Giveaway – Heavenly Acupressure Mat

Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away a Heavenly Acupressure Mat!- Relax, Renew, Recharge!

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Sweepstakes! Yummy Chocolate Giveaway!

Sammi’s Blog of Life is having a Tortuga Giveaway! She’s giving away Tortuga Rum Company goodies, and there are several ways to enter. The winner will receive a a moist delectable golden cake, and Tortuga Chocolate Rum Turtles with sea salt! Yummy turtle chocolates with caramel, and salt topping. Can you say YUM?

Check it out! And hurry! The giveaway ends tomorrow!

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Diet Solved, For Now

So after much debating, and putting off changing my diet, I’ve finally decided where I want to go with it. While eating “normally” these past few months, I’ve started to pay a lot more attention to what I’ve eaten, and how I feel afterward. The main thing I’ve noticed is that any day when I have a lot of wheat, or gluten, I tend not to feel as well the next day, or that night. Since the last time I tried the SCD it didn’t actually do anything for my symptoms, I just felt healthier because I was eating healthier, I figure that I don’t NEED to be on that diet. I’d like to figure out just what type of foods bother me, (if any do), and so I’m starting out with gluten.

Thesis!

I’m finally starting to really think about my thesis. It’s funny, because I was terrified of trying to come up with a topic, but suddenly one day it just came to me! I knew that I wanted to do something related to the medical field, but I didn’t know quite what. And the more I thought about it, the more I thought about chronic illness. Then I realized how frustrated I got in my disability studies course, when it was all so focused on physical disability, like people who use wheelchairs, or are blind, and never focused on mental disability, or chronic illness, yet they always acted like these views were the views shared by all who can be considered “disabled.” I remember getting really annoyed, specifically when learning how the “disabled community” didn’t want assisted suicide, because it leaves room for the possibility that soon people who’ve been paralyzed, or somehow physical crippled in an accident to opt for assisted suicide, rather than live with their new disability. So because of that, they didn’t want assisted suicide at all, and thought it was a horrible thing. And that got me pretty mad. Hello?? It’s designed for people who are terminally ill, a physical disability doesn’t even qualify. It’s for people dying of cancer, or other diseases, so they can end their life on their terms, rather than living in horrible pain. How could they not even take that into consideration?

Internet Usage and Random Positivity Boosters

I’ve been taking a look at my internet usage lately. I have various sites I like to visit, particularly in the morning when I’m just waking up, or others that I stumble upon, and I’ve been deciding whether any of these are actually helpful, or a little bit harmful. For example, I like to go to fail blog, fail book, regretsy, etc. I find most of them to be pretty harmless, just pointing out funny things that people say, or have done, or their art that some can find pretty funny. But sometimes, I think it crosses the line. Like, when they’re making fun of people. Or on sites like, after 12, where they post pictures they’ve taken of people when they’re very drunk, or passed out. And I just wonder, first of all, why that’s okay, and second, why it’s supposed to be funny.  Yet, I have inevitably found myself clicking on it at some point, to see what it was. Or sites like Fmylife, where all people do is complain about how terrible their day was. Sometimes it’s funny, but other times I just end up thinking it’s a bit obnoxious.

Pain

As I continue my journey, trying to be positive and live in the moment, I find that I have a bit of a dilemma when it comes to pain. I can be positive about my pain, and try to think about it getting better, but I don’t know how to try to live in the moment when it is occurring, and boy, does it happen often.

Broken Resolution

As you have probably guessed from the picture, I had a drink! Or two! I blame my boyfriend, who kept wanting to. Although I wanted to not drink for 6 months, I can’t say this was the first time I’ve been tempted. It’s definitely hard to go to a bar for karaoke with your friends, and not want to have a drink with them. It’s not even that I think drinking is bad, or anything, I’m just disappointed that I didn’t just stick it through.