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I’m so exhausted

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I feel like I’ve spent most of this year exhausted. Actually I’ve been exhausted since November. I could sleep in the afternoon … heck, sometimes I think I could go to bed about half an hour after I get up in the morning.

I’m certain there’s something wrong … but so far nothing is showing up. I do have a bad thyroid. I only have half a thyroid and I take thyroid replacement hormone but according to my blood work my levels are fine.

Back in December my family doctor told me she thought I had seasonal affective disorder. I’m certain I don’t have is my symptoms really don’t fit with SAD other than the extreme tiredness. For example I’m also very cold most of the time and that fits better with thyroid disease. Anyway .. desperate to help myself I went out and bought a SAD light and I’ve been using it for 30 minutes a day and I do feel a tiny bit better but only as I say a tiny bit better.

Honest, I won’t be needing a sleeping pill any time soon. More likely I’ll be needing a wake up pill!

It’s been four months of extreme tiredness. I’m hoping that the sleepiness will just gradually go away because my doctor certainly isn’t looking for a cause. If it doesn’t go away by say the end of March I’m either going to insist that she do more tests or send me to another doctor.

My Bell Pepper weight loss experiment

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You know, I was just thinking about how I managed to lose so weight so fast last fall. I had thought it was because of a new medication that I had just started at the time, a medication for my migraines that has a side effect of causing appetite loss and as a result weight loss.

Well that might have been a big part of it, but I think I’ve discovered something else that works for me … just like weight loss supplements works for others. Bell Peppers – believe it or not.

Honest. In the fall when I dropped 15 pounds in about three weeks I was eating grilled chicken and grilled peppers pretty much every day. Now when I thought about it recently I realized that almost every time I go through a period of losing weight it’s when I’m eating bell peppers on a regular basis. Maybe that sounds odd, but there have been studies that prove that eating peppers can raise your body temperature for a short period after eating them thus raising your metabolism. I also feel that when I eat them they act as an appetite suppressant. I just don’t crave snacks, sweets or carbs anywhere near as much as I do when I’m not eating them on a regular basis.

My husband agrees that he feels less “snacky” when we’re eating Bell Peppers. I either grill them on the barbecue or roast them in the oven and as I said we generally eat them with grilled (or baked) chicken breasts (boneless/ skinless). We could both stand to lose a few pounds before spring/summer so I figure why not continue to eat bell peppers for another month to 6 weeks and see if we both continue to lose weight. Hey if it works that’s great. Plus, bell peppers are good for you, they’re high in vitamins, antioxidants and fiber.

What do you think of a balding John Travolta?

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Were you as surprised as I was earlier this week when the photo of John Travolta came out of him and his receding hairline?

I know his looks have changed quite a bit over the years, but I never really suspected that he was hiding an almost bald head under that mop of black hair. I suppose he’s tried a hair loss treatment or two over the years, but you know, I didn’t really think he looked all that bad without hair.

I’ll bet he knew there were photographers around when he had his toupee off. Perhaps he planned to reveal his hair loss to the world? Anyway .. whether he planned it or whether he got caught without his rug it’s probably about time that he let the world in on this secret.

Very persistent delivery person

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Well I think my next door neighbors might be expecting a second child. There’s been a lot of activity at their house over the last couple of weeks and I saw the oddest thing that I ever saw a delivery person do …

A week or so ago a van pulled up in front of our houses. It blocked my driveway. I didn’t see the van pull up and only noticed it after I heard loud knocking at my door. Of course by the time I got to my door the man who’d knocked was proceeding to walk to the neighbors on the right. In his hand he carried a package that looked like it was flowers and maybe baby gifts or something baby related. His van wasn’t marked with any company logos, it was just a plain van … I had thought about opening the door to him to call out to ask what he wanted but since I didn’t even know what company he was from I wondered if it was scam .. especially when I saw that he just kept going from house to house knocking on my neighbors doors.

I guess one of my neighbors many doors down finally opened the door to him and took in the package. The delivery man then walked back to my immediate next door neighbors and left what looked like a note – probably to tell them where he left the package he was delivering.

Wasn’t that strange? I’ve never seen a delivery person so determined to deliver a package. Usually if they can’t deliver they just return the package to the store or to the warehouse and then the customer has to pick it up there or wait until the company tries to deliver it again – right?

Thinking of selling my gold jewelery

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You know, ever since the price of gold really started to climb last year I’ve been keeping an eye on it and wishing that back when I used to be a jeweler that I’d stored away a few gold bars for safe keeping. I’d be sitting pretty right now, wouldn’t I?

Woulda, coulda, shoulda as the saying goes.

Actually, ever since I’ve been out of the jewelery trade I barely ever wear my jewelery. Perhaps I should just go through my jewelery collection and then take it to some old jewelery friends and get it melted down and sell it.

Have you thought about selling your gold jewelery or melting down your gold now that the price of gold has gone up so high? And no I’m not talking about sending your gold off to those places that advertise on TV … those places sound like scams to me!

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