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Stuffed after a great Thanks Giving Dinner

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OMG I’m stuffed! I can barely move after eating a very filling and delicious Thanks Giving dinner.

Yes it’s Thanks Giving weekend here in Canada and it’s one of my favorite holidays. Hey .. any holiday where you get to eat turkey is a great one isn’t it? Yum!

Since it was just Chris and I for Thanks Giving dinner this evening I decided to cook a turkey breast rather than a whole turkey. While the turkey breast was roasting in the oven I made:

  • Mashed potatoes – I always add a tablespoon of Herb and Garlic Philadelphia cream cheese to the mashed potatoes as it makes them delicious.
  • Peas
  • Stuffing – I cheat and use Stove Top Stuffing. Hey it’s good!
  • Cranberry Jelly – another cheat, I used canned.

The only thing we didn’t have was dessert. I haven’t been feeling all that well lately so I certainly wasn’t up to making a pie from scratch and I forgot to add a Pumpkin pie (and light whipped cream) to the grocery list. So no pie – no dessert. Oh well, at least that saves me from having to look up thebest weight loss pill after this meal … or does it! I sure am stuffed and I feel like I gained five pounds!

Nah! There’s no way I ate five pounds of food! It sure feels like it though!

I hope that all of my fellow Canadian visitors had a great Thanks Giving weekend and a great meal to top it off too! My U.S. friends will have to wait a few more weeks for their turkey!





Damn acid reflux!

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I’ve had a rough time over the last week or two with my Crohn’s. It’s acting up really bad, but … on top of that I’m also having acid reflux. Prior to this long Crohn’s flare (4 years and counting!) I never had acid problems, but now it seems that I do.

Most of the antacid drugs (prescription and over the counter) don’t work for me so I have a hard time managing the acid reflux. A drug called Pariet seems to work best, but as luck would have it my prescriptions run out. Grrrrr so I’m stuck trying to use over the counter Zantac and Gaviscon to counter the acid.

I had an acid attack that was really bad this afternoon. The pain starts in my chest and goes up my neck and into my face. My first line of attack when I feel this kind of pain is to immediately drink a glass or two of water. In the past one or two glasses of water would usually calm it down, but lately I have to drink five or six glasses of water just to dull the pain. Believe me, I’d rather read colon cleanser reviews instead of having these seemingly unprovoked acid attacks!

Last night I cooked a pasta with chicken and pasta sauce for dinner and I’ve come to realize that tomato sauce seems to be one of my acid triggers. The odd thing is that I don’t get indigestion or acid reflux shortly after eating something like tomato sauce … it’s the next day or even the day after that! Weird huh?

Anyway .. as I said today’s acid attack was bad. My throat still feels burnt. You know like when you throw up when your stomach is empty and all you bring up is bile and your throat feels raw afterwords? I even feel like I can smell and taste the acid.

If anyone out there has some suggestions as to how I can stop these acid attacks (non-medicinal tips and tricks) I’d love to hear it. Maybe there are some mild foods that I can eat that won’t trigger the acid? That would be good – as long as they are ones that don’t make my Crohn’s worse too.

Trying to save money but I can’t cut any more expenses

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My husband and I have been going through some rough financial times lately so we’re working hard to cut our bills. I listed a few ways that we’re cutting our expenses on my other blog if you’d care to take a look. Perhaps our list of things we’re doing to save money might help you out!

In my quest to find ways to save money I spent some time this week in the hopes of finding the best term insurance quotes while I was at it I was also looking for good prices on home and car insurance as well. As it turns out we have pretty good rates with the company that we’ve been using for the last ten years or so … so I guess I can’t cut our bills that way!

I don’t think there’s any other things that I can cut to save money. Any ideas?

Our neighborhood is changing!

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Well our new neighbors have moved in. So far so good … they seem to be quiet. Not bad considering they have three kids!


I do hope that they are better than our last – Redneck – neighbors! I’m still getting over them and I’m so happy that they moved!

Sadly I do think we’ll have another set of new neighbors in the house a few doors away from us – maybe by early next year. One of our neighbors was recently diagnosed with cancer and he was only given three months to live. He’s getting treatments for Mesothelioma but it really doesn’t look good.

Our neighborhood’s changing. When we moved in most of our closest neighbors were older … like in their ’80s! and they’d lived in the area for 40 years or so. In the last year or two we’ve had a few neighbors pass away and others move either to nursing homes or went to live with their children … My guess is that five years from now we’ll have a whole new set of neighbors and we’ll be the ones who’ve been here the longest. LOL

Is your neighborhood going through a change?

How do sick people stay in shape?

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I’m so frustrated. I keep wanting to get back into a fitness routine, but because of my Crohn’s I just can’t seem to get started.

Seriously. Right now my right side is aching so bad that I can barely walk around my house let alone think about picking up the ‘ol Kettlebell and start doing a bit of a work out.

Seriously – how does a person with a chronic illness that keeps acting up manage to stay in shape? I certainly haven’t found a way!

Luckily I was fairly active in the summer – getting out and walking more and of course doing work in my garden. Believe me … when I work in my garden it is a workout because I’ll stay out there digging and stretching over the raised garden beds until I get whatever job I’m working on done … sometimes I’m out there for eight hours at a time – even if I’m in excruciating pain! I call it extreme gardening. LOL

Now that the weather is beginning to get a little cooler I want to try to find a way to stay active and in shape indoors. Yeah I could go out and walk or even jog in the winter, but when it’s -25 Celsius out and there’s three feet of snow that’s not really the best kind of activity.

As usual I’m going to hope that this pain goes away so that I can do something that keeps me active. I certainly have enough fitness equiptment in the house to get me in shape. I just need to feel well enough to use it.

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