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I think I’m afraid to cruise

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Have you ever gone on one of those caribbean cruises? I’ve always wanted to, but I’ve been hesitant.

Why?

Well the idea of being out on the water for that long bothers me for some reason. I can swim. I’m not afraid of water at all. In fact I often say that I was born in a canoe (not literally!). I’ve been a canoist all my life, but it’s mostly been on creeks, rivers and lakes. I’ve also white water canoed and rafted.

So yeah, I’m not afraid of water. I think I’m just afraid of open water. The ocean.

I know it’s irrational. Cruise ships travel at night and dock in different ports during the day letting passengers out to visit whatever island their docked in for the day. So it’s not like I’d be out in the middle of nowhere on the water for a week or two.

One day I will go on a Caribbean cruise. I did promise my sister when she was sick that I would, so I have to. I’m just nervous about it.

Anyone else feel that way about cruises?





Strange names for supplements

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Speaking of diet products, nutritional products and even protein drinks …

After my last post I went looking to see just how many different products I could find and the most unusually name for a supplement that I found was “muscle milk”. Isn’t that a strange name for a product? I guess it makes sense though as it’s a protein drink.

I don’t think I’ve taken any supplements with strange names. Ok, well I did try Cat’s Claw in the past. I guess that’s an odd name, especially when you know that it’s a natural product that helps digestive disorders. Hmmm claws huh?

What’s the strangest named supplement or medicine that you’ve tried?

Everyone’s on a diet but me

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Just about everyone I know seems to be on a diet these days. Actually I think most of these people have tried a number of different diets over the last few years. It’s amazing how many different types of diets and diet philosophies there are out there isn’t it?

Just as amazing is the amount of diet and weight loss related products. There’s ones like Miracle burn that I presume is supposed to help you burn calories or fat faster, and then there are protein supplements and so on.

Having Crohn’s I don’t diet. My weight fluctuates a fair amount. I’ve generally been more on the thin side than the heavy side as I suppose I have a good metabolism and well the Crohn’s symptoms have a tendency to keep the weight off too.

Actually, since I’ve been stuck at home for close to two years and not very active at all I’ve actually managed to gain some weight, a little more than I like due to all that inactivity. I don’t eat much and in fact can’t eat very main foods so it’s gotta be the inactivity.

I’m not worried about it though. Sometimes when my Crohn’s disease really flares up bad I can barely eat or else the food that I do eat goes right through me so there’s been times when I’ve lost more than 40 pounds in two weeks! When I didn’t need to lose that much.

That’s mostly what I meant when I said my weight fluctuates. I’ll maintain for a while and then have a huge drop due to this terrible disease. So I’m not too bothered by having a little extra weight right now because I know that sometime in the near future it will just drop off when my Crohn’s gets even worse. The tiny bit of extra weight that I have on me right now might even help me get through a bad bad flare.

Planning our kitchen remodel

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I want to bounce an idea off of you.

We’re planning our kitchen renovation. The reno won’t happen for a while, but it’s good to plan.

Our kitchen is fairly small. Maybe 18 feet long by 10 feet wide. Since our kitchen is on the small side, and since we tend to eat either in the living room, I’m ashamed to say while watching TV, or in the dinning room at a very nice dinning room table we really don’t need a kitchen table.

I have two ideas.

One is to knock out part of the wall between the kitchen and dinning room. It would end up looking like an open rectangular window with a nice counter on it. I thought perhaps that we could set that area up as a breakfast nook with bar stools in front of it. We could sit there and eat, or if we were entertaining a guest or two could sit on a bar stool and talk to me while I work in the kitchen.

My other idea is to leave the kitchen walls intact, but to get a cupboard, perhaps on wheels, that would most often be near the kitchen window but that could be used moved around the kitchen and used as extra counter space if necessary. I guess it would be a movable kitchen island? I could even have some really nice folding chairs that I could store in the corner of the room and if we wanted to we could sit at this nice cupboard/ kitchen island if we wanted to.

What do you think of those ideas? If you had a small kitchen and were faced with those choices which one would you pick?

Dressing up animals and people too!

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Dog in rain gear

Don’t you find it strange how people love to dress their dogs and cats and sometimes even other pets in clothing? As if they’re trying to make their pet more human? I mean, does a dog really need a rain coat? Really?

I can see the little booties that people buy for their dogs feet. I live in a cold climate and our city used to put salt pellets on the roadways in the winter to melt the snow and ice. Now they use something artificial and more environmentally friendly, but still, those pellets can cut up a dogs paws. So yeah, I can understand the doggie booties, but that’s about it.

Then, when we want to dress up and have some fun we often rent or buy animal costumes. Isn’t that funny. We make our pets look human yet we want to look like animals.

Isn’t that strange?

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