As this is the week when many people take Christmas cookies to work, cookie exchange parties, or give them as gifts to neighbors and friends, I thought I'd share a recipe that allows for MANY variations. It has come in very handy this season and I've given them as gifts (in nice holiday-themed gift bags) to my duagher's teacher, ccd instructor, school bus driver and babysitter. Hubby has taken many batches of these cookies to work for his staff, and they have been well-received.

Today was my follow-up visit with the Gastroenterologist - who came up with a gameplan to care for my various aches and pains (back, ibs) while protecting my stomach from painkillers and my colon from narcotics.

So here's the plan:

• One daily Prevacid pill (proton pump inhibitor to protect the tummy from the effects of Ibuprofen)
• Two daily Zelnorm tablets
• Three daily Xanax as needed for IBS-related pain (to "take the edge off" as he said and to literally relax my GI tract)
• 800mg Ibuprofen for back pain

...and a Partridge in a pear tree!

I got tagged by Michelle over at Smoochdog. I'm game to give my answers but I won't force anyone else to do it. But here's what I will do: If you are uninspired and haven't come up with an interesting blog entry OR you'd love to wax poetic about YOURSELF without seeming self-centered, then here's your excuse. You have to name the "5 wierdest things about me..."

For some reason I am compelled to focus my introspection today on my grammar/style/computing habits.

1. Obviously enough, I refuse to continue chain letters. That includes emails, blog games, etc. Oh wait. That's not wierd. That's conserving worldwide bandwith and storage space! ;)

2. My favorite part of blogging is coming up with clever titles/headlines. I used to do the same thing when I wrote interoffice newsletters as well as articles for a now-defunct music magazine. I think the one I was most proud of slipped an Urge Overkill lyric into the headline for a blood drive at school. Well, at least I try.

3. I have no left arrow key on my laptop keyboard. Hmm, that's more about my computer than me...

4. I type so fast and furiously that I produce heaps of typos -thus everything I compose looks like it came from a psychopathic dunce.

5. As stated before, I abuse elipses, semicolons, exclamation points, and parentheses. I think the elipses overuse is the worst....

It appears to be safe to post again without the threat of alien faux-links inserted forcefully into our blogs. Hmm, now that I think about it, "blog" could become a fun lil' euphemism for any number of swear words, bodily functions and/or body parts...

"Honey, I'll be in the bathroom for awhile takin' a blog"

"Flip over, baby, and show me some blog"

"Aw, man! My laptop got a virus and now its totally blogged up!"

"I think you need a tissue; you got a little blog hanging out there."

What in holy tarnation is up with these utterly crapulent and frequently innapropriate ads that masque as links under each blog entry.

My verdict: Hatin' them!!!!!

First time in eight months

Awfully sore. Note to self:

Buy fresh Astroglide.

This weekend I hope we will manage to setup our outdoor Christmas lights. We just do icicle lights on the roof eaves and across the front deck. Nothing too fancy. Of course we already have our (artificial) tree setup in the living room.

I also hope that my husband manages to fix whatever is ailing our pull-start snowblower. We have too much snow already and are bracing for more this weekend. And, dare I remind y'all that our driveway is 75 FEET LONG. We used to have a newer electric-start (i.e. turn a key) snowblower but...well, its a long story.

So...

Now that I'm weaning off the BBRAG diet and my tummy is more or less ok (fingers crossed)  I am heading back ot the world of low-carb/high protein. It worked very well for me last year so I'm going to run with what works. Perfect timing, this being cookie season and all that... maybe as a Christmastime alternative, I'll come up with a recipe for some kind of delectible meatcake or no-dough-donut... or, uh, maybe not.

Been shopping much?

Seen the latest "store-within-a-store" Fiorucci boutique at your local Target store? All that "retro" 70's/80's gear made me giddy.

If I were 15, I'd be all over that merch unless...

...my parents saw this Fiorucci website  (warning: not for viewing at work!!) from their fall fashion campaign last year and thus forbade me from buying any of it.

Gee, I wonder if Target corporate knows about the questionable (is it me, or does it look like kid porn???) material their vendor has online. I mean, the satyrs and nudie sillouettes are campy but a nude teen(?) with the slogan "Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore", uh, not sure how that's going to fly with most American parents. Not to mention, the brand itself it was always kinda funky, if not "colorful." I mean, alot of it leans on a fetishy, punky, handcuffs-'n-high heels rock 'n roll sensibility. The NYC stores back-in-the-day used to have some wild window displays, if I recall.

Just for fun I fired off an email to Target corporate about this issue and how it (the website content)  made me uneasy  - and I'm not even that conservative of a person! I can't wait to have the store detective shadowing me next time I'm shopping for cleaning supplies and goldfish crackers. *Wink*

Hey there.

I'm ok.

How are you?