Your health

Taking care of my health is always an issue with me. I always seem to like what is not good for me. But in these uncertain times it is far better to correct an issue before it becomes a problem than wait until it becomes a problem and shell out big money to maybe have your problem fixed if it can be.

Case in point, My doctor told me for a few years I was pre-diabetic. I just blew her off and continued to live and eat the same way I had. When I became diabetic it escalated quickly.  First to blood testing and pills then to multiple injections. No matter what I did it seemed I could not get good control over my blood sugar. I had to live with this for a number of years until I learned about bareatric  by pass surgery. Now this seems to have cured my diabetes but it comes with its own set of issues to deal with on a life time basis. Some foods I cant tolerate anymore. My eyes are always to big for my stomach now. Over eating can be a real problem. And I will be on supplements for the rest of my life.

All this could have been avoided if I would have listened to my doctors advice when she first discussed my imminent problem. Diet and exerciser would have taken care of the issue.

I have always been one to exerciser, but it would go in spurts, and I always figured I worked hard so why couldn't I enjoy a few more cookies or that bowl of ice cream. 

Do what you can to take care of your health now. It is way easier than correcting a problem after it becomes a problem.  

Thanksgiving

Today is the day we as a nation feast and give thanks to God for seeing us through another year. I have to say as one who tries to be prepared in as many things as possible with out the blessings of the Lord I could do nothing. With out the Lord it would all mean nothing. So today I hope my family and friends remember the Lord and his bounty and give thanks indeed.

Wasted Food Storage

My youngest son is moving home. Yea....Boo.... I have had to completely remove the shelves from our spare room and move them into our bedroom. Along with this I had to move some of our food storage. We had a variety of things put up in Mylar bags. Things like beans, hot cocoa, dried carrots and dried onions, and a few more items. I noticed the seal on the side of a few bags were split. These are not the seals we did these were factory seals. Not knowing how long the items were exposed to the air I had to throw out 6-7 bags. No more Mylar bags for us. We will use what we have and from now on it all gets put into cans.

I think cans stack and rotate easier anyway.

Saving money

Recently I posted about my ordering RX eyeglasses through a company called Zenni Optical.   http://www.zennioptical.com/ this isn’t really an endorsement of them except to say I have been very happy with their service and pricing. They have enough styles of frames to keep me happy and I have been using them for about 4 years.

But like I said this isn’t really an endorsement. I am sure when it comes to Rx eye wear there are other sites that do just as well.

What I am hoping to do is to get your wheels turning with the idea that sometimes (not always) you can save money by shopping online.  Almost every store has sales now and again even online stores.   

I have no loyalty to any brand or store If I can save money.  What used to cost me 450.00 or more because of my astigmatism I can get away with less than 80.00. For my spouse her glasses, that look real nice, cost less than 60.00.

The biggest problem is getting sizing right, but if you can use a ruler and measure in metric your good to go. All you need is a current Rx and pupil eye distance. Maybe you can talk you DR into measuring that. Good Luck mine never would. But it is easy enough to measure yourself.