Livin' la vida gluten free

So, I think that I might be gluten intolerant.  How does one determine such nonsense?  Well, you stop eating bread for a few months, feel absolutly maaaavalooos daahling for said few months, then eat your self a sandwich.  And feel like crap.  No, much worse than crap: Crappy Crap.

In an effort to eliminate wheat and wheat like substances from my kitchen I have been shocked out of my wits.  What does one eat, when one has no freakin' bread? Well, this very question is why I find myself sitting at the library at 6pm on a rainy Tuesday night.  Research people, research.  So far I have done more blogging/reading than actual "research" but hey, I am working toward that end, just slooowly.  Slowly because I really don't want to know what to eat instead of the nice fluffy bread I have been pulling from my oven lately.  No, that oatmeal cinnamon swirl bread is neither gluten free nor on my actual diet, but....

Life is stressful and eating a slice of  bread slathered with homemade butter just makes life better somehow. Right?

So, I guess that I don't really feel that bad after all. 

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Finding time and loosing it again

It seems to me that I am always loosing time. Time slips between my fingers like the dirt I sift in my garden.  Today I had to find the time to sneak off to the library and blog.  After waiting in line (time slipping from my grasp) for a computer to open up (more lost time) I am now blogging with a freinzy not known to me. 

I feel like my time is so very precious, yet I squander it at every opportunity.  I love to loose myself in the land of blog.  I greatly enjoy reading the stories of others; their joys, sorrows and trials put my own into perspective.


Over the Labour Day Holiday weekend my family, along with most of my husbands sisters and brothers, traveled to the Oregon Coast.  We all shared in a precious gift while there; time spent together.  We made many new memories while reliving many old ones.  We attended a wedding and most of us wept at the beauty of the new lives joined together. 

Our time spent on the beach itself ranked at the top of  the list with all of the children

...as well as our dog Jane.

My boys started up a game of Sandball and made some great memories of their own.

All in all, our time spent at the coast was time I didn't mind loosing.  And I daresay everyone else felt the same way.

I hope you all  are able to find the time to make some time.  And find it precious indeed.

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Falling in love

I am so in love with Autumn!  It is my all-time favourite time of year.  The light, the brilliant colors and yes even the fog, all act as a balm for my summer frazzled soul.

My computer/interweb woes still abound but at least I can gaze out my window and clamp eyes on the gorgeous colors of fall; dreaming all the while of all the great blogs I will write... one day.

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Hello friend

I have to say, the desire to blog has been great but the motviation to get off my tushie and venture to my local library has been well, small and unproductive.

I am still without interweb at my home and it makes me sick. Daily.  Friends, for such a tech-not, I do lurve me some computer time. 

My dear friend Miriam, reminded me that November is National Novel Writers Month or Nanowrimo as we lovingly call it.  I am determined to write up my daily quota even with out the interweb access. I have grand plans to involve the spouse and children as well.  We shall see how this transgresses.  It is November the third and I have as yet started said writing and have a severe lack of ideas for anysuch writings but am no less determined.  My children have tackled the project with a vengence and my husband has only raised his eyebrows in distrust of the whole affair.

While I am working up the courage to write I have been daydreaming 'Anne of Green Gables' style of what adventures my characters will find themselves stumbling upon.  I have high hopes, but life always seems to get in the way of my hoping.

And alternately, my blogging.

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