Day 21

I was up pretty late last night, after I finally got off the computer I took my “detox” bath. I didn’t get into bed until after 1am. I used baking soda [affiliate link] last night. I used Epsom salts for several nights in a row, then vinegar and last night the baking soda. I am really loving these baths. I make sure to take something with me to read, I have a light set up over the tub since the bathroom is very dim over there. Then I just turn out the bathroom light and it’s very cozy. I would use candles, but I don’t like breathing what they put into the air, especially if they have any scent to them.

Today I had leftovers from yesterday. I slept until around 8am and then laid in bed for another hour talking on the phone with my mom. A luxury I have been unable to indulge in the last 8 or so years. However, since my back has stopped stiffening up, I can do things like that now. I was still tired, I guess, but didn’t want to sleep any longer so called my mom to talk for a while to wake myself up. For many years I was a night owl. When we moved out to the country that all changed because I had to be to work by 7am. I had to leave at 5:30am to get there by 7am, so about three years ago I changed my hours to start at 6am and now the drive is only one hour. There is a marked difference in the amount of traffic from 6am to 7am.

On Wednesday, I went to Joann’s, looking for some brown yarn to match the sweater my hubby bought me. I was hoping to knit some pockets and attach them to the sweater. It is a lovely brown, one of the long sweaters. Also no belt, so I thought I might just knit a belt too. I must have been there close to an hour, walking through the aisles, looking closely at every shade of brown. I ended up leaving the store empty handed, but the most incredible thing was my feet didn’t hurt! I went to a grocery store once I got into town, and then I went to Walmart and walked around that big store, picking up a couple of last minute gifts for my family. My feet still didn’t start hurting! This is nearly like a miracle to me.

I don’t know if I have mentioned this yet, but I had noticed a couple of months ago when I get up in the middle of the night I moaned and groaned from the aching of my body and my feet hurting. I thought to myself how awful it must sound, like I’m an 80 year old woman, and I wondered if I could remember to stop moaning and groaning. Anyway, since I’m no longer in pain from *sleeping* and my feet aren’t super sensitive when I walk on them, I am not moaning when I wake up at night.

My feet were so bad for a while, after the Taebo incident, that I had to wear shoes any time I put my feet on the floor. Even during the middle of the night to get up to pee!

Let’s see, food for the day. I ate leftover standing rib roast. I ate it cold, it was rare and tasted sublimely, decadently delicious. I had a leftover piece of classic drop biscuit, it was good even dried out a little bit. I had an avocado. Trying to remember what else. I did indulge in taking a nap today.

For dinner I tried to make Elana Amsterdam’s Salmon Dill Burgers from her book The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook. I don’t like dill, and don’t care for lemon zest, two ingredients called for in the recipe. I have tried over the years to add ingredients that I don’t like to recipes, and end up not liking the recipes, so I usually leave them out. My patties didn’t stay formed in 1/4″ inch chunks, so I will probably process the ingredients together if I try them again. Along with the salmon chunks, I had what was left of the Faux-tatoes and the Butternut Squash Puree. I also had about a tablespoon of Bubbies sauerkraut.

I think I’ll take an Epsom salts bath tonight. I finished reading Dr. Campbell-McBride’s and Baden’s Gut and Psychology Syndrome and GAPS Guide, and am now reading The Hot Flash Club. I ordered Crazy Aunt Purl’s second book Home Is Where the Wine Is: Making the Most of What You’ve Got One Stitch (and Cocktail!) at a Time on Tuesday, hopefully it will get here on Monday. I didn’t know she had a sequel! I also loved her first book Crazy Aunt Purl’s Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair: The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit After He Split.

I am beginning to drink Bubbies sauerkraut juice, and eat a mouthful or two each day of sauerkraut.

I finally got around to starting a batch of sauerkraut. I did a pretty big head and it’s only going to make about one quart! This is a half gallon jar. I don’t know why but my cabbage never gets juicy enough to cover the cabbage so today I boiled some water, let it cool and added some salt, and poured in about half a cup so the cabbage would be covered nicely. It has to sit out for several days, and it is pretty cold in my house, so maybe even 5 or 6 days unless I can find someplace a little warmer. Maybe I’ll think about putting it in the cupboard above the stove. I think I’ll ask my hubby to pick up another couple of heads and maybe I’ll also get another quart started, and also a batch of Cortido.

Well, I guess that is all for today.