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Feb. 4th, 2010 07:23 amnot really posting much lately. laziness? tired? or is my life that boring?
answer: all the above. this is not necessarily a bad thing, nor am i bitching about it. but i am alive, even if i am quiet.
currently, i am writing some SG-1, a Continuum AU. it's one that's been around for a while, but at least i haven't tossed it. then again, i could be doing everyone a favor by tossing it, but i do enough of that.
am enjoying the Farscape comics. Just read Ongoing #3 (go here for a peek) www.tfaw.com/New-Last-Week/Profile/Farsc
Also, since i'm on the subject of Farscape, can anyone tell me if the paperbacks are any good? here's one... www.amazon.com/Farscape-Ship-Ghosts-Davi
off fandom and onto health. and no, i am not putting this behind a cut tag. i post so rarely it hardly matters.
deal with it.
i spent much of 2009 coping with some baffling symptoms. for some time i thought i was suffering with lyme's disease, but it turned out to be gluten intolerance. i was very lucky that one of my doctors (inadvertently) mentioned a gluten free diet before my health seriously declined.
i thought a gluten free diet was crazy. i've eaten wheat all my life and haven't been sick. WTF changed? i also thought giving up gluten was close to impossible because it's in everything. with that attitude, i didn't give the suggestion much consideration - at first. i had already tested negative for Celiac. btw, i still test negative for Celiac. Doctors don't tell you about testing discrepancies, or the fact that you might not make enough of the antibodies they test specifically for. the docs also don't tell you much about Celiac disease's lesser demon, gluten intolerance. i learned about that from talking to people and reading everything i could find.
the past eight months have been an an enormous learning experience. i feel incredibly lucky that i can eliminate the problem through diet. there have been setbacks, but each one comes with new information and benefits. and like many other people, i also suffer with several food allergies, so food and diet has become center stage for me. there's drawbacks and inconveniences of course like mindless eating and eating out and PIZZA, oh, God, how i miss you! but it's worth it. the longer i maintain the diet, the easier it becomes and i feel better and better all the time. i used to eat whole wheat breads, carrots and roasted almonds regularly. this is a really bad idea for someone with gluten intolerance and allergies to carrots and tree nuts. it's amazing how diet and nutrition impacts our bodies.
And regarding nutrition, here's the newest author/book i'm turned onto: www.foodandhealing.com/ i'm planning to read both Food And Healing and The Whole Food Guide To Strong Bones.
so, i hear the Superbowl is this Sunday. me, i couldn't give a fuck.
incidentally, i could care less about sports as a whole. (X-Games are the exception! i can watch boyz jump motorcycles all damned day and still find it hard to tear myself away. bless their adorable, crazy asses.)
but i used to look forward to the Superbowl. it was an excuse to get together with friends and drink and eat ourselves silly.
now, just because i won't be drinking myself into sports-induced stupor this Sunday doesn't mean i'm a thoughtless whore. (well, i am, but there's always room for improvement.)
for those where food allergies are a consideration this Superbowl Sunday, i give you the perfect fare: chicken wings. check this vid out from Renegade Kitchen: www.youtube.com/watch . this guy's the Denise Austin of the food allergy kitchen, sort of, as in perky. but he's cute, isn't he?
talk of putzing around the kitchen, so i'll mention that mine is in the midst of a mini-makeover. thanks to my generous grandmother, i was able to purchase a new oven. my old one was well, really old, and a fire hazard. we got a deal for the oven plus a matching micro-hood. my microwave currently functions fine, but it's a hand-me-down that's over 13 years old. gotta watch that number 13. my birthday falls on 13, so you understand.
cooking with a new oven that heats evenly with a bunch of bells and whistles that i thought i'd never own makes me tremendously happy each night. the husband is in the process of tearing apart a partition wall (aesthetic design, functionless) to install the microhood. much support is needed, plus there's a piece of trim molding that has to be mounted above. i'm so glad he does this shit. a stainless steel backsplash is being mounted, too. the old one was a stained piece of yellow-ish sanatist. nasty.
we purchased three new cabinets for the empty wall. we've talked about this for the last thirteen years, but money's always tough to come by and it usually is reserved for the kids or a pricey car repair. it was worth the wait. the cabinets give us some storage and they look awesome.
next up is some affordable open kitchen shelving. one night E asked me how many cookbooks i had to shelve. we weighed them because the shelves we were considering were rated to eighty pounds. my cookbooks come in somewhere just over sixty pounds. and i'm sure i'm leaving one or two out somewhere. i can't wait to see them up, not piled in the corner and scattered all over the house.
my boyz are good, though the oldest was sick again last week. happens alot when the kid's tonsils are large. but a bad tooth was the problem. he had an abcess that was treated with antibiotics, but it still made him physically ill for a while. he improved as soon as the tooth was extracted.
the little one turns five in a few weeks. (the oldest turns ten this summer - yikes!) i have to throw together a pirate birthday party lickety-split. i'll be entertaining ten-to-twelve kids from ages 3-9 in my modest-sized house for the event. parents take up space and eat, too. i'm thinking pizza and cupcake decorating. i've got a wooden treasure chest craft for them to do and my sister suggested a dig for buried treasure. that means lots of playsand, so the cement basement floor is perfect for that. my husband is an enormous child, so he's fixated on the sword idea. we came across paper ones that we can glue to cardboard backings, paint and decorate. i suck at coordinating, especially sugared up mini-humans. iz scared.
