Ok, the caffeine boycott is on, starting sixteen hours ago after that free coke I had. My brain is too overloaded with adenosine receptors, I have to let them die out and fall back to a manageable level. I’m sure there will some headaches as they vacate the grey matter. Recently I’ve had days where I lived off of chocolate, coffee and a multi-vitamin alone. Yesterday I skipped my coffee and I actually slept a full eight hours today. I was thrilled! I actually feel rested-alert as opposed to caffeinated-alert.

I think there is a tendency to underestimate how large a factor diet is in the way you feel. I’ve started eating well again. Yesterday it was thick cooked turkey slices, carrots and broccoli, mashed potatoes and a big turkey salad Tonight it’s salmon, ramen noodles and stir fry vegetables with another big salad. I cooked a big puffy oven pancake and had it with wild berry jam for breakfast. Good food really effects my mood in a positive way.

I’ve also been walking to and from work now that it is icy tundra outside and cycling is truly dangerous. Today was ridiculous. You know it’s bad when you feel your alveoli start to freeze with your first couple of steps out the door. It’s icing on the cake when you are going home at 6:30am, the absolute most frigid part of the day. I dress so warm but any little piece of exposed skin just stings. It felt like my whole face aged a year on the way home today. All dried out like a piece of leather. My sensitive lips are absorbing lots of cherry chapstick. I just checked the temp. Minus twenty.(Minus twenty-five in my home town of T. Bay Hee hee, I’m sure my dad’s lovin it.) It’s minus thirty-two here with the wind chill. The wind chill really does do it. I can stand 30 to 40 below when there is no wind. It’s a really unique experience. Your breath is all raspy and it hurts a little but everything is so quiet and still because no one will go outside even to drive. It’s like there is a surreal layer of crystallization over everything. With a strong wind though, it becomes totally unbearable and miserable. Winnipeg is the worst with those strong prairie winter winds. T.r Bay at least has mountains and forest as a windbreak.

Looks like my computer at home shut down. My banner and images are/were all broken. Using village photos now. I hope it will start back up, it has been grunting a lot lately. Phoned home, my answering machine is out too. Hopefully I wasn’t robbed.

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