herbal medicine and christmmas

So for the past year or so we've been looking at herbs to treat aa lot
of my medical problems, and we've had some rather intteresting success.

Skullcap and valerian work very well for angziety/calming effects
skullcap also helps with female issues.

We've been using california poppy extract for my pain. doctor oz talked
about this earlier this year and i've been wanting to try it. Basically
it works on the opiatee receptors. not sure how but it's as effective as
the pain meds. I ordered it last month and got it and it does work
incredibley well. However it tastes terrible.

Christmas this year should be interesting. It's mainly chhrris and i but
my plan is to makee dinner for roger and kathleen and take it over to
them. She's having surgery that week so i figure they'll enjoy some dinner.

Not sure what else we'll do for christtmas though i think chris is going
to take that week off.

homeopathy and chiropractors

Well we've been in California now since July and it's been a fun
experience. We're having issues trying to get my pacemaker battery
changed but hopefully it will hold out till that's done.

So last month i started seeing a homeopath and found it an interesting
experience.

I'm no longer on a liquid diet, and i'm actually hungry these days. I'm
also seeing small little improvements over all. The skin rash i had is
gone, my energy levels seem to be up.

The homeopath said that he may even be able to get me off all of the
medications i'm on with in 6 months to a year. Here's to hoping it all
works out!

We're starting to meet a lot of nice people here. I go to breakfast etc
with one of chris's coworker's wife. Her name is kathleen. She's
extremely nice, as is roger her husband.

Chris and i went to dinner with them a couple weeks ago and we had a blast.

facebook and or google plus?

Well i've used both of these now well it's more accurate to say i tried
setting up google plus. I found it very dificult to try and use. for
example when you try typing something in for a search it constantly
tries to be smarter then you are and give you results as you type.

Well for a screen reader user that's very dificult to use and durring
the setup process it doesn't seem to give the option to turn it off.

As for facebook, well, ever since we've moved neither of us have been
able to use it because of the captcha bs.

Not sure what to think there accept to say i'm highly annoyed.
Especially more so since so many people seem to use facebook it's a nice
way to post things you want folks to see. Oh well maybe we'll get it
fixed in the mean time people get to look for me:P

thoughts on android and moving

I've not written in a while had a lot going on.

Back in july chris got hired at google. We left july 31st and landed in mountain view.

I love this area the weather is beautiful, the people are nice, and best of all, we are pretty well independent now.

We can walk to all kinds of things where we're located. There's a store, quiznos, starbucks, all kinds of things.

Our complex has a pool and fitness center and believe me all of those get used.:) The pool is heated and they have a hottub the size of a pool it's great!

The people here are super friendly. We're in the north park apartment villages. They're gated communities but we can use the pools etc at any of the 6 villages. Each village has 2 buildings.

I'm still waiting for medicade to send me what i need to go to the doctor. I went a month or so ago, but wasn't in the medi-cal managed care thing so couldn't really get much accomplished. Hopefully though now that things are settling down i can get things done. I need to get my pacemaqker battery changed before the year is out.

I love android 4.1 (jellybean) Android accessibility has come quite a way since i last used an android phone. The touchscreen is completely accessible now. The only real complaint i have about android is the whole mtp thing. They use mtp to manage media and so on, and the way things are now, the mtphuse thing is buggy as all hell. Can't put media on the phone or anything. I gather if you mount it as a camera it should work correctly, but it uses ptp which i gather is just as bad.

life can be a bitch sometimes.

I wasn't really sure what to call this post.

I had hurnia surgery a week and a half ago. overall it was painful but the pain is nearly gone now and the stitches come out wednesday.

All of this wouldn't be so bad if i'd not spent the last 5 days in the hospital puking again.

no one knows what's wrong still sothey treat and wait it out.

My rroommate this week was terrrible. an 85 year old lady who by the time she left was convinced that anyone with major medical problems should be pittied and "she would justt cry her eyes out if she had to do any cooking or cleaning if she had to...after all she can pay people to do it for her right"

Needless to say i exploded at her before she left. told her if she wanted to get better she'd have to starrt acting like the adult she was. people arenn't here to baby her.

so glad she left maybe i can sleep now...

misc things

I seem to be doing very well on scd. Have had a couple of pain/angziety
flareups since i've been on it, but no nausia this time. Definitly
progress there. I've been out of the hospital for about a month now with
no real relapses or nausia. Here's to hoping it stays that way!

I've finally decided to get my paperwork in order to get my state id
sorted. Initially it seems to be easier then it looked. Least the state
of New York seems to be cooperating to get me the court order of
adoption i need. And they actually didn't charge me, I'm impressed!

The reason I've finally decided to get things in order is 2 things. 1.
Looking at my options for another dog I can't really decide if I want to
try for home training for another dog with fidelco, or spend 2 weeks in
Nj at seeing eye. Training at home has advantages. I can train in my
environment and things like that. This would be ideal for scd and still
may be what i'll do. I could go back to seeing eye, and i still may
however I almost would rather train at home this time. I have more
reasons to want to train at home these days...

A couple weeks ago google sent me another recruiting email. This is the
second time now that google has tried to hire me for sysadmin. I'm still
unable to work at this point which is frustrating, however when i
suggested they might want to interview chris, they took me up on it.
He's got his second interview wednesday the 18th. Let's pray he aces
this one like he did his first interview.

We really want to get out of florida. In his first interview, google
offered him washington, oregon, california or atlanta. Chris told them
washington or oregon. Washington would be most ideal for us since it's
in the Seatle area. Public transit is supposedly farely decent there for
the most part.

I will probably put training for a dog on hold till we see what google
says. It would be hard to train here for a dog, we're blocked in by a
main road so home training here wouldn't be very ideal.

I think what i will probably do is that if google doesn't hire chris,
then I'll probably eventually go to seeing eye for a dog just because
training for a dog there would be more ideal then here. However, if we
move to say washington or oregon then i'll probably end up doing home
training just because either would probably be more ideal for training a
dog then here.

Oh well, time to wait and see!

well this is annoying

So, i was happilly making yoghurt this morning. Did everything right got
it in the yoghurt maker to cool, and promptly fried the new talking
kitchen thurmometer i just baught. Well, i dont know that it's fried yet
but i wouldn't be surprised. It got wet enough to start randomly
spouting off weird temps and so on.

We pulled it out dried it off, let's hope it still works once it's dry.
I've got 1 more batch of yoghurt to make this week. So, here's to hoping.

whee

So my almond flour came yesterday. I've been super excited about this
because it means i can start eating bread type things again. My mom went
to the store for some of her groceries and braught me home a jar of
organic peanutbutter soi could make some biscuits from a recipe i had.

http://pecanbread.com/new/recipes/teabiscuits.html

The biscuits came out wonderful. Chris ate 2 and enjoyed them. My mom
ate 2 and said she was full after the second. I ate 2 and tend to agree.
They're very very filling.

I'm going to the store tomorrow to get the remains of what i need. I
need to get the milk so i can make yoghurt. A lot of the baking recipes
call for yoghurt or dripped yoghurt so i actually need to make both things.

We ordered a talking kitchen thurmometer which is a good thing. It's a
bit hard to rely on someone sited to check the temp of the milk to
ensure it hits the right temperature. Hopefully today or tomorrow the
thurmometer will get here.

The breaking the vicious cycle book has a recipe for bread in it. I want
to try and make this though i dont have a loaf pan. Might make it
similar to flat bread or in that banana cake pan i use. It will come out
flat but it wont be bad and can still put things on it like honey and so on.