aims, that is totally a pic to pull out when she brings a date home.

Seems I can't recreate the stove incident. Grr. I think I managed to get all the gum off the windshield.

Steph, how goes the vertigo? Any progress??

Teppy, I had a really severe case of vertigo many years back but it was pretty much like you described. It lasted over a week and I could barely turn my head without feeling nauseated.

God, I'm hoping mine doesn't last that long. I mean, they *just* eased up on me at work, and bumped me back up to 40 hours, and now I'm all "Oh, hi, I can't come to work for a week because everything is spinning violently...no, I'm not making it up!"

I took ibuprofen a little bit ago, and the vertigo seems to be what I would describe as less bad. (And by "less bad," I just mean "spinning violently" as opposed to "spinning OMFG violently." Really, I was trying to describe it to my dad, and all I could say was, "This is NOTHING like being dizzy. If dizzy is like having the sniffles, this is like double pneumonia.") My totally unqualified-to-self-diagnose self-diagnosis is that, therefore, *something* is inflamed and fucking with my inner ear.

I'm assuming no work for me tomorrow, and I'm going to beg the doctor to see me ASAP. No way I can drive, though, so I'm screwing up not only my own workday, but The Boy's as well.

Yayfun.

Teppy, you don't control when you get sick. Don't beat yourself up over it - er to the extent that is under your control.

Teppy, did you have a cold recently? You could have a post-viral vestibular neuronitis.

I have both been there and done that, and it is truly awful. Benadryl helped a lot, but really, only time made it go away completely.

post-viral vestibular neuronitis

Aha! That sounds just like what I had. I did take a lot of antihistamines. It took about three days to work its way down to mild nausea, which hung around for a while.

I learn so much from y'all.

Teppy, did you have a cold recently?

Sorta. It was more like I felt like I was in the early stages of a cold for about 10 days (sore neck glands, mildly elevated temp, somewhat stuffy head, very tired), but it never turned into a full-blown snot monster cold.

After 16-ish hours, the vertigo is less bad, but still way worse than anything I've ever experienced. Took more benadryl and sudafed, ate some pad thai, and I'm now hoping to sleep off the worst of it.

Fingers crossed.

Oh dear. I hoped to wake up in the morning and find out you're fine by now. I'm crossing my fingers for you.

Also, may I have some dental and general health ~ma? I have tones of errands to do today, including spending really great time on the dentist chair while she replacing my brackets. I don't care for low fever, but I'm afraid it won't work if I'll have to blow my nose and cough every 5 minutes.

Great timing, whatever-it-is-I-have.

All the ~ma you want, Shir.

And some for Teppy, too.

IOpieN, I made a sugar free apple pie today. With boughten crusts. I read a bunch of Splenda-based recipes, and then made it up as I went along. I used 8 packets of Splenda, 2 packets of Sweet-N-Low, 3 tbs corn starch, a bunch of cinnamon and nutmeg, and about 9 apples mostly smallish from a sack of "variety seconds" from one of the local orchards. From the looks of them, mostly Cortland with some Honey Crisp, and a few Harrelson, and who knows what all else. Hint of tart, not too sweet, no weird aftertaste. The pie itself was a greater success than the SF whipped cream we made to go with it. Possibly too much vanilla in it.

Andi, a girl in my office has been making these recently and bringing them in, and they're really quite delicious if you're looking for new things to try out.

Crossant Cheesecake recipe

You will need:

2 rolls of Pillsbury reduced fat crescent rolls

2 (8oz) packs of reduced fat Philadelphia cream cheese

11/2 tsp of vanilla extract

1 egg

¾ a cup of slenda or 1 cup of sugar

Topping: v

2 tbsp of smart balance butter spread

1 tsp of cinnamon

¼ cup of splenda or ½ cup of sugar

Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 350
Grease a 9x13 pan and roll out one of the crescent rolls on the bottom of the pan. Mix together the cream cheese, egg, vanilla and slenda (sugar) and spread over the bottom layer crescent roll. Place the other crescent roll on top of the cheesecake mixture.

Melt the smart balance butter and spoon evenly over the top of the cheesecake. Mix together the splenda (sugar) and cinnamon and sprinkle evenly over the cheesecake. Bake at 350 for 35 minutes.

Remove from the oven and let cool for 30 minutes. Place in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours before serving.

I just had a memory flash - my dad used to put a slice of cheese on his apple pie while it was still hot enough to melt the cheese. Is that a Southern thing, or was the old man just bonkers?