Mexican food not such a good idea just yet

It's been quite a couple of months for me as I've had two laparoscopic surgeries in the past 7 weeks. The first, simply put, for some adhesions as a result of a surgery 3 years ago. The most recent to have my gallbladder removed.

The gallbladder really did need to come out as I had been having attacks since last May. Painful and not fun! Some of the attacks were pretty scary. Since my diagnosis in July (procrastination on going to the doctor) I have been on a low fat type of diet. Reluctantly I will say. The gallbladder reacts to much more that just fat so there were so many foods off limits unless I wanted to test my pain tolerance. Great for losing weight. I have clothes to wear that I couldn't wear for a long time. Not really a bad thing, just frustrating. How fortunate I have been for so many years to eat all the junk I indulged in :)

It's only been 9 days since the surgery. I have been taking great pleasure in tasting foods that I haven't had since July. Pizza is okay. Coffee is okay. Eggs are okay. Dairy products are okay. MEXICAN FOOD IS NOT! Darn... We went to Don Jose's last night and the end result was not pleasant. I'll have to wait a while longer and give it another go.

A Soccer Kind of Weekend

Indy had a soccer tournament this weekend in Irvine. The two games played on Saturday were at 3:00 and 5:30pm. Man! was it cold!!!!! BRRRRR The fields were quite nice, right down near UCI campus and up on a bluff. The sea breeze came across there with a chill while the clouds up above us tried to decide whether to rain or not. Scatterred raindrops were enough to put the final chill in our bones. I think I speak for all the parents and spectators (who am I kidding? only the parents were brave enough to spectate last night) we would have LOVED to be on the field running around and keeping warm! The boys tied their first game at 0-0 and lost the second 1-5.

Sundays game was at the same field at 12:30. Nice time for a game. Beautiful clear day that started out with the sun shining and later hid behind some clouds, but definately not as cold as last night. Not such a good game for the boys who ended up losing 0-3.

We're now on a hiatus from soccer until January when we play in another tournament mid month.