Spider!

 

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I have proclaimed the word “hate” as a bad word in my house.  And I say this, hoping that my children don’t come across this post…I HATE spiders!  They seem to know it and find little ways to taunt me.  I woke up at 5:40 this morning, got the sweatpants I was going to wear today, and headed to the bathroom.  I put my sweatpants on the bathroom sink, and as I did, I saw something brown move, right around the waistband.  Spider!!  So I screamed and panicked, of course, and threw them in the floor.  When I picked them up carefully using my index finger and my thumb, I couldn’t find it anywhere.  I shook the pants like crazy, but the little demon must have been hanging on for dear life.  I couldn’t give up, because I had to know that the thing was dead-and not loose in the house.  So I laid the pants in the floor and started doing my happy dance, stomping every inch of those pants.  I hope nobody could see me through the window, because I’m quite sure it would have seemed that the preacher’s wife had lost her mind!  J  I finally found the spider, and confirmed that it was a brown recluse.  They’re very easy to recognize by the violin/fiddle shaped marking on their backs.  Thank the Good Lord I saw it, or it probably would have bitten me.  Life lesson--always shake your clothes and/or turn them inside out before putting them on!

Food!

Yesterday went well, for the most part.  I could not force the cereal down…but as I have said-baby steps.  I knew I would struggle with eating breakfast.  Although I don’t think I would have had a problem eating breakfast if it were a biscuit & gravy. J  I ate healthy foods for the other 2 meals.  Luckily, I prefer my water at room temperature.  I kept 2 full bottles of water on my desk at all times, along with the one I was sipping on.  Every time I finished a bottle, I would WALK to the kitchen and get another.  I’m not really sure why I decided to keep 3 bottles on my desk; it just helps me to drink more when I see all those bottles sitting there, I guess.  I use a sharpie to number the bottles 1-3, so that I know for sure when I’ve had at least (3) 16.9 oz. bottles.  If I drink more than that amount, it’s even better.  All in all, I drank more than I needed, by the time I counted the water, my 2 glasses of Sprite Zero with my meals, and 8 cups of coffee-yes 8!  I got up at 1am yesterday, ok!?!  Today, I ate my fiber cereal!  Yea me!  It kept me full until my lunch break!  For lunch, I am having a salad.  And for dinner, I am cooking enchiladas.  No…they’re not for me, they’re for my family.  J I will eat a tuna salad sandwich on Nature’s Own wheat sandwich rounds.  (If you haven’t tried them, do.  They’re wonderful!)  I have finally figured out that I just can’t eat the things Scott and the kids eat.  I must treat those bad foods as if they’re “poison” and stay away!  In fact, I may go through my pantry and draw crossbones on all of the “poison” items.  Ha!  And that is day 2!

Have a great day, and know that every reader is prayed for!!