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Last night's dinner was a frittata and 1/2 a piece of carrot cake.

Fell off the diet train last night and today. Breakfast: oatmeal with apple, dried fruit, nuts, butter and molasses. Lunch: Piece of broiled turkey tender with veggies. Dinner: quinoa, yams, asparagus, lamb and a glass of wine. 1/2 piece of carrot cake.

I also missed taking my supplements tonight. Did take them with breakfast and lunch.

Had a scary episode earlier today. Was trying to have a bowel movement and was having difficulty. I pushed rather hard and got a pain in my right side (liver/kidney area). The pain was sharp and made it difficult to take a breath. I lay on the floor and did some twists and stretches, which seemed to moderate the pain. It felt like an icepick had been jabbed into that area. As I said, it was scary (and still is).

Later, I went to the toilet at L's and had a movement without any pain, but I was careful with pushing and so forth. L fixed a good (but slightly diet-illegal) dinner. I decided to go ahead and eat what was there and enjoy it. I did so!

The sharp pain episode threw me off balance. While I was with L, as she prepared dinner, I kept sensing my back and side, looking for a recurrence. None came, that the heavens, but I'm still worried. I don't need any additional challenges right now.

I'm a little concerned that the pain was associated with the supplement I'm taking for gall bladder issues. In general, I'm having some difficulty taking so many of the supplements--it's not my normal style to shove large quantities of odd things into my body. I may cut back on the Bilemin as a precaution.

Treatment booked with Laura tomorrow. Will be good to see her and good to have a treatment. Two weeks seems to be about the limit, right now, of me being on my own. Less than that time with the diet, but overall I did pretty well the first week.

Aside from the strain and pain issue, day went well--especially the morning time. I stayed with a healing process mentioned in the Mind Healer book. It's relatively simple to do and covers my physical need well. I did a good walk and did some of my other practices. But, the time with L also really felt good--I'm being too much alone. Balance! Always a question of balance.

Balance and patience! Patience and perseverance! Perserverance and passion! Onward!

Nearly forgot! I had a really detailed dream last night. It involved a company and a team of people. It dealt with a new way of doing documentation where it was embedded and linked to the code elements directly. No longer would there be code elements and separate documents for system code, technical support, user guides, and so forth. They would all coexist within the code itself either as direct comments or linked items.

In the dream, I was explaining how it would all work, and how it would create an opportunity to use the techniques to start a spinoff operation that would handle the storage issues and support. I also noted how the documentation would no longer be limited to just words--images could be embedded as well.

It was an expansive, flowing dream with many people, a solid feel to it, and a sense of satisfaction associated with the work involved.