[sarakingdom]

I have been reminded to plant fennel in the garden. I love fennel.

 

[Harriet]

3 hours ago, sarakingdom said:

 

Cut to avoid too much clutter here,  and also medical discussion involving weird symptoms.
 

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Yeah, it can take forever. Heck, until very recently, they thought this was so rare that they never diagnosed it. People with obvious and severe symptoms would take years, up to a decade, to get their diagnosis. And that's when doctors knew what the symptoms were, but just didn't think it was likely.

 

There are also a lot more atypical presentations than doctors tend to recognize. It used to be that one of the diagnostic criteria was emaciation, because they were used to diagnosing it when the damage to the intestines was so severe that the patient was deeply malnourished. So they assumed weight loss was a key symptom, not their failure, and you couldn't have it without unexplained weight loss. The insistence on diarrhea strikes me as the same thing. There are certain skin conditions or mouth lining conditions that are super indicative, for one thing. They're obvious symptoms. Insisting on a certain level of intestinal damage before you diagnose seems off. Particularly when leaving it untreated raises some health risks.

 

So in general, I'm inclined to believe the doctors with the more aggressive diagnosis. They're more likely to be using current science.

 

She was also a specialist who took weeks to decide, while the naysayers were GPs who took five seconds.

 

3 hours ago, sarakingdom said:

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If nothing else, it just seems weird for them to tell you to ignore something that's constantly triggering the immune system. Antibodies mean it's being detected and treated as a threat. The fact that it doesn't seem (and that word is often doing some heavy lifting, with celiac) to be attacking your body to fight off the gluten menace doesn't mean it's a great use of your immune system's resources or that constant high immune system activity is great. It has more important things to do than fight your food, and finite resources.

 

It's like walking around with your body constantly fighting off the flu. That's not great for anyone, but you in particular have enough hidden load on your health.

 

 

That was kind of what I thought. Antibodies maybe not the best sign that a food loves me back.

 

3 hours ago, sarakingdom said:

It's probably the compromise I'd use on your place.

 

That's good to know.

 

2 hours ago, Sea-to-sky said:

fiddling with the front page. Liquid did not quite go as planned (turned out i needed more blues than i had) but other wise It was a fun idea. 

Oooh I love the death potion. April, such a morbid month. 

[Sea-to-sky]

Just now, Harriet said:

Oooh I love the death potion. April, such a morbid month

It is very bleak and rainy here. I was doing alchemy theme this month and it seemed the obvious lettering option

my brain goes strange places sometimes. 

[Laghail]

10 hours ago, Sea-to-sky said:

fiddling with the front page. Liquid did not quite go as planned (turned out i needed more blues than i had) but other wise It was a fun idea. 

 

This drawing is lifegiving.

[Sea-to-sky]

7 hours ago, Laghail said:

This drawing is lifegiving.

I was hoping you would notice the book reference, but you may not have got far enough yet

[Sea-to-sky]

Slept strangely last night. Crashed out at 9:30pm, woke up at what i suspect is about 3-4am ish 😑not ideal. Cumulatively i have had 9hrs though, so do feel a little better mental energy wise. Just also like ive been run over a tad. Gah, so annoying. 
 

parents are going on hols today up country and for some reason the weather picked today to snow..a lot…Right in the area they are going to be travelling through.  Not ideal, so now i am trying not to worry about that combo. Hopefully it will be ok 😬

they’re packing extra cold weather gear incase they get stuck. 

Got some mando practice in. Blackberry blossom. Might have posted it before (cant remember)

going well, but the stretch to the 6th fret on the G string still trips me up every time. So annoying. 
 

 

[Sea-to-sky]

 

just wanted to show the water tracker for April. Its half done and I'm really happy with it. Lot of fun to draw. 
i sketched it out in pencil before hand just to get the spacing right.

 

i need to prioritising replacing my finest fine liner. Its nib is split and is really annoying me every time i draw with it as it makes a mess 80% of the time i use it. 

[Jarric]

21 hours ago, sarakingdom said:

I have been reminded to plant fennel in the garden. I love fennel.

