Ooh, Ooh, I Know!

Write the entry at school while I'm still coherent. Got it. Gotta try to remember that.

I suppose I would have to say that I've been having a pretty good day. I got more sleep in last night, and more pain-free time during the day. But I do find that I'm growing less patient with the bad times, i.e., the pain times. Not that it matters, because what's going to happen is going to happen whether I'm patient with it or not.

So I called the doctor's office and asked about a nutritionist and the answer was for me to get well first and we'll discuss it the next time I see him (two weeks.) Yeah, okay. Just maybe a nutritionist would be assisting me with the "getting well" part, but whatever. He is the doctor, after all, and I do get his point if I don't particularly agree with it. But he doesn't know me yet as well as he will in times to come, so let's just build a relationship here. In the meantime, I'll look back at the books I just got, and I'll carry around lists of good foods/bad foods, and work from that. I have got to get more fruits and veggies into my diet, but I'm afraid to; I'll have to bite the bullet and go by the lists. If I eat canned veggies from the "good" list, I'll be okay, and I'm sure applesauce every day is fine. Thanks for those comments on this topic. What I need to do, other than learn to eat a healthy diet for me, is work out what my trigger foods actually are. This applies to IBS or Crohn's, but I know I ate differently for the last few years when all I thought I had was IBS (very high fiber, for example.)

As for all those other dietary recommendations that I have been struggling to keep up with over the years, it's time to admit that those are no longer for me and I don't have to read those articles or follow those rules anymore. Seven fruits, seven vegetables a day, or whatever. (This is what I expect the nutritionist to help me with, to create a set of guidelines for me, since the generic no longer apply.) Anyway, enough of that.

That's some politics going on this week, eh? Now if we can just get rid of that wacko Huckabee, we'll have a relatively viable field of candidates to pick from. I wonder if Huckabee would even have come as far as he did if Steven Colbert (and Conan O'Brien too, I think) hadn't found him amusing and given him airtime on their shows. They had no idea they were creating a monster of sorts. Not that Huckabee doesn't have his place in society; he does. He should be a minister or a televangelist someplace. He has no business being president, especially since he's made it clear that he lacks the single most important qualification: he doesn't believe in the U.S. Constitution. Just a little stumbling block there. And if McCain picks him as his running mate, I will seriously question McCain's qualifications as well.

As for McCain, I'm happy to see him doing well, and I hope he's the Republican nominee. I've got a few issues with him as well, but I liked him before and I can probably learn to like him again, although I'm currently supporting Obama. But I think McCain is essentially a man of integrity, and although he's saying certain things to get elected, I think he's really more liberal than he's currently letting on, which appeals to me, of course. But he's got to pick a decent running mate. As for Romney, I think there's just nothing there. He looks like someone central casting would send over to play the president in a movie, but I think he has absolutely no substance at all.

Anyway, we get to have our primary here in New Jersey next week on super-duper Tuesday, as probably many of you all over the U.S. do, and our choices have certainly narrowed down, haven't they? Although I understand that all of them who recently withdrew will still be on the ballot, but there are really only two candidates to vote for in either party. (Huckabee may technically still be in it, but I won't count him, and I'd like to hope he doesn't have much time left in it anyway.) Hey, the only reason anyone runs for president is pure arrogance. And chutzpah.

There, I wrote an entry, and it wasn't even all about Meeeeee!


WATCHING THE GOLDEN GIRLS :: ENTRY #1668