jd, yeah for getting back in the routine of work and working out regularly! sounds like angel's evoo suggestion is a good one. btw, did you infuse the rosemary and sage into the evoo yourself?!?  or can you buy it like that? if so i'm impressed, and if the latter, where can i get some? hee hee.

Ok!!!  I have started a poll and a challenge.  See

http://www.longlocks.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1184878889

to learn about it.

Today sucked when I was out of work, fine in work and now  better within the last couple of hours.  Won't bore you.  All that I need to say on a personal note was work went well for my fist part time week back.  Going to ask the hospital if I can go back for more hours when I see my doc on Weds.

Hair:  Angel, your suggestion worked well with the EVOO.  Thank you.

I am not going to wash my hair until Sunday now.  I did not wash it today so that will be 3 days...I am going to test scalp remedies that do not require a wash....just a rinse.  See above link.  I will oil hair with coconut tonight (I did jojoba last night...I like cocount and cocoa but need to wash after since I have not found the right amount...but on a work day...cannot wash in the am as I am up and out of here by 5:30 am-with a 1 hour dirve to work).

Pls look at my link and vote or comment.  I believe it is a good subject...and...well see link.

JD

So tired.  Still no energy to read journals..sorry.  They are important to me...but so is sleep.  Got up at 4 am this morning to get to work in time...got home at 9 pm.  Thank God for the folks putting out the dogs!!

Got a great compliment on my hair from my top boss today.  She told me it looked 'so much longer and fantastic'.  Thank you all at LL.
Without you, my hair would look...blah, even if it is relatively short.

Was going to do an EVOO infused with rosemary and sage tonight but I went and had a body shower (was very hot and sweaty) and forgot my shower cap was directly in the line of the water!!!  Oh well, it is drying now and I am going to do a Curly64 treatement tomorrow since I took it out of the freezer tonight.

Miss you all, just been so tired going back to work...and I wont do it from work because that is not what they pay me to do!!!!

Hey, Roomtogrow, you doing ok?  Haven't heard from you in so long!!

JD

Trisha, thank you for your encouragement.  Hopefully my energy will pick up soon as I adjust to working again.  At least my phobia about work is gone and I enjoy my time there.  I do love my job.  I am going to go to MEC (Mountain Equipment Company) tomorrow and buy some running clothes that fit me.  The ones from 40 lbs ago are no good to me right now.  Next summer they should be fine...I hope!!!  Losing weight is so hard.


Yesterday was a really long day.  I left here at 5:30 am and got home at 8 pm.  I feel drained today... but that is not a surprise.  I got up this morning and did groceries, filled the car with gas, went to the pet store and went for my electrolysis.  I am trying to psych up to cutting my lawn, cleaning up the basement a bit and getting ready for work tomorrow.  I have a busy day on Sat and want to rest on Sun so I want to get as many chores done as possible today.  I just have no energy to do them!!!

As for hair, well, I haven't done anything with it yet.  Once I have cut the lawn I will put one of Curly 64's recipes on my hair to deep condition and then I will wash...but this time with my mud and clay soap which I remembered to take out of the freezer about an hour ago.  I just put jojoba oil along the length of my hair and on the ends last night.  Ah, heck I might as well throw in an ACV rinse today too.  Why not.  Hopefully all of that will help with the frizzies.

Oh ya, yesterday I ran into a colleague I had not seen since I went back.  After welcoming me back the first thing she said was about how long my hair had gotten and how pretty it is.  Gotta love that. 

Well, better do what I came on the computer to do.  TTYL.

JD

  Thank you for the compliment Angel.  And thank you for the best wishes about a guy.  You are so sweet.


I got everything done today.  Tomorrow is work, MEC at lunch (oh ya, I seem to have lost a couple of pounds since I went to work  ), a full house vacuum and I need to do a bit of cooking too.  I am making spinach and cottage cheese stuffed crepes to freeze.  Mmmm.

Saturday I am taking my generator in for a long over due tune up and doing a tonne of little jobs around the house.  My next project is to put up crown molding (I bought it before I got sick) in the spare bedroom.  I am planning that for next weekend.  Should be interesting.  And I plan on painting all the trim in the kitchen, hall, living room and dining room that weekend.  I have already painted those rooms...just never got to the white trim.

As for the hair...it is almost dry after doing the Curly mix, the ACV, the scalp massage with aloe, the poo with my good old mud and clay shampoo and then a quick condition.  Hair is not frizzy!!!  Yahoo.  It was the poo that was the problem. Phew, so glad I figured that problem out. 

Better run.  Still have the dinner dishes to do before bed.  Have a great night all.

