I just had cereal for breakfast. My milk in the fridge went bad, so I had to go and buy one of the small containers (they’re like a pint?). I wish I could keep more food in my room, but my fridge is very small, and doesn’t keep food well. Plus cereal is terrible, and terrible for you, so I don’t enjoy eating it. I feel a little sick right now. I thought I was doing well to keep cereal in my room, and a bit of milk. I eat Crisp Rice (off-brand of Rice Krispies), because the only ingredients are really rice and sugar (plus some vitamin additives). It’s good that I try to keep food in my room, so that I can eat breakfast. A lot of days I end up not doing it though (why my milk went bad, partially), because the thought of cereal disgusts me so much.
The only really good cereals to eat are completely plain. Usually this means steel-cut oatmeal, but I guess you could eat things like barley or something. I do have some steel-cut oatmeal (not in my room, at my friend’s–he has his own kitchen and an excellent fridge). I soak it overnight in water and whey (actually kefiran), and then cook it in the morning with milk and water. I add lots of honey and apple sauce and milk afterwards. It’s much tastier, and much healthier than cold cereal. Oatmeal on its own isn’t so tasty, but I add delicious things like apple sauce to it. (I know, it’s rather sugary, but at least a human body can process it properly). If I had some buttermilk or heavy cream, I might add that too. No such things in high-quality are in my area (and, I feel, for anyone who goes to the regular grocery store). I had to go to Trader Joe’s to get the really good steel-cut oatmeal.
Sometimes in my friend’s room, we eat eggs, and bacon.
I also end up eating a lot of candy and chocolate during the day because I don’t eat breakfast.
I like a lot of what I eat–I had lamb the other night, I often eat steak, grilled cheese (with real cheddar, and on sourdough of course!), toast with butter on the aforementioned sourdough bread, beet kvass, soaked oatmeal, eggs. In cooking, I use excellent sea salt (it really is better than regular salt, more tasteful).
I don’t eat many vegetables, I have some as a side with my meat sometimes. That consists of broccoli and corn. Corn isn’t great for you, but the broccoli is all right.
I haven’t been able to get good quality kefir lately, I will have to work at that to make that a little better, but I drink that too–it’s good.
That stuff isn’t perfect, of course, but it’s pretty good. Plus I got some raw cheddar cheese recently, I will be using that on my grilled cheese soon I hope. Unfortunately, none of this food lives at my house. I have to visit someone for it. I can’t keep any food of my own, which makes my eating a little tentative at times.
Here’s what I have: storage space for dry foods (anything that could go in a pantry), a bowl and spoon. I have a fridge, but it’s not very good. I shouldn’t eat unsoaked grains, which means, okay, I am willing but disappointed in having to keep fruit bars, or granola bars (and they’re rather expensive). I guess I could keep some plain yogurt, although it doesn’t keep well either (slightly better than milk, of course, because it’s already soured). Plus nobody eats plain yogurt, I might be able to keep it in the communal fridge.
If I get a can opener, I could keep some canned foods. What does that entail? I guess I’ll have to be willing to eat unsoaked beans as well (which is much easier to quit than unsoaked grains! Americans love their breads, but so rarely is it sourdough).
If I can keep bread, yogurt, and canned food like tuna, I think I’ll be able to have tuna sandwiches. Well, excellent. Hm, but I can’t eat a can of tuna in one sandwich, or even want to eat one in a day–it’ll go bad.
It’s very tricky to navigate this.
Another thought is perhaps some rice, rice is pretty good.
Dried beans, I can then soak them as I want, that would be much better. I think I could cook things in the communal kitchen. Mm, that sounds delicious–soaked rice and sprouted lentils.
I’ll have to think about these things some more, if anyone has any ideas for me (even if they include grain), let me know.
Thanks!
Monthly Archives: January 2010
I just noticed it now in the bathroom mirror–one of my clavicles is higher than the other!
I was in an accident a month ago, a car hit me while I was crossing the street (so very annoying). I suffered a hip contusion and I’d hit my shoulder on the ground also, so there was some sort of sprain thing going on there.
My shoulder has been hurting of late, but the car accident pain seemed to have gone away, I was fine for a while, and then this strange pain started up. I did some shoulder stretches, they helped some. I didn’t notice the clavicle trouble, and only then did I put two and two together–perhaps the pain in my shoulder is from my accident. Of course, this may not be the cause (consider arthritis from a poor diet, or just an extension of the stress in my neck).
Anyway, this post is not in line with my others, I am basically just asking for help here, what should I do?
