I'm only good with chocolate chips if the food is still hot and they're melted goo.

I am ita in this.

ita, some of your stomach symptoms have sounded like my gastric reflux at its worse, so the Prilosec may really help. It takes a couple of days to really kick in.

Whatever my mother puts in her oatmeal cookies is good. Sometimes it's raisins. Sometimes it's dates. Sometimes she also adds cereal she didn't like as cereal. They are magic cookies.

The weather and its damage is scary. I am sorry your parents lost so much awesome vegetation.

the smell of mesquite and creosote and wet ozone.

God, yes. And wet desert dust. I think it's the creosote that I imprinted on most though. That is what has been in every desert I've lived in and swooned for the rain smell.

Mom still calls me every time it rains.

ita, some of your stomach symptoms have sounded like my gastric reflux at its worse, so the Prilosec may really help. It takes a couple of days to really kick in.

Ditto. It's a weird thing because I don't feel the "heartburn" but then the acid burns my throat and I do feel like I have strep and a few other weird things. The pills have been so helpful.

Yeah. Around here, a good soaking rain smells like wet dog. Uhg.

The rain doesn't smell right here either. On the other hand, just the air smells really good a lot of the time. So it's a trade off I can live with but I miss the rain smelling like rain should.

Rain doesn't really smell like anything here most of the time. Though a few weeks back we had a startling warm couple of days and then around nine one evening, crash and boom of thunderstorms. Those smelled good.

Peanut butter mushroom soup.

I've never heard of such a thing. Huh. Off to google--thanks!

But do ulcers or indigestion give you a fever?

I missed this earlier, but...um. When my brother had bleeding ulcers and before he was put on a diet of liquid lidocaine and gallons of maalox, he ran fevers.

Which he took while eating all of the spiciest of New Orleans' offerings. And drinking it. I had to carry the bottles in my purse. So.

I'm glad I was mostly too busy to be here today, because I spent the day trying to convince myself I wasn't really hungry.

I like chocolate chips more than ita does, but agree they are best when they are gooey.

Raisins have ruined the oatmeal cookie.

and everything else, for that matter.

Fingers crossed for something prilosec-vulnerable. I'm just freaked out by a fever (100), because I haven't had one in so very very long, even when I was definitely sick--appendicitis 98.6 degrees, hepatitis 98.6 degrees. Strange midnight stomachache? 100 degrees? Why? This is silly.

Batman resubmitted, Jesse.

For years, when I laid down at night, I had terrible stomach cramps and nausea. I had all kinds of tests and was told it was all in my head. Then chemo escalated it to the point that I was washing down Tums with Maalox. My oncologist prescribed Prilosec, and all those symptoms have been gone since then. It's the good side of cancer.