Month: August 2004

Did you already order (or pre-order) you copy of Mary Shomon’s new book The Thyroid Diet? It comes out today!

(I saw her in June and she’s lost a lot of weight following her own diet!)

I’m giving blood tomorrow night. Mostly because the Red Cross called me personally and asked if I would donate, given my blood type and the fact that nationwide there’s a less-than 2 day supply. When something like Hurricane Charley happens, you realize how important that blood supply is. How important it is EVERY day.

So if you are a healthy adult, find your nearest donation center and sign up. If nothing else, do it for the juice and cookies! (If you live in the Leominster area, tomorrow they will be at the Elks from 1 to 7 or so.)

I’m just crossing my fingers that my iron levels are good enough for me to donate. I’ve been pretty good about taking my supplements, but you never know.

I forgot to mention yesterday that when I got home from work (late) Thursday evening, I had two surprises waiting for me.

(1) The neighbor’s cat had taken a dump on my back stairs. The stairs we use. The stairs that heretofore had been catpoop-free. I was not happy.

So I went inside the house to get the jug of bleach and discovered that (2) Junior had left one of the fridge drawers slightly open when he grabbed a juicebox that morning, meaning the door had been propped open all day. Meaning I had to basically dump everything out of the refridgerator.

I just got back from grocery shopping, spent 127.26 buying my normal stuff, plus replacing everything that was in the fridge. I didn’t want to take chances with anything that was open, and I know some people leave certain condiments out for long periods of time, but I decided it wasn’t worth it, so I was even replacing things like ketchup, the little jar of minced garlic, the packages of cheese, half and half, eggs, etc. etc. etc.

I hate when that happens.

I’m working on a new series for the Daily Proble – interviews with inanimate objects. Eventually I’ll collect them and put them here on my site as reprints, but for now you can read overat the Probe.

This week’s guest: Maine.

There is so much information out there available to the average human with web access.

Did you know that you can get a report on mosquito activity in your area. I mean think about it…until now, you had to find out about mosquito activity by going outside and standing there holding a beer. Now, the internet does it for us! (Except for the beer part. My computer is underage.) Go to weather.com for your report.