Hee so much fun, Barb.

I had a brief interlude where I picked up some irritating malware on my netbook, but I was saved by System Restore, which I've never used before.

Consuela, I also had a dramatic drop in cholesterol after adding oatmeal and cinnamon to my diet. Also, tasty.

I have made pie crusts today too. One seems too wet, the other too crumbly. I am expecting too much, but I am hoping they will roll out like a dream like the pie crust I made here at Xmas. (I am at my parents' house.)

Also, My parents, after living in this house for 39 years, have put a shower head adapter into their old fashioned bathtub. It was so great, and their tub is so flat to stand in. Why didn't they do this 39 years ago? I had many years of washing my hair craning to get my head under a tap. And quick baths in an inch of water.

You people who eat oatmeal, do you do something to add protein? All-carb breakfasts leave me hungry again an hour later.

Steel-cut oatmeal is a more complex grain than rolled oats, so it digests more slowly, thus keeping you full longer. That said, I usually add chopped pecans to mine when I put it in the crock-pot. Nuts have protein, right? And maple syrup. And raisins.

I cook my hot cereal in soy milk instead of water.

Trader Joe’s has a quick-cooking steel cut oatmeal.

You people who eat oatmeal, do you do something to add protein? All-carb breakfasts leave me hungry again an hour later.

Nothing protein-y in the oatmeal itself; I just generally eat a handful of almonds with (or after) the oatmeal.

I usually buy the Bob's Red Mill 5-grain hot cereal. I like the taste better than plain oatmeal, and it's got flax seed in it, too.