I once complained about the constant TVs on at a friend's house and he said it was just like that at my house, too & I said, "But just during football season... and baseball season... but that's sports!"

Sorry, Nora. I think I was massively unhelpful there and could have been read as being judgy. I was surprised to find out how connected it was FOR ME, is what I was trying to say--not for everyone.

I'm sorry too- I did understand you weren't being judgy, and I was gonna go back and edit accordingly and then work interfered (as it does).

I went to Whole Foods and scrutinized every can and package (well, I mostly got vegetables and meat stuff, but canned tomatoes and black beans as well.)

smonster, I go to Swan River Yoga-they have a studio on Magazine (just off Jackson) and also one down the road from work in Mid City. They are nice, but they kick my ass a lot. Some of the instructors do Hindu chants at the start and end of practice. I signed up for a beginners class tomorrow night (7:30-8:45pm), if you want to join me- new students get one class for free!

canned tomatoes and black beans as well.

Canned goods in general but canned beans in particular were my You Must Be Kidding Me in terms of stealth sodium. And I didn't notice because I was trying to be aware of sodium. I was tracking my eating habits with a program that calculated it for me and I was stunned.

WF had a couple brands that were salt free and then I saw the Goya with salt with a zillion mg of sodium.

Does it help if you rinse?

So....I'm in Roswell. It's hot. Really hot. And yet? Still more comfortable to me than Virginia.

And this part of NM at least isn't on fire.

Statistics say rinsing reduced sodium by 40% to 60%. I have no idea of how to tell if the result is on the high end or low end, so always count rinsed beans as having 40% less sodium than the label to be on the safe side.

In other health news - got an extremely painful large cyst on my stomach. Doctor cut it open to drain and will remove once it heals and hardens so they don't have to do surgery on something mushy. Unsurprisingly, though this will give relief in the long run, immediately is still painful.

Dear Typo Boy's body:

Give him a fucking break.

I hope you got the good drugs, at least.

Holy Crehole, Gar. That's a lotta cut and excising on the flesh lately.

So....I'm in Roswell.

Raq, in Roswell, with the Trampoline!

Ugh Typo, that's an owie. I can say that I had a cyst removed and I can say that the surgery itself should be a breeze (as long as you don't have a sensitivity to local anesthetics--oops!).