"One day I will find the right words and they will be simple." -Jack Kerouac
So, it's been a while since I posted last.
I have a bad habit of doing that. I'll start a project and after a few days or a week or two I'll forget about it and never comeback. This blog should be different though. I'm going to stick with this project. I feel like it's really important that I keep up with it even if no one's reading. You never know who might stumble in or when. I want to be able to help other teens that get blind sided by Crohn's and this is my way of doing it. By sharing my experiences, even if they seem mundane, maybe I can help make it a little easier for someone else.
I've started going down on my dose of prednisone by 5mg but my face is still swollen. I don't know why but it seemed more noticeable today. I hope it will go down as I continue to lower the dosages. I really hate taking prednisone. I have been eating and snacking so much. I was just craving snacks all the time. There would be days where I would eat an entire bag of saltine crackers in one sitting. I was getting bloated and gained a significant amount of weight. Since I'm stuck at home I haven't been getting to much exercise and I can't get rid of the weight. This week I took control back and plan to take lots of walks, and look into yoga when I get strong enough. Right now I'm strong enough to climb the stairs up to my friends apartment (she lives on the second floor) but I still run like a penguin and now my legs are sore from all that climbing. I need to find ways to be a bit more active.
As far as getting my diet in check I bought a bunch of fruit at the supermarket. Melons and bananas are great to curve hunger and they're not fattening and the don't irritate my symptoms. Fruits like Papaya and Mangos, even oranges if acidic foods don't bother you too much are really good for snacks during the day. I prefer Honeydew Melons so whenever I just want to snack I pop a melon and get back to business. They're really filling and taste so good. Today I peeled an apple (the skin and cut it up into slices like chips and dipped them in Nutella.
On another note, next month I'm participating in this event called Camp NaNoWriMo. It's a spin off of National Novel Writing Month which takes place in November. Writers are challenged to write 50,000 words of anything in a month during April and again in July. It's my third year doing it and I have yet to win a single one. I'm confident that this is my year though.
The month before NaNo starts is meant to be the planning month where you figure what those 50,000 words are going to say. I've always been a pants-er as opposed to a planner, which means I write on the seat of my pants and is probably the reason I've never finished a NaNo. I've never had a set structure to follow.
This year though I'm trying my hand at planning and outlining my novel before next month. I'm using a program called Scrivener and I'm about 30% done with it. I've hit a bit of a bump in the road and had a little writer's block today but I'm doing pretty well and I'm so excited to start writing it.
The novel is called 'Calling Mr. Darcy' and it's a modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. I've been on a period romance binge lately, reading Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and the 2005 version inspired me. So far I regret nothing. Not even that Calling is a cliche high school romance. Normally I turn my nose up at teen romance and go down the fantasy/adventure route but this time around I decided to indulge my inner romantic and I'm not even sorry.
I'll be posting more often now, I promise. Even if there's nothing to report, I'll update you on something. This blog will be a regular thing now. Once I work up a posting schedule I'll let you know.
Bye for now!
-Anna
"For me writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm awake. I can continue yesterdays dream today, which is something you can't normally do in everyday life." -Haruki Murakami
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