I have had an iffy tum for several days. My DH just made me chicken and rice in the rice cooker with sea salt and fresh ground pepper, lemon pepper, rosemary, thyme and savory. It smells like heaven. Waiting for the timer to clunk.

With my tummy-soothing ginger ale, I just had a square of Green&Black's Aztec Gold. Nom. If the tummy ick hasn't yielded to babying thus far, I figure throwing a little chocolate at it won't hurt.

I made a nice lamb and lentil stew for dinner. And a carrot fennel orange soup with ginger and curry for lunch. Whoo, I found my cooking mojo, it'd been gone for ages.

I am envying all y'all's tasty dinners. We had noodles with turkey and peas. Very simple and unexciting. DH has taken the kids to grandma's for an evening visit, so now I am trying to get back to grading. Um, by way of b.org.

I found some pill-form probiotic stuff at Costco today that I'll also be trying.

Which one? (It's sort of sad that I'm so interested in probiotics.)

Tasty sounding dinners, y'all!

Tep, it's called Align. I was looking for liquid form but was thwarted. Have you tried Align before?

Tep, it's called Align. I was looking for liquid form but was thwarted. Have you tried Align before?

I have, and it worked fairly well for me. My best probiotic advice is that if it doesn't seem like it's working after taking it for a month, give it another month, because sometimes it takes a while for the GI system to chillax.

Work today ended with a 911 call and an intern headed to the hospital in an ambulance after a 20ish foot fall. Very scary. I'm waiting for word on how she's doing.

So I ask you, what was your first concert?

Bobby Goldsboro at Worlds of Fun. My brother and I got kiddie roller coasters before we had to sit through the sappy concert with my parents. The first concert I asked to go to... Air Supply. I was 13 or 14 and my mom took me.

Best concert? U2 Joshua Tree tour. The entire crowd continuing to sing "40" as they dispersed to the parking was a pretty amazing experience. I couldn't begin to rank the other great shows I've seen... Sting (w/Concrete Blonde and Vinx), New Order/P.I.L./The Sugarcubes (New Order's sound sucked, but the others were fantastic), Poi Dog Pondering, Sonia Dada, Howard Jones (in 1999), TMBG, Tim Finn... oh, and Concrete Blonde in a small venue is waaay intense.

I bought the big 49 capsule box so it has 7 weeks to convince me, as long as my symptoms don't get horribly worse. (Yes, I was just reading the negative comments about it on Amazon so I'm glad to hear that you had some success with it.)

eta: Holy cow, aurelia! I hope you hear some good news soon. Wow.

Eep, aurelia. Hope it all turns out well.

How awful and scary, aurelia. I hope you hear soon.