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So today proceeds apace.

I am looking forward to this evening, because the 'rents will be out bowling, and I will have the house to myself.

Also, re: sleeping--I swear I will go to bed (and here's the kicker) FALL ASLEEP at a reasonable hour tonight.

Fucking heartburn.

That is all.

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*shares ranitid- ranito- THING. THAT IS ZANTAC. I SHARE*

I had wretched heartburn the last 2 days or so and had to go out and buy some last night. My body THANKS ME TODAY.

*hugs*

*clings*

I think I need to make a doctor's appointment.

This is getting ridiculous.

I know I'm sure I've asked you this before, but my brain = swiss -- have you tried OTC stuff?

I . . . do not recall you asking me. But no.

I also have swiss cheese brain, so.

What stuff is out there?

I use ranitidine, and that's basically generic Zantac. I find it really helpful for heartburn and acid reflux, as well as general icky belly type feeling stuff. There's also Prilosec type stuff, which is more expensive and takes longer, and works in a different way than the Ranitidine that Selkie could probably explain to you but I can not. And, of course, there's always Tums. But I swear by Ranitidine -- it usually comes in 75mg tablets, when it's bad I take 2 or 3, though.

Yeah, I've been using generic antacids.

Um. Every day.

Usually about eight of them spread out over the day.

I'm getting sick of it.

Prilosec, I thiiiink is the one my mom took before it was OTC, and it is mostly an acid inhibitor, I think, which prevents your stomach from producing acid. I think. Do not quote me. Hmm. I shall look into this rantidine stuff, I think.

Because really, enough is totally enough.

Indeed. I take Ranitidine, and so does Heater, and that's what Bing's doctor prescribed for her, too. So it's worth a try, at least, before shelling out the $$ for a doctor?

Gooood plan.

*carries it out, post-haste*

Thanks!

*winces and sends the good tea to soothe your heartburn*

If you were wondering why I was up until 4 AM last night?

That is why.

*weeps*

I did wonder. *comforts lots and settles at computer to keep you company and help you stay awake*

Shall I juggle geese?

Pumpkin spice lattes are a marvel.

Also sleeping until 8 helps, too.

Yay geese juggling! *votes*

I'm actually having a pretty productive day.

Bossman and I just talked, he's pleased with progress of vinylacetylene stuff, and I've found some articles with the relevant reactivity ratio information, or something close to that, and he suggested a new thing for me to try (which he usually only does when he's feeling like you can handle it, so).

Whee!

Aspen: *juggles!*

Geese: *take exception to this, and fly away*

Aspen: *stares forlornly into the empty blue sky* ... well, that could have gone better.

But huzzah for some sleep, pumpkin spice lattes, and productivity! Even MORE so that work is going so nicely. YAY!

Juggle the cousins!

*dares you*

*and tacklehugs on principle*

YAY!

How's you?

*looks nervously out the window at the small gathering of the cousins in the trees across the street*

... um, maybe not?

*is distracted by tacklehug* OOF. Hi. :)

I'm doing all right! I have tea, winter white Earl Grey - want some?

I'm also outlining three papers. It goes not-badly.

*cheers for not-badly*

The cousins will not eat you, I promise.

Er.

You know, if you believe I am the kind of person who can MAKE those sorts of promises.

Tea! *craves*

Man, I wish I had tea inna office. Grr.

Well, they haven't yet! Although it was mighty disconcerting to have several of them take flight from a tree and arrow over my head when I was walking through the nearby park, just as "Dark and Lonely Man" came on the psiPod, I'll tell you that.

No tea in the office? Oh no! *shoves some through the internets, posthaste*

*cackles*

Oh, dude, that is priceless. Er. And terrifying, but--par for the course!

*Happysigh at soundtrack CD, just because*

And yes, I know. It is AWFUL. My hot chocolate mix ran out, too, and I am all, like 'ew starbucks'. So.

*mutters*

Par for the course indeed.

*clings to soundtrack CD* I cannot tell you how happy that CD makes me. I love it lots. :) It's just such a perfect telling of the story in itself!

No tea AND no cocoa? AGH. This is horrific!

(Inner!Susan would bake cookies right about now, you know.)

I know! I am accursed, obviously.

*mourns. mourns lots*

Hee yay happymaking! I know. And to think, almost all those songs were pulled from a random culling of whatever I had on my computer.

Fate, indeed.

*snerks*

(Inner!Raven would fall all over himself to not burn them. And fail, obviously, but STILL.)

Clearly it is fate! Destiny. Ka, some might say -- like a wind, even.

*dodges snowballs, cheerfully*

(Still! Yes. And Inner!Susan would laugh, and make a new batch just for him, properly-browned.)

Absolute Destiny Apocalypse!

(Oh, man, I should totally get a move on on rereading canonstuffs. Also pondering how to DO a Destiny-Raven conversation. And why. Hmm.)

(Aw, Inner!Susan. I am now not so innerly maudlin! *hugs her*)

Now I have that song in my head. Drat you. *hums* Zettai unmei mokushiroku...

("Why" I might be able to help with, if needed. *eyes Moiraine's relationship with the Eldest Brother and with Raven thoughtfully*)

(Inner!Susan: *hugs back, beaming*)

*shifty* It is totally not my fault!

(Reeeeeallly. *eyes* Now my brain is all full of curiosity and making crap up!)

(*finds internet hot cocoa, and passes it around*

It is absolutely and entirely your fault! *throws rosepetals, or something*

(Yes. Nebulous beginning stage sort of thing, but possibilities are beginning to tick over. Also making crap up is useful!)

(*clinks cups*)

*is smushinated by freak giant rose petals*

Help! I cannot breathe!

(Iiiinteresting. If we end up thinking about similar things, it will be weird. hmm)

(*tosses back the hot choco--wait. No. sips it instead*)

Rosepetals: *swirl upward in burst of light and wind*

Aspen: *stares, shrugs, and settles down comfortably*

That's that, then.

(*does same, content*)

Pumpkin Spice Lattes are wonderful. So are the Maple Machiattos. *shifty*

Gah. Heartburn. I used to deal with that all the time, to the point where I avoided anything with tomatoes, and anything with citrus. What finally helped cut it down to a once-in-a-blue-moon thing was changing my diet to vegan. (Now, the few times I do get it? Are when I've cheated on said diet.) Changing what you eat for today and tommorrow may cut this attack down- as well as drinking lots of water.

And putting lots of pillows together so you're sleeping half-sitting up helps too. *wry*

*snugz*

It's not even the food, I don't think.

I get it even when I have not been eating.

I kind of think when I stressed myself into two weeks of illness in Junior year of college, I might have screwed my digestive tract over.

A lot.

*sad*

Your advice is sound, though. I shall Consider.

Thanks! *hugsback*

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