Gamera is really neat, Garmera is full of meat

I don't feel good today, and I am not sure why. I woke yesterday with a killer headache. I actually went back to sleep trying to get rid of it, but after I woke again, it was still there. I thought maybe it was falling off the wagon, not the alcohol one but the salt and sugar one. After about 2 months of trying my damnedest to avoid as much salt and sugar as possible and restricting my eating out to no more than twice a week, I screwed up. I ate 4 meals out in 2 days and really didn't stick to subway or salads. Then I let my mother send food over. She means well, and she and Dad need to be avoiding salt as much as I. They also have cholesterol issues and Mom needs to lose weight as much or more than I. Yet Mom seems to think sugar doesn't cause problems if you ignore that you are eating it. She also seems to think corn syrup and honey don't count as sugar. I tried to explain that corn syrup is just cheap sugar and that while honey has a lower glucose index and may not effect you insulin levels, it still has calories, but she don't seem to get it.

Anyway the result is a higher input of calories, sugar and salt than I should have had. Basically in the last 6 days I undid most, if not all of my good intentions. I slowly got out of bed and very slowly went to the kitchen where I got a diet soda and slowly went to the living room where I sat and consumed the soda. I moved the track ball slowly and read a few quiet web pages while letting my head absorb diet Pepsi. I soon found that as long as my head remained still I was okay. I could move my hands, arms or eyes, but not my head, not even to stand. Eventually I decided to endure the sensation of my eyes exploding to attempt to make breakfast. I scrambled some eggs with a little turkey ham, onions, and queso fresco cheese. I also ate a piece of whole grain toast with butter.

Then I tossed 3 ibuprofen tabs with my morning meds. I felt better in about 30 minutes, and the headache was gone until about 9:30 PM. When I woke this morning it was back, although not really. I didn't have the pain, but sort of the the pre-pain warning, the sense of approaching doom. I decided on a pro-active (don't you hate that phony word?) approach and took 2 of the ibuprofen tabs before leaving for work. I felt okay until about 2:00 this afternoon when I started just feeling off. Then about an hour later I felt the headache coming on. Now I feel like maybe I have a bit of fever.

There wasn't a lot to do this weekend. The movies that came out this week weren't anything I wanted to see all sparkly vampires and M. Night not-made-a-good-movie-in-forever. Last weeks weren't anything to brag about either. Television stunk up the place too so I ended up having a google steaming media marathon of MST3K out of desperation. Joel, Mike and the bots helped me out and I am always happy to revisit the SOL. The only downside is now I have that damn Gamera song stuck in my head. Maybe that's why it hurts.