I'm having a day where every bit of eating/drinking advice I've been given feels like a personal affront against the right order of the universe. I'm very tired of having to think if everything I want to consume should be considered hazardous--so I'm back on the diet Coke and I'm munching on Cheetos. I was drinking diet Mountain Dew, then discovered that brominated vegetable oil, standard in citrus flavored pops, is banned in 100 countries as a food additive. Joy. Sure, I could drink water, but I want something with flavor and zing. So I'm going to try to drink diet Coke very sparingly.
It's distressing when my brain goes to the argument "but you're going to die anyway, right?" There are ways and ways of dying, of course, but the inevitability of it does tend to overwhelm things.
Hello. Awake again and feeling just slightly better. Unfortunately, my thermometer seems to have a dead battery so I can't check my temp. I've read the cold v. flu symptom stuff and just don't know. I'm going to eat some brunch and drink some tea and see how I feel.
Re: the Obama stuff, oh ffs.
Well, at least it's not Potassium Bromate! [link]
Sure, I could drink water, but I want something with flavor and zing.
do you need caffeine? If not, ginger ale is pretty good stuff.
Really, person on my friends list who I've known my whole entire life? You're going to tell me that my dead Grandfather wouldn't have approved of my approval of President Obama going on vacation?
aw dag. A cousin I'm not particularly close to posted about this but his comment was "I like that this poll is sponsored by a "Reagan for President" group. No problem that he's dead; he was already brain dead while he was in office." Hooray for unexpectedly like-minded fairly distant relatives.
Of course someone commented disapproving of Obama's vacation and I had to post the Snopes link.
Hah, so did I Lisa. Thanks for the link, DCJ!
I've started deleting teabaggers and other far right types from my friends list altogether. I don't care. I don't want that shit in my life.
Well, I think the that statement Obama is the first president not to lay a wreath at Arlington, although not a fact, is a pretty interesting commentary on his patriotism, and that has to say something. It indeed has the exact same sentence structure as a fact.
The only politically vocal far-right FB friend I have is my cousin, who I keep around because (a) he's only 14, (b) he doesn't talk politics all that much, and (c) his parents are in a cult. So his political beliefs are not his fault and will almost certainly evolve over time. (And also, the fact that he's a Tea Party sympathizing transexual babybat goth is...well, I can't wait to see how he grows up.)
