Insomnia Cure???

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:22:48 GMT

I have lost 6.5 pounds in the last nine days.

I have been sleeping really well every.single.night. Asleep before 1:30 and up by 9:30 with no need for naps. You guys KNOW this is a huge, HUGE thing for me if you know me at ALL.

My emotional stability is the best its been in a good long while (thanks in large part to the ability to SLEEP).

I'm feeling more motivated and positive about things. Feeling good about myself.

I'm a little unhappy about the fact that this came about by basically giving up sugar and grains. :(

I'm doing the Keto diet, which seems to work so well for me. Low carb has always been the way I feel best, and the keto diet adds an even higher percentage of fat, so it is even easier for me to do. I'm actually having a bit of a hard time getting all of my calories in because I find this food to be so freaking filling and the lack of carbs has taken away my cravings.

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Well, here I am.

Sun, 16 Apr 2017 15:46:35 GMT

Not that I have a lot to say, yet, I just wanted to make a post and see how this space is any different. Now I suppose I need to go find my friends from Livejournal :)

Anyway, for those who are new... ummmm... I don't know how to sum myself up.

I'll make a list, those are my favorite, when I'm not verbally vomiting 1,000 words on a page because EMOTIONS.

1. I cuss like a sailor.
2. I'm a reluctant/spontaneous adventurer. (Just spent a year+ living on a sailboat with my husband and some of the kids, traveling through Florida and the Bahamas)
3. I've been married for almost 23 years. Most of those years have been awesome. We've recently come through some pretty hard fucking times, but we're solid. Sometimes I bitch about my husband because this is my venting place. Regardless, he's an incredible man and I can't imagine anyone better.
4. I have five kids (plus a son in law, two grandkids AND an extra 'kid of my heart' who might as well be one of my own as well. They all come second in my priority list after my husband, even though most of them are adults and don't live at home, we see each other often and I'd say we're pretty damn close.
5. I hate normalcy, but at the same time, I'm incredibly lazy and finances stress me THE FUCK out after growing up and then spending the first two+ decades of my adult life barely eeking by (or not, as the case may be) so I tend to vacillate a lot on whether to take adventures or not (or I had no choice, because we were broke as hell).
6. I am a creative soul. I need to do something creative OFTEN or I go crazy. I am a writer, actress, singer and bizarrely enough, I've now started a tradition of writing and recording rap songs for my kids birthdays. Because, why the fuck not?

What else do you want to know? Oh yeah, 7. I'm a fairly open book and don't mind sharing things, especially with other people who tend to share their own lives as well.

Witness: The (2nd) Rap Song (there are also random funny family videos and whatnot on there as well, if you're a true stalker)

8. I am insanely proud of my kids, maybe not always when they're being assholes (which I can fully admit they do) but I support them and their endeavors. This is my youngest daughter's YouTube channel. She taught herself the guitar and ukulele and has finally started sharing some of her original music!

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MsByn

Insomnia Cure???

Well, here I am.