http://www.heifer.org/site/apps/ka/e...oductID=164545

http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.204586/

Dear Bizi,
Heifers at this web site are $500.00 and I think that you can pick your continent. A water buffalo is $250.00.
If you can't afford a heifer or a water buffalo you can get some goats.
I think that this is a great way to do gifts for Christmas. You could still send home decorated cards or eat treats to a few special people.

A few times a year, I send my parents a basket of organic fruit. They love it and I am off the hook for presents.
Mari

yes yes yes please keep us updated....i wonder if you can empty your plate a little at this time so you can really have time to relax a bit....even just to stare at the ceiling...I am a little worried too!
Bobby

Hi
 

Just wanted to pop in... saw this thread... hope you manage to "chill" slowly. Sounds like you are having a good time in part with the gifts. Good for you with the exercise, and trying to keep to routines - that helps big time!

hugs

waves ~ from across the wire

perimenopausal????
 

Thank you so much for your replies.
I do think that I would like to buy some animals for christmas and I would also like to try and talk our small UU fellowship into buying a heifer as well.
I did not make it to the gym today...
I slept terribly last night...woke up in a cold sweat...I was drenched!
Wonder if I am starting menopause?
I am almost 44 and they say you can start having symptoms for 10 years before you actually go thru it completely.
Oh JOY!!!!!
Any one else out there have the night sweats related to bipol or other?

oh and I just started my period ...so that was contributing to my crabby mood as well.

and your night sweats.

your hormone levels might be changing bizi. one of the best things to do to help is the exercise you are doing and dietary changes. i'l have to go dig up my links...but soy has been known to help.

peri-menapause
 

Dear Bizi,
I am on the birth control pill -- these things are a bit different for me.
I am 44 now.
But my mom stopped her periods at 45.....

The last time I had night sweats I was detoxing from Xanax last summer -- I woke up at night and changed my shirt. My hair was soaking wet too. The whole thing felt strange. This happened a few nights.

Take care of yourself. I think that we learn to do this better than other people do. And sometimes I try to see it as an acquired gift.

(I guess that I am already getting in the mood to see my therapist tomorrow. She focuses on the postive. She even insists in her own talk in stating things in the positive.)

Mari