If you were in Japan at this moment, inside the Volks Super Dollfie store, it would not be unusual for you to see a grown man buying one of the beautifully sculpted two-feet tall Super Dollfie dolls.  Obviously that’s not normal here in North America, but different cultures have very differing attitudes toward dolls.  Both the Asian and Mexican cultures have a very strong interest in dolls.  If you go to flickr.com and search for pictures of dolls almost all the comments on the pictures are by Latina women!  I’ve collected dolls in some form or another my whole life.  When I was little girl it was mainly Barbies, then up to recently it was Takara Blythe dolls.  I bought my first Blythe doll on a trip to Japan – it was love at first sight and I faithfully collected Blythes until I was browsing for Blythe photos online and came across a picture of the most gorgeous work of art! A Volks Super Dollfie named Chinatsu!   After that first sighting it was only a matter of time until I got my own Super Dollfie – she’s the Yo-SD named Suzuna.  The ‘Yo’ in Yo-SD means ‘infant’ in Japanese because the Yo-SDs are smaller and younger looking than either the Mini SDs, SDs, or SD13s.  They are also the cutest.

The Super Dollfies have so stolen my heart that I will not be collecting the Takara Blythes anymore.  I’d like to focus all my attention on the Super Dollfies and since the SDs are really expensive and I need the shelf real-estate I think I will sell my Blythe collection.  That is going to be a ton of work.

To give you a little taste of what the Blythes are like here are some cute videos Blythe enthusiasts made.

I took the liberty of watching just about every Blythe video I could find as a last goodbye.  Here are the best of them.

This is the photo I put on the background of my new Zune HD.  Am I loving the new Zune HD?  I am not.  I don’t like that I can’t put a background on the main page anymore and I don’t like that the screen is less wide even though it is longer and I don’t like that I’m having a really hard time putting mp4s onto it!!!  Raaaaaaawwwwwwr!!!!!!

Boo.  If only I created everything in the world things would work perfectly.

It is at least better than the Archos 5 Internet Tablet that I bought on the way up to Vancouver.  I bought it in Sacramento and then I returned it a week later in Tacoma.  Nothing worked on it.  Although the screen was bigger.  The fact that nothing worked like it should AND they had zero technical support was too much to bear.  I returned it to the Tacoma location of Best Buy as a punishment to it.  Harsh perhaps, but I want my technology to work as promised!

Vancouver was fun, especially Halloween at Clairessa’s place.  I brought a big cheese/deli meats/crackers platter and several bottles of Malbec, which is my wine of the moment.  I also brought my board games collection – we played ‘Apples to Apples’ and ‘Imaginiff’ -those are some of my favourite games.  Michael won ‘Apples to Apples’ and I don’t recall if we ever finished ‘Imaginiff’, we may have been pretty sauced.  In the photos it shows us with shots of Patron while the game is still laid out, so I’m guessing that things went astray…

I have to confess that I’m SICK of the food I’ve been eating lately.  SO SICK OF IT.  I tried to eat scrambled eggs yesterday and it was all I could do to keep from throwing up.  My body does not want them in it.  And I agree.  Eggs are for throwing at houses and making smiley faces in the frying pan with.

Where does this leave me…………………………………………………………………..?

After an existential breakdown I gathered myself together and re-evaluated.  I do still believe that low-carb, high protein and fats is the way to go, but something is not right because I DETEST eating this food!  Je deteste! Je refuse!

I’m sick of cheese, yogurt, bacon, various other meats, nuts, and chili.  The only low-carb approved food that I still enjoy is steak and milk.  Oh! and whipped cream.  But I have neither the time nor the inclination to char a Chicago-style steak everyday.  Plus, something tells me that would get old really quick too.

This doesn’t make sense.  It doesn’t make sense to hate food that is ideal for you.  It really doesn’t make sense that the more you ate the healthy food the more it would make you want to throw up.  That cannot be natural.

Here’s my guess: both Ryan and I are getting canker sores, ulcers, and heartburn.  Yes, he’s eating the exact same as me.  It’s pretty obvious that our acid levels are off the charts.  Maybe the millet grain in that cereal that I was eating was enough to reduce the pH to levels where my body could still handle eating all that protein from the eggs and almonds at lunch.  I thought milk was fairly alkaline, but it’s not.  Everything I’m eating now is pretty acidic.  I bought some bread at Whole foods that is just made with millet, amaranth, salt, and water.  It’s actually fairly tasty.  Millet is a very old grain that Europeans have been eating for millenia.  I mention this because I’m from European descent and I think it’s safe to assume that if your ancestors were eating it then your body will know better how to process it.  So, if you’re asian or arab etc… then you can probably healthfully eat different foods than I can.  So, Ryan and I researched what grains have been around for eons for Europeans and the answer is millet, barley, and oats.  Rye too, but I don’t like rye.

My plan now is to eat a small amount of millet, barley, or oats everyday along with my regular low-carb foods.  I did that starting today and it was refreshing to actually have some energy at the gym.  My other complaint about the 100% protein & fat diet was that I had noooooo energgggggggggy.  That actually made it super hard to lose weight since I had no energy to work out.

It’s important to point out that there is no yeast in that bread I bought.  It is my belief that yeast is not good for you.  There are many articles I’ve read on the detriment of yeast to your body and honestly it is just. really. gross.

In conclusion:  It was so nice to have buttered bread with my eggs and it did make them not only tolerable, but pleasant.  Also, I finally had the sensation of being satiated, which I just wasn’t getting from eating only meat and dairy.  This simple type of bread also filled me up and did not cause me to crave more carbs or mess with my blood sugar levels.  I stayed full for the rest of the day.  I’ll let you know if this works!