cleanliness and my favorite penguin

[rootofnewt]

i realized after boy left for the Terminal Ready show that I was too out of it to safely take a shower alone in the house, so i waited up for him. i'm about zombified now, but i'm clean. CLEAN.

it feels good.

i'm going to finish my cocoa (some meds have to be taken with food, i suppose milk counts, even if i don't really digest it that well) and go to bed.

and can i just say that the side effect of HICCUPS is the most annoying "harmless" one I've encountered? it was torture the last few days when i had the chest pain, now it's just a twinge, but it won't go away. i need to look at the paperwork and see if anything besides the diazepam is causing them. it's crazy and near constant.

and there's only one sure-fire cure for my hiccups (other than time)--drinking from the opposite side of a glass while leaning all the way forward. it's easier now that it doesn't hurt so much, but it's barely working.


And klwalton: Peach Oo-la-long.
I bought it today to quell a bout of hiccups (was being bad and went into a store (didn't touch stuff or people) to ask boy to get a couple things... I'm keeping the bottle. I'll fill it with beads or sand or something pretty.


An Opus of Your Own
In keeping with the playful taste combination of Peach Oo-la-long, the bottled tea label features America's favorite penguin, Opus, from the Bloom County comic strip. Berkeley Breathed, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and creator of the strip, is both one of Honest Tea's earliest customers and an investor in the company. "There will never be a penguin as beloved, innocent, offbeat and hilarious as Opus," said Seth Goldman, President and TeaEO of Honest Tea. "We are delighted to have him front and center on our newest addition and hope our customers can take as much pleasure in the taste, name and character behind Peach Oo-la-long as we had creating it," added Goldman. Opus appeared in the syndicated cartoon strip, Bloom County, nationwide from1980 to 1995.

slightly better picture of the front

And the back label has an amusing anecdote. I liked the tea. Most of the Honest Tea line is too diluted for me--I like strong tea and sweet teas. boy enjoys the subtleties of Honest Tea and will buy them when we're travelling (the very low sugar is of appeal to him, too). This one, though. It's worth it... And it has OPUS!!!!

If Honest Tea isn't sold where you are, I can see if your visitor this weekss is willing to bring you a bottle. I want to pick up another for myself, anyhow. If I use sand or beads, I can use them as bookends, especially if I glue felt or silicone mat to the bottom. I know it's a Maryland company, but I don't know if it's nation-wide. The bottles are glass, but not terribly large, so perhaps it wouldn't be a problem if she has room in her carry-on (packed in a sock and a ziplock bag).

Yay! Now boy is clean. I shall start a load of wash... or maybe not. We'll just go sleep. Oh, i must drink my last quarter cup of cocoa. and take out my contacts. doh!

Comments

[krasota.livejournal.com]

My doctors have no clue why I suddenly developed the extra food allergies. I'm one of the people prone to allergies--I've always had tons of skin/respiratory allergies and I was diagnosed with MCS when I was younger, though it didn't really get to the severe point til I got older (though I did often have nasty reactions in HS from folks wearing perfume).

I'm worried that my increasing sensitivity to wheat could be due to the drug I'm on for reflux--it might be allowing larger food particles into my gut, which could lead to the extra reactions.

I did have a large congenital cyst discovered (and removed) last year. It was near my thymus, but not in contact with it. My surgeon did surmise that the constant battle with infection/inflammation my body was under for 27 years could have something to do with it and my hyperimmune system. he said things might start going a little wacky as my body heals... I've had the flu twice this year, after probably never having it in my life. And I *rarely* have caught anything since developing the fibro.

Allergy shots actually made my allergies worse. :/ I'm one of the people who isn't helped by them at all.

I don't know if my shampoo is wheat-free, I just asked the company about soy. It's made by Heritage (http://www.caycecures.com/) and is olive oil based. It's their olive oil shampoo, unscented. My conditioner has only ingredients derived from coconut in it (well, there's water, too, and I dilute it slightly). It's made by Granny's Old Fashioned Products. There's no local distributor--I buy it from NEEDS (http://www.needs.com), but you might be able to find it to try out locally. It's the Soft & Silky Creme Rinse Conditioner, also unscented. I did ask specifically about corn, wheat, soy, etc. I buy both of them in large jugs so that I don't need to buy so often. And once boy switched to my stuff, his dandruff disappeared. I think the Selsun Blue was aggravating/perpetuating a problem he may have had when he was a young teen, but had outgrown. I make hair gel for boy out of flaxseed and water, since it's hard to find aloe-free unscented gels. It works pretty well--I make a new batch every two weeks or so.

A friend of mine just uses olive oil for her hair. She mixes some olive oil with shampoo, shampoos, then shampoos lightly again, then rubs olive oil over herself when she's done showering, buffing her skin with a towel that's set aside for this. She has gorgeous skin and hair (it's a lion's mane of hair--coarser than mine and wavy/curly).

I can make chocolate from baking chocolate and there are one or two soy-free brands I can buy. I'm fine with lentils and eat them quite a bit. It's hard to find instant potatoes which are soy-free, but I think the local WFS might have one. I have lots of recipes, since I belong to a few groups for folks with multiple food allergies. You might like to check out the recipes on FAST (http://www.angelfire.com/mi/FAST/recipes.html), if you haven't already seen them. Some of them might rely on barley flour instead of wheat, which would be a problem for you, but there tend to be substitutions available. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of yeast-free breads on there. I eat a lot of yeast-free flatbreads, though.

And I eat lots of indian food, since it's easy to prepare a lot of the foods without wheat or soy. I just use non-wheat flours for my flatbreads those days.

The rice pasta I like is made from whole bran rice. This is good for my husband, who only eats wholegrain pastas and I like it. I'm sorry the one you liked is gone. That's always annoying.

Is your household GF, or does Matt keep a stash of wheat-filled treats?

I can remember making (well, attempting) a potato crust for you that night we were snowed in at Chuck's. That was fun.