Explosion

I've been working slowly at developing ideas for my 100 theme challenge. It has been interesting to see what the first thoughts of each given topic are, as well as how I am going to relate everything together. I think I have figured out the latter issue but I've needed to take a break from outlining because I was getting depressed. I was somehow able to make topics relate to death more easily that should probably be possible. But I thought I would give something somewhat happy before I post about my life.

I am unhealthy. I've come to accept this. I am not overweight, nor am I excessively thin. I however need to state this so that I can come to terms with it and do something about it. Lately my nails have been flaking and peeling, and breaking very easily so I've turned to painting them to hopefully give them some strength while I figure out what is wrong. On the other hand, or foot I should say, my toe nails are super strong, they are easy to tear off should I not feel like clipping them (except my big toe of course), but I have ridges in them, horizontal which is the bad kind I guess. I've been doing some reason on what could cause these things and it's upsetting. I've always thought of myself as someone who eats rather well when it comes to nutrition. I will have poptarts, or cereal for breakfast, pasta with some sort of dressing and cheese for my lunch, and dinners vary because I eat with my brother and his girlfriend, but we almost always have a vegetable and a meat and starch too. I'm not sure what I am missing but given what is going on with my nails several sites have said the ridges are possibly caused by a Vitamin A deficiency and the flaking, and peeling can be caused by a deficiency in Vitamin A and D. My boyfriend says that I should take Cod Liver Oil, which is gross and disgusting. However the oils are good for the nails and hair, so I might be able to get stronger hair out of the deal. The one thing I saw online though was the potential for a toxic level of Vitamin A if taken on a daily basis, so I am going to have to research that more and talk to him about that.
To add to this list of things I am apparently lacking I've been feeling tired even after sleeping for 8 hours, waking up for a while to make sure the dog is alright and then going back to sleep for several hours. This is a habit that needs to be broken soon because of school. Supposedly though Vitamin B-12 is the go to vitamin. So I am going to look into that as well. This one is something I am pretty sure I will take just due to the fact that I know b-12 does work for me, and maybe it will help me get better sleep.
At the very least, once I am able to afford lots of food for myself I am going to start a new diet. Yes I will keep my normal foods because that wouldn't be a fun diet if I couldn't have chips or snack foods, but I am going to work on eating more fruits and vegetables as well as less meat again. I know some meat is good, but high amounts of it is not. I have had an issue with low iron in my blood so I need to keep watch on that. The main cause of this is the fact that I am female, and have been donating blood on a fairly regular basis.

Well now that I've said this I might actually start doing it, just need to get access to my money again and things will be better.

~Luna Rae Anselm