Too bad this was great

Mom sends out a recipe to everyone on her family email list.  Mostly she's sending things to her kids, who are now grown women, and they are crafty type things so I'm not that interested.  Anyway here's what she sent today.

Oven Fried Mustard Chicken

1 ¼ c Italian Bread Crumbs

½ Parmesan Cheese grated

½ c Dijon Mustard

6 skinless chicken breast halves

350 degrees.

Mix cheese and bread crumbs,

Put Dijon Mustard on chicken breasts, roll in crumbs and cheese.

Baking sheet lightly sprayed with oil.  Bake for 20 min or until chicken is done.

The she cooked this for us tonight for dinner.  I thought it was great.  After Mom was done with it she said that's the last time she's cooking it because she doesn't like the mustard that much.  I love it though.  I think I might rethink making the mustard BBQ sauce now though.

Reread Getting Thing Done with Help from Kiki

I was just going to re-read parts of the book, but I'm pretty sure that I ended up reading the entire book.  It was excellent again.  I've read many books about being organized and getting your life in order.  I know it's important.  I've known it ever since I read that Brigham Young kept his workshop so organized that he could find any tool in it in the dark.  I seem to remember him saying that we have to learn this kind of organization so that we can run worlds, solar systems and even universes.  While that sounds good I'm nowhere near that level of organization although I think it is something to strive for.

Why do I like  Getting Things Done (GTD)?  I like it because it deals with how to get things done on an every day basis.  I remember being in a class talking about how to use the Franklin Day Planner (which I love and think is a great system, and Hyrum Smith and Steven R. Covey are my heroes) and we were going through the exercise of determining if things were an A, B, or C task and he said sometimes you had to assign things an A when you didn't want to or nothing his boss wanted done would get done.  And that's the point where all these systems they seem to break down on the day to day basis, at least they do for me.  I would make a list and then copy it to the next day and that would depress me.  I like the David Allen way of doing things.  All work is either

1) Planned Work
2) Work that Showed up
3) Defining your work

Also, he says that you  can't do projects you can only do actions.  You might have many projects but you only have actions that you can do.  Once you've decided your actions then you have a lot of freedom to decide what "actions" you will take in whatever situation you are in.

I really learned a lot from this book.  When I read it the first time it said to reread the book in six months so I put down in my calender to reread it, and when it came up I didn't because the way I was using it was breaking down.  So what caused me to reread it finally (and I'm glad I did)?  Well when I bought an iPhone I gave my iPod to Kiki.  Kiki called me and said that she was afraid that she had cleared my Todo account.  I told her not to worry about it, that I should be able to download everything from the web.  Well whatever happened we (Kiki and I) managed to wipe out my Todo lists on my iPhone.  So since I was going to have to start over anyways I decided I should reread the book.  I started out thinking that I would just reread parts of it that I thought would be applicable but I think that I eventually read all of it, and some parts twice.  The book seemed different.  I'd gotten a message from Amazon that there was a new version and it seemed very different.  I don't know if that's because it actually changed or because I'd just forgot most of it.  Anyway I liked the book quite a bit and recommend it to anyone who might be trying to improve there productivity or life.

6 am and I haven't slept very much at all.

Last week I was talking about how great I thought the silver water was.  Well it was very good, but Saturday I started coughing and the cold came on strong.  After doing some more reading I decided that I needed to use more of the silver water and I was getting a little low on the water that I had so I called Cathy's friends husband and asked if I could get a couple more bottles to tide me over.  While I was there with him he told me that he had the older generator that made larger particles.  So I got even sicker on Sunday but I kept doing the nasal wash and finishing with silver water and using it in the nebulizer and by Monday morning I was feeling well enough to start exercising and able to go to work.  I took a bottle of silver water with me to work and kept doing the nasal wash and I kept getting better.  I thought that I was through with it.  If I can get though a cold without it turning into bronchitis that's great in my book.

However, I spoke too soon.  Friday I started coughing at 2:00.  It weird how I can tell when it starts.  Well I was hoping that it was just the one cough.  I came home early to surprise Nini when Mom took her to dinner before the going to the Legally Blond play.  The coughing kept getting worse.

I was impressed enough with the silver water that Cathy's friend gave me that I decided that I'd buy a generator for us, and it arrived on Thursday so when I got home after dinner on Friday I decided to mix up a batch.  Supposedly I've got a newer Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator.  The smaller silver particles are supposed to better than larger particles generated by other methods.  The first batch I mixed didn't work so I thought I might have the wrong kind of distilled water.  The directions said that the Wal-Mart brand was best, but there is a sensor on the generator that senses if there are too many minerals in the water for it to work correctly, and the light was bright green.  When it didn't work I was so tired I just went to bed.  However,  my cough was such that when I laid down it got worse and I wasn't able to sleep.  When Mom got home I was starting to lose my voice.  So since I couldn't sleep I decided to try to mix another batch so I went back to Wal-Mart at 12:00 and it turns out that I had got the right kind of water, but it wasn't a total waste because Mom asked me to get her some ice cream.  When I got back I decided I would clean the mason jar really well before I put in the distilled water and it worked great.  It takes 3 hours to make a quart of this stuff, so I went to bed again, but was still coughing when I laid down.  So I got back up and waited for the batch to finish and started using it, and that's what I'm doing right now.  I don't think I've slept very much because the cough and hacking is back.  I read in the book that I got with the generator that many people will do what they call loading with silver when they first start and will drink 4 oz 3 times a day for 10 days and then go to a maintenance level of 1 oz a day.  Maybe I'll try that.

