Recipe for Wellness

My posts have been so DOWN lately because i havent felt very good.

Here is my recipe for my own "get well-ness". yes. that is a made up word.

and i'm good with that.

Step 1. Realize that its a 3 day weekend coming up.

Step 2. Remind your husband.

Step 3. Say to your husband, "we could so be in cooler weather up at the cabin...with thunderstorms and everything..."

Step 4. Have husband say, "lets do it!"

Step 5. Decide to make banana bread.

Step 6. Make a trip to Target, just because.

Step 7. Have husband's background check come through!

Step 8. Have husband announce that he starts training on Tuesday!

Step 9. Have that mean that we get a PAY RAISE starting Tuesday!

Step 10. Knock yourself out with Benadryl to help stop the itching from 1000 mosquito bites and to help me sleep.

Good night!!!

My bed is looking pretty good right now...

Not in the same way though. I was all pukey- kneeling-over- the -toilet kind of sick a few days ago.

This is the I'm -nauseous- and- its- not- going- away- ever kind of sick.

I eat. I'm nauseous.

I dont eat. I'm nauseous.

I'm lying down reading/watching TV/playing fruit ninja on my phone. I'm nauseous.

All i want to do is go home and curl up in my bed.

Oh, and if one more person offers the "maybe its morning sickness!" and "you've got to be pregnant!" comments i'm going to:

high five them. in the face. with a chair.

 

yesterday i died.

So Jace and I went to a Dbacks game Monday night...he won tickets at work and our seats were in the WF Suite! Yeah, it was PRETTY SWEET. Dude. 

Jace's favorite part? Free food and drinks just sitting there begging us to eat them.

Now, we have been pretty good when it comes to eating, seeing as we are trying to lose poundage and be healthy...but hotdogs, nachos, chicken fingers, and soda AT A BASEBALL GAME...they were calling OUR names.

However...we got home that night and died. Literal deaths. We were so so so so sick. I dont know if it was the food itself, or because our bodies werent used to such JUNK anymore, but man alive. We were dead.

I couldnt go into work. I was kneeling over a toilet for the better part of a day.

But heres the kicker.

My calling in church is the Relief Society Night Coordinator...and the RS night that i've been planning for 3 MONTHS was last night. And we lost half of our committee last week. No joke.

So Jace and I braved the outside world with SPRITE and SALTINES to fit into our "S" Night. "SOUPS, SALADS, and SWEETS with SISTERS in SWEATS doing SERVICE."

I was so STRESSED! (another S for you)

But even though i was SICK, my SISTERS and SUPERMOM came in and helped SAVE the day! My mom made banana bread for me as well as clam chowder as well as letting me borrow a billion things. Melanie made SUPER yummy gooey bars, and Mindy made a SALAD. 

All in all, I was happy and SURPRISED. 

As i've been announcing this for the past month and trying to get people to SIGN up...the response has not been great. But we had about 45 people come...and that was about 15 more than the last one in April. As well as most everyone brought their assignment for food. (but i was still extremely lucky and grateful for mom, melanie, and mindy because we went through food like crazy and the extra that they brought was needed!)

I tend to go overboard with planning, and i also tend to take it all on myself even though i'm SUPPOSED to delegate. I even hand colored 100 handouts and designed my own "I SERVE!" STICKER with a SISTER in a SWEATSUIT. I'm crazy like that.

But when all was SAID and done...it turned out great. I have a fantastic husband who luckily was SICK as well and helped drag his SICK wife around town to pick up all the extra STUFF, and then helped me decorate the cultural hall. And my MOM and SISTERS helped SAVE my SANITY.

Thank goodness yesterday is over. I'm STILL SICK, but not as bad...and my STRESS level is almost zero today.

 Hallelujah.

Today

Stinks.

Big hunks of stinky cheese...STINKS.

Garbage that has been sitting for 2 weeks....STINKS.

Moldy 3 week old leftovers in the back of the fridge...STINKS.

For real.

Cotton-headded-ninny-muggins

Jace went to bed last night crazy dizzy.

and woke up with a severe migraine.

i was okay for about an hour...

and then my head started feeling stuffed with cotton.

so i took some sinus medicine and advil...

and now i have a migraine that the medicine is not touching.

What in the crazy happened to us?!


on another note: how good is Elf? seriously.

Pillow talk

Our conversation last night as we are trying to go to bed and jace is trying to snuggle...

me: "you keep wrapping your legs around my legs like a python attacking something..."

jace: "really?"

me: "or you know like i have a brace on my leg immobilizing it, except the brace is hot and hairy."

jace: "...."

I may need a crash course in pillow talk. Just saying.

Things I'm good at Tuesday

Today's post is to make myself think positive things about myself.

I think that we as humans (and especially women) tend to see our faults or failings, rather than the things we do well.

This is a hard exercise for me, but i think its something everyone should do.

I'm going to try and do one of these once a week...some lists might be longer than others. Who knows what will happen...

Here goes.

#1. I'm a good friend. I genuinely care about others and when i offer to help with something, i truly DO want you to let me know what i can do.

 

#2. I love my family.

#3. I give great foot rubs.

#4. I enjoy just SITTING. Thinking, listening, and reflecting. I like doing this alot.

#5. I am a really fast reader.

#6. I excel at writing papers. Just ask my little brother.

#7. I love most animals! (sharks and snakes included...roaches, spiders, scorpions, and mosquitoes NOT)

 

#8. I love babies. I'm really good with them.

#9. I know what I like and how I like things.

#10. I am an excellent baker. I used to want to open my own bakery.