Once again, it's been a while since I posted, and the truth is I've been so stressed out it's scaring me. To start, we had an attempted break in at my house, luckily the alarm went off as soon as they got the door open and apparently the coward ass ran. Then my husband's car window was vandalized. The idiots threw a rock the size of my head through the driver's side window, reached in and took his baseball cap. The man was pissed about his baseball cap, I was pissed because they touched my property!! My husband just happened to be looking out the window when it happened opened the door and started chasing the kids down the street. I called the police, and a perfect day ended in chaos. A few weeks later the man was going out to move my car when he noticed my driver's side window was shattered. I don't keep anything of value in my car, the only things I have is a blanket and an umbrella. If they're that desperate for those items, I would have gladly given it to them, but they were still there. So the following day I decided I was going to play sentry and keep a look out and around 6:30, two kids walked by and sat on my lawn wall, one was carrying two large bricks. I poked my head out the window and asked what he had in his hands, he said it was his phone. I replied by asking if phones look like bricks these days and he said they were new phones. Again, my husband went out and they began to run, once again I called the police and once again the police did not get the kid. So now one car gets parked in the garage and the other gets parked in a safe area in the next town across the street from my where my sister in law lives.
This is what it has come down to. I am not going to pay another dime to replace the windows so these punks can get their jollies. Also, I've been looking at houses, we are definitely getting out of this neighborhood. It's getting worse and worse every year, if it isn't the sound of gunfire, the drive by shootings and gang related deaths, it's little morons vandalizing personal property.
Also, I was kind of hoping it wouldn't happen to me, but it did - my hair is beginning to fall out. I'm a little over 4 months post op and it's coming out in clumps, it doesn't even look the same when I style it. I have hypothyroidism and lost a considerable amount of hair on top of my head already, so this post op hair loss in addition is very depressing. I've been wearing it tied back in a ponytail, am strongly considering cutting it all off or buy a wig. I'd like to try a couple of wigs first and if they look natural enough, I'll ride out the storm until my hair starts to grow back, if not, I guess I'll be wearing a butch cut for a few months!
And if things aren't bad enough, I'm stuck in a stall. 43 pounds and not budging, not even a half pound!
On the other hand, I've been having some AWESOME pancakes for breakfast the past two days. I got the recipe from "The World According to Eggface." I made my own variation by adding a tablespoon of SF white chocolate pudding mix and a half cup of blueberries; just make sure you add the blueberries before you flip the pancake over. I made 2 large pancakes from the batter instead of 4 small or 8 silver dollar size and could only eat one. In fact, I even had trouble finishing it, I left about 2-3 bites.
The pancakes were a refreshing change from eggs every day, even though the recipe contains egg, but it's not the same! I highly suggest you try them! These pancakes are so very yummy that I forgot all about the problems I've been having for a while! Who would have thought pancakes would be stress relievers! See here for the recipe.
