My body hates me. On top of my foot and that pain, I've had a horrible headache since yesterday. Not like I can take more pain killers. Stupid body.

That is a lot of exclusions at once, but you can do it!

I took my cholesterol down 100 points in a year mostly by adding lots of oatmeal and good stuff and just paying a bit more attention to the bad stuff. I already didn't eat meat so that wasn't an issue, but I watched eggs, better, and cheese.

Yeah, a quick look at the NIH website about statins & red yeast rice is not reassuring

That's why I tried it for a while but then stopped. I don't think RYR in the US has statins, but knowing that supplements generally increase the risk of liver damage makes me want to avoid supplements that specifically increase risk of liver damage.

My cholesterol got better with diet and exercise even though I just vastly reduced red meat (to once a month or so) rather than cutting it out completely. But I should be more careful about the wine and the sugar too.

Been on statins for awhile,but I am diabetic. This means that they want my cholesterol down . I am one a lot of. Drugs and have never had any liver problems

I'm on a beta blocker and a calcium channel blocker and might remain so forever. I've come to terms with it because a stroke seems worse than drugs forever.

I'm baking a seven ingredient cake because the place where I normally get cupcakes is closed or is moving or something.

I'm teaching a new course (11th grade contemporary comp/american lit). We're gearing up to read Their Eyes Were Watching God and I needed a dvd to prep them (Zora Is My Name). The closest place that had it on DVD was West Hollywood. Damn, that is a pretty library.

New 1/2" beltsander is a hit. It's gonna make these spindles get DONE.

And now I have my eye on another sander, for detail work. On sale even!

Damn you, Harbor Freight! I gave in and signed up for their discount/coupon program, corporate tracking bedamned.

It would be crazy to go to Trader Joe's tomorrow, wouldn't it? I forgot about the Superbowl and now I have no groceries and no open FreshDirect delivery slots. (And there's a TJ's across the street from the Y where the kids have swim class in the morning.)

Early enough in the morning might be ok, I dunno. Weekends at mine are always insane, but if I go before 11, it usually isn't too bad or bombed out.

I've learned to park one level up in the mall parking lot adjacent to the TJs lot (not even across the street! "No Parking for Trader Joe's, Pier 1, Balley's Fitness" WHATEVER HOW CAN THEY TELL) and avoid the hell that is the SUVs and obnoxious entitled people who apparently will circle for 20 minutes and try to run over pedestrians for a spot within 25 yds rather than take the stairs and walk across the lot. I hates them. I don't understand them. They make their own hell.

Oh, I didn't even think of that! I was totally going to go to TJ's tomorrow. Eh, I'll roll the dice -- as I've probably mentioned, nothing in Boston ever seems that crowded to me.