gosling | insomnia

ok, I give up, I'm just not going to sleep any time soon, I just feel too icky.

Which is my own stupid fault.

I really, really, really *do* know NOT to eat anything oily at parties. But do I pay attention to this? Of course not. For my whole life I'd felt really nauseous most of the time, and just figured that since I was so much of a stress puppy this was part of it.

But it's not. When Chip lost his job nine months ago we pretty much stopped getting take out or eating out, and we stopped buying meat. (This being an immediately obvious way to cut our living expenses.) And a while later I realized I almost never got kept up by feeling sick any more, *except* after parties, the rare occasions we did get take out or when I ate at my in-laws house. (I realized this when I felt really miserable after a party and suddenly remembered that this used to be how I felt ALL the time.)

(Not that I don't have insomnia, but that seems now to be purely a stress thing, not a feeling physically wretched thing. Clearly I *am* still a stress puppy...) :-)

And THEN I remembered that my accupuncturist had said that I really, really, really needed to avoid oily foods. (Shows how much *I* listen. But my body apparently is so very much happier living on plain rice and pasta and things of that nature. Which I *had* been told it would be. And without noticing I lost 13 pounds since the last time I went to the doctor a few months ago, which is kind of interesting too, given that for all my good intentions I have NOT been exercising more than usual or doing anything else differently. Chip had said I seemed to have lost weight, but I wasn't so sure or really paying much attention. Hmm.)