Mmm, pizza. I could eat a whole one right now.

Laga, you're right, I don't really want to cook. I would love it if you would cook for me! except I'm in New Jersey, which I believe is an entire continent away from your cooking self. Alas.

Theodosia, I'm glad your shoulder problems are relatively easy to diagnose and fix! Physical therapy exercises are like magic. When I do mine twice a day, my back is almost like normal.

::cough:: Unsolicited information for the inflammation-afflicted: Quercetin and fish oil are both good for reducing inflammation. Helped me get from 1600 mg of ibuprofen per day to 600 mg or less. Other things are good too, but those are the ones I know personally. We're quite close, really.

I can't believe how gorgeous the weather was today. January 6, and it's nearly 70 degrees and sunny. I expect we're going to pay for it by getting hammered with a couple blizzards in February, and having a terribly hot summer.

I've been meaning to ask: What is kettlebell?

I'm always on the lookout for a meds holder for my grandmother to use -- I don't know how many pills she takes, exactly, but she uses a weekly thingy for her daily meds. Ugh!

I could use something - even if it just held the am drugs. Really, my pocket is not the best place for them

I've been meaning to ask: What is kettlebell?

I'm a little migraine-exhausted to expound properly, but basically a kettlebell is a spherical lump of iron (comes in various weights) with a curved handle. Kettlebell the exercise regimen involves various movements of this bell, mostly centred around swinging it--more continuous arcs of motion than with traditional free weights and weight machines. Most everything involves the core stabilisation muscles, and your quads get one hell of a workout too.

A9 maps is gone! I wanted to use it to find the name of a restaurant down the street from a known business, and was planning to check the pictures of the storefronts moving eastwards, but no luck. I can't think of how else to find out the restaurant name.

Huh. I'm watching last night's Numb3rs, and it took me half an hour to completely fail to identify Teri Polo, although it was driving me crazy.

The interesting thing about this episode is that it's clearly about Raoul Jeffs and the fundamentalist Mormons in southern Utah, except the writers were very very careful never to name LDS or the Mormons.

Interesting synchronicity, since I read Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven on the plane over the holidays, which is all about those communities. Fantastically well-written book, although deeply, deeply disturbing.

Teri Polo played Colin's ex in what was, I think, his first TV movie. So when I see her, I'm all "You're Teri Polo! Colin abducted and kissed you!" For similar reasons Lynda Carter is now that older chick that Colin abducted. While he was wearing crappy pants.

Thanks for the explanation, ita. I had heard of it, and I remembered after you told me!

I take about 20 herbal/vitamin/mineral supplements a day, plus a multi, plus 3 prescription meds. Not counting the pain medication, which lately is just Advil, or the anxiety meds, which I haven't actually had to take in a while (yay!). I may be slightly crazy. I wish I could find a pill holder big enough to carry them when I travel without having to carry the damn bottles (which I did once, and felt like a hypochondriac idiot) or do without them.

I'm watching Dirty Jobs. Mike Rowe is funny. And hot.

Oh, also Josh Malina! Jeremy! Will Bailey! Hard to take him as some tough FBI guy, though.

Mom's pill organizer is HUGE. I think her current count is 39 pill per day. It fluctuates as they tweak her meds.

Mom's pill organizer is HUGE. I think her current count is 39 pill per day.

Yeah, I think my mom's pill count is somewhere up there. Eating out with her is always interesting, because she invariably gets looks from someone when she doles out eight or nine pills to take before she eats.

She's been doing it so long, though, she just keeps a regular pill bottle in her purse, with all the different pills for the day, and doles them out as needed.