Executive decisions

I never knew I could get exhausted just looking at wedding gowns over the internet while on the phone with my daughter!  Phew!  I spent about 1 1/2 hours looking through dozens of ‘mother’s’ dresses and my daughter and I narrowed down the list to six that I need to go and try on in the next few months.  I will be wearing the color ‘truffle’ for my daughter’s wedding in August!

I also got to see the dresses the bridesmaids will be wearing as well as the dress my grand-daughter will be wearing.  This is going to be a beautifully colored wedding.  Rachael (my daughter) has chosen watermelon, champagne and black as her colors.  It is amazing how nice the colors look together.  With 12 people in her wedding party, the photos should be amazing!  So I have much work….errr….less eating to do!  ha ha!

As a result of the upcoming wedding, I have decided to give up coke.  I know.  I should not be drinking it to begin with.  But I am so addicted to it.  Well…I was.  One of the benefits of the detox that I just finished is I no longer like the taste of coke.  It just tastes nasty.  So I have now replaced coke with reverse-osmosis water and Cali tea, which is an Asian detox tea that naturally and gently cleans the body of toxins and chemicals.  I just drink one glass a day and the rest of my beverages are water, herbal tea and my favorite, of course, PG Tips. 

I need to lose 60-70 pounds and letting go of the coke should be a good start to my getting back to a healthy weight level.  For the wedding, I will just lose what I can and that will be good enough for now.

Even beyond the weight loss, however, I noticed during the detox that I no longer was waking up coughing, raspy voiced or with a sore throat in the mornings.  I came to the realization is was the coke.  I have also noticed that the swelling in my feat and under my knees has gone down quite a bit.  So for health reasons, giving up coke this year was one of my first executive decision!  LOL!  

I made a second executive decision for this year as well.  I have really struggled against buying ‘aids’ that make my life easier for obvious reasons, but this year I decided I would purchase anything that I felt would be of a major benefit.  So…last week I purchased a laptop table as I have gotten to where sitting the laptop on my lap hurts and I can’t hold it up very long without my legs getting tired, restless, or numb.  So it was time to try something new.

I have now been using the laptop table for a week and I really like it.  I’m actually thinking maybe I should design one for CFIDS/FMS/ME suffers because whoever designed the one I purchased  didn’t think it all the way through.  The drawer to store things like pens and pencils opens backwards so it makes it hard to use.  There isn’t enough room to reposition my legs underneath the table when I need to.  The biggest problem, though, is where you place the laptop.  You can raise your laptop almost to a 90 degree angle and you have 7 different levels in between.   That is very nice.  What they didn’t think through is the placement of the laptop.  It is on the left side of the table while you sit in the middle of the table.  Thus, when you are typing your are sitting forward, but typing slightly to the left.  Not a great position.  I have found a way around it but still…  I think I could create a much more ‘user-friendly’ laptop table for us all.

I am looking at making a few other purchases in the months ahead such as a steam mop, air purifier for the front of my apartment (I have one in my bedroom already) and perhaps even hiring a maid to come in every two weeks.

Ultimately I have decided I will do whatever I need to reduce my energy output so I have more energy to do the things I want.  If I have to set aside my pride to do so, than so be it.  I’m okay with that.

Determined to continue forward,