Many people complain about the strong taste of black strap molasses but I have loved the taste of it since I was a child. I have eaten whole tablespoons full of it off and on all of my life. I've recently started taking it every morning (along with my apple cider vinegar in water) because it is full of calcium, iron and other vitamins. I think I have strange taste buds. I love molasses straight. I love vinegar straight. I have been known to eat MANY lemon slices (or a whole, peeled lemon) straight.
Yesterday I finally got myself out of the house for the first time in several days. I just like being a home body sometimes, I guess.
I went to Ruthie B's and had curried chicken salad and then looked at the antiques (they are a large antique store that also have little tables set up where you can eat yummy sandwiches and salads. They offer high tea, as well! I bought an old book called "Yourself and your House Wonderful" (1913) which is basically a guide for older children to read about how their bodies function, how to take care of themselves, etc. The stories are told almost as fairy tales. The brain is referred to as "The Master" and the stomach is "the tiny dwarf", etc. The "tiny dwarf" becomes "the angry dwarf" when naughty and unfeeling little children eat too much candy and cake (and pickles?!?!) and the angry dwarf jumps up and down and they get a stomachache, or worse yet, VOMIT!!
Pretty hilarious stuff. The author tries to talk about sex towards the end of the book in a straight forward manner but just talks about the "little room" inside the mother and the "life fluids" of the man and never REALLY tells about vagina/penis penetration. She also tells the children not to make fun of "fat women" because they may actually just be "with child"! Children are also told to never, ever, never drink even a DROP of alcohol! Hee!
I also bought some lavendar essential oil there. It supposedly can help relax me and might help my asthma a bit.
After Ruthie B's I headed on over to Althea Lou's (yet another antique store that serves lunch..I think it's a cool idea, actually!) where I proceeded to buy a huge Michael Jackson button (pre-Thriller) for Larry as a joke. He wasn't all that humored by it, but I WAS! I also bought a pretty lavender sweater set for $5.00 (like I need more clothing, jesus!) and yet ANOTHER book very similar to the other one I just bought. This one is "The House We Live In" (1900) and is extremely similar in that it is "a book for home reading intended to assist mothers in teaching their children how to care for their bodies and about the evil effects of narcotics and stimulants"!!!! WHOA!! I haven't had a chance to really read much of it, but it looks like it is written in the form of a discussion or play, with various children asking questions and the adult responding.
At Althea Lou's I also bought an essential oil (a combination of several oils, actually, mostly many different kinds of eucalyptus) that is supposed to be really good for asthma.
Last night Larry mixed some drops of it with apricot kernel oil and massaged my chest and neck and temples and it did seem to help.
This morning I inhaled it a few times through the bottle and then applied it directly onto my wrists and behind my ears which was stupid because I forgot it needed to be diluted with regular oil. Then I panicked because I thought it was actually making me have a harder time breathing so I put some oil over those areas and then I took a klonopin and realized I think I was just being a hypochondriac which threw me into a slight panic attack. I feel better now but I sure am SLEEPY.
Black strap molasses, here I come! Time to take a nap, I think (or watch some tv that is so boring that it causes me to fall asleep!) Good morning, I mean, good night!!
