Luna Tail

Well it’s less than two weeks before I head off to Denmark with Jet, my Danish Swedish Farmdog, and my friend Mark from work. We are going to the World Dog Show! I need to start packing. I want to get my big suitcase out and start filling it up. I just did laundry and now I don’t want to wear anything until I go… but I guess I have to or I’d be naked. LOL

I have a packing list already in Google Docs. Maybe I need to find the best eye cream to take with. But I am going to try to pack really light. Maybe only 3 or 4 days worth of clothes. But that’s going to be hard. We are staying with friends I have never met, so I do hope that we can do laundry when we are there!

I hope to blog while I’m there too, I’ll have my laptop with. But I might blog on my other blog, Tip Tail, because it’ll be mostly dog related. But we’ll see.

So I went to my doctor yesterday to get my prescription of Zoloft refilled. And I told her about how the generics were not really working for me. So she basically gave me the leeway to play around with different generics and see what dosages works for me.  :p

I’m not too keen on the idea of drugs at all, however, the Zoloft makes it so that I don’t get as angry and abusive as I used to. And I don’t get as horrible during PMS that I used to. She said that I could consider just taking it when I’m PMSing only. That’s an option. But I’ll have to see what works… and it’s icky when I’m having PMS, which I’m getting into now, because not much seems to work anyway. Except the progesterone and the Agnus Castus. They help too. So anyway, I might play around with dosages and see. It’s just that the name brand Zoloft is so very expensive, and my budget is so very tight right now, that a little extra money would be really nice. Ugh.

Maybe they’ll put up some poster printing about generic drugs to let people know they might not be as effective as the name brand. Even the doc said that the generics don’t have to adhere to as strict of rules as the name brand. Pretty dumb, if you ask me.

Well, I’m almost better from having lost Angel. Though we are still sad, and will always miss her. My husband and I planted some tomatoes today in the garden. I just took some pictures.

The above is a new pot I bought for a plant in the house. Levi knocked the old pot over and broke it.  I think this one is pretty!

The above is the back yard… though there are too many stupid tree leaves that have fallen lately in the wind.  Bleh. I don’t know how to get them out of the rubber mulch.

The above is one of the annuals I planted in the yard. I love the colors.

And this last one is the baby tomato plants. I can’t wait to eat tomatoes!

Okay so I’m having a really hard time loosing weight this time around. Could be because I’m just sick and tired of eating vegetables all day long. So I’ve been reading a bit and I’ve found some plans that incorporate more protein into my diet.

Protein is a bit difficult for me because I’m a vegetarian. I do eat fish, and yeah I know I know, some people say I’m not really vegetarian if I eat fish. Well I decided decades ago that I’d eat fish and so I still do. I don’t eat beef or chicken or pork. I haven’t since 1992, which is 18 years now. Wow, long time. I remember deciding that I’ll still eat fish and I don’t remember why, but at least I’m consistent. LOL

So anyway I’ve been eating some eggs and fish and nuts and my weight is starting to drop now. Though I’m afraid of jinxing it… maybe my body just needs more protein. I won’t eat cows or pigs or chickens though, so sometimes it’s hard to get protein. And I’m also cutting back on the soy. I’ve read good and bad about it, so I’m going to try to cut it out for a bit and see if I notice any difference. I’m also trying some milk… whole milk, and I might get some raw milk and try that too. I really don’t like the cows milk you get at the grocery store. I bought some Goat Milk today at Whole Foods…. and it’s not half bad! I mixed up some organic cocoa powder and some xylitol to sweeten it and it’s a yummy, supposedly healthy, hot drink.

I was up to 177 lbs at one point (YIKES) and today I weighed 168.6. So that’s good. I haven’t been this low for a while now. I want to get back down to 155 again so my stupid clothes will fit!

Okay I have been a slacker and I haven’t gotten pictures of my yard up yet! Dangit! And now it’s going to snow and so I won’t be able to take pictures… and, I will admit, I keep forgetting too. I’d like to take some more pictures of the front and the back and post them. I am so very happy with how my yard has turned out! Yay! I think in all the 10 years I’ve lived here my yard has been a mess, and finally it is nice again!

I need to post about some anxiety I’ve been having lately, too. But I’m not sure how to go about it. Maybe I’ll need some migraine relief before this stress is over with… but if I can spend time in my yard and relax, that helps a ton!

So we are expecting to get a dumb old storm again…. and it’s the end of April! We had such a mild winter without hardly any snow, and now we are getting dumped on! I will admit, I actually like the rain and the clouds, I find it cozy and warm and I love to snuggle in bed with the dogs and the husband while it’s dreary out. However, I really also love to do my dog sports and I need a bit of sun and dry weather to do that!

Ugh. So I’d like more summer here in Utah, so I can get my husband some men’s polo shirts, and me some tank tops, and wear sandals! Bleh, but we get another storm this week instead….

Lately to rest in the evenings I’ve been watching old episodes of Supernatural. I won’t tell you where I get them, LOL, but I did get some from the Library. How cool is the Library that you can rent TV shows to watch. The iffy part is whether the DVDs are decent quality or not. Lots of times they have too many scratches and they are not really watchable.

But I’ve been staying up too late watching them, too. And it being light so late messes me up still. I swear, I still don’t like Daylight Savings Time and I wish we would do away with the whole thing. I might need the best eye cream for dark circles so that I can look decent without getting enough sleep!

So anyway… Supernatural is a great show, and dang the two lead actors are just good lookin’!

Okay so I don’t have an after picture yet… it’ll come! LOL. This is the before picture of the one corner of the yard that was left yesterday. Okay it wasn’t the only bit, I have some more edges to do, but that has to wait for a little while. So this is what the yard looked like yesterday.

Icky… and Jet does like to take toys onto the grass, though he hasn’t taken any certified diamonds out there yet. Fortunately! But lots of toys. So I dug up the icky bark that was there and.. I’ll post in a bit showing the final product. I love it! I need to run out and take some pictures! lol

Ooo my body just hurts so much. But I love how the yard is turning out! I did some back yard work today… well, did some yesterday too, and more today.  Here’s what it looked like before I started:

Yuck! This is what it looks like most of the time, too. Bleh. I hate it, but I usually don’t have time to really work on it. So this weekend I did.. this month I will, and I’m no sick, so that’s good too! Here is what it looked like after:

So much better! I like the little fence I’m putting up, and I LOVE the rubber mulch. The rubber mulch in the front held out really nice over the winter. So I think putting it in the back will work too. It’s neat and hold it’s color so much better than the wood. Here’s another picture, I bought 2 new chairs so I can sit outside on the patio and play on the computer, hang out with the dogs, and not need to wear a Nascar jacket to keep warm:

So here I sit, and Tatum, Jet and Chase are all playing on the grass. It’s so nice and peaceful!

Well I’m doing more yard work and it’s fun! It’s nice to get kinda dirty, it’s nice to have it warm enough to be outside! I just put in some edging in the front yard where I pulled out the rose bushes last year and put down rubber mulch. This is before the edging:

And here it is after I put the new edging in. It’s a cement type pinkish edging that will hopefully last a lot longer than that awful wood that was there. It was rotting away and icky. All the digging is one of the top fat burners available, I think! And I want to do more in the back yard.

Not sure you can see it really well in these pics, but I really like it!