Ooh! I have that stuff :) It smells soooo good.
And you're right, the men's smells great as well.
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Ooh! I have that stuff :) It smells soooo good.
And you're right, the men's smells great as well.
I read a description of it and it sounds awesome. I got myself (no need to bother Santa) some Acqua de Gioia (I don't think that's spelled quite right). It smells like a spring day.
I freaking LOVE Aqua di Gio. Armani is awesome.
I love the men's stuff, haha. They get to smell good!
I might start buying cologne...
Hey Ladies, what's going on? Anything new?
Hiya Papaya!
Man, I'm sad I missed the curly hair convo :(
So what is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast on a weekday? On the weekend?
Do you eat breakfast at home, work, or in the car?
I'll bite...heh.
Mostly I have a blueberry muffin at work with coffee. On Fridays me and a couple of colleagues have a Sausage and Egg McMuffin with a hashbrown and hot chocolate. We take turns at buying. And then occasionally, if the mood strikes me, I'll have an egg and a slice of cheese on toast down at the cateen.
I love oatmeal and then a thick slice from a french loaf of bread with butter and strawberry jam and a vanilla coffee for breakfast, any day of the week. If we have none of those things, I usually settle for a banana. :( I eat it outside in the garden or in my room with the door open, since I had to give up my car last month because the oil pump left (it was like losing a favorite family pet) and I don't have a summer job yet (they don't want me at the mill :()
Those sound like good ways to start the day, TurquoiseSunset and Juniper. Yours in particular, Juniper, sounds kind of idyllic.
I usually eat in my car (I manage to eat at may desk a few times a week) and I am thoroughly sick of it by this time of year. I get pancakes at McDonald's one day a week, an egg mcmuffin one day a week, oatmeal or yogurt from Starbucks one day a week, etc., etc., etc. My son likes kolaches from the donut shop. I don't like to cook in the morning. I have a thirty minute commute, so I don't like to wait until I get to work to eat either. I get tired of the whole feeling of being rushed in the morning, but I know enough about myself to know I am not going to get up any earlier than I have to.
Anyway, my plan is to try to find a few things to make that are very simple, (maybe blueberry muffins!) that I can take with me. As it happens, very few of my plans work out, but we'll see. I am always optimistic about them, and I always have another one lurking on the horizon. :lurk5:
I'm sorry they don't want you at the mill, Juniper, but don't fear. Someone is going to want you.
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I love poached egg on a crusty loaf with avocado slicesQuote:
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I forgot about oatmeal. It's autumn here now, so I've only just started having it for breaksfast - it's way too hot in the summer for oatmeal. I keep instant oats at work. I have a cup of coffee and a glass of milk (for my vitamins) before I leave for work, so that keeps the hunger pangs (is that right?) at bay for a while. Also, besides a muffin you can also take a tub of yoghurt to work...Quote:
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That sounds delicious!Quote:
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My usual day-to-day breakfast is porridge (oatmeal) made with water, with dried fruit - prunes, or apricots or sultanas - stirred in with a spoonful or two of yogurt or cream, if I'm feeling extravagent. Or I have a bowl of muesli with the fruit and either yogurt or milk. If I'm pushed for time it will be a banana and yogurt.
But on high days and holidays I love fresh fruit salad followed by scrambled egg with smoked salmon (the cheap off-cuts!) with toasted seeded batch. Oh, and tea - several mugs of tea.
I usually eat breakfast in the car. This morning I had a salami sandwich, tomorrow I plan on making a mixed berry smoothie.
On weekdays (since school starts at 7:45am - which I'm done with completely after tomorrow!) I will sometimes get a bagel at the school since they're super good, or I end up skipping over it entirely. For the weekends it's usually cereal and fruit. But really, I will eat cereal for any time of the day. I love cereal.
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I know right? Last night I had cereal for dinner. Corn Pops.
I went to a spa today. Well, it was a spa trip after work. The place was more than a spa - they also cut hair and give manicures, in addition to the massages and facials and mud baths you'd get at a spa. It was like the Wal-Mart of spas. They had a large flashing sign outside - it wasn't neon but it was close. It was more like a sign you'd see at a sporting event. The place smelled like a nail salon more than anything and Delilah was on the radio. Does anybody else know about Delilah? It could just be a regional thing, but it makes me feel better to think that the Delilah show is broadcast everywhere. If you don't know about Delilah, all you really need to know about it is that you're likely to hear a Richard Marx song when she's hosting.
