I think the breakfast oatmeal. NO not hardcore gluten free. Different medical condition where minor contamination does not matter. I'll go for splenda equal to quarter cup sugar. Thanks all.

I am annoyed that I would like to purchase a $3 item from a website, but shipping is $7.95, and the only option they offer.

sj, my favorite paint-chosing quote, from Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House:

I want it to be a soft green, not as blue-green as a robin's egg, but not as yellow-green as daffodil buds. Now, the only sample I could get is a little too yellow, but don't let whoever does it go to the other extreme and get it too blue. It should just be a sort of grayish-yellow-green. Now, the dining room. I'd like yellow. Not just yellow; a very gay yellow. Something bright and sunshine-y. I tell you, Mr. PeDelford, if you'll send one of your men to the grocer for a pound of their best butter, and match that exactly, you can't go wrong! Now, this is the paper we're going to use in the hall. It's flowered, but I don't want the ceiling to match any of the colors of the flowers. There's some little dots in the background, and it's these dots I want you to match. Not the little greenish dot near the hollyhock leaf, but the little bluish dot between the rosebud and the delphinium blossom. Is that clear? Now the kitchen is to be white. Not a cold, antiseptic hospital white. A little warmer, but still, not to suggest any other color but white. Now for the powder room - in here - I want you to match this thread, and don't lose it. It's the only spool I have and I had an awful time finding it! As you can see, it's practically an apple red. Somewhere between a healthy winesap and an unripened Jonathan

Back in the day when you hired people to paint your house.

Go Em with the report! And Vortex, is there no way to search online for local stores that carry the item?

For those of us withouth BBC America access, it seems season 6 of Doctor Who is streaming on Netflix now. Yes, I just watched 2 episodes before going to bed.

Beverly, that paint-choosing quote is painfully funny. That sounds like my sister and me at the paint store. "I want a light green, but not a mint green, and not a yellow-green, with just a hint of brown but not obviously brownish, and light enough to reflect the light from the night-light in the hallway, otherwise that tiny bathroom is too dark at night!"

That quote is right one and explains why all my walls are white. I can't settle on a color to save my life.

One of the greatest things about painting is that if the color turns out to be not perfect, you can paint over it! I picked the perfect (perfect!) green for my living room, but selected the color during a freakishly sunny day. As soon as i finished the room it was cloudy and i realized that it was too dark. So i went back to the store the next day, got a couple gallons one shade lighter on the same swatch, and BAM! Perfection. Sure, it's extra time and $$$, but not like making a bad selection on tiles or flooring material.

And totally seconding doing a larger sample once you are narrowed down a bit. At least 1 ft square...the bigger the better. Scrap wood or even cardboard that's been primed works great. Then you can move it around the room, next to furniture, in different places re: windows, etc. Those wee bitty swatches are great if you are mentally able to extrapolate to an entire wall...i've never been able to do that.

Man, I've been having a freaky physical thing for the past 24 hours. I've had 5 instances of LOTS of blood in my stool. . . really it's more blood than stool and the result is that I feel really weak and I'll be heading to the doctor in about an hour. I am having difficulty imagining that it could be something not scary but can I get some ~less scary ma please?

I, of course, googled and kind of freaked myself out.

sumi,

lot's of ma for you. Oh man.

Health ~ma, sumi! Yikes.