Good Sunday Morning

I feel beat this morning.  Had a long day yesterday.

We had lunch yesterday mid-afternoon at the Ohio Club.  It is a bar/restaurant that was established in 1905.  It has been open continuously even through prohibition.  They started out as a bar/casino and was owned by the owner of the Cotton Club.  Can't remember his name.  Hot Springs was a fabulously rich city at one time and the vacation spot of all the New York mafia guys.  They killed each other in New York but maintained a truce in Hot Springs.  It is an interesting building and was packed.  We thought it would be quiet at 3 in the afternoon but there was a biker group there.  They were veterans who help other veterans.  Good guys but it was so crowded we couldn't take pictures.  Hot Springs has many very interesting buildings. Some are still in use and well maintained and others are sadly in bad shape.  Such magnificent buildings.  You find them everywhere you look if you can see past the tourist shops.  Well today we are packing up and heading back to Houston.  I am moving slowly but I am moving.

We take our grandkids for long weekends in Hot Springs...day trips to Eureka Springs. But we always stay in one of those old buildings that is now a hotel.  I think it's the Parks. It has a Civil War museum inside.  It's old and creaky but our grandkids love staying there.  I love walking around and looking at the springs bubbling up.  It does have a very rich history. 

I walked a million miles around an old cemetery in MO and we are about to tour the Laura Ingals Wilder museum.  

I did pretty good with my food intake. I avoided glider foods and chose water over diet coke. There's a certain level of stress when driving with the kids (did I tell you in July we are taking them to Yellowstone...on a road trip); anyway, I brought a ton of car games to play and hopefully they will stay quiet. 

Yesterday, we witnessed a bit of road rage and it scared my grandkids so badly. I don't know what happened before they sped past us but they ended up both stopping and blocking traffic while they screamed and pushed. I and about twenty others, dialed 911 and the cops go there but not before the one guy was beaten so bad his face was pulp. My husband, bless his heart, tried to break it up, which scared the kids even more but there were a lot of men out there trying to break it up. DH said from what he gathered, the one guy cut the other guy off and they have been chasing each other since. Idiots. The cops interviewed all of us and I gave the cop a card that talks about meditation and relaxation and asked him to give it to the one that was really doing the most beating. He thanked me and said he might copy it and give the copy to the two men who were fighting but he needed it too. Before we said our good days, I told him to be careful out there and he said, thank you mame. 

This morning, for breakfast, we had starbucks....I drank a coffee and DH and I shared a vegetarian breakfast sandwich, which was pretty good.  We stopped at McDonalds for the kids to get breakfast food.  My granddaughter has been excepted into a gifted and talented program at the university. They actually contacted my daughter because my Baby Girl's scores on the diagnostic tests were 99.999, which means a half of a person in the nation scored higher than she. And, let me brag, they said for the test that they did, she scored at a fifth grade level (she is in second) but it was a perfect score so she probably scores much higher. Anyway, her scores were flagged and the person who runs the gifted and talented for the state contacted us to get her in the class. The majority of the kids in the class (14 of them) scored between 88-90 and to have a 99.999 is quite a rarity. So, she is going to this gifted and talented camp in June for two weeks and then in July, when we get back from Yellowstone, she is going to a literacy camp that last for two weeks and the education director of the state has asked the education director of our university to create a program just for Baby Girl. I was with her for the interview and the director asked BG this question (remember, she is 8 and I am bragging and do apologize): Kathryn, what are your interests? BG said, do you mean academic, athletic, or artistic? She said, just all of your interests and I thought oh boy...do you have an hour or six. BG said, I love astronomy and want to lean more about our solar system and need to figure out why the sun's weight pulls all the planets toward it; I also love microbiology because it's amazing. I love to read and love math and love, love, love learning about cultures. I play basketball, baseball, and soccer and hope to play on the high school volley ball team.I have a mentor and am learning all about volley ball now. I love to go to the art museum and I am interested in all the art that shows women who are strong and I love ballet and have been studying ballet for longer than I remember.  I am good artists and can draw a lot of different animals.  I am not good at drawing humans....then they got into a conversation about how the man who drew all the wildlife in the Everglades learned through anatomy...of course, BG said, does that mean he killed the birds? 

Well enough bragging for the day. I will be driving much of the day but will post when we stop again. 

Peace...Ladies, please make wise choices today so tomorrow you will not feel regret.  

Wonderful.!!!