I went to this spa for a "Detox for Life" treatment. I'd never even heard of it, but someone else made the appointment for me and I had to try it.
I got the detox for life treatment in one of those pedicure chairs with the massage function that you can adjust with a handheld device. Something was clipped to my wrist and it was also hooked into a box that looked like an old fashioned computer (it was beige like a computer from the 80's or early 90's). I also had a belt around my waist that was hooked into the same machine. My feet were in a bucket of water with this black thing that was also hooked to the same strange, beige machine.
She added salt to the water I had my feet in and then she turned on the machine. The point of all this was to draw the toxins out of my body through my feet and into the bucket of water.
By the time the treatment was over, my feet were in a bucket full of dark orange bubbly water with an oily surface. There was also a bit of white substance floating in the water and some black specks. I got a chart explaining what each funk in the water represented.
So I guess those were the toxins in my body. Or, there could have been something in that black device that was slowly dispersed in the water and it was all a hoax. Anyway, that's what I did tonight.
@papayahed-sandwiches are very good in the morning. Although I don't do that very often, I once ate a tunafish sandwich for breakfast and, God, it just tasted so good.
@kasie, I adore real oatmeal with dried fruit. Tasty!
@Shalot: Sounds like fun. Do you feel cleaner, lighter, purified? :D
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Oh my goodness, that's sounds wonderful haha.
Spas are fun.
Spa treatments? Ha! I wish...
My good friend decided we should have a day at a spa as my birthday treat - we turned up looking forward to a day of pampering, hot stones, swimming, massage, lunch, manicure, the works. We were shown into the changing room but before we had time to do more than ooh and aah at the thick white robes, an immaculate young lady turned up with forms for us to sign. Did we have any implants? Er, yes - how about two hips and a couple of vertibrae for a start? Hmm....had we had surgery in the last twelve months? Yes - see answer to above question. Hmmm.... did we have low or high blood pressure? Yes, both, see if you can guess which one of us suffers from which. And yes, we were on medication for teh above and yes, both were under control as far as our doctors were concerned. Very sorry, ladies, we can't accept you, Health and Safety, Insurance etc, etc. You can use the pool and stay and have lunch. Oh, and you can have your manicure but the manicurist won't be here until this afternoon. My friend, usually a placid sort, went spare, why wasn't she told about these restrictions when she booked? She hadn't asked. She didn't know there was anything to ask. We decided it would be an expensive swim/lunch/manicure so she asked for (and got) a refund and we were forced, but forced, to go to Marks and Spencer to console ourselves. Alas, I shall die wondering -as far as spa treatments go, that is.
Hello everyone, I'm back! (Though no one probably even realised I was missing for several months... well, anyway :D)
Before my doctor told me I'm allergic to wheat, rye, oat and barley, I used to have oatmeal (usually with raisins) or a few slices of bread for breakfast. I really miss oatmeal and Finnish rye bread (100 % rye flour, it's dark and hard, something you really have to chew). I'm hoping I'll be able to eat them again eventually, I don't want to live the rest of my life without all my favourite foods.
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Is anyone else suffering from pollen allergy? This spring hasn't been half as bad as last year, but it's still giving me a hard time.
I used to have a variety of things: muesli and yoghurt, bread and jam, knäckbröd and jam or anything sweet, frappè, cold chocolate etc
Now I have sometimes nothing, sometimes bread and jam, and coffee (Polish style).
Coffee is always on the menue though.
@Annamariah, welcome back! I'm sorry to hear that you have a food allergy. I think it would be terribly difficult not to eat a food I loved. I adore oatmeal with raisins. What do you eat for breakfast now?
@Kiki, what brought about the change in your eating habits? Bread and jam is an excellent breakfast, especially a really good bread. I think I might hear the sound of music while eating that. :)
@Kasie, I'm sorry. At least you had some consolation. Could you treat yourselves to a massage?
