Hi all!
I’m cheating and writing this in advance of DG posting a new thread! But it is end of Monday here, and I want to post on a new weeks thread rather than last weeks! So it is written and hopefully DG will post before i go to bed so I can get this up! (Thanks DG!!)
Hannah – so glad the wedding went well!
So thankful – hope you’re done wearing the suit for now!
Teardrop – I laughed at the story of the race that you almost joined in on. I found myself in a similar situation a couple of years ago where I inadvertently found myself in a race off against 2 cars of boy racers at a stop light on a Friday night, having picked up my 17 year old foster daughter and her friends from town. The funny thing was that I was feeling a bit wicked and dragged them off in my very underpowered Mazda 121 – the look on their faces was a sight to behold!!
Kaddy – thanks for recipes! I like getting new suggestions – particularly for vego ones as I have to disguise vegies in order to get uncle mame to eat them. As for broccoli and blue cheese soup recipe:
• Fry up some bacon and onions (bacon optional for vegos)
• Add broccoli (if it is just us I throw in any leftovers at this stage – get rid of what is left over in the fridge!)
• Add broth (I make my own) and simmer until tender
• Do the food processor thing (mine is broken so I just mashed it up yesterday)
• Make a fairly liquid cheese source, but use blue cheese instead of cheddar
• Add to the broccoli mush and – hey presto! Soup!
And actually yesterday I added some leaves off the top of the baby beetroot, which was quite nice!
Louise – the only thing I can say about your email is that you will only do it once!! I did something similar a few years ago – sent what was meant to be a private email to an international list of about 4,000 people!! I wanted to bury myself for quite some time!
I’ve been meaning to talk about the hypno. Have to say that I have been pretty under-whelmed. It all seemed a bit generic and couldn’t see that it did much more than a general relaxing meditation. On the other hand, I have been incredibly calm and relaxed over the last week, in the face of continued major stress! And the reality is that I haven’t felt as frequently tempted to drink – but is that the hypno or the fact that I’m just getting a bit more used to this AF life? So am very interested to hear other people’s experiences!! Have another session booked for tomorrow, and I will attend, but quite frankly if I don’t feel a bit more positive at the end of that then I’ll save my money and go for a massage instead!
I’ve been interested in it as a process though – and certainly not negative! And after a suggestion from someone on another thread, I actually went out and bought a CD entitled “Overcoming Addiction”. Just loaded it onto my i-pod today, and plan on listening to it tonight. Will keep you all posted!
So July tomorrow ....... July 200307 – do you get to be the headmistress (or patron saint!) for the month?!
I’ve been feeling like counting days is doing my head in (what is this day 5 like compared to my first one? Have I made it past day 7 yet? etc etc) I’ve been reading a bit on other threads about other people’s thoughts on it as well. Anyway, I decided that for July I would stop counting days and just focus on the AF/HF month. And as it is shaping up to be a particularly busy one in a number of respects, I think I’ll need all my wits about me anyway!
DG - just been reading your bio-identical hormones thread while i was waiting!! Great thread thanks and will pay more attention to it over the next couple of days.
mame
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