The funny thing about this cough is that I was thinking that in the past I've tried to just work through a cold, and it will seem like I've done it, and then it will suddenly take a turn for the worse and the bronchitis will start up.  However, I really thought that I'd beat it this time when I started coughing.  I was surprised the first time it happened at 2:00 and was hoping that it just a spare cough.  Hopefully this fancy new micro silver water will get this cough back under control.

One other thing this week.  Last Friday night I did something that I just love.  I bit my lip and caused a canker sore.  These sores sometimes just go away and other times they become super painful just like all the rest.  These sores are what make me think that canker sores are related to a virus or something like that.  Anyway the sore this week didn't hurt.  When it started hurting I would rinse with silver water.  The sore didn't go away.  It felt like it went through the canker sore stages it just didn't hurt.

So I have a generator and I'm hoping that I can get through this cough without it taking for ever.  I hope so, but even if it keeps canker sores from being so painful that would be a really good thing.

By the way I've started a new blog called "A Mormon's Thoughts on Mormonism."  This is my attempt to help portray Mormonism on the web.

Colloidal Silver and Atkins Cookies

This has been a fairly eventful week.  My sister Cathy had a friend that had told her that she used to get bronchitis and pneumonia quite a bit but that she'd started drinking something that kept her from getting it anymore.  She asked if I'd be interested in it.  I'm pretty much interested in anything that might help me keep from getting sick a couple months a year.  Turns out it's called Colloidal Silver.  She got a couple of bottles of the stuff and the lady gave her a printout of information about Colloidal Silver.  It was very interesting stuff.  The information that I got didn't say anything about how much I should be taking or what the concentration of the Colloidal Silver that I had.  Then I looked up some more information about Colloidal Silver on the internet, including Dr. Mercola's web site, an alternate medicine site that I look at.  Eventually I got hold of Cathy and she gave me the names of the people that she got the silver water from.  I gave them a call and was able to talk to the husband, Bill Norton.  He talked to me a while about it, but basically he told me that I should drink about an ounce a day prophylactically.  He also mentioned that he had a nebulizer and that he put the silver water in the nebulizer instead of the saline and albuteral.  He also reminded me about a web site called thesilversource.com, which was mentioned in the literature.  I went to the site and found that a lot of people there spayed the silver water in their noses to help keep from getting colds.


I have to admit that I was pretty surprised when I woke up the next morning and felt a lot better.  My nose was nowhere near as runny as it usually is in the morning when I exercise.  My chest didn't feel as heavy.  I was pretty impressed.  However, the next day Thursday I woke up and I felt wrung out completely.  I tried just riding the exercise bike but couldn't do it, so I went back to bed for 1/2 an hour.  Later that day it felt like a cold was coming on.  I decided that I'd try doing the salty nose thing and finish up with silver water, and try drinking some more of the water.  Friday I woke up feeling better.  I have to admit that I'm pretty impressed with the stuff.


The diabetes front is going pretty good.  I re-read the section of the Diabetes Solution about medication.  He mentioned that there was some stuff called R-ALA (Alpha Lipoic Acid) that acted like an insulin memetic.  I decided to try and get some and try it.  The book suggested that I get a brand called Insulow so I ordered it from Amazon.  I started taking it at night but that actually seemed to start raising my BG in the morning a little.  I then tried taking it before meals as the direction of the bottle says.  That started to work really well I was getting reading below 100 right around 90 and even had some below 90.  I was getting pretty excited, and then this week for some reason the readings started going back up above 100.  I don't know what's going on, but that's still not too bad I think.


I'm starting to build up some endurance in exercising.  Last week I was to tired to fully exercise a couple of day so I only did the exercise cycle a couple of days.  This week I've been able to work out every day except for Thursday and I think that that might have been caused by a cold that started coming on.


Today I decided to try and see if the Atkins Cookies would be as bad for my BG as I thought they would be.  They were bad.  I don't know if they were as bad as I thought they would be but they were pretty bad.  I guess that I'll not try those again for a while.  Perhaps when I lose some weight I might try the cookies again.


I've been watching my diet and cutting back on the calories.  It seems like my weight is going down some.  I guess about as much as I can expect them to.  The BF% is going down according to the scale that Goosie got me.  From what I understand about the scales they're not the most exact devices, but they do log trends, and the BF% trend is down and that's good.  According to what I've read everything says that the more weight that is lost the better your insulin sensitivity becomes.  That's what I'm hoping anyways.