Hmm, what is the anti-inflammation diet, ita? I'm guessing I'd need to cut out too many foods, but I am curious. The candida diet (er, anti-candida that is) has had both short and long term benefits.

I am sitting here feeling all accomplished because I: 1) enrolled the kids in camp for next week, 2) switched my Rx, 3) dealt with AT&T twice (hate them) to set up a repair visit to fix the land line, 4) took care of the mortgage payment, and 5) snuck in some writing. And okay, lots of little tasks done, but honestly I think I'm setting a fairly low bar for adult-like behavior.

Oh and also? Because wine.

Would it be annoying/useless/dumb work for you if I tagged stuff #goodstuffhappened sometimes?

That works -- I will track the tag and hope for the best.

ION, fuck. I clogged up my kitchen sink and forgot about it, because it drained down eventually. So now I'm running the dishwasher and the sink fills up and starts overflowing. I imagine the clog is down in the pipe, since I can't feel anything wrong in the disposal, and it's running fine, just not draining. Yet another downside to the CSA! So I've emptied a bunch of water out of the sink, and then what? Actually try to take apart the pipes? That freaks me out. Would baking soda and vinegar even help?

I can't plunge because the drain opening is too big for the plunger to get any purchase.

I'd give baking soda and vinegar a try. Might help, and it's pretty low effort to find out.

Ugh Jesse, I wish I had some helpful advice for you.

I'd give baking soda and vinegar a try. Might help, and it's pretty low effort to find out.

Yeah, true. I will....assuming the water drains out.

Thank goodness I was home! I often start the dishwasher on my way out the door because it's so loud.

Don't your have any friends with pickup trucks, ita?

Not since I stopped krav, no.

Tools I got. I just despise putting together furniture. My laziness exceeds my station.

I guess BMWs don't need to fold seats forwards? I could fit a surfboard in the Jetta that way. Bad Beemer! Bad!

Hmm, what is the anti-inflammation diet, ita?

It's this [link] but I'm not doing all that--my main focus is low glycemic index, and a large increase in fresh fruit. There's been a bump in vegetables too, but not to normal people levels or anything.

From looking at that list, I think my next step is to increase oily fish. I probably dropped five pounds which isn't much of anything, but my ankles would swell randomly a lot, and they've been less swollen than I've been able to manage *with* diuretics. It totally wasn't a goal of the switch, but I'm impressed, since no doctors had any idea what was going on or what to do about it other than treat the symptom.

I haven't had a hard time following it, although I'm sure tending to other people would drive me nuts. And I fully intend to break it at Christmas, but I get J'can food once a year. I'm fucking eating all the plantain tarts I can fit in my stomach. My appetite has shifted in response, which has helped make it not a problem--as long as all the food I'm going to grab is whole grain and not sweetened with high glycemic sugars, a lot of the work is already done.

As far as the main goal, pain management--I don't know? I am going to try and start keeping a detailed headache log, but the best I suspect is that the base level might have decreased a bit, but I still get the same amount and intensity of bad episodes.

Thanks ita. That's not too far from how I try to eat, but I eat higher protein and lower soy than he recommends. And the coffee, because "because coffee" is even more relevant to my life than "because wine."

got a friend coming for the weekend. he's coming tomorrow and we have to get the spare room ready and clean!

YIKES

ita, we have plastic adirondack chairs that we got at Lowes for less than $15 I think. If that helps you.