Whoosh, it's Wednesday!

Things are kind of blah lately. Always something going on that I wish I could write about but can't. Zip.

Things are going ok on the gluten-free front. So hard to avoid it. My hands are so dried out from scrubbing them any time I make anything for the rest of the family. I'm trying to be so careful but it is hard. It's even in shampoos and other body care items and not all of them list their ingredients. I think the more I detox, the more I am going to notice that it bothers me. It can take a long time to recover from being accidentally "glutened", like weeks. I don't know how long it will take to get a lifetime of it out of your system.

One of the most concerning symptoms I have is my loss of memory, which is getting pretty bad. It can be very disconcerting to be in the middle of something and not know what you were doing. Or going somewhere and forgetting where halfway there. I haven't memorized a phone number in about a decade. I have tried but I can't. I have to remind myself over and over if there is something happening or of we have to be somewhere and I have to write it on the calender or I'll genuinely forget. It's not just an annoyance; I can't cook unless I'm in the room or I will forget. That is how I have had my past fires. It is scary. I often go to bed forgetting to put something back in the fridge or I forget there's laundry in the washer or to do the dishes. It's not that I'm lazy, I totally forget and often I can't remember. I sometimes call things by the wrong name (like earlier I called the computer the TV). I can't remember things I have just read. I am always having internal dialogue about things I need to be doing, things I used to just do because it was there.

I try to exercise my brain with things like puzzles, suduko, lots of reading, trying to memorize but it seems to be in vain. I need to totally deglutenize.

So what does this have to do with simplifying? Probably nothing except that it's harder than it used to be. It should be incentive to get rid of more as it's less to be responsible for.

We did accomplish something major. We emptied out the old freezer and got rid of a lot of stuff. There was a lot that was inedible so it was tossed into the compost. We gave a friend a ton of food. We are planning after Christmas to get rid of it and only use the newer deep freeze (the old one is still in operation, but is full of grains, veggies and nuts). The new freezer is jam packed with food, almost all of it is meat. I want to get a side of beef so bad but I can see that it is not needed. We have a lot to eat through before we can do that so while eating through our storage, we can save money for meat :)

I cooked a turkey yesterday. It made a lovely broth, enough for two pots of soup. One went in the freezer and I made a pot of turkey soup filled with veggies. It wasn't very big so there isn't as much meat for other things, especially since I keep picking at it. It's good with my homemade mayo, even better on baby spinach with cranberry sauce, mmmmmmm!

I need to get cleaning. We have company coming tonight and it's hard for me to get organized enough to clean.