Gina's Journal - updates

09:25 pm - updates

I am 3 weeks into my 14 week drug reduction schedule.

The diet now has more restrictions because I was too close to liver failure. The diet calls for mostly carbs and fat, protein primarily from dairy and a maximum of 8oz. of meat per day. 4oz. separated by 6 hours until the next 4oz. This diet is the worst thing possible to "prescribe" for a person with an eating disorder.

It rained today so I've felt like crap all day. I didn't go to work. The temp dropped over 20 degrees since the weekend. This made it too cold in my house. So I baked all day. I made the worst blueberry muffins ever. I forgot to add the eggs. So I pulled them out after they had been baking for a few minutes and added the eggs and put them back in the oven. This is a bad idea, a don't try this at home kind of thing. I had to leave the AC running since I can't stand humidity. This ticks me off as well. I shouldn't be whining but since this is my journal...I will.

My folks sold the house. The buyers will sign the papers on the morning of the 19th and my folks will sign the papers on their new place on the afternoon of the 19th. Fortunately, the house my folks are buying will already be empty.

I officially move out of my trailer on the 31st. This sucks for many reasons but the most important of which is that I feel I'm losing so much independence. And I am. On the otherhand, I'll have more money, since I'll be sharing the bills with 3 other people. My father is selling his truck and using my car so my insurance will go down and he'll cover half of the car payment (it's not getting used now that I can't drive). I won't feel like a complete burden since they are picking me up to go to the meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Sunday. We'll be having a garage sale soon since we're combining households. I'll post when and where when it's been decided. For anyone reading this: we have nice stuff. Everything tends to be in pretty good condition. I plan on clearing out more of my music collection and will be selling quite a bit of furniture.

I traded two of my living room chairs for a massage. It seemed like a really good trade. My folks are putting in a deep whirlpool tub in the bathroom in the basement of the new house since they know how badly I've been hurting lately. They do stuff like this and it makes it very difficult to get irritated by everything that they do. Difficult, but not impossible. I've just got to work on my attitude.

School starts in 3 weeks and I haven't opened my Spanish books at all. I also haven't bought my Psych books. I'm totally unprepared to start back to school. The only truly awesome part of it is that my work is letting me set my own schedule to accommodate going to school.

We've hired a new person at the office. She's in a wheelchair so everything has to be redesigned to accommodate her disability. She's much nicer than the last person we hired (who recently quit) so I don't mind the change.

Wow, those were random updates. I'm not deleting them though. Take care.

P.S. My friend LeAnne called to tell me that Dillard's will be having an additional 30% off of all clearance items in the store starting on Wednesday and running through Saturday. She works in women's shoes on the west side store. If you go in, buy from her.