Interesting week

I (Carolyn) went in for my routine annual checkup stuff. After several different screening exams (the ones you are "supposed" to get when you get old enough) it was determined that I might have something in my innards that didn't belong. So I was scheduled for more tests. These were particularly fun - iodine injected every possible way - I won't go into more detail. After a tense few days, the results came back that there aren't any masses, tumors, etc. in there. After having my supraventricular tachycardia, complicated migraine and now this, my entire body has been scanned and examined except for the lungs - which work well, thank you very much. I guess that is a pretty good sign. However, I took this last scare as a chastisement from the Lord - live healthy OR ELSE!!! I made a decision to begin living a more healthy lifestyle. I am working on this idea. In the meantime I have been eating more healthily and doing Tai Chi. Getting sleep - now that is the real challenge. Here it is 1:13 am and I am not in bed. I have been doing things for our trip though.

Here is what I would like to do: Tai Chi every day, Curves (for weight bearing exercise) 3 times a week, walking (for aerobic) 5 times a week and get 8 hours of sleep every night. Right - and monkeys will fly out my rear too. So what is realistic. I could do Tai Chi every day. Then I have to decide to do Curves or walk. I can't see finding time for both.

I am trying to eliminate almost all empty calories and useless foods from my diet. Useless food is stuff like iceberg lettuce. Empty calories are potato chips and chocolate brownies. Yes, I suppose there are some nutrients in there but gram for gram just not enough to justify eating them except on special occasions.

I have started taking my vitamins again. And flossing more frequently. Can I keep this up? Yes, after thinking I was having a heart attack then a stroke and now cancer, I think I can be serious about this. At the women's conference for the Green Bay Wisconsin Stake, Sister Seiber used Yoga terms to discuss finding balance in our lives. She gave us terms for these two concepts but I can't find them. However, the first one was to do the very best you can and the second concept was not to worry about the results. If you are doing the very best you can the results will be good. That is true. But I still have to climb on that scale sometimes.

On a lighter note, I have really been missing "The Far Side" every since Gary Larson retired, but I think I have found something I find as clever and funny. If you don't believe me, visit http://www.savagechickens.com by Doug Savage. Strange but really funny.