Can You Hear Me Now?

Got this idea from Shauna. Type “(your name) needs” into Google and see what you get.

• Donna needs party caricatures!
• Donna needs two hands to keep things steady.
• Donna needs your help NOW!!!
• Donna needs a good reason to work on her reading.
• Donna needs address labels.
• Donna needs a loving, nurturing adoptive family who can accept her limitations while encouraging her to strive to meet her potential.
• Donna needs a makeover.
• Donna needs to find a boyfriend so her acidic mother Flo won’t think she is gay, celibate or repellant to men.
• Donna needs to press on, she is wonderful.
• Donna needs no introduction to Beard members-she is a frequent visitor to Jim’s kitchen.
• Donna needs some sort of weapon/accessory like a lasso, net, or maybe a staff.
• Donna needs to go to the bank, the post office, the supermarket, get her hair cut, or just meet a friend for lunch.

And finally:

• Donna needs to have some drunken one night stands and get her groove back.

Why yes, come to think of it, I do need address labels.

The birth control pills that were fine for you to take in your 20’s may not work so well when you’re 37. I’m just sayin’.

I finally made the connection between my health issues the past two months (both physical and emotional) and the day I started the pill. Hmmm. I don’t know if I’m pre-menopausal or what, but messing with my hormones this time around really did a number on me!! Now I know why something just didn’t “feel right” all those weeks. The combination of the pill and everything else is what threw me over the edge. I chucked the pills last week, went for a colonic, have been resting and taking better care of myself and I’m starting to feel normal again. My version of normal for me, which is good enough for now! There is no negative energy or *drama* in my life to stress over anymore either, and I hope it stays that way for awhile.

So, yeah. The past week has pretty much been about lots and lots of rest, water, no going out, and being very diligent about taking all my supplements. Funny thing about vitamins, minerals and other supplements: they help you, but only if you actually take them. Buying them and looking at them on your kitchen counter every day doesn’t do a whole lot for you!

My beautiful, sweet friend Christine is moving back to Quebec. She finally made up her mind (she’s been wavering on that decision for a long time for a lot of reasons). I’m hoping to see her this weekend but I still won’t be able to paaaartay so it will probably just be dinner. I really hope I get a chance to see her again after that before she leaves and have a fun night out with her. I need to think of something really special to do for her or give her because she has been such an amazing friend to me. I’m going to miss her sooooo much!! I think I will have to write something because there is nothing I can buy her that she can’t buy herself, that would express how much her friendship has meant to me over the years (and Hallmark, here I come!). Have I ever mentioned that she is the one that gave me my first Polyjesters CD and started that WHOLE THING!? Yeah. It’s all her fault.

Anyway, I’ll start working on my “trip to Toronto” entry soon. I want to record that for myself too!

Well, Toronto topped off what was already a busy month for me while feeling pretty rough, and threw me over the edge… I have completely overdone it in the past month and am paying for it now big time!! I haven’t had a relapse this bad in years.

I am pretty much sentenced to bed rest for awhile until I can get back on my feet, who knows when that will be, hopefully in a couple weeks. I won’t be online except to check email so I apologize to my MSN buddies, but until I get a laptop I can chat on from my bed (or La-Z-Boy) I won’t be on the computer much!

I had an absolute blast in Toronto though, and will write all about it as soon as I’m able. In the meantime, you can read this entry over in Emma’s blog for a few of the top highlights and see how awesome that girl looks.

So… I guess I’m not quite “back” yet as per my last entry (hahaha Emma’s comment!) but I will be soon. Sometimes I forget I just can’t do things at the pace other people can and I need to slowwww down. So if I won’t take care of myself on my own, then my body will force me to like it is now. Argh.

The worst part about this bed rest sentence is that I can’t go see the Polyjesters this weekend!!

I figured I should do an update before I leave for Toronto and come home with pages and pages to write about!

As per my last entry, I do believe Shawna called me shortly after that. We went for a late lunch at the Cheesecake Cafe and since the night ended with pigging out at Boston Pizza, I can pretty much say that last weekend was NOT a Weight Watchers’ weekend! The following day was her last day here, and our friend Kim came in from Medicine Hat. Originally she was going to come in Friday, but when we discovered the Polyjesters were playing out in their home town of Didsbury, we changed plans at the last minute so that Kim would come out Saturday and we’d all go to the show, about an hour North of Calgary. Jason got Kim and I a cheap room at the Inn for $30 and Shawna took her own rental car because she wasn’t staying the night; she had her hotel in Calgary and her flight left early in the morning. Read the rest of this entry »