3 Ways Gluten Attacks Your Brain!

And now you know!

…but not on my blog post comments. SPAM!

I got my first spam comment on the new platform. I was able to mark it as spam and delete it. I guess the filters have to be trained, and the only way to avoid it is to go into settings and make sure comments have to be approved, but I don’t want to do that.

That said, I know it’s pretty dead on Xanga on the weekends now, so it may be the only comment I get for DAYS. Let’s try to change that trend, shall we?

What do you like with your eggs?

I’ve been fairly exhausted recently, what with work and other life stressors bearing down on me hard, especially for the last month. I came home today and announced to my husband that I was going to lie down for a short nap. A short nap sounded like a brilliant idea. I planned on waking up refreshed and ready to tackle my evening duties at home. Well, guess what? A short nap turned into about a three hour snooze fest. I managed to make a late dinner, but my other chores will have to wait until tomorrow. I have to try to make myself tired enough to get to bed soon.

I wake up so early for work it’s not unusual for me to be in bed by 8:30 P.M. That’s a huge change from my prior night owl-ish behavior of the past. I never usually get the recommended 8 hours of sleep anyway, but if I don’t get at least 5 hours in, I’m a zombie the rest of the day, potentially headachy, and usually grumpy. Tomorrow being Friday, I don’t really want to spend my day like that. What in the world was I thinking? I may have to try to resist naps at all costs during the week, like I usually try to do. Every once in awhile a nap really is good for the soul. Today for me, though? I’m thinking not so much.

Are you a napper?

Do you have trouble falling asleep at night after an afternoon nap?

My customers at work are mostly elderly, and generally nice. Some are rational, others not so much. Today, for instance, I had a customer call to complain about some peanuts she had ordered about two weeks ago. She said she noticed that the squirrels weren’t eating the unsalted peanuts she ordered, and lo and behold she tasted one and was furious that it was salted when she ordered unsalted peanuts. Evidently her squirrels are on low sodium diets, probably in fear of hypertension. Nevermind that it’s only the beginning of September and hasn’t even started getting cold out (so maybe they are well fed and not laying up rations for winter quite yet?). Anyway, she demanded a new couple of pounds of UNSALTED peanuts be brought to her today, free of charge. Her squirrels are damn hungry, you know.

Several weeks ago she wanted to order whole wheat bread for the birds. It had to be whole wheat, but not hard bread, because the birds won’t eat it, it’s just too difficult for them. The soft wheat bread we carry isn’t whole wheat, but it is soft, but they won’t eat that either. We have in the time since sent her so many different loaves of wheat bread, but none of them to the birds’ liking. We are batting a thousand on not satisfying the animals who wander into her yard. I just hope she doesn’t find they’re partial to birdseed sans sunflower seeds or something. I refuse to go over to her house to pick them out. Sometimes the demands and expectations of customers go a little too far, though they will disagree with that assessment, I’m sure.

What do the animals in your yard like to eat?

Peanuts: salted or unsalted?

HI! I’m kind of liking the new digs. Welcome to Xanga 2.0 everyone! Let’s make ourselves at home here and get to know each other again. Who’s in? I didn’t lose any of my crew, did I? ROLL CALL! Let me know if you are aboard!