 

 

Sometimes the simplest gifs are the best  

 

1 hour ago, Sea-to-sky said:

 

just wanted to show the water tracker for April. Its half done and I'm really happy with it. Lot of fun to draw. 
i sketched it out in pencil before hand just to get the spacing right.

 

i need to prioritising replacing my finest fine liner. Its nib is split and is really annoying me every time i draw with it as it makes a mess 80% of the time i use it. 

 

That's a really cool tracker - love that!

[Sea-to-sky]

28 minutes ago, Jarric said:

That's a really cool tracker - love that

Thank you. It was a fun idea. Many hours of biochem labs came in useful. 
kind of want to draw the rubber connecters (it is irritating my inner perfectionist) but i dont have the right putty colour among my pens

[Laghail]

You’re a beautiful soul making beautiful art. Thanks for existing. 

[Sea-to-sky]

Slept poorly. have dreadful cramps so Not feeling 100% today. Just going to take it very slow. 
Messed up my calories yesterday as I'm craving sugar really badly. Right now if i could eat 1400kcal of chocolate i probubly would…Not that it would actually be that much chocolate. 
Hormone cycles suck. 

almost at the end of book 5 in the knight series by a.j.sherwood. One more and hen i’ll be into the new book series. 
 

keep meaning to write about this and forgetting. Since ive been buying second hand romance novels i noticed there seems to be a tradition of making shorthand reviews on the first page. I have 3 books with them in now. This is the newest and most extensive. Its written in at least 2 different peoples hand writing. 
from what i can gather the shorthand reads thus:

pas = passionate

mp good = male protagonist good

gt = no idea about this one, any ideas?

theres clearly a particular way to write them though, as the other ones i have are also written in the same condensed wording. 

its fun that this is clearly a thing many people do though. Possibly it was the only way to get a review on such books before the internet and places like good reads. Always fun to find them though. 
 

[Laghail]

GT = ??? 

I searched a bit and found this fun entry, but couldn't find a GT

[sarakingdom]

13 hours ago, Sea-to-sky said:

gt = no idea about this one, any ideas?

 

I can't think of any that I wish to repeat in mixed company, anyway.

[Sea-to-sky]

11 hours ago, Laghail said:

searched a bit and found this fun entry, but couldn't find a GT

Fun. 
i suspect this is possibly where all the abbreviations used when talking about romance books started as its the only genre ive encountered where they use so many 

[Sea-to-sky]

Taking it slow again. Did some more to Aprils bujo pages and got a mini workout in. (Milk jug rows. 1kg weight 30 reps each side.)

 

 

finished the first story arch for a.j.sherwoods knight books. Now reading garbage by Reese Morrison. Really enjoying it, nice light, fun book. 

[Everstorm]

On 3/29/2024 at 8:45 AM, Sea-to-sky said:

gt = no idea about this one, any ideas?

Giant/tiny is the only one I know of

[sarakingdom]

1 hour ago, Everstorm said:

Giant/tiny is the only one I know of

 

"Giant todger" is the cleanest of the options I'm not repeating.

[Sea-to-sky]

9 hours ago, sarakingdom said:

Giant todger" is the cleanest of the options I'm not repeating.

😆the book is the devil in winter by lisa kleypas if that helps with the context. 
 

it could be good tension (as in plot tension), but since its so abbreviated it possibly is rude. 
i should mention one of the previous owners of this book removed the 2nd inside cover (the one with the raunchy art. Yes, this book is that old). 

 

[Sea-to-sky]

Crashed out for 11 1/2 hours last night. Apparently i need more sleep than im getting right now. So annoying.

Not up to much today. Just going to rest i think. Need to make more soup at some point. 
started doing the water tracker for april. Going to be bottles. Also the habit track. Will be so happy when i have a dotted notebook as anything with a graph will be so much easier. Right now i have to draw all the squares by hand. Very tedious. 
Theyre going well though, will finish them off tomorrow. 

 

[sarakingdom]

6 hours ago, Sea-to-sky said:

😆the book is the devil in winter by lisa kleypas if that helps with the context. 

