- I started taking my new IBS meds on Friday: they didn't take away ALL my symptoms 100%, but I felt 90% better than I normally do during a flare-up, so that's a plus.
- That being said, I was (mostly) fine for the wedding on Saturday.
- However, the Spanx stayed home because they were hurting my gut.
- I ended up wearing dress #4 because it was a hell of a lot more forgiving in the belly-hiding department. (I did keep dress #7, too, so that one will be making an appearance at the wedding in October, and I'm 99% certain I won't be period-IBSy then.)
- We went to Mom & Brad's for dinner on Friday so Mom could give me a pedicure when we were done. I, uh, think it's been awhile since she's done one since she, erm, missed a couple of steps... O_O lol
- On Saturday afternoon, my head damn near exploded when Chebbar put on his brand new suit to find that the professional tailor made the sleeves on his jacket too short (like, painfully too short: he looked like he was wearing flood pants. On his arms.). He wants to just get a new jacket: I said no bloody way. She'll be seeing if she can fix it (which I'm really not sure about because she didn't leave much of a hem) - at no extra charge, either - or if Sears will work with us on replacing the jacket.
- The wedding went well. The weather was gorgeous. There were lots of, um, interesting people to watch. I learned a couple of new fashion tidbits, such as men can have muffintops, too, and that it's completely acceptable to wear a bright red dress cut low enough in the back to show your ENTIRE white bra.
- Chebbar is physically incapable of being in a picture without making a face or feinting a boob grab. Yeaaaaah. #klassay
- When you go to a different friend's barbecue and everyone is drunk but you, PORRIDGE suddenly becomes unbelievably hilarious.
- I felt like the world's biggest and meanest asshole the two times I had to check on the dog at Chebbar's dad's and lock said dog back in his cage before leaving. He *almost* came home with me (to our no pets apartment building). Twice.
- I have the best boyfriend on the face of the planet: Taylor appeared to be waffling (vaguebooking), so Chebbar helped me out by sending her "he's a douche!" reminders via text message. It worked.
- Completely unprompted, Chebbar's sister declared that "marriage is for suckers." Clearly the divorce wounds run deep in the whole family... :-s
- In related news, we discussed my... sensitivity where his "jokes" about marriage are concerned: while he felt it necessary to repeat that I shouldn't care what other people think, he acknowledged my dislike for his joking and agreed to stop. See? Best Boyfriend on the Face of the Planet.
- Staying up until 1am on Friday night and 3am on Saturday night preeeeetty much guarandamntees you won't be asleep before 2:30am on Sunday night. *yawn*
- In an attempt to try to learn to manage my stress/what I stress over (because I know that stress will be my #1 IBS trigger (after hormones, obvs)), I ordered this and this (I love workbook-type books: making me *think* about MY answers to questions helps make the information/knowledge stick). I requested a bunch of stuff from the library, too. (Oh, and I ordered this at the suggestion of the amazingly awesome @alotofnothing.) If you have stress reduction resources, I'd love to hear about them!
How was YOUR weekend?
Stress reduction resource: a hammer and three watermelons.
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Sounds like an all around good time! All the worrying now seems for nothing. You looked gorgeous and got your new meds just in time to not be in total agony. Yay you! Now I hope the October wedding looks less daunting! :-)
ReplyDeleteI was a giant FAIL this weekend. I WILL be making up for it this week though!!!
ReplyDeleteGlad your meds are working, even if it's only a little so far. At least you are getting some relief. It's about time!
ReplyDeleteYou looked great for the wedding! Good choice on the dress.
Those stress resources look good. If I see any others, I'll forward them to you. :)
I am a major stress head. I have found that making small snippets of time to meditate helps me - when I don't do it I feel the difference. I also bought a thing called an em-wave Personal Stress Reliever from HeartMath that has a whole heap of research behind it and is pretty cool. Just got to also make time to use it. But basically, it works on you focusing on breathing in a particular way. It measures the reaction of your heart beats and whether they are coherent (read smooth and even) or incoherent (read jagged, big ups and downs ... stressed). So, you get feedback and it's interesting to see that when I think I'm not stressed, well, guess what - I'm not a good judge 'cause I'm running on too much stress and am a bit numb to lower levels. Anyway, check out www.heartmath.com and they have some freebie info.
ReplyDelete... "it's completely acceptable to wear a bright red dress cut low enough in the back to show your ENTIRE white bra." : FAIL!!! Gosh, what gets into people? Ever since Madonna in the 80s people think it's okay to show your underwear...
ReplyDeleteStress reduction resources : oh yeah, I have those. My main ones are 1) to focus on things that make me happy (whole series about it on my blog : http://lowstressweightloss.com/blog/relax/things-that-make-me-happy) other is 2) having meditation resources (and I am not a touchy feely new agey person). If you have an iPhone or iTouch the best resource on that I found is a guided meditation app called "mindfulness". The guided part keeps scatterbrains like me focused on the meditation (plus they are short!)
That's quite the roundup! I'm glad you got to look lovely at the wedding, even if others didn't seem to have the same sense of fashion ;)
ReplyDeleteI am SO stoked for you, that the IBS medication helped even a little bit. Now you're closer to getting this under control and getting your life back, and that is surely cause for celebration.