My movie - lifted from dolphingirl

Why am I not surprised?

The Movie Of Your Life Is A Cult Classic

Quirky, offbeat, and even a little campy - your life appeals to a select few. But if someone's obsessed with you, look out! Your fans are downright freaky. Your best movie matches: Office Space, Showgirls, The Big Lebowski

If Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be?

Fibromyalgia?

I heard someone on the radio say something about fibromyalgia that made me wonder if that's what's going on with me. My chiropractor ends up doing as much muscle work on my trigger points as she does adjusting my bones. Even so, I'm in constant pain. From reading it, I think I qualify. Maybe I should join the chronic pain group my health insurance offered a while back. I thought my chiropractor was working out a permanent cure for injuries, but it's becoming clear that it all comes right back the week she stops treating any particular muscle. It's one of those vague diagnoses like CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) and they say it's a life-long condition once you have it. It's hereditary. Greeeat. My sister has been suffering from painful joints for years and my mom has been in pain since she was about my age.

The current treatment is basically what I'm doing. I need to ramp up the exercise. They say to exercise even if you're hurting badly because it will help. I've been slacking on that. Monday I was trying to get my midterms done and Wednesday I had a blinding headache so I skipped Pilates both days.

The only positive I can see to getting a real diagnosis is to get another prescription for muscle relaxants to take at bedtime so I can sleep. They do help a lot.

Maybe I should try cutting artificial sweeteners from my diet. They might be contributing to a build up of toxins that the womentowomen website offers as a cause to this type of problem. *whine* I don't want to completely change my life. With the pain I'm in right now, I'm almost ready to do that. Since I'm heading toward diabetes right now, I really can't add more sugar to my diet. Guess I'll have to give up drinking sweet stuff.

Holiday season is upon us - the quests begin. Yesterday = wild rice

Does anyone else feel annoyed that Christmas is pushed out right after Halloween these days? Didn't they used to wait until the day after Thanksgiving?

First things first. Thanksgiving is my focus. I volunteered to bring wild rice dressing and apple cobbler to our feast at Uncle Jim and Aunt June's house in San Francisco. Aunt June is from Minnesota and used to make wild rice dressing every year. She's having to cut back a bit because her energy level is dropping with age. She still will brine and roast the turkey, make mashed potatoes, traditional bread stuffing and wonderful gravy.

After I volunteered my dishes and got approval, I went to the store only to find my usual grocery store no longer carries wild rice. HUH? I tried a bigger store thinking the small one just doesn't have space for everything. Nope. Safeway no longer carries wild rice. I thought about specialty stores. Trader Joe's! Out front they had a bin of baskets. My fruit basket got infected with peach mold and was thrown out. I grabbed one the right size. Only $4! Score! In the rice aisle all they had were packets of pre-cooked wild rice, and only a few of those. I grabbed two for the dressing and one to eat for a test ahead of time. These were cooked in water. It wouldn't taste right if I didn't cook it in chicken broth! Adding boullion might work... *sigh* A tin of peppermint bark jumped into my hand on the way to checkout. Eric loves peppermint candy of any kind.

On the way home I passed Albertsons, another grocery chain. It wouldn't hurt to try there. SUCCESS! They had two different brands. The usual brand I bought was there in a box. I'd had bugs infest one in the past, so I chose the other brand that was sealed in a thick plastic pouch. Picked up the chicken broth. I still need to check the recipe for the other ingredients.

Yay! Aunt June's recipe of wild rice dressing will be on the Thanksgiving table! Eric's mom's recipe of apple cobbler is another favorite of everyone, particularly Eric. :)

Oh and our earthquake kit will now have the addition of pre-cooked wild rice to the food supply - if the packets say it will last a while. Fancy food for a disaster, ya think?

Today's quest: The rest of the stuff I need for Thanksgiving and all of our needs for the next week. Shopping is too crazy the last few days before a major holiday.