Take a new route

Have you ever walked down the block past where you normally stop, or took a different street to get you to the same place? Lately, I have been taking a different route home from the day care, each time. I am not expecting to stumble upon anything incredible, but I feel like we get into routines and changing them just a bit might be a good thing.

Even though I have been walking from my apartment to the day care since September, there are probably 50 streets that I could and have not ventured down to get me from A to B. I am not planning to go out of my way, just trying something different each time for a literal change in scenery.

Today I stumbled upon a pretty cool looking mattress out in the garbage, a much larger community garden area than the one next to my building, and a little fruit stand where I was able to buy 5 apples and 4 oranges for 3 dollars. Not bad, I'd say.

All Natural

I don't know when it happened but at some point I decided I wanted to try to use medicine as little as possible. I have mentioned this on here before, several months ago when I was unable to put up with or improve upon how I was feeling and took some benedryl.

A few days ago I wrote about how since last Friday I had been suffering 24 hour cycles of the same discomfort. It has not been a full 24 hours without it yet, but I would like to think I am out of the woods. I woke up today about an hour before my alarm was meant to go off and noticed I still had the headache I went to sleep with. By the time I made and ate breakfast an hour later, however, the headache had subsided. There were points during the day where I felt it coming back but it never did. I sit here at 2 in the morning and can state that I have no chills and no head pain.

Although it was not pleasant, I was able to overcome this little illness with two simple steps. I drank a lot of water and I ate an apple a day. I have been told before that headaches can be brought on by dehydration and even if that was not the cause - drinking more water and less of other things every day can only be an improvement. Secondly I have been eating more fruit, specifically apples. I read that apples contain natural aspirin in them. Again, like the water, at the very least, eating an apple a day is a smart decision and they are delicious.

I will not claim that either of these decisions caused my improvement but they were both healthy decisions and I am feeling healthier and that's a nice thing to report.

Just in time for what could be another punch in the face (snow storm). I know I said the other day that I was over the snow for this year. I am going to, in retrospect, blame it on how I was feeling. I have rallied and I say, bring on the snow.