Wheeee!

[hummingwolf]

More snow! Not that it's snowing now, not really--but it snowed enough inches last night to make it a classic winter wonderland without making it impossible to go anywhere. And so I'm listening to Christmas music on Launchcast and after hearing the Waitresses doing "Christmas Wrapping" I almost feel ready for the holiday. Of course I'll probably be sick of holiday tunes by the time Dec. 25 rolls around and will go around singing Greg Lake's "Humbug" if anyone so much as hints at holiday cheer, but for now I'm not complaining. Nope, I'm looking out the window and watching a few stubborn leaves clinging to a tree outside while the breeze sometimes blows snow around in explosions of glitter and sometimes sends snow to the ground in big lumps. This is a good time for staring out windows, listening to music, and sipping hot tea.

(For those who care: Made more phone calls yesterday, spoke to lots of voice mail boxes, got notification in the mail that social services wants a piece of information they've never even asked for before, and found out a new person at the law firm is working on my Social Security case.)

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[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

FWIW I'm on a bizarre restricted diet (for health and possibly fertility reasons) and I miss bread, chocolate, pasta (I can have corn pasta but it's not the same, and I can't have any sauce on it), peanut butter, chips, lollies

Jeepers. Okay, I can live without bread and pasta easily enough (the main reason I eat so much macaroni & cheese is that I crave the cheese!), but life without chocolate! What kind of foods are you having to restrict overall? Are you going gluten-free and processed sugar-free or something like that?

I'm OK, thank you.

That's good to know!

Diet sucks.

Bah. Restrictions are never fun, particularly when they're restrictions on food.

Finances not in good shape, but what can you do? We're not gonna be on the street any time soon, which is something to be thankful for.

::hugs to Meg:: Take care of yourself, my friend.

[megthelegend.livejournal.com]

I can't eat wheat, yeast, sugar (any sort, including fruit sugar, milk sugar, etc.), salt, and a couple other more minor things that I can't remember. ::g::

I can have tiny little amounts of sugar in things, but not if it's added. So soy milk with no *added* sugar is OK. Soy milk with sugar, even if it's low-fat and low kilojoule, is not. I can't put salt or sauce (ketchup) on anything. I can put garlic on, but then I'm stinky as well as farty!!

I've been having one soft drink a day, as she told me to cut out soft drink if possible but otherwise to cut down. So that's my treat, and dammmmmn the sugar is gooooood. I've been naughty and put tiny amounts of garlic *salt* on my corn pasta a couple times, but I really shouldn't.

::hugs CB:: You too, sweetie. I'm so sorry you have to go through your shit.