Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

I spent much of yesterday going nuts seeking out info about the most bio-available form of magnesium supplement that won't send me running to the, um, ladies' room. So far, we have 2 different full bottles of the stuff, all of which I'm too sensitive to.

Just some of the magnesium varieties:
Magnesium Oxide
Magnesium Glycinate
Magnesium Citrate/malate
Magnesium Aspartate
Magnesium Carbonate
Magnesium Sulfate
Magnesium Chloride

It's too easy to give up and not take the supplement. But too many body functions, including sleep, which is eluding me lately, rely on getting enough and most people don't get nearly enough because we don't eat the foods that have it the most.

I try to be good about taking all my pills, but I always get to a point where I can't stand to swallow another pill and back off the supps, taking just my absolute necessities, the meds.

Until the body recoils. Hacking and sputtering like an ill-timed engine. Geez. Whatever happened to just going through the day, eating food, and it being enough? But no. The bod can't function on its own. Lately, I feel like I am nothing, absolutely nothing more than a bunch of hormone creams, meds and supplements, without which I'd be a miserable pile of degenerated goo.

Or a House of Cards ready to tumble at the merest breeze. Yup, there goes Dawn, blowing away in the wind!

It's Friday. To some that means TGIF. To me, it means Doggie Day. When the local shelters put pics of some of their animals available for adoption in the paper.

Well, today held an embarrassment of riches. There was Little Bo Peep, a rabbit that looks like a sheep.

Andy, a poodle mix, and his brother, Amos.

Thelma, the beagle, and her sister, Louise.

And my favorites, name-wise - Stormy, a tri-colored cockatiel, with his sisters Sunny and Skye, and brothers, Rain and Drizzle.

But then we get to the ferrets. God, they're so cute! There's always a few listed and always with similar descriptions. Bella, a 3-year old black sable ferret, gives kisses and loves to play and dance. Well, that's me! I musta been a ferret in another life!