Alien Invasion

Oh how I wish I could tell you my little blogging hiatus this week was a romantic getaway with a hottie oil Baron... no such luck. Sometime on Thursday I started to feel cruddy. You know that "Uh oh, I think I'm getting sick" feeling... achy, headache, overall crappy feeling. I popped some Tylenol and went to bed early. The next morning I felt pretty good. I had a plan to mow the lawn (aka weeds that have taken over my lawn) We had several weeks of rain and now we're in the middle of a little heatwave 70's and 80's so the lawn was getting scary, strange weeds and flowers from the neighbors yard are taking over any grass I once had. I mowed it and the plan was to hit Lowe's and figure out what I could spread on it to help the grass win the battle for the yard. So I mowed the front and at about the halfway mark of the back I was feeling cruddy again. I finished but I was super woozy and my head was pounding. I wiped down the mower, came in took a shower, tried to do a few things but it was no use... sweating, nauseous, pounding head, I curled up in a ball in bed and that is where I have been for the past few days. Aliens took over my body and threw a great big rager. The low-lights: No solid food would stay in my body for 3 days. I don't remember much of Saturday. Sunday, I felt like I had gone 12 rounds with Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, and George Foreman combined.

Yesterday, I started to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I can't really do the typical BRAT thing (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast) considering 2 of the 4 things I don't eat post weight loss surgery (no rice, no bread) and applesauce never sounds appealing when I'm sick. Someone explain the applesauce thing to me please... apples go right through me normally so tell me how applesauce will help when I can't keep anything in me?! Don't get that one at all. Anyway... so that left bananas and I figured some good bacteria in yogurt might help so I made myself a Banana Lassi. I sipped it slowly and it went well. So later I had another and after the third I felt brave enough to try some Fish and sliced Cucumbers in yogurt sauce (Tzatiki-ish)... that went well too. Thank goodness.

Ways you know I was really sick... no coffee for 4 days, no Farmer's Market, I was barely on the computer (I apologize for the 413 and counting unanswered emails)

My favorite things while I was sick... Sunbeam Electric Throw (a Christmas gift from my Mum), Cottonelle Aloe & E Toilet Paper (TMI), Romantic Comedies, and my Banana Lassi creation...

Shelly's Chocolate Banana Lassi

1 cup Vanilla Soy Milk (or Regular Milk)
3 oz. Greek Yogurt (I used plain 2%)
1/2 frozen Banana
1 Tablespoon Sugar Free Chocolate Pudding Mix, dry
1 Tablespoon Sugar Free Torani Syrup (SF Vanilla, Almond, Chocolate all work great)
2-3 cubes of Ice
1-2 Tablespoons Almond Meal/Flour (optional)

Whiz in blender till smooth. After the first one went well I added Almond Meal/Flour (which is just finely ground almonds: Meal = skins on, Flour = skins off) to the mixture to start preparing myself for food again. I started with 1 Tablespoon and then added a little more to make it a little heartier.

So I'm here, emerging from this alien invasion. Testing the waters slowly, trying to regain some strength, and saying hello to my cyber pals. Hello. I missed you. Get your flu shot because you don't want whatever this was.