 

Hrm, I've read some Kleypas before, and that doesn't really help, as that character both has a giant todger and is a giant todger. (In the best sense. He makes it work for him.)

 

6 hours ago, Sea-to-sky said:

it could be good tension (as in plot tension)

 

Or, indeed, as in sexual tension. Yeah, it's probably one of those.

 

(Sadly. Because I think all of mine should be the standard ways books are reviewed, even outside the romance genre. Hrm, I'm not sure my current challenge books are doing much of anything on the giant todger scale, but they do actually pass one of the more rude 'gt' tests in at least a couple of books...)

[Sea-to-sky]

23 minutes ago, sarakingdom said:

that doesn't really help, as that character both has a giant todger and is a giant todger. (In the best sense. He makes it work for him.)

100% most accurate review ive encountered of that book 😆

 

24 minutes ago, sarakingdom said:

I'm not sure my current challenge books are doing much of anything on the giant todger scale, but they do actually pass one of the more rude 'gt' tests in at least a couple of books...)

Ok, now im curious, you cant just say things like that and not expect me to ask what your reading. 

[sarakingdom]

1 hour ago, Sea-to-sky said:

Ok, now im curious, you cant just say things like that and not expect me to ask what your reading. 

 

Just the series my challenge is based on. I haven't really had time for pleasure reading, apart from the latest novella in that series, because it finally came in at the library. Rivers of London does have an unusual relationship arc over the series, though no individual book is very relationship-centric. (Maybe some the two latest ones, because of the direction it took.) Despite that, and the fact that all the books are perfectly acceptable for YA readers, it does manage to earn the ruder 'gt' rating in one or two books.

 

Which is actually a big tell for a male author (and a rare positive one), and I feel more reviews should lead with that.

[Sea-to-sky]

34 minutes ago, sarakingdom said:

Just the series my challenge is based on. I haven't really had time for pleasure reading, apart from the latest novella in that series, because it finally came in at the library. Rivers of London does have an unusual relationship arc over the series, though no individual book is very relationship-centric. (Maybe some the two latest ones, because of the direction it took.) Despite that, and the fact that all the books are perfectly acceptable for YA readers, it does manage to earn the ruder 'gt' rating in one or two books

They have been very firmly on my “to read” list for quite a while. I just never seem to get to them. Right now the first book is near the top of my pile for when I'm next wanting something a bit chewier. 

[Sea-to-sky]

Managed to get a short walk in yesterday. Slept like a log last night even if i did stay up a little late trying to finish a book, (really annoying when you have to stop 7 pages from the end). 
 

On my 2nd Rebecca F kenney book in a row. Love her writing, (do read the trigger warnings though if you give her a try. Her main characters tend to be villains)
 

been doing some more to the bujo, finally stumbled across a vaguely archaic looking lettering style that i like and feel i can write with a brush pen (though its probubly designed as a font, so i am winging it a tad).

so far attempts are fun but middling. More practice needed. 

 

this is last months water and habit trackers. 
went ok. Some habits are going well. Need to remember to pick up the mando more. 
managed to stick to most of them apart from when i was ill. So far am managing to avoid snacking on junk, which i am so happy bout as thats a downfall of mine when im not feeling 100% energy wise.

 

need to make soup today. Thinking of doing the Mexican bean soup again, as that was really nice. 

[Sea-to-sky]

I have a hairdressers appointment today and predictably, like a small stubborn child, my hair is doing its own thing and will not cooperate. It is clearly sulking. 

weighed this morning and weight is pretty much the same. Went over on my calories a by 400 both yesterday and last week though, so need to try harder. Succumbed to junk food yesterday, for the first time in ages, which was very annoying as ive been doing well with that. So hard to ignore when im craving sugar.
 

feeling better today but going to take it slow and try not to push myself too much. So easy to overdo it when you start feeling better. Makes you want to do everything at once, before your ready. 
 

reading another rebecca f kenney book. Had a few from the dark rulers series left so am just working my way through them. 
 

must make shopping list. Gah, today is a doing everything day 😬 that is going to end so well.