You need to be bragging... Looks like your influence in the kids - BG,  is paying off. I am sure she has very high IQ, but without your help developing it, and her interests,  she would not know half of the things she knows now. 

When I was in college- I discovered that knowing what I don't know if a huge step into learning it. Ignorace is when you don't know what you don't know...and can't even ask questions.. (not sure if that makes any sense - sometimes my engish is "too funny" for people to get what I am trying to say)

Looks like another place for me to visit...Hot Springs..

Sunday.. It is raining here...not heavy, just enough to make the day grey and but slow. 

I had my 2 coffees and my morning meds.  I will have one more later during the day.  Working on my tea now. 

I plan to eat some food later, after 1 pm.... It helps my gut ..

Making semi-homemade meat spaghetti sauce... Use organic ground beef and bison, add some WF tomato sauce and ..salsa..and cook that in my pressure cooker... Probably will have that with zoodles (zucchini noodles) later today. 

Plan to have some HB eggs, with avocado and just touch of mayo... 

Some nuts in the movie... (almonds) 

I have been following IF - intermittent fasting protocol.  Basically you pick 6- or 8 or 10 hours in every 24 hours period when you eat food. And don't eat at least during 12 - 16 hours.  That has been working well for me.  I have IBS with SIBO and most of the time - if I eat - my gut hurts.  I have slow motility - the food does not travel very fast in my gut.  Doing IF - allows me to push a lot of liquids into my small intestine, and increase gut motility.   Plus it allows for some gut healing and rest.  In my eating window - I eat foods that are recommended for people with SIBO. Avoiding carbs... Specially starchy carbs that would feed SIBO. 

"What is SIBO?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_intestinal_bacterial_o vergrowth

http://www.siboinfo.com/overview.html

Post op RNY - some of us can be prone to have that... I suspect I had that to a degree even before RNY. That and Candida.. Conv0bination of those 2 can cause a severe leaky gut syndrome, causing many more issues. 

SIBO can be linked to so many issues - including fibromyalgia, CFS, rosacea, food allergies, even other allergies ... Treating SIBO can help manage other issues. 

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Hi Ladies,

Your trips sound like fun. I'll probably won't travel again due to limited income. I love doing it.

I just walked up to cvs to get my prescription since the pharmacy will be closed tomorrow.  I really don't have any plans for the holiday.

My eating is good until close to bedtime then I go off the rails. Hopefully when I get this last item out of my house I should do better. Unless I buy something again but I don't planned on it.

Everyone have a good day.

Yvonne,

I've also struggled with the right before bedtime eating. I don't know what the problem is but I find myself wanting to snack. I have found that if I keep the raw vegetables cut up and ready to eat, I can eat those so there's not nearly as much damage to my fat cells....Also, I do measure out a little cottage cheese and no added sugar canned fruit to give me something that is a little more filling.  I had to stop buying the junk food cause if it isn't my husband, it's me trying to eat those chips and crackers. LOL...Also, nuts and seeds are a good source of snack food too and if you get the sunflower seeds that are still in the shell, it's kind of relaxing cracking them open. 

Maybe I got it wrong, but thought today was Oldies Day here on OFF?  Or is it tomorrow?

jen

Jen,

The oldies will be dropping by on the 31st or sooner, if they choose. We are hoping that there will be a little dialogue from the oldies as well as the lurkers that will tell us what they want in terms of the tone of the board. For so long, it has been so negative and for those of us *****ally need the board to be a source of support, our hopes are for the oldies and lurkers to come out and help us establish something that is good and useful. When I began this journey, I came to the board and those who had already had surgery were so helpful and if I had not had them, I wouldn't have known what was going on because my surgeon gave me some information but not what to do about being so tired or don't add new foods away from home...plus we passed clothes among ourselves so that none of us had to really do major shopping. As time went on, the oldies, and I include myself, stopped coming because the board became something that wasn't helpful. Some of that was due to oldies who stayed and wanted the board to be their social networking space and over time, more and more complaining and bullying and fighting ended up on the board and people just left. Over the last few weeks, the oldies that I have talked to have said the same thing: too much complaining and too much negative and not enough effort to motivate and inspire. Even when some of us tried to turn things around, it became a contest to see how quickly we could be shut down. But now, thankfully, those negative nellies are staying quiet and that is good. If I were a new person and came on board and read about how the tool breaks after a year...I'd be so disheartened.  Yes, after a year or two, the weightless slows down but the tool isn't broken.  Anyway, let me shut up before I write a book....I'm looking so forward to the 31st.