answer: all the above. this is not necessarily a bad thing, nor am i bitching about it. but i am alive, even if i am quiet.
currently, i am writing some SG-1, a Continuum AU. it's one that's been around for a while, but at least i haven't tossed it. then again, i could be doing everyone a favor by tossing it, but i do enough of that.
am enjoying the Farscape comics. Just read Ongoing #3 (go here for a peek) www.tfaw.com/New-Last-Week/Profile/Farsc
Also, since i'm on the subject of Farscape, can anyone tell me if the paperbacks are any good? here's one... www.amazon.com/Farscape-Ship-Ghosts-Davi
off fandom and onto health. and no, i am not putting this behind a cut tag. i post so rarely it hardly matters.
deal with it.
i spent much of 2009 coping with some baffling symptoms. for some time i thought i was suffering with lyme's disease, but it turned out to be gluten intolerance. i was very lucky that one of my doctors (inadvertently) mentioned a gluten free diet before my health seriously declined.
i thought a gluten free diet was crazy. i've eaten wheat all my life and haven't been sick. WTF changed? i also thought giving up gluten was close to impossible because it's in everything. with that attitude, i didn't give the suggestion much consideration - at first. i had already tested negative for Celiac. btw, i still test negative for Celiac. Doctors don't tell you about testing discrepancies, or the fact that you might not make enough of the antibodies they test specifically for. the docs also don't tell you much about Celiac disease's lesser demon, gluten intolerance. i learned about that from talking to people and reading everything i could find.
the past eight months have been an an enormous learning experience. i feel incredibly lucky that i can eliminate the problem through diet. there have been setbacks, but each one comes with new information and benefits. and like many other people, i also suffer with several food allergies, so food and diet has become center stage for me. there's drawbacks and inconveniences of course like mindless eating and eating out and PIZZA, oh, God, how i miss you! but it's worth it. the longer i maintain the diet, the easier it becomes and i feel better and better all the time. i used to eat whole wheat breads, carrots and roasted almonds regularly. this is a really bad idea for someone with gluten intolerance and allergies to carrots and tree nuts. it's amazing how diet and nutrition impacts our bodies.
And regarding nutrition, here's the newest author/book i'm turned onto: www.foodandhealing.com/ i'm planning to read both Food And Healing and The Whole Food Guide To Strong Bones.
so, i hear the Superbowl is this Sunday. me, i couldn't give a fuck.
incidentally, i could care less about sports as a whole. (X-Games are the exception! i can watch boyz jump motorcycles all damned day and still find it hard to tear myself away. bless their adorable, crazy asses.)
but i used to look forward to the Superbowl. it was an excuse to get together with friends and drink and eat ourselves silly.
now, just because i won't be drinking myself into sports-induced stupor this Sunday doesn't mean i'm a thoughtless whore. (well, i am, but there's always room for improvement.)
for those where food allergies are a consideration this Superbowl Sunday, i give you the perfect fare: chicken wings. check this vid out from Renegade Kitchen: www.youtube.com/watch . this guy's the Denise Austin of the food allergy kitchen, sort of, as in perky. but he's cute, isn't he?
talk of putzing around the kitchen, so i'll mention that mine is in the midst of a mini-makeover. thanks to my generous grandmother, i was able to purchase a new oven. my old one was well, really old, and a fire hazard. we got a deal for the oven plus a matching micro-hood. my microwave currently functions fine, but it's a hand-me-down that's over 13 years old. gotta watch that number 13. my birthday falls on 13, so you understand.
cooking with a new oven that heats evenly with a bunch of bells and whistles that i thought i'd never own makes me tremendously happy each night. the husband is in the process of tearing apart a partition wall (aesthetic design, functionless) to install the microhood. much support is needed, plus there's a piece of trim molding that has to be mounted above. i'm so glad he does this shit. a stainless steel backsplash is being mounted, too. the old one was a stained piece of yellow-ish sanatist. nasty.
we purchased three new cabinets for the empty wall. we've talked about this for the last thirteen years, but money's always tough to come by and it usually is reserved for the kids or a pricey car repair. it was worth the wait. the cabinets give us some storage and they look awesome.
next up is some affordable open kitchen shelving. one night E asked me how many cookbooks i had to shelve. we weighed them because the shelves we were considering were rated to eighty pounds. my cookbooks come in somewhere just over sixty pounds. and i'm sure i'm leaving one or two out somewhere. i can't wait to see them up, not piled in the corner and scattered all over the house.
my boyz are good, though the oldest was sick again last week. happens alot when the kid's tonsils are large. but a bad tooth was the problem. he had an abcess that was treated with antibiotics, but it still made him physically ill for a while. he improved as soon as the tooth was extracted.
the little one turns five in a few weeks. (the oldest turns ten this summer - yikes!) i have to throw together a pirate birthday party lickety-split. i'll be entertaining ten-to-twelve kids from ages 3-9 in my modest-sized house for the event. parents take up space and eat, too. i'm thinking pizza and cupcake decorating. i've got a wooden treasure chest craft for them to do and my sister suggested a dig for buried treasure. that means lots of playsand, so the cement basement floor is perfect for that. my husband is an enormous child, so he's fixated on the sword idea. we came across paper ones that we can glue to cardboard backings, paint and decorate. i suck at coordinating, especially sugared up mini-humans. iz scared.