Usually either fried eggs or some gluten-free cereal (which is three times as expensive as the regular kind...). I'm allergic to pretty much all fruit and vegetables as well, so my options are few. I used to eat rice porridge too, but I got so sick and tired of it that I haven't had any for a while. It's Christmas food, anyway :D Some days I don't have actual breakfast but eat an early lunch instead.Quote:
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The biggest problem of this diet is that because of having so many allergies I'm sick and tired with most of the things I can eat, yet I'm constantly hungry. I also don't want to go to strange places or travel, because finding something I can eat is pretty difficult. And grain-free special products are hideously expensive, yet most of them taste rather bad!
Your allergic to most fruits and vegetables, too!!!! That seems a bit unfair, doesn't it?
When I think of it, my own diet is fairly limited, but it's by choice. I'm looking to expand it this summer by familiarizing myself with an understanding of places to buy and simple recipes. They have to be simple. I don't really like cooking, and I find complicated recipes confusing.
Maybe we can contribute some ideas or recipes for you that will broaden your choices a little.
From when I was a child to the time I left home at 19, I had to eat something in the morning because it was policy at home ;). Then I left home and I still had breakfast out of habit, until I figured that bread was a bit stupid to buy for myself as it got bad earlier than I could eat it and my husbnad took breakfast on the way to work. Then I figured I wasn't exactly hubgry in the morning but just ate because... so I decided that I would eat when hubgry. Sometimes I am hungry, sometimes not, so I eat what I want when I want. Even if that is at 11 o'clock and it is spaghetti from the day before, cold... :) Actually I am not that strange because for centuries, people have lived like that.
We make our own bread in our bread machine too. Sooo nice. ;)
For years I did not have breakfast because I was always in a hurry leaving the house but now I try to have something even though only a cereal bar... And I think I feel better for it.
No more mid-morning hunger attacks or big lunches.
Yeah, qimissung, being allergic to pretty much everything seems unfair. Since I haven't been able to eat most fruit and vegetables for over 15 years now, I've gotten used to it. It's the grain-free thing that's driving me nuts, because it means no bread, no porridge, no pasta, no pizza, no cookies... Except for the grain-free special ones that are hideously expensive and don't taste half as good as regular ones :P
At least I'd rather skip lunch than breakfast. I don't feel good if I don't eat something in the morning (though especially now that it's hard to find anything to eat, that happens every now and then, yet I always regret it later).
Kiki, I felt like that about bread too at first when I moved out and started living alone, but then I realised that I could always put most of the bread in the freezer and only leave as much as I would eat in a couple of days. After eating all those I'd take some more out of the freezer before going to bed so it would be unfrozed in the morning :)
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Gimmisung - thanks for your sympathy!! Yes, we consoled ourselves with blueberry pancakes in M&S's cafe (with a particularly dishy waiter - we never behave when we're together..) and a browse round the ladies' wear dept. My friend bought me a special 'going out for the evening' top which is nice because whenever I wear it I think of her and remember our disastrous day with a smile. It had started with us having hysterics because she was having her driveway re-laid and the heavy overnight rain had flooded it and we couldn't get out of the house: she could, because she had wellies but I couldn't until the workmen arrived and laid a series of stepping stones through the flood water and chivalrously led me by the hand to the road which was dry, all the water having drained down the drive. I bought wellies later in the day - flowery ones because I was feeling really frivolous and light-headed with laughing by that time. And yes, I've had massages, one while I was in China, from a tiny lady who looked as if she might fly away if you blew on her but who had fingers of steel - I felt sooo good after her ministrations! And I have a good friend who is a masseuse (and accupuncturist - that's - hmm- an interesting treatment, and it works, too) and she has given me both lower body massages which do my poor old hips and knees a power of good and upper body massages which help my shoulders and leave me wonderfully clear-headed. Think I might book myself a session with her - just thinking about it makes me feel the need!
Annamariah - I'm more than a little puzzled about your diet - if you can't eat fruit, veg or cereals, what do you eat?? Dairy and meat? No wonder you are bored by food!
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Oh man. That must be hard!Quote:
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Annamariah, I really feel it for you!
Since I got pregnant [I'm now at 15weeks] I haven't been able to eat much, if any, meat. Dairy and eggs are alright, but highly seasoned foods are off the list. Most times I just have a microwave potato.
