Averygoodun's Personal File

While I've spent most of the evening on the computer researching negotiating start prices for cars (I spent the daytime hours doing homework (I want a day off)), I decided to look up the validity of my rant the other day about fenugreek. It occurred to me that it's possible that fenugreek is a polysaccharide in structure, thereby making it very difficult for the impaired GI to digest, even when it's been pulverized.

So I looked up it's chemical structure, and, ya know, it looks more like a steroid than a carbohydrate to my ignorant eyes. I mean, compare it to cholesterol or vitamin D. In essence, it has the same core structure. Yeah, fenugreek expands on it rather a lot through branching, but at the heart it's four fused hydrocarbon rings like the other steroids. (Here's amylose, a starch molecule, for comparison.)

Granted, I am a novice (who is still trying to wrap her mind around atomic orbitals and bonding), so I could be WAY off base.

So that makes me wonder if Mrs. Gottschall saw steroids as indigestible along with starches. She had little problem with the other lipids, though...

( Read more... )

Right. Two and a half hours left till I pick up the guys. I will kick that irresponsibility to the curb and repot the swedish ivies do laundry start dinner STUDY. Namely, research.

Oh, IFBS/FASB convergence project, why do you have to be so... uninspiring?

*sigh*

*waves mournfully**(with an amused smirk)*

See you on the other side (of the weekend, that is).

( Diet explanation )

Well, I've been on the expanded version of this diet, more or less, since December. It has helped a heck of a lot staying off of all starches and most sugars (honey being a godsend of an antibacterial sweet). I've gone through a good deal of detoxing in these past months, so I wasn't really prepared to be slammed with fatigue and brain fog for this round of detoxing.

But, yeah, I've been slammed.

Every now and again it lifts. I wrote over 2000 words and figured out how to solve a problem with my outline in a couple of those respites. That was awesome.

Then the fog sets in, and... I'm dumb again. I very nearly lost all of those 2000 words (a complete chapter) because I did something screwy when modifying and saving the story. I have no idea what. I can't remember which draft has what changes, so I need to read through everything again and again and again and again. If I'm suffering from fatigue as well, that makes everything take that much longer because I fall asleep in the middle (or beginning or end) and then need to reread what I read before because I need a refresher before I can (maybe) move forward.

And my complaint is that I don't know whether I'm suffering from detox or if I'm reacting. Because god knows my system is overly reactive. I could be reacting to something in the beef. It could be a reaction to the grape juice. Or the chemicals on the grapes... It could also, in the best case scenario, just be the bugs dying off which means it will lift soon and leave me feeling more energetic and healthy. But, it will be at least a few days before I know which is which.

Which is a few days too many in my book.

It will lift, and it should lift soon. But golldarnit, I'm tired of being tired.

I should be making chicken stock, (pomegranate or black cherry?) jello and/or roasted squash right now. However, the roast chicken doesn't have to go into the oven until 3:30, and I figure I can probably stall till then... Without trying very hard.

( Geoff )

My ear is overcrowded. I want it to kick out the interlopers and get on with draining, as the neighboring sinuses are starting to complain.

Mucus aside, ( gross digression ), I actually had a bounce in my step this morning! An hour and a half of running around and doing errands kinds wore it down to a mild vibration, but I do think I'm on the upswing, now. Assuming my ear drains.

( No sugar tonight in my coffee... )

My computer has been annoying me lately. I'm up to date on all the updates, but I can't view videos. Or rather, I can view videos if I have supreme patience. It takes forever for even a short video to buffer (that Snape personal ad took three minutes to buffer the one minute clip!) and then, with longer videos, it stops to buffer every two minutes! AAAAHH!

I've done several scans and no spyware seems to have latched on, and the (rebooted) router says it's going great guns, but... It's most annoying. Streaming is completely out until this gets fixed, and neither Geoff nor I know how to fix it. Ah well.

( Knitting for Aeternitas )

Aaaaaand, that's about it. I'm sure I could blather on longer, but the laundry is actually calling to me, as is my unmade bed.

"Elizzzzaaaaabeeethhhh!" they whisper tantalizingly, "Come tennnnnnd tooooo meeeeeeeeee!"

You know you've been ill too long when the thought of doing chores is exciting. :-D

Ciao.

Geoff and I spent the better part of three hours today blanching three pounds of almonds. I now understand why almond flour is so damned expensive. On the plus side, we have nearly three pounds of almond flour for $10, which is approximately a third the price of commercial almond flour. But, oi. I wonder how long it will take for the bits of almond and skin to be pushed out of my thumb's quick...


Life here is so frikken busy. And slightly discouraging. I feel like I'm constantly cleaning up the kitchen, probably because I am constantly cooking. Chicken stock here, beef stock there, and all the meals in-between means dishes and dishes and dishes to do.

Yes, I have a dishwasher that works, which I'm thankful for, but goodness gracious, I am getting tired of the kitchen. And this weekend Geoff is sick and sad, so he's not going to be helping. (We found out last night that one of his friends from college died in August from an enlarged heart. It's actually really sad to think that she's not in the world any more, even if she never did really fit into it in the first place. Hmm. Maybe that's why I'm taking the news so hard.)

Ach well. I signed up for this new lifestyle, and I think it is helping in the health department. I just am tired and cranky right now, because I haven't been able to sit and enjoy my alone time since my parents left. It doesn't help that there is so much bad news in the world today. It makes it feel like the world really is going to hell, and the end of days is nigh. I doubt it is, but all the metaphorical circling of wagons is surely leading to something.

*sigh* I wish the Age of Aquarius would just get here already. I'm tired of the transition.


I hope all of you are having good weekends, anyway. Mine will probably improve tomorrow.