Cookbooks I Love

  • Good Eats, the Early Years by Alton Brown
  • Vegetarian Cooking
  • Vegetarian Times Complete Cookbook
  • Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison
  • Veganomicon The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero
  • Healthy Indian Cooking by Shehzad Husain
  • Vegetarian Times, Low-Fat and Fast

Monday, January 4, 2010

To medicate or meditate, that is the question.

The answer is both. Sadly the healthy diet has not kicked in enough to thwart these awful migraines. It's getting tiresome and no doubt the complaining is too. I'm getting a little frustrated at having headaches for so many days in a row. It used to be when I woke up headache free it was a big sigh of relief because I knew it was a free pass for the day. Not so anymore. Waking up sans headache is no longer a free pass. Quite often I get through part of my day only to have a sudden onset migraine. Consequently I live on the precipice of panic.
                                                                                               
I crawled out of bed with a whimper this morning with some residuals of yesterday's headache afloat in my head. After my gentlemen husband left for work I went back and rested for an hour or so and crawled out again and popped a few Excedrin Migraine.  I practically had to force myself to start my day but I made it through  and ended on a high note. I cleaned and organized my office, sorted through the bills, paid a few, and created a sewing room in the spare bedroom. Oh yeah, I worked on cakes too. I'm gloriously satisified with my accomplishments and hoping that today's events may help me to relax and sleep well tonight. Last night I was very restless and awake for most of the night. Ridiculous.

I have quite a few pieces of fabric and looking through them was so much fun. I love fabric and have many projects in the works, a quilt, an outfit, curtains and chair cushion covers for a slider rocker I purchased at the local thrify establishment for just a few bucks. The BUTTONS were amazing and I have so many!!! As a child I used to spend hours sorting through my Mother's button jar and found myself enjoying it just as much today.

I suppose sorting and classifying is a type of meditation for me. There were rick racks, elastics, spools of thread, an ecclectic assorment of needles and pins, miniature tools, tape measures and a stack of multi colored fat quarters that I could just cozy up to all day long. These are all good things. I relaxed I feel good and there's a nice aroma of vegan wholegrain mostaciolli coming from the oven. I'm hungry and heartily satisfied at today's events. I hope it lasts. There's a little something clustering in my head but I'm hoping some hot food and warm cuddle will keep it at bay.

In the meantime check out Livestrong.com and we'll chat about it tomorrow.

All the best, Kate

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