Friday, December 9, 2011

And it is....

A sever allergy to milk proteins.

After years (since high school, about 7 years), I have had this horrible gross intestinal problem. I have seen 4 different doctors, one specialist, countless CT scans, and ultra sounds. To finally have some one say, "Hey could you be lactose intolerant? 30% of the people I see with this that is what it is."

Well... let me think MY DAD is lactose intolerant...

I saw my regular doctor today for a follow up from my appointment with the GI specialist. I asked her some questions about things and with just a few questions; we decided no more milk AT ALL!

It is a sad day, but at least it isn't wheat also!
(Well that I have to go get prick tested for and am waiting to do that....)

Monday, December 5, 2011

A New Year. An Organized Life.

A couple of weeks ago I decided I need to organize my life. I am horrible at keeping our house clean, dishes done, floors swept or vacuumed, washing and folding the laundry... The list of every day tasks grows! Some days I feel so overwhelmed that I do not do ANYTHING I probably should do.

So last Monday, I had this brilliant idea to make a list of 5 things to do every day that week. The 5 things went into these categories:

dinner
laundry
cleaning task
craft/yarn project
something for me

Let me explain a bit. I don't think like most women, I have learned. I think it has to do with a) having and engineering degree b) learning how to think like all those guys in my engineering classes and c) growing up hating men. (I have problems I know, just talk to my high school friends, they have great stories!)

Dinner: I learned that if there was no plan for dinner, we don't eat. For most of B and I's marriage I have made a meal calendar, gone grocery shopping, and then decided we were going to eat other meals. Therefore spending more money and throwing away lots of food and money! So I am going to change the way I do our meal calendar, not sure but more on that in another post.

Laundry: I am very particular about how my clothes get washed. No sure where/why I developed this. I run enough loads of laundry that I figured out a plan for washing all our clothes, towels, and bedding on a 2 week rotation. With this plan of mine I only do laundry 3 days a week! It opens up time for other things, I like doing more.

Cleaning Task: Yes, laundry is not a cleaning task. This is not one of those every day things, like dishes. More of things you need to do once a week, like mopping, vacuuming, dusting, deep cleaning rooms (kitchen and bathroom), and changing bedding.

Craft/Yarn Project: I have a lists of 20+ projects I want to finish one day... I need to schedule time for myself to do them. With this little daily list do-dab I have finished 2 projects for Christmas!!

Something for Me: We always need down time for ourselves. This is my one thing I really want to get done thing for me. It varies, some days it is organize the closet other days it is go to project group. It is just something that I want done that I know will make me happy.

Since this little list do-dab work fairly well last week, I decided I am going to make being organized my New Year Resolution. It is the only one I have this time. No, list of 50 billion things I want to change. No, crazy goals that even know I can't keep. Something simple, and that is going to make my life and every one around me more pleasant.

No one ever says you have to wait until New Years to make those, so I decided to start now.