Wow!!!!

So, I am in shock and overly excited and then I sure feel dumb and frustrated with myself.  All of this in the matter of about 5 minutes.  So are you wondering why yet?  Well, I was so excited and shocked to come on my blog after a week of craziness and not being able to get here to see so many awesome comments from people.  Then, I realize, I totally missed the awesome chance I had with #commenthour.  How the heck could I forget I signed up for that and had a chance to be featured?  Well, I know how I could forget, It is called fibro-fog.  It is when this awesome everyday unrelenting condition of fibromyalgia starts to effect your brain function.  The once normal person, the one that could answer the phone, listen to the radio, run something through a computer program and answer a coworker all at the same time while remembering everything she was supposed to be doing, can not remember what she had for breakfast 3 hours ago.  How was I supposed to remember that I signed up to be part of #commenthour when I did it 3 days before hand.  (I only know that because I looked it up, lol)  I have to tell you, the fibrofog is probably the worst thing for me.  I am a control freak.  I like things to be on time and in order.  I was always the one to handle the finances because I could tell you to the penny how much each bill was, the date it was due, which paycheck the money to pay it would come out of, and so on.  I had recipes memorized, I worked at a place where I had to memorize fire company unit designaters,  EMS designators, geography, ten codes, phonetic alphabet and operating proceduress.  Now, it have a hard time remembering when to take my medicine or that I have a doctors appointment.  It is a combination of things.  First of all in general, you become a bit fuzzy.  When you are in constant pain, it is hard to concentrate.  So it is just a basic thing that you don't always function mentally and cognitively as well as before.  Then, there are all the medicines.  Each one of the medicines I take for my fibromyalgia and co-morbid diseases, has a warning with it, either, causes drowsiness or dizziness.  Ok, so if you are totally doped up all the time, of course you are not going to function in the best capacity.  But if you have any idea of how the pain is, with the medicine, you may actually have a somewhat manageable pain level, without the medicine, you would be so out of your mind, you could not be able to assist in any fashion.   It is basically 6 of one and 1/2 dozen of the other.  High pain levels and incapacitated from the pain, or meds that help to regulate the pain, but make you tired or dizzy, or nauseated.  I will tell you, there are times when I have to not take doses of my medicines so I can function enough to get stuff done.  If we have an appointment during the day, morning medicines are out.  If I am going to be driving to dinner, early evening medicines are not taken.  Sometimes, you have to decide the pain is worth the outcome of what is going to happen.  So needless to say.  I am so thankful to #commenthour for featuring my blog.  I am also very happy that you so enjoyed the recipes and information that you read on my page.  I truly hope to be able to be at #commenthour this week.  I would love to chat with you and answer questions.  If anyone thinks about it, maybe you can do something for the forgetful old lady I have become and add a comment to my page to remind me.  Thank you all for reading my blog.  Thank you for your awesome comments.  Please check back, I will be adding my 10 on Tuesday shortly and I am hoping to figure out the subject tomorrow.  Again, Thank you very much.

A Beautiful Day

First, I must apologize for not being here in quite some time.  I have been extremely tired and just could not muster even the amount of energy needed to type a sentence, let alone some info for my blog.  With that being said, I have to tell you today was an amazing day for me.  I felt almost like my old self, almost.  The weather was beautiful, sun was shining, an awesome breeze coming in off the ocean, everything was clear and the sky was just bright blue.   In the town I live in, today was the annual, Craft Show on the Boardwalk.  Talk about lucking out, they could not have physically created a better day for it.  You could stroll along the boardwalk, and the side streets where the stands were set up, with the breeze flowing around you, keeping you comfortable and letting you take your time to look at every creation you wanted to.  I, of course, did not purchase anything.  I tend to feel sometimes these type of shows are a bit above my price range, then they set the price just a bit higher because of course you are at the beach and everything is higher at the beach.  I do love looking though, taking in the ideas and trying to figure out if I would be able to make the items.  Some of the items I would love to have, and hope to see again at a craft show closer to Christmas, that way maybe I could justify spending the money for it, but probably not.
The other thing that was awesome about today is that I walked for quite sometime, at least two miles, then came home for a little rest and did the grocery shopping.  My husband and I also made dinner together and cleaned up the kitchen, put away clothes from the laundry he did today.  This is the most I have done all week.  It was so nice to go out and just have a good day.  No rushing, no stress, no worry, it was simply just a totally relaxed and amazing day.  Last weekend I had my mom, nieces and nephew here for the holiday and did way to much.  The added stress of making sure I did enough with them and kept them busy and having fun really wore me out and made the last week very challenging for me so to have an easy weekend will be awesome.  I am sore and hurting now, sitting down for more than a few minutes helped me tense up and now I am feeling the pain a bit.  I always hurt the most in my hips and lower back.  I am hoping since I did quite a bit today and was outside alot that I will be able to sleep well and tomorrow when I wake up I will feel good. I guess I will just have to wait and see.  All I know, is even if there is a bit more pain tomorrow, I am extremely thankful for all I got to do today.  I am thankful for having more energy today, for not having a bad flare day and for my husband understanding all I go through and taking his time today so I could enjoy and take in all the stuff I wanted to.  Maybe tomorrow, even if it is not a great day, I can still get to the beach and just sit there and soak up the sun and watch the world go by.  All I know is today was a beautiful day.