetting what you know is truth in favor of believing what you want to be true. Cults do this to you. Like the Republican Party has become. A cult ruled by a demented orange disgrace. Just a bit of politics here, people, but good grief, what is happening to my country?

Lots has been going on. Had an excellent Saturday, best day in years, and the PT assessor came and I had to tell her I am not always this mobile. Couldn’t she have come on a regular ‘bad’ day to see how I really am most of the time? Came back Monday and I was not as good, but we did a very few exercises and walked the hall with the Rollator, which she said I should be using all the time, instead of the cane. Oh, well. So yesterday, probably completely unrelated to the exercise, was a very not good (LOL) day. Slept most of it as the pain pills took a brief vacation from working. Better today. I am supposed to be getting an occupational therapist, too, but so far have not heard from anyone.

While I was doing well, I got stuff done. I. Got. Stuff. Done. You know how often I am able to get stuff done? Hardly ever. Rearranged the hall closet a bit, the linen closet, and some other things which I have completely forgotten. It is icky now, but I have the a/c on so not too bad in here. I have very thick walls which help to keep the hot and sticky out so long as I don’t open a window. Happy summer!

Lots of good stuff on there today. Here’s one that is my newer new favorite quote.

Saw my doctor yesterday, follow up to discuss meds I am NOT going to take, etc., and she asked how it felt to be 80. Incredible. I can’t believe it. Sometimes I just sit and ask myself how this happened? How did I get to be 80. I don’t seem 80, she says. Nice. At the desk setting up the new appointment, the person commented on my age and said I did not seem it, because she’s seen a lot of 80 year-olds who were in really bad shape. It’s because I’m 12 inside, and it sort of balances it out., is what I told her. The out side may be 80, but the inside is still that kid full of fun and wonder and awe. I knew high school classmates who were already old inside. You get to choose. Choose young and full of beans. It’s a good thing. I said to my friend Tess once, ‘When you look at me, you see a decrepit old lady, and then I open my mouth and out comes “WOW! THAT IS WAY COOL!!!”. Made her laugh.

Actually, there I two things I absolutely believe. I got all the good genes in my lineage, and I was born with the happy gene. I am the person who can have fun spending the day in the hospital while they figured out why I am in such pain I can barely breath. I had a great time. Turns out I had pleurisy. Who gets pleurisy in this day and age? Me, I guess. Anyway, I laughed and I made others laugh, as I am gasping in pain. Yes, I am Strangely Peculiar. Get it? LOLOL

kurt vonnegut, “Being good at things is not the point of doing them.”

And tired, and just feeling lousy all the time. Have a half-way decent day here and there, but never even the entire day. I want to be outside. I want to do things. I can’t even do the things indoors that I need to do. Getting very down about the whole thing.

On the other hand, I have a new bed set up. But first, I had to buy a step thing that should come today I hope.

And here’s why. This is NOT actually me, by the way. There’s a video, but I cannot figure how to get it from Instagram to here. Darn.

Here’s the bed.

You can see who actually owns it.

Need a fake backboard or big picture or wall-hanging or whatever. I bought new pillows, too.

Did an order from Shaw’s. They have GT Kombucha on sale, so I got some, and yogurt, and ready meals because cooking and food prep are just not happening right now, and CAKE. I may have mentioned I have cake once a year on my birthday. I plan to have several birthdays this year because Shaw’s has a fantastic small mocha cake and I am in pain and miserable so I am having CAKE! So there!

Be safe people. The world is getting more dangerous by the minute. Kind of scary. My youngest DD is having some housing and financial issues, and I cannot help. Why is life so hard? Anyway.