By "Yikes," I think I meant "Why haven't all of those people been punched in the face yet?"

I'm experimenting with my tea -- two scant teaspoons of sugar and an orange slice.

In other news, I just edited another article about the dangers of artificial sweeteners, and feeling doomed.

OMG y'all, so many horrible stories today. I'm so sorry you had to witness those things.

I am at one of those points where I'm OD'ing on stress and cortisol, but I think I'll be through the worst of this stint soon.

Except egad, I need to plan a birthday party, don't I? We skipped the parties last year, and I'm not allowed to flake on the kids two years in a row.

No one gets out alive, Amy. Two teaspoons of sugar (or the equivalent in artificial sweeteners because I am RECKLESS) is my standard. And two teaspoons of cream, but only real cream, if its half and half 4 tsps might do or I might do without, and milk I just don't take. Orange slice is an interesting idea - because it's sweeter than lemon, what's your thinking?

Unrelatedly: argh, I am idiot. I've been working on this spreadsheet, including recording macros for some of the formatting, etc., that I do over and over again. I thought I had been periodically saving it, so when I realized I had missed a crucial step just now instead of trying to undo my way back to where it goes I figured I could just close without saving and be back where I thought I had last saved. Only I guess I didn't. All of today's work=gone.

I hate lemon, so yeah. I like my tea fairly sweet (no dairy), but with the diabetes I can't load up on sugar just to avoid sweetener. (And I'd rather drink tea than diet soda for a lot of reasons, but the artificial sweetener is one of them.) I think the key is I just need to drink more water, sadly.

I am so ready for birthday party planning to be over, Burrell. I figure we've got maybe two left with Sara and then we're done.

I have poison in my face. Oh noes.

-t, I think we have all felt that pain. And it stings. Empathy and sympathy.

The lemonade I made a few weeks ago was the first sweetened drink I'd had in the...eight? months I've been low gly.

I can drink it a carafe at a time now that I've remembered it's an option, but then I need to spend a week or so without it. I feel all gummed up.

I need to find a beginner art class about colour, but I don't want to take a painting class since I'm never going to paint at home (too much carpeting, too little space). Hrrm.

I like my tea fairly sweet (no dairy), but with the diabetes I can't load up on sugar just to avoid sweetener

Do low glycemic sweeteners help, or is it more complicated than that?

All of today's work=gone.

Oh no! Terrible.

All of today's work=gone.

Oh, yikes.

Do low glycemic sweeteners help, or is it more complicated than that?

I haven't really researched them, and cost is a factor. Even Stevia is too expensive, given how much I'd probably use.

Like I said, I think I'm faced with learning to like water a whole lot more.