The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Interesting about sweeteners. Tried to visit that link, and it wasn't there. I had gone sugar, dairy and wheat free for about ten days, to see if my sinuses would calm down. Also took Oil of Oregano, a natural anti-fungal. It worked! Then I tried eating candy corn. Which caused the most God awful sinus headache. I read the ingredients on the candy bag. Corn syrup might have played a role, but what had escaped my attention was that the candy was made in a facility that also manufactured wheat and some other stuff. Instant karma. I am finding that wheat and sugar combined, is a lethal enemy for me.

Anyway, been lining up favorite scary movies to watch. Just watched "Burnt Offerings" with Karen Black and Oliver Reed. Next is "The Shining" with Jack Nicholson. All on DVD, of course. Have no patience with regular TV anymore. Maybe watching stuff like this will, conversely, snap me out of my black mood.

When Daughter Person was diagnosed with diabetes we pretty much gave up refined sugar. She has bad reactions to splenda and the other majorly used one (says one of them is made from chlorine), so we went with the sugar alcohols. They make some decent-tasting foods with those in them, and the diabetes association educator said that they can be counted as 1/2 a carb rather than a gram, and you can still deduct fiber from the carb total for the serving, so it's like eating something with half the sugar in it. Doesn't have that nasty chemical aftertaste that the splenda and other one (aspertame?) do.

Was able to buy xylitol at a local health food store and sub it in baked goods - it does work. It was a bit pricey, but you also don't need to use as much of it. We were cautioned that using too much of it could cause digestive upset, but we never found that to be the case for either of us - then again, we don't use a lot of it. I tend to sub it half for half for the sugar in a recipe, and then only use 1/4th the original amount of sugar in it for browning, etc. Oooh, I'm tired and incoherent, and that'll make NO sense at all. Sorry!

Yeah on quieter. The Chargers played today, so our "happily married" downstairs and over one neighbors were whoopin it up again. I'll be SO glad if we get a rainy season this year. Except for the mudslides ... hmmm, sorry neighbors, but I'll take the mudslides!

One Christmas I overindulged in health-store lollies with sorbitol as a sugar substitute. Yes, too much of that does loosen the bowels wonderfully!

My strange cross-reaction story: for several years, every time I ate something with refined sugar in it, and drank coffee at the same time, I would get a horrible earache, always in the same ear. I have no clue why it happened, or why it stopped.

Hey y'all!

Screaming Oh Postie you are my hero!

Sorry I screamed. But every time that man walks in I swear ..ummm ..I swear my heart starts to flutter. sigh But did you have to put some scenes in for Deacon Blue?

Krex, you survive because you have a sense of humour. I can see that things are not going well for you but your posts still make me laugh.

'Walking to New Orleans' has just been on the radio.

Sorry you are being disturbed by the neighbours, Hartzofspace. A bit off the subject of you waiting for the ship to arrive, but when I was a teenager I used to walk home from school along deserted streets and think I'd been left behind and that the Rapture had taken place. For all of you heathens ... probably not many in America ... The Rapture takes place when Jesus and his angels appear in the skies and draw all the christians to him.

Sure, you can have them, they're far too young for me anyway.

[Wanders off grumbling, is suddenly struck by an idea, lunges back to the keyboard.]

Doesn't that mean they're too young for the Cafe? I mean, the lower age limit is really about mental maturity, not chronological age, but shouldn't we check?

[Whisper]

What? What was that?

[Murmur]

You don't say! Me, too? My word! But why should that be a problem?

[Agitated, urgent murmur]

I see. Isn't there something called a statue of limitations, or something? It takes more than 23 minutes? More than 23 years for this? My word! I would be much obliged if you discreetly ignored the little incident, then.

Ahem.

On second thoughts, perhaps we shouldn't. A liberal, inclusive, generous attitude is laudable, not to say both welcome and virtuous.

(Anyone seen my sense of humour yet? When it's frightened, it tends to take on the colour and shape of common items in the vicinity, for camouflage, like an octopus. I've known it to mimic a muffin.)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQWxIrSRDQQ[/youtube]

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That's odd, Dragon!

Then again, every time I turn KPBS on in the car when I'm driving to work and they start talking politics my back teeth hurt, but I guess that's explainable?

Ain't he just the cutest lil thang, tho? And creative, too. Can we keep him?

Nanarob, in the sticks in Texas they had the rapture where you'd be driving down the road and in the blink of an eye all the "saved" would be just ~poof~d and gone. Leaving the rest of us miscreants behind to wonder and get toasted. Hence all the bumper stickers on cars saying "In case of Rapture, this car will be unoccupied" (talk about hubris!! !!). [Said Nan, checking around to see if anyone's missing, just in case.]

"Walkin" is a good song.

There's ash all over my freaking desk. Oh my. I guess I should see if the tech support guys come in today and have them clean out my computer before it frys - last fire the ash got in my PC and covered up the mother board and it fried. Ya don't think about it doing that - but when people left here Friday a week ago they didn't close all the windows.... At least it hasn't got anything to do with cats!

A little doggie fact for all you dog lovers out there........

The canine members of a family can contract the same stomach viruses as the humans. And odds are good that if there are 2 dogs in said family, they will contract it at the same time, leaving their chosen human up to her eyeballs in puppy vomit and diarrhea.

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HIDE!! !!

Police raid imminent!

Anyone found still in the Ex-Café will probably be rounded up, as accomplices.

Gromit's SoH is on the loose, and it's mimicking muffins... again!

(It'll only be a matter of time before it's muffin' mimics, then we'll all be in deep sh// thought.)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNxwAU_xAMk[/youtube]

Ah, once again I managed to chase everyone away.

Here's a picture of Sharon & Ozzy.

I'm afraid I'll be spending my day taking the puppy outside.

*eeeek* So first Postie scares the living daylights out of me with his halloween preview, and then guess who finds Gromit's SoH lurking in her shoe? <---poof

This is a picture of me with my friend, Isabelle. It was taken in 1966. She took her own life on Christmas Day of that year. Pills & alcohol. She was the one true friend of my life, lived across the street from me, loved me like a mother. We had many adventures together.



This is a picture of Isabelle as an officer in the United States Air Force. I think she was a captain.

For Isabelle:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO9dbmJ_2zU[/youtube]

That was a beautiful/sad song.I like it better then the NIN version.



CC,how did you deal with the anger at your friend for leaving you?I am still struggeling with that with my sister who tried suicide while living with me.It has hurt our relationship.Even though I understand her "reasoning",I cant seem to over come the anger at being deserted or the fear of getting close again(she has attempted it several more times in the past 7 years.)