am less fluttery, or because I’ve been busy all morning long and just haven’t noticed. I cut down drastically on my caffeine over the weekend, so if that’s causing it (or helping to cause it) maybe that’ll help.
I have no idea why I’m so resistant to the idea of caffeine-free Diet Coke. I think it’s because I assume it must taste differently, but surely it doesn’t. Does it? And it’s not like I drink Diet Coke for the caffeine, anyway (though the caffeine-withdrawal headache I’m sporting today begs to differ), so why do I care whether I drink caffeine-free or not?
I bought a bottle of the caffeine-free this morning and I’m going to give it a try. I expect there to be no difference at ALL in the taste, but if there is I’m going to be peeved. I mean, GOOD LORD PEOPLE, I switched from regular Coke to Diet Coke to save on the calories. Now I have to switch from Diet Coke to caffeine-free? What next – am I going to have to give up soda altogether and drink nothing but water? Wahhh!
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Someone posted in my comments yesterday (or Saturday, I don’t remember which) and asked if I’d update the “
Journals and blogs I read” page. The short answer is yes I will, because I’ve actually been working on it for the past few days. The long answer is, I’ve got another blogrolling list going, and am adding the journals and blogs I read every day – the problem is that I don’t have a list of links in my favorites. If I find a journal or blog I like and they have a notify list, I join the notify list. If they don’t have a notify list, I add their url to my
Change Detection list, and when there’s a change on their page, I get an email from Change Detection. My point is that if I read your journal or blog but you don’t update very often, you might not end up on the list. To make the list as complete as possible, I’m going to take the rest of November to get my list up and running, and then I’ll let you know where it is and y’all can peruse my links list to your heart’s content.
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Spot seems to be getting back to his old self, thank goodness. He came down and demanded food this weekend when I was mixing up turkey burgers for Fred and the spud, but I had already mixed the ground turkey with the oat bran, Dale’s steak sauce, and egg, and once you adulterate the meat like that, Spot won’t eat it. Fred chopped up a few pieces of raw chicken for Spot, who ate some of it and then wandered off. He’s been eating a ton of cat food, his color is a lot better, and he’s been a lot more sociable these past few days.
This morning when I was doing laundry, he kindly came into the laundry room to demonstrate to me that Spanky’s not the only cat who likes to pee over the side of the litter box.
I was touched by his thoughtfulness, I really was.
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We were sitting in the living room watching TV, Fred eating his snack of a peanut butter and applesauce sandwich and I eating my snack of a blueberry bagel with peanut butter.
“Would you like a bite of my sandwich?” Fred offered.
“No thank you,” I said.
“I think I’d like to buy some almond butter and try a sandwich with that,” Fred said.
“Hmmm,” I said.
Five minutes passed as we quietly watched TV.
Fred turned to me. “Almond butter is like peanut butter,” he said earnestly. “Only with almonds.”
“No shit, babe,
really?” I snickered.
He ignored my mock surprise and nodded. “I bet it’s good.”
“I’m sure it is.”
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I wandered by the organic section of the grocery store this morning and caught sight of all-natural almond butter. I picked it up to make sure there was nothing but almonds in it and was about to put it in my cart when I caught sight of it. $10.19 for a little jar of almond butter. I put it back.
For a price like that, it better be pretty damn good, that’s all I’ll say.
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