I went to the Dr yesterday to find out the results of yet another round of testing. I do not have PCOS, nor do I have Cushings Syndrome. Yay me! I do have a low but not insanely low thyroid count so he is retesting and when he gets the results of that we will decide if supplements for thyroid is the way to go or if there is another avenue to explore. My blood pressure was down too! So all in all I’m healthy-ish.

I admitted that I suck at exercise, that it makes me feel icky and ill if I work to hard. It hasn’t always been like that. When I was exercising 3 times a week with a friend I felt great afterward and refreshed. I’m not getting the same buzz this time. Maybe it will take me awhile. I am to continue working towards 7 days a week exercise and report back to him in 4 weeks. He didn’t like that the exercise made me feel ill but feels it will improve with endurance.

I’ve gotten really lazy on SparkPeople.com. I’m not sure why I just don’t like going on there to do my food log or exercise log. Maybe it’s just too much. I have a healthy living group on FetLife now and perhaps I just need to find something else that works for me. FitDay and a separate blog worked well for me the first time, but each time I try to blog in a separate blog I just don’t know what to say. My health is so much a part of me and my role now that separating any part of me feels wierd, but I don’t want to bore everyone with my weight loss stuff. Should I continue sharing my diet struggles with you or find somewhere else for that?

I reported a while ago that we were looking to move and then couldn’t due to the flooding and the demand for rental housing after that. Well last Friday I noticed that an apartment on the first floor of the same building was now vacant and called the landlord. I got to look at it Saturday and they were happy to let me have it Sunday. We will be signing a lease this Saturday! Since it’s just downstairs we get to move in slowly and have till the end of the month to exit my old apartment. I also get a great deal on the first month’s (September) rent!

I’m very excited about it and driving Master crazy with ideas and thoughts about the new place, plans to move out of the old and so on. I’m sure he’ll be relieved to just be down there in a nicer apartment. It’s not bigger but it’s in a lot better repair and should make us happier to have friends over too. I’m not too thrilled about the size of the new bathroom as it’s just really a hallway size room with bathroom stuff in it.  We will have a small shower which is good, I’ve missed showering. The kitchen on the otherhand is fabulous! It has 3 times as much counter space, lots and lots of cabinets and enough room for a small dining set.

Part of the move will be trying to simplify our lives more. As I’ve written earlier I taught myself to knit and have been making dish/wash clothes like crazy. I think more than 10 are now new and waiting for use. I’m going to make some more scrubby clothes and then hopefully move on to flour sack dish towels with embroidery on them. It’s these small things that make me feel good right now. I’d like to get to reducing waste at home, and budgeting better so that savings can increase, but those are huge jobs to tackle and I need a better plan. Moving will certainly help reduce the excess we currently have. Everything will go through a question process like, “When was the last time I used this?” “Why am I keeping it?” “Could I go without it?” Master wants to toss the Christmas stuff, but I’ve already trimmed it down once and I don’t want to toss the special ornaments that I’ve been hanging on to for when we have space for a tree again. You just can’t get those back.

Recap, I’m healthy, should be exercising more, moving soon and trying to simplify!

–luna