McDonald’s oatmeal contains more sugar than a Snickers bar and only 10 fewer calories than a McDonald’s cheeseburger, and is 10 times more expensive than supermarket oatmeal: [link]

But it's heeeaaallllthyyyyyy! (I am not remotely surprised at the sugar content, however.)

Burrell, I'm sending out the ~ma for your MiL.

Burrell, so much ~ma for you, your MIL and family.

Andi, good on you. We could never be disappointed.

I'm slightly freaking out right now. I just got poked on Facebook by the boy (now man) who gave me my first kiss. It is totally bringing back that summer in Italy. We did the long-distance thing for a year, then it just faded away and he wasn't there the next time I was in Italy. I never asked about him and I had no idea where he ended up. He's in Montreal. Holy shit.

Okay, here's something I should have learned before the age of 39, and a perfect example of how things that are really obvious NEVER occur to me:

I learned at my OB/GYN this morning (TMI for teh sex [not kink]) that if your boyfriend has a cold sore, it's maybe NOT THE BEST IDEA for him to go down on you. Oh, yeah.

I have never in my life gotten a cold sore, and I still haven't. (At least, not on my mouth, god damn it).

Wow, is it a Monday. (I might also have a UTI and other badness, but those cultures will take a few days to come back. Woo.)

LEARN FROM MY STUPIDITY.

Teppy, oh dear.

It is, admittedly, not something one thinks about one shenanigans get under way. But you can DAMN betcha I will in the future.

honestly, the first thing I thought was, "Is this the same storm that Anne got?" Hand to god, that's what I thought, even before "Should I wake Tim up and get to the basement?"

I wondered that too. Well, not if I should wake up Tim. The first part.

Yowwwwwwch on the whitefont! It's crazy the, in retrospect, things we don't realize. Being the cautionary tale can be a painful learning experience though. I hope you feel better really soon.

Oooh, Teppy. That sucks. I did know that. People tend to have the one strain on the lips and the other for the naughty bits, but you can get either one either place.

Things I Hate: Waking up in the morning after a full night's sleep (and no alcohol!) with a raging headache. But at least I gave in and took the good meds (two prescriptions, nasal stuff, and a heated ricebag--hitting it from all angles!) and went back to bed for an hour, and feel pretty OK now. Whew.

In much medical news:

Teppy, that was a great SNL sketch once. Alas, I cannot find it.

I just spoke with my surgeon. Tomorrow is the big day. Woke up with a question this morning and left a ms. for my doc to call me. He did and put my mind at ease. He rools.

Interesting medical anecdata from the Phsisiology Is Weird Department: My sister and one of my best friends, who have spent years with similar horriffic periods, both had emergency gall bladder surgery in the fall. Since then, they've both has normal 28 day cycles.

Both had PCOS diagnoses that never responded well to hormone therapy. Both had menstrual bleeding that would sometimes go on so long that it would reverse the usual schedule -- three weeks bleeding, a couple of days not. Sometimes they had no break just a slow down. And now? Sans gall bladder? 28 days. Craxy. Good crazy, but cray cray nonetheless.

Teppy, aiieee. Good luck!

Trudy, may the surgery be easy and may you get the good drugs! That's weird about the gallbladder/period thing. Never heard of that before! Wonder was the PCOS diagnosis wrong, or was the other thing a separate issue? Just goes to show, though, all body systems are connected somehow (cue woo-woo music), even those that seem like they should have nothing to do with each other.

My sister's doctor has heard of it happening. It seems there might be some relationship between galbladders and hormones. Weirdness.

Or that gallbladders fuck up periods apart from the hormone weirdness that gives them body hair and other symptoms related to the PCOS.