I do occasionally call Joe "Sparky" as it irritates him and makes me laugh.

My mother bought a huge thing of spring greens and clementines after I'd been at my brother's for 2 days. Other than xmas dinner, I pretty much ate that the rest of the time there cause I wanted them SO MUCH after lasagna and pasta and potatoes (plus, my brother has a friend who works for Kraft, and as a result, they have a 2 gallon jug of a yummy strawberry balsalmic dressing. So I had to help them make a dent.) They eat a much more starchy and carby diet than I can deal with anymore. It was actually a little bit of a revelation how little carbs and starches I eat normally, in comparison. My system has slowly become more and more tetchy to things like wheat and dairy, and I've somewhat unconsciously been reducing them from my diet. The most bread I usually eat in a day is half a spinach tortilla.

But sometimes? I still want pasta. And cheeeeeeeese.

My system has slowly become more and more tetchy to things like wheat and dairy, and I've somewhat unconsciously been reducing them from my diet.

The causal system might be in reverse, though. The less you eat of those things the less enzymes your body produces to digest them, causing upset when you do eat them: [link] Or so it is claimed.

Chili: on the stove.

Bags: as packed as they can be.

I'm bringing 4 books. Although I expect to receive books for my birthday, I don't want to risk running out of reading material. Also, my suitcase is barely half full, so I have room.

I'm feeling cranky and fretful that I'm forgetting something. Possibly that has something to do with the chili not being in my belly yet.

The dairy was a pretty fast onset and hard to miss, but with the bread...I dunno. I LOVE bread. It wasn't until fairly recently I figured out my need for pepcid is correlated to bread and pasta consumption.

(Sophia - it should be lying)

I call my father Papa but he's "my dad" if I'm describing him to someone else. My mother prefers Mama but sometimes I forget and call her Mom. If I'm feeling silly or childish I call her Mamica, which is a Moldovan thing I picked up. I do not call my father Taticu, the equivalent.

I call KBD Sweetie or Baby generally. He calls me Sweetie or Pretty Girl.

I used to call amyth my fannish life partner. That confused some people. Hell, who knows how many people have assumed we were dating over the years.

t raises hand I thought so at first.

Dana, don't know if you are authorized to reboot y9our Router at work. Cause sometimes shutting down router and broadband connection for five minutes then turning them on again will solve this kind of problem. Of course that assumes it is you cache, and not your service that is the problem. If the problem is on the ISP end this will clear the working DNS addresses, and close off your remaining internet access. Cure or kill so to speak. But if all that is let is this board and you are heading home ...

Incidentally if it is the DSN service then you could set one of the alternate public DNS servers out there. Could look them up from home before you go into work tomorrow. But maybe you have tech support at work and don't need to worry about this.

Dana, don't know if you are authorized to reboot y9our Router at work.

Ha ha, no. Big company. But thank you, IT did figure out something was wrong and sent out an e-mail. Hopefully it will be fixed tomorrow.

I thought so at first.

Hee. Mostly it was amusing, plus it gave me ample opportunity to say, "I'm gay but we don't gay." There are lots of gay people at our church and we always went together, so we got several dinner invites from gay couples until the word got around.