Life update...

I'm not posting a weight/fitness update this month because I'm out of sorts right now... I will post again after I'm back home and feel like the world is right again, but that will have to wait until next month.



So I'm visiting my in laws in Vermont, per usual for the summer. We try to visit once a year for about a week and a half. This year I've just been blah about the whole thing. I like my in laws, but they are really sort of fuddy duddies, and father in law spends the majority of his time recording and watching news and science programs. Which is great. He's very informed and intelligent, a former professor of Astronomy at some big University in Texas... former colleague of Neil deGrasse Tyson, etc... so it's not that I don't respect him and like him... but nobody is allowed to talk while these programs are on. If you say something... he pauses the TV with his remote and there's this feeling of doom hanging over the room until he once again restarts his program...

I loathe television. I really do. I have a television set, but the only thing I really use it for is netflix, hulu, itunes, streaming movies or programs to entertain my kids at times when they're driving me nuts and I'd love an hour or two of no noise or feet thundering through the house, or calls of MOOOOOM!

So this television is the thing that happens in this house... thing... doesn't sit well with me. I spend most of my time upstairs in the guest room, while my kids are entertaining themselves in the other spare bedroom/office and husband and baby are sitting with the family, playing on laptop and baby has some toys that live here that keep him busy.

Anyway... it's depressing and there's no real "nearby" cities with things happening. I'm also suffering from some sort of allergy to the grass in the area and my body itches all over, so I'm stuck inside the house, taking benadryl so I don't scratch my skin off... And I think this is related to the allergic symptoms,... but my lap band is making it hard for me to eat. I keep getting "stuck".

Like this morning, I made myself a piece of toast with butter, a quarter cup of cottage cheese and a quarter cup of cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon bits... I ate about a third of it and couldn't swallow any more... like it had blocked my esophagus. Even water wouldn't push it down... so I laid down and rested a couple of hours. It passed. I got back up and tried to finish my food from earlier and it happened again. This time, I was coughing up cottage cheese trying to clear it. Ugh... So Maybe I'll lose weight despite not being able to properly exercise. I just hope what bits of food I do manage to take in will be sufficient protein to prevent muscle loss.

I had planned to work out in the basement of their house, but after going down there and seeing it's really an unfinished, damp basement with stone walls and floors.... that's a no-go. I'd bruise myself sitting on the floor. I'd totally go for some long walks if I wasn't allergic to the air here. *headdesk*



Okay... enough complaining from me. On the plus side, I managed to finish recording chapter 12 of Turn, though it's really rough and I won't be able to start editing until I get home and off my laptop. I may go ahead and get chapter 13 and the epilogue recorded too... Might as well if I can't find anything else to entertain myself with.









I'm still planning to write my glompfic for serpentinelion but though I have it all outlined and ready, my writing muse has fucked off. I may sit down and give it a go in a bit.. Could be that I just haven't tried... maybe I'll drive out to a local pub and get out of here on my own for a bit.... *ponders*

Sorry this is all a bit ranty and all over. I really don't have serious major life problems, and I feel guilty ranting about minor annoyances, but I've got to let it out sometimes.

Thanks for reading if you made it through. No worries if you have no response. :)