JD

LOL, my docs tell me I do to much too when I am well.  LOL, it is part of my disease.  ...ok, you all deserve to know...I suffer badly from depression.  Now, many people suffer depression at some point in their lives...but I have a literal chemical disorder (which is a relatively small part of the population) and hit a depression every 6 months.  You can set your watch by it.  Winter.  Yes, for those of you who know about it, I have SAD, but I also have a 'predisposed susceptibility to depression".  In 2000 I was put on disability for life.  I could not accept that and went back to work in 2003 in a good, and well paying job (not to be confuse with rich).  I hit a big blip in the last year, when I had a change of doctors who changed ALL 8 of my meds in one night.  I crashed.  Fired him!!!!  But a little too late and ended up on this funk for 8 months. 

This doc, well he was set up to be one of the best surgeons in Canada until he was in a car accident and he was burned alive.  One hand is a hook, one hand is a stub, he has half a face, a wig  and God knows what the rest of him is like (clothes, can't tell and don't want to !!)  He says he has never felt depression.  How can you go through that and not feel depression.  Hell, grieving a perons you love is a form of depression, much less your own life...  Anyway, when I self admitted myself to hospital for the six weeks needed to recover at all, I found out that every patient there that had ever had him had sued (sp) him.  Nice guy, huh.  Why he can still practice I don't know...but I know that there are shrinks out there trying to get him out of the profession!!!  Thank God.

Docs can be great and they can be bad.  Let me tell you a story about a woman I knew that had a C-section in the days where they knocked you right under.  In those days they used a catyleptic (sp?) which means that is the first part of anesthesia.  We use it on animals too.  It stops you being able to move but you can hear and feel everything.  It was used to relax you in the old days.  The anesthesiologist did not administer the anesthetic to her!!!  She felt the whole C-section and could not move despite the pain!!!  She sued them and won because...and you will love this...she was able to repeat all of the conversations they had while she was being cut and stuff...including the docs latest golf game!!!

Then there are the great dosc, like my GP who has even given me her home phone number in case I am really in trouble.

Ok, so I am recovering from a crappy doc.  BTW, my old doc of 20 years (for depression) retired which is why I got this prick (excuse my language).  Oh man did he screw me up (the new one).

For the many of you that do not understand this disease...think how past partum depression felt, or the loss of your husband/wife or a child feels.  I suffer that feeling 6 months of the year every year.  The best I can say is it is like a cancer of the soul.  It actually physically hurts...and if you look at a cigarette pack in Canada, it is the second biggest killer of all diseases (suicide).  Cancer is the only one that beats it.

I am lucky.  I came from a strong family who supported me and taught me to be strong.  I have put myself in hospital 4 times (from 6-8 weeks each time).  For each of those times, I have gone to at least 15 funerals for the people I met there and got to know.  I have suffered this disease for 25 years.  I have learned that I will never quit because I have learned when the disease tells me there is no hope...there always is some I cannot see.  I have learned to have faith in that.

There are people out there who milk the system.  I chose not to.  There are people out there who feel so sorry for themselves that they are worthless to anyone.  I WILL NOT be one of them.  I fight this disease 6 months of the year...but I have only had to stop my life 4 times in 25 years and I always come back.


Something else you should all know.  Think of the person who is grieving the loss of a child or a spouse.  You know how they lose weight and look terrible for a while.  That is because the saying that a healthy mind is the key to a healthy body.  It is very true.  This illness doesn't only make the world so dark to a person who has it (like a horse with the fly mask on, even in bright sunlight-meaning when I am sick, it actually seems like a dark stormy day everyday even if the sun is brilliant) but it starts to make real and psycological (sp) physical problems.  For example, I believe the headaches were in my head and did at the time.  I also believed that my thoughts that I had multiple unirary tract infections was in my head until I ended up in hospital for a week with a septic kidney infection!!!

It is not a small disease...and sadly, so many people like the killer in Virginia and the people who milk the system make people like me (which, BTW is the majority, deal with it).  I deal with it.  RTG, this is a rant!!!.  Hope you all still want to talk to me, knowing I am 'crazy'

JD

Thanks for being brave and sharing your challenges with us.

When I lived in Michigan (for 15 years) I was misserable.  I could hardly get out of bed and was really unhappy.  Michigan is lucky to get 30 days of sun a year.  Now I live in Arizona and am mostly better.  I have Cushing's Syndrome from taking Prednosone in 1999.  I have atypical depression from the Cushing's in addition to weight gain.

I am not on meds 'cause I know my depression is not a true chemical imbalance and I am getting better with exercise, psychotherapy and adrenal tablets.  Oh, and stubborness.

What bugs me most is the lack of joy in activities I have always enjoyed.  However, it is getting better and I don't give in either, but I do take care of myself, too.

Sounds to me like your strength of spirit has seen you through and will continue to do so. 

Brava!