I have been really tired lately. I sleep a lot. I picked up this habit over break, where I decided to sleep as much as my body would let me, with no alarm. I went to sleep when I wanted (sometimes very late, sometimes earlier) and slept as much as possible.
The reason I decided to do this was I decided that if I was sleeping so much, my body probably needed it. My sleep isn’t as restful as it should be, I think, so why not grab a few extra hours? I think I slept something between 9 and 11 hours each night.
Now what I have been doing is, back at school, I wake up in the morning, and then get exhausted by class, go to sleep from 5-8 and then go to sleep for the night at about 2am, waking up at 9:30.
I’d like to not sleep as much, I wake up like a monster, plus I do have things to do.
Part of the trouble may be that my sleep isn’t restful, as it should be. I usually collapse in a heap of exhaustion at 5pm, but because I plan to go to sleep at about 2am, I palm before going to sleep. I usually do the chart just before going to bed, and in the morning.
However, I still wake up with an aching neck, and my eyes feel really dry and sore.
I try to drink water (though not a thirst-quencher, anything else to drink is simply too sugary). I have also been trying to eat.
I wake up early enough to have breakfast, but not a great breakfast. That is, I don’t have the resources and time needed to have a good breakfast–say bacon and eggs, or at least eggs. The best I can do is rice crispy cereal (off-brand actually slightly of higher quality than the other). That is the only kind of cereal I can eat because I can’t eat any other type of grain or flour, which other cereals have.
I’m trying to eat a bit more, hoping for the food to give me more energy. Of course my breakfast isn’t great, and lunch happens after classes (or not, depending on whether I just fall asleep). Dinner tonight was good–steak and some broccoli and corn.
I think I need new activities again. I haven’t been running due to my weird schedule of sleep, but I have been doing yoga, as I ‘ve been taking a class. I keep meaning to go swimming, but again, I’m always asleep or in class when the pool is open.
It’s sort of strange how I can’t just keep repeating the same activity and keep getting a similar result. One day, yoga and reading a book is just the combination I need of relaxing for my neck to pop, and then some days it seems not to work at all.
I went weightlifting, which is a good activity for me usually, but it just wasn’t working. I think the next thing to try is swimming.
As always, these new things last for a week, maybe a month, before I have to switch it up again. Of course, I will have to keep up with the yoga for the next 2-3 months while I am enrolled in the class.
Lastly, I did find some astigmatism. I had to look at much finer and more lines than before. It’s a good improvement.
My chart work is of late being done close, at about 2 to 3 feet. I am getting flashes, and can often read 2/10, and reasonably often read 2/7. Last time I went to the eye doctor my close vision was 20/80, so this is an improvement over that.
Time to sleep! I think…
My post titles have a theme now, maybe I will keep it up. Two things, seemingly unrelated, that I will focus on. X and Y.
Well, it amuses me, in any case.
Today I did some yoga. My method of doing yoga is generally to get a tape or DVD from the library and then do it once and return it. I’ve gotten several tapes so far. I also do some of the stretches that I have memorized on my own at some points.
I got a Shiva Rea “yoga trance dance” DVD. A lot of it was just freeform dance, which is a lot of fun–just letting go and being crazy.
It is kind of hard to follow a tape, though, especially since you bend down, put your head on the ground, and can’t see what Shiva is doing anymore. Nevertheless, the left side of my neck cleared admirably afterwards. I still have a stabbing pain in my left shoulder, and my neck’s right side didn’t pop nicely like the left side. I want to get better movement in both sides, and be able to turn my head more fully to the left.
Instead of the Snellen chart (mostly), I’ve been practicing on the Tibetan wheel. It’s fun, and it’s easier in the sense that I don’t forget and force my eyes down a line. I’ve been doing that because I was thinking of how I should get rid of the little astigmatism I had. But I think that’s improved considerably. I played a little bit with some dial charts, and with plain glasses (ie, that have only myopia correction) the lines were all equivalent. In fact, they seem pretty much the same even without glasses.
I think the trouble is rather sluggishness. Good vision is quick, clears new things up quickly. But I’m slow, shifting and clearing a different-angled line isn’t as quick as it should be. Anyway, I remember a certain picture with lines on it graying more as I moved it around–now it doesn’t. I don’t know when I did this last. It might be that my slight astigmatism is not noticeable by me.
But, I would tentatively like to announce that I have improved my astigmatism to the point that I can’t find it anymore–and without even noticing what I was doing!
PS: I did a Magic Eye for the first time in my life! Also, any tips on how I could work on color vision?
