Chatter

Life lately has been pretty good. We are feeling a little overwhelmed with looming decisions about our future, school for both of us (I'm done in a month!), work, clinic, etc. But I think we both see a light at the end of the tunnel.

So a little blurb about American Idol, of course. I've decided to believe the latest theory. It can't be that this many people in America really like Sanjaya. So it must be all the people who work in call centers in India!! I read that on CNN this morning. They can set their computers to speed dial his name over and over. It just has to be that. Just when I think it can't get any worse... he goes and pulls out something like the "faux-hawk" (which I also got from CNN).

Other things going on... poor AJ has the flu. I'm hoping that Kaiya doesn't get it. She slept with us half the night last night -- she was asleep when I got home, but about 9:30, she woke up crying. We snuggled on the couch watching American Idol (we tape it to avoid commercials) and she drifted back to sleep. But everytime I put her in her crib she would start crying again. We tried to let her cry it out, when that didn't work, we gave her a bottle. So... finally she slept with us. She is the biggest thrasher in her sleep. I found her head down by my knee at 4:30 and decided to move her into her crib. When Jen called this morning about AJ, it made me wonder if she had a tummy ache last night. We'll see... Sherry came to our house to watch K today.

I took my big exit exam for the Master's program. It went pretty well, glad that I spent some time studying for it, because the review helped. There were some things that I had no clue about, but overall I think I did okay.

The only other news right now is that Tony and I are doing a cleanse. He told me that he was going to do it and I thought it would be beneficial for me to do it too. We started Monday... we're on Day 3 today. Here's how it works... For 2 weeks we eat only fruits and vegetables. Tony also ordered some supplements for us to take during this time, in addition to our normal vitamins. I've never done anything like this before! Everyone asks, "Why in the world would you do this?" So I figured I better ask my smart husband just why we're doing this. :) Basically we are de-toxing our liver and gall bladder. Giving them a break from all the garbage that we normally put in. We are adding the supplements that have a little protein in them so that our body doesn't start losing any lean muscle mass, but instead loses the fat. So any weight loss is an added bonus. That's basically it.

It's not quite as hard as I thought it would be. Tony said that the first 3 days would be the worse, in terms of cravings and feeling hungry. The nice thing is that there are lots of fruits and vegetables to choose from, so I haven't gotten bored yet. Oh -- and we are supposed to eat a 2:1 ration of vegetables to fruit. And there is no limit to how much we can eat during the day. My normal dinner meal is a big salad -- T uses salsa for his dressing and I made a homemade balsamic vinagerette dressing to use. Anyway... I'm rambling... I did my weigh in on Monday night... and Sunday tried on about 8 pairs of pre-baby pants that I couldn't get zipped up -- I've gotta about an inch to get into them. So I'm hoping that at the end of this I'll be able to put those pants on.

Dreaming of girl scout cookies....