Thanks for the fish

about my health problems? really? Sweet because I’m just DYING to talk about them and for some odd reason no one else wants to hear about them.

But first, I guess I must talk about the election. yay!! Let’s just say I’m really happy. Ok, fairly ecstatic. Rather hopeful. Somewhat teary eyed (still). But mostly the whole thing seems totally surreal to me. How could the american people vote for Bush twice and then suddenly do something so wickedly smart? I don’t get it, but I’m thrilled beyond belief. I was also very glad to see my former home state of Virginia finally grant a democart a win (something that never once happened while I lived there). Also, please note that my current home state of Maine voted democrat by a wide margin. Go Maine! I will also say that I didn’t vote along the party lines entirely last night. I voted for Senator Susan Collins, who I think is a fabulous woman, a great leader, and oddly enough, a republican. And one last thing, I think John McCain showed his true colors during his concession speech and frankly, I don’t think Republicans deserve him. I think he was forced to run a dirtier election than he wanted to and I think that really he’s a good man. But I’m glad he lost.

Anyhoo, I’m making homemade vegetable stock tonight. I bought the veggies over the weekend (celery, fennel, carrots, fresh thyme (that smells soooo good), fresh parsley, peppercorns (guess that’s not a vegetable) so I had to use them or lose them. I’m so tired tonight though from staying up last night, so I’m not enjoying the delicious smells as much as I could be.

Ok, now to the fun stuff! Yeah, so my health problems are soooo horrible. ohmigod. But… I’m starting to think they are all caused by too much sugar. I always have a theory. I’ve been waking up at night with these weird feelings…sort of alert, like when you think of something really really important that you forgot to do (like you left your kid at the grocery store or something) and I sit up in bed, except that there is no mental thought attached. J thinks its a panic attack. I think maybe it’s too much sugar, which could be causing my other chronic problems too. Anyway, we upgraded netflix to 3 at a time so now we have to watch a Joseph Campbell thing that I put on the list!