The Crazee Chick's View of Life

Happy New Year! I will inundate you with a complete update of our amazing Christmas and New Years later but first I wanted to get our 'Christmas card' out to you all. As you know, I stink at sending out Christmas cards....I prefer the electronic, slideshow, 8.5 minutes of bragging to the 1 page Christmas letter with no pictures!  Yes, in case you forgot, I love to share my life and my family with you. Click Here to see Our Year in Review: Enjoy!! Happy New Year!  May goodness and love come to you in 2011! Love Lisa

Nut Free! Gluten Free! Dairy Free! All these words appear on the packages of food I bought today. In my shopping cart there was; rice bran, gluten free bread and, gluten free crackers (really yummy but could use some salt. I'm not allergic to THAT!), tahini, brown rice pasta, gluten free wraps made with teff flour (from Africa), vegan margarine and brown rice rice cakes. They are all pretty good but it's going to take some getting used to. Gone are the sauces, the gooey cheese, the crackers, the ice cream...and yes, the chocolate! Okay, truth be told, I do sneak an After Eight after the occasional meal but I'm not fooling anyone because within minutes of consuming it my throat gets all phlegmy and I started 'uh hem-ing.' It's a dead give away. The adjustment will take time and I am by no means denying myself over Christmas--I'm having those homemade cinnamon buns and that hashbrown casserole on Christmas morn, and I'm having yam casserole w...

Strangely enough, I got a call from my doctor's office about two weeks ago telling me of my appointments with a number of specialists. After a few moments of what was obviously a very confused silence, the receptionist explained that after my last visit the doctor reviewed my file and decided it was pertinent for me to see an allergist, an internist and have a full respiratory function test done. In case you don't know, about 1.5 years ago I became very sick and had a long recovery but I feel like I truly never fully recovered--I'm much more tired now, get sick every time I try to exercise, and just don't have the get up and go that I used to have. So, anyway, after over a year of my whining to the doctor off and on about chest pain, axilla pain and pinching, and a host of other maladies, she decided to send me to the specialists. Enter my first appointment with the allergist. As he asks me what he can help me with, I realize that I really don't have a clue w...

Hello... Remember me? I'm the person who used to think about this blog every second of every day. I thought about it before bed, in the shower, as I was shaving my legs, putting on my underwear, putting on my clothes, while working out, while sleeping, while baking...you name it and this blog was on my mind. Not so much lately. Sorry about that. Life's been silly busy lately. Maybe I should do a quick recap: 1. In November the one day freak snowfall almost foiled my big plans to go Black Friday shopping with 'The Shopping Bags' but the lure of 4 days of shopping, dinners out, and a weekend with my girls was more than enough motivation to risk life and limb, so into the van we all climbed and after hitting a couple of patches of black ice and a few moments of driving cautiously, we arrived at the Mecca--the mall--and began our pilgrimage. It was divine! 2. My first year in real estate has been amazing--I couldn't have even imagined that it would have ...