The Silly Cycle of Sickness

Feeling good, eating better, exercising.


Catch a bug, start to feel bad.


Get totally and completely sick.


Am so sick, can't eat much of anything, can't exercise - just drag self to couch and stare at children so they don't kill each other.


Start to feel better, still too weak to exercise.


Get strength back. Ease into it slowly. Exercising, eating well.


Back to full productivity. Life is good, feeling frisky.


Start to feel sick.


This is the cycle I've been living since August. Don't know how to forestall it, don't know how to speed it up, don't know how to make the healthy times last longer. But it's really frustrating me.

Any ideas?

And yeah, just coming out of another bout of sick.

Goals this week: Take vitamins every day, especially the ones that keep you from getting sick. Drink enough water. Get more sleep. (Yes, I'm laughing already.)

Tristi's Check-In

This is a covered wagon, sometimes called a Conestoga and even a prairie schooner.

This is known as a Western wagon.

This is a wagon by Cadillac.

This is a little red wagon.

This is a Kona Paddy Wagon.

And this is a real paddy wagon.


What do all these pictures have in common, you ask? They all show wagons.

And I have fallen off every single one of them.

The last week has been an absolute stress nightmare - from overflowing toilets to impossible deadlines to dryer doors getting bent off their hinges to a pet rat with a flesh-eating disease and children trying to kill each other ... and I haven't been getting enough sleep to stave off the stress. I shall now show you a few more pictures to illustrate what my life has been like.

Things have calmed down considerably and it is my goal to get back on track. In the meantime, I'm going to be good for a little while before I weigh - if I did it right now, I'm sure I'd lose all the rest of whatever zebra stripes I still have.

I'm really proud of all of you - keep at it!