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!

It’s been awhile since I last wrote, but I got so busy.  I’m all done now with the classwork I needed to do ahead of my Vancouver trip, so that I wouldn’t fall behind.  I did two chapters of PHP and one chapter of CSS, worked on Jessica Lee’s website and discovered the world twice over.  Now I can truly say I have lived!                         … the life of a computer geek.

One week til I leave for Vancouver!!! I’m so excited.   We’re all having a party at Clairessa’s place in downtown Vancouver on Halloween.  That’s going to be super fun.  I’m going to be a bum this year and not make a costume.  There just isn’t the time or money unfortunately… it would cause me too much stress.  Boo… I know.  Next year I’ll make two costumes and do a wardrobe change in the middle of the evening to make up for it.

What I’m really focusing on right now is Jessica Lee’s website, which has to be perfect.   I really want it to be something special that people will enjoy shopping at.  I’m having a little web designer/developer trepidation that it will take me too long to make the website or that the shopping cart will turn out to be a nightmare.  Lots of nagging uncertain thoughts.  That is why this is doubly important for me to finish and do well – then I won’t feel this way ever again!

It has not all been work lately though – Ryan and I went to the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride.  It was the first time for both of us, so we didn’t know what to expect.  Now that I’ve had the experience I think that I would like very much to go on a hayride again, but the haunted part was just ‘meh’.  I really loved sitting in fresh hay in a flatbed trailer with a bunch of happy strangers getting pulled around all over the place.  That’s an experience I would like to explore.  The scary part was not super scary and I didn’t like all the performers screaming so close to me, it was grating.  I get much more scared when I’m at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights and I’m walking around and someone jumps out at me when I least suspect it.   I should be going there in the next few days.

Pacifica Air is still toodling along.  We’re still waiting for our certificate to mature, which means we can submit our stuff to the FAA and do proving runs.  There’s been a few small aviation business deals we’ve done while we’re waiting, but it’s all very tenuous until the money is in your account.  Aviation is not a very dependable or forthright industry.

For courses I’m taking classical guitar, woo hoooo! Also, CSS(cascading style sheets) because it’s not enough to know how to use Adobe Dreamweaver to create a website, if you don’t have a good understanding of CSS then you’ve only got a very rudimentary ability to create webpages. I am not okay with that. Both these courses combined will only take up two nights of my week, so I think I can handle it with my workflow for Pacifica. At least I hope so, I feel so defeated when I have to drop a course.

The above photo is from three years ago, but it seems so much longer than that in my memory. I was in Miami and I remember thinking I was fat. Ha! I’m on the steps of the Vizcaya mansion, which if you’re in Miami is worth seeing and not much is.

I have some excellent news and some not so excellent news. The latter is that Ryan got called to fly earlier today and so I’m all alone again – waaaaaaa! Supposedly he’s home tomorrow night, but that often doesn’t happen. *heavy sigh* :/ Don’t think I’m being complacent though, we’re working on starting our own charter company, so that we can fly together! I suppose that will be fun, spending every living breathing moment together.

Ick! My hands have been so sweaty lately I can barely type. Sorry for the gross visual, but it’s driving me nuts. Maybe cuz it’s so hot lately? Maybe the green tea I’m drinking? Maybe because I’m alive and have hands? Who can truly say?

The excellent thing is really two things: 1) my moccasins arrived in the mail as did my gel skins for my G1, and 2) I was able to put my earring back in it’s hole, it didn’t close over after all! Now it doesn’t have to be repierced, which wudda been a hassle and hurt a lot. Plus, I was very worried, with no just cause, that it would be pierced asymmetrically from my other ear piercing and that sort of thing bothers me.

So, these are the mocs that I got. I realize this sort of Native American fashion isn’t for everyone, but my Mom really detests it and I think that makes it more appealing to me. Hehehe! I do really love my huge yummy furry mukluks in the winter and I was missing being able to wear them in the Summer, so this was my answer to the problem. They are super comfy to wear and it only takes a bit of delusion to think you look kinda cute in them too.