So, I'm not going off Seroquel. My pdoc said after seeing my lab work and seeing how well I'm handling my first New England winter (albeit a very very mild winter) he doesn't want to mess with the good thing I've got.

My lab worked showed my cholesterol numbers were really good and I'm not anywhere close to being pre diabetic (a worry with Serquel).

Basically I'm fat but healthy and mentally stable. He didn't even tell me to try exercising more or eating healthy

It's not so much $$$ as it is time/difficulty of travel (I'd rather not fly if at all possible) and how much of a Herculean task it is to get him ready to go out of town.

Oh, I see. Is next year Middle or East?

I'm not sure. I kind of lost track.

My pdoc said after seeing my lab work and seeing how well I'm handling my first New England winter (albeit a very very mild winter) he doesn't want to mess with the good thing I've got.

My doctor never took me off anti-depressants in the winter. He said that's just tempting fate. (I know Seroquel isn't an AD, but it is psychoactive.) If you really want to go off of it, maybe talk to him again in the summer and see if that would be a better time to do it.

Relatedly, this is the first winter in 15 years I've been un-medicated (I stopped the Wellbutrin back in May), and I am astonished that I haven't had a recurrence of depression. I honestly think giving up gluten has a lot to do with it (considering that 95% of the body's serotonin is made in the GI tract, etc.).

He wasn't going to take me off now it was going to be in the spring/summer. But he had talked like I was agreeing for me to try Lithium.

I see him again in seven weeks so I can bring it up again then.

It's nice out so I called Mom and went for a walk while we talked, and that ended up being almost 30 minutes.

Oh, I see. Is next year Middle or East?

East

I toss my cookies every night

Say what?

Say what?

Hee. My INTERNETZ COOKIES, y'all, I'm healthy, I swear. I just delete all my history and cookies every time I close my browser. 'Cause there's a good bit of inconvenience I'm prepared to deal with to grasp the last remaining shreds of my privacy.

Empty your cookie cache. All the passwords and apps in your computer. Like if you log out of Firefox as a browser every night, and you have something like NoScripts set up, it'll get rid off all your cookies for you.

I have a feeling a better tech-geek than I could explain this better....

Erin, you know march 8 is day before sxsw starts so it will be nuts in austin.

I forgot I had a friend who moved to Austin, and she said she'd be happy to put me up and pick me up from the aeroporto and drop me off at the convention center, if I can swing the other costs.

And she reminded me of SXSW. Which to my little brain just means there might be more articles I could get out of my trip, if I can swing it. And I really think I might; I found a $106 RT ticket at Southwest.

Or possibly search for pictures of shirtless Chris Evans.

That didn't prevent it from picking me out as male, albeit one a decade or two younger than I actually am.

Maybe I should try going gluten free for awhile. I don't really have any of the symptoms of celiac disease but I guess it wouldn't hurt to do an elimination diet and see what happens.

You know what I hate. I hate people who use their outlook calendar, but don't want you to send a meeting request, they want you to 'work with their secretary to find a time'. I don't mind making meetings for my boss, and Outlook has it set up so that your secretary can say "yes" on your behalf, but can't I just send the request instead of doing this back and forth dance.