Since Calli mentioned her cat, I thought I'd point you at this - cats as a renewable energy source.
'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Nicely done Leifur.
That's what I can't remember-sincere death threats against strangers. Am I that numb?
If you are, I guess I am too. I recall hyperbolic "curses" at people who especially annoy us, meant for lifting the spirits of the annoyed one. I don't recall any die in a fire type of curses, which also make me uncomfortable. I don't like hearing death wished on anyone even in jest, but, like, plagues of exploding fleas? that's just silliness.
Barb is one of the lucky ones. For awhile I had to take quite a bit of iron (I probably still need to, but apparently I'd rather faint in public) and I had to take iron, with vitamin C AND orange juice in order for my stomach to even be moderately okay.
Eeeeek. I can't drink OJ because it really does a number on me and frankly, I was skeptical when my doc suggested the vitamin C because every time I'd ever tried taking iron, I'd wound up violently ill. Even when I was pregnant, they had to give me a low iron pre-natal, because of how sick the regular ones would make me. (Apparently, not everyone can taste the iron in iron pills-- who knew?) But he suggested the right combo of iron supplement and vitamin C and I've been good ever since. And as a bonus, I haven't gotten a cold beyond the mild sniffles in nearly three years.
But he suggested the right combo of iron supplement and vitamin C and I've been good ever since.
Can I ask what dose you take of each?
"Do you want lip or ear?"
LOVE.
sj, I take the Feosol FE Carbonyl Iron supplement, 45mg [link] with 500mg of Vitamin C.
I actually need to get to a doctor to see if I need to be taking more, but this has worked for the last few years in terms of I no longer feel like shit, nor does taking it make me feel like shit.
Echoing Nora; I'm totally stealing that.
Barb, thanks for that rec, even though it wasn't for me! I feel much better since I started taking an iron supplement, but I wasn't real happy with the usual ferrous sulfate ferrous oxide supplements. Let me just go gnaw on a skillet, what's the diff... The vitamin C helps non-heme (non-animal-source) iron to be absorbed. And apparently red wine, coffee, and tea block absorption of iron, so you have to not ingest them at the same time.
and avoid dairy soon after taking. seriously.