But fruits are my one craving - now I feel extremely blessed to be able to eat fruits.
Most days I have absolutely no appetite whatsoever to eat, and I feel so upset, plus with the acid reflux - I never want to eat, but then I know I must for the sake of the baby.
And knowing that you can't eat all these things jsut makes me sad.
I hope and pray that you find a reprieve from your allergies.
I want to go to an accupunturist...I'm curious. And if it works, well that's a bonus. So you said it was interesting...does it hurt or sting or anything?Quote:
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I had acupuncture done once...on my ears of all places!
And let me tell you, if you suffer from tension ehadaches or migraines, it does wonders for it.
What I realised afterwards is that if you have a headache, or neck pain, you can always massage your ears, ear lobes, and the bones behind your ears, and this relieves the tension and pain. [and take it from me - a woman who wears the scarf and who gets earaches all the time - the ear massage works! You can do it yourself, or better yet, get someone to do it for you]
My husband had had a terrible knee injury, with which he could not kneel down. He got acupuncture done, and he was able to use his knee well after that. That was last October, and up to now he is able to kneel to pray.
Also, depending on the problem area, it will take a couple sessions of the acupuncture.
Now I have to try it. Will report back when I find one around here. My husband got in a car accident and he often has pain in his shoulder now, and he started getting massage therapy for that, and it helps. He also noticed that he had fewer headaches - in fact, he realized that he was just sort of living with constant aching. I wonder if accupuncture would help any of his problems. It's strange - usually we reach for a pill, but it's interesting to find that just taking an hour or less to get a different kind of therapy, like accupuncture or massage therapy can be helpful (and maybe not as dangerous as some of the medications).
No, it doesn't hurt at all (at least with a good practitioner is doesn't) and I'm needle-phobic, so that's saying something! My friend talked gently the whole time she was placing the needles (down my leg, it was to treat a knee problem) and I suspect she was partly hypnotising me because she said 'Don't be surprised if you fall asleep' and I did. I admit I was a bit sceptical but something, the acupuncture or the massage or the hypnosis, really helped and while the problem didn't disappear - it's arthritis rather than an injury that will heal - the pain certainly lessened and I had more movement in the joint. My friend was impressed that I had already found some acupressure points to relieve pain for myself - gripping the wrist to relieve thumb pain (more arthritis), pinching the bridge of the nose or massaging behind the ears to relieve headaches, massaging the side of the knee to help hip pain. She taught me some more but the only one I remember is pinching the fleshy part between finger and thumb, another headache one.Quote:
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You're right about seeking cures other than a pill, Shalot - I'm a great believer in alternative therapies. An osteopath gave me huge relief from hip pain for something like ten years because I was too young to be considered for joint replacement ops.He also worked wonders on my aching feet because, he said, I had once sprained my ankle and had not recognised the fact so had not sought treatment, so he worked away - and that did hurt but, oh the bliss when I stood up and there was no more pain in my feet!
Hey Kasie!
It's good that you're getting alternative treatment for the arthritis, and decreasing the cause for medication.
My aunt has been suffering from arthritis for years, and she's a firm believer in tablets - I think she probably took every medication that there is for arthritis.
Unfortunately, for the past month she's been in the hospital, suffering from all the side effects from those tablets. She needed blood, and blood platelets, just so that her body could now respond to the new medication that they're giving her.
My advice to everyone out there - man or woman - of you can prevent an illness, it's the best thing, or if you find an alternative treatment for it, please try it, as long as it's not fishy business.
The massage is really good for the arthritis. You can even try aqua-aerobics, or pilates, or tai-chi.
Congratulations, Tournesol, on your pregnancy. Fortunately you will feel better soon and will be able to eat more normally. It's all for a good cause! :)Quote:
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Sorry to hear about your aunt, Tournesol - hope she is on the road to recovery now. I am not allowed anything with ibuprofen in it as I am (mildly) asthmatic so I guess I have never become dependent on tablets for that reason but when everything throbs in the middle of the night, it is very tempting to reach for the pill bottle. If I move house, I plan to join my friend at her tai-chi group.
Congratulations on the baby - please keep us posted.