it’s not just jet lag. it’s the poo schedule.
4 / 20 / 2010We’ve been home from Hawaii for what feels like forever (two weeks)…a lifetime (two weeks)…an eternity (two weeks)…and my body has finally gotten itself back on the *normal* schedule.
And no one is happier than me about this return to routine.
For the last two weeks…
My legs…no, my thighs…have felt like sausages in my pants…wrapped up all tight just like how that clear plastic stuff squeezes the life out of encases raw sausage meat (random sidebar: we EAT that weird plastic stuff…and that’s just gross).
The daily poo schedule? SIX HOURS BEHIND “normal” time…and normal time is in the AM. And by the way? Nothing’s worse than having to poo around NOON, AT work and DURING a meeting. Let’s just say I have no idea what was happening for that hour outside of my intestines.
And this unfortunate poo schedule mishap certainly doesn’t help in areas like massive bloating, which exaserbates the sausage sensation and when you add all that together, my body has no idea when to be hungry, so I felt like eating at random times, like 3:30 in the morning or 11:36 at night or during the time I was probably supposed to be pooing but couldn’t decide which signal my brain was sending.
SUPER. CONFUSING.
Also? My hair folices were rebelling against me. They were like, HELLO. We’re supposed to be all up in a messy ponytail thing. Like this:

Or this:

Or this:

Or this:

Or this:

But down? What the hell is DOWN? Down is uncomfortable. Down hurts like when you’ve had your hair all pulled into a really, REALLY tight up-do and then the next morning, when you’re super hung over and begin the process of un-doing the up-do, piece by bobby pinned piece, it hurts like hell when your hair barely moves in a direction other than the one its been positioned in for the last 15.67 hours.
I’m also going through orange jacket withdrawals.
So, yah. Relieved to have things “flowing” as they should.
TMI?
Sorry.
I think I’ve done away with my brain-to-mouth and brain-to-blog filters.
Which means you’ll always be in for a surprise.
Like this:

You don’t get it? Well…. it’s not just some random dude, who I don’t even know, eating.
That’s super boring…and weird. Like, stalkerish weird.
It’s RUM…
& ASS.
Awesome.







For the record I can’t stand when my poo schedule gets out of whack. I will get cranky and stomp around the house yelling about how I haven’t pooed yet. I also demand my husband to “look at this bloated belly that needs to poo!” and all sorts of other things that I will spare you from. So yeah, I get that.
Andrea: ME TOO!! I pitch poo fits. The husband hates them…then looks at me like I’m crazy after a success (*not* rabbit turds).
Seriously I went through the same thing when we got back from Egypt. We were gone for 12 days and it took 2 full weeks to get back to anything like normal. In addition to all of your issues I had to get used to bland American food again. I ate Mexican like 4 times a week in an effort to adjust.
Hawaii is a strange land.
When I go with my husband on the road in the truck, I get all sorts of whacked out in that department. I have issues anyway but being on the road will cause problems for a month.
and my eyes totally went to the ‘run’ ‘ass’ of the photo.
It actually looks like it says “LOBSTER, RUM AND ASS” which makes it the trifecta of awesome, basically.
Because Lobster + Anything = WIN.
I hate my poo schedule. My body is programmed to go at 6:30 in the freaking morning. I don’t know why it does this to me, since it can make running late in the morning HORRIBLE, but that’s just the way it is.
lol, i thought i was the only one with a poo schedule!
PS: ah yes, the turkey trot, now that you mention it…
I havent had a good shit (I can say that here right??), much less a regular shit since I started a very low carb diet 4 or 5 weeks ago. I’m all discombobulated. In fact I think thats why I’m cranky.
Michelle: wait… Adjust as in: get things flowing again? And Egypt?! I want to go!! How were the pyramids?
Sillyjaime: yes…it is…probably because it’s totally isolated……
Jenera: ouch… I can only imagine what that would do to my “schedule.” no fun.
Txtingmrdarcy: I missed lobster!!! And I totally agree. The roaches of the ocean = super awesome.
Melme: I’ll take 6:30am…as long as it’s consistent
Franzi: oh, no girl. We ALL have poo schedules
Peedee: yes. Low carb diets suuuuck. Been there (read “the binge” post….)… Hated it.
I had that problem when I came back from England. The time says one thing but your body is all what the F? Suck nation.
You were in Hawaii how long? A month? Two? Please don’t say just a week, please don’t say just a week…. cuz really? I’ll have to openly mock your week adaptive skills. And I REALLY don’t want to have to do that. It would hurt me.
-> Bushy
More like “adjust” as in get back to a regular (ahem..) schedule. Getting things flowing at the proper time.
Egypt was awesome. And loud and hot and dirty and smelly. I’m so glad I got to go but I’m in no hurry to get back. There’s like 6 blog posts about it at http://www.ramblinghussies.com complete with pictures.
your weak adaptive skills are apparently only rivaled by my “week” quick edit skills.
My poo schedule gets all out of whack when I stay in the same time zone! I can’t imagine what it would be like traveling to other countries. Well, actually, I did when I was 17, but I can’t remember the poo schedule adjusting afterward.
Lobster + RUM + ASS That’s pretty much what every guy thinks about 24/7. Or is that just my Husband?
Shelli – it sucks. Period. Super sucks, actually.
(Apparently I don’t even know how to respond to comments on my own damn website…all the responses were *actually* for the “proof we finished” post. I could have deleted this…but why? It’s more fun to edit and show you how utterly incompetent I can be sometimes. GO ME!)
Whitney: WHITNEY!!!!! Hi!
Is it weird I’m talking to you in a comment (probably)?. Anyway, we did kill someone. Because we had to walk another mile back to the hotel (sorry, Helga the room service chick)… (and we didn’t REALLY kill anyone…geez, people).
peedee: I can always count on you to point something like that out. Awesome. We were SECOND slowest.
DebbieQ: You can DO IT!….if you want, anyway. I mean, I can’t knit to save my life, but I’m sure you could run a marathon…
Amy, Theresa, Casey, Shannon: Thank you!
It was…painful. Words cannot describe…
Amy: 16 days? Is that acceptably long enough?
Amy: edit, schmedit. Love typos. I may be the queen of said “accidents”