Today I got tested for celiac disease (which I probably don't have, but considering the lack-of-gluten is making my pain better, they thought it might be nice to try and find a reason) and was generally a medical mystery. apparently the fact that going gluten free is making my pain better makes no medical sense, at least to the allergists ( Read more... )

so on the advice of my rheumatologist (who is a lovely man and the furthest thing from a quack i can imagine), i'm attempting to live la vida without gluten-a - he said it works for some of his other patients, it helps cut down on some of their pain ( Read more... )

thanks to joedecker, nightdog_barks, epi_lj, foxestacado, mactavish, triedunture, thewlisian_afer, Marykir (does she have an LJ?).... and tallin.

facebook allows pro-rape anti-consent group to stay on the site for months apparently there are more of them, too. ugh. *shudder* i can't stand facebook. this doesn't help.

Seattle local history: growing up on 'the hill'. as in Capitol Hill (west coast version), my neighborhood.

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i have swine flu. (at least it's statistically likely that i do. i have some kind of flu, and most of what's going around right now is the bacon variety, according to my doctor.)
i has tamiflu and ice cream and all that stuff i listed yesterday. plus more pain and a fever that's fevering even through the tylenol.
/thunk

thanks to haikujaguar, just_the_ash, gandolforf mactavish, wordweaverlynn and taiga13.

BUNNY INNA SHOE!

i really love this cake server. it's kind of ridiculously expensive, but it would be a great wedding present. and it's beautifully designed. (i started to notice that when i was in new york with calamusroot; we went around to the MOMA design stores and i bought and saw some awesome things there (paperclips! really ( Read more... )

dear fail!transit cranky-butt driver of yesterday evening ( Read more... )

yesterday afternoon:
yesterday we hung out with lana_ftw; we went to the farmer's market, went for ice cream (new flavor: pumpkin clove! omg win) and generally had a good time. i bought a basket made of some kind of grass for ridiculously cheap ($25 - it's handmade and HUGE.)
i bought sheets in this pattern/colortoday ( Read more... )

courtesy a bunch of people on twitter, including lana_ftw, dolphingirl and mactavish (i don't have LJ names for most of them)

target online stops sales of 'illegal alien' hallowe'en costume WHAT. seriously? who the fuck thought this was even remotely appropriate in the first place? i guess they didn't care? obviously. something? *boggle* jesus.

interracial couple denied ( Read more... )

insurance company will now cover "heavy" babies

well thank ghod for that how damn charitable of them. and more importantly the baby's parents have brains in their heads and are not doing something stupid like starving him in the name of the ridiculously broken BMI which for some reason we still use despite its brokenness, rather than the more ( Read more... )

from wordweaverlynn and anahcrow:

beeeeeeeby otter!

evangelical explains why he's for gay rights well thank god. um. as it were.

malaysia state in (second) honeymoon offer

couple had sex in a police station car park in broad daylight no less. they had to be physically stopped mid-sex-act. this is what i call chutzpah. or 'a right set of balls'. or just really ( Read more... )