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Is anyone else into medical mysteries?  I love Robin Cook and Michael Palmer and actually pick up terminology from them.

I also love Ann Rule - she truly does rule - she writes true crime.

I occasionally still read Stephen King and Dean Koontz (only if it's not supernatural - he's really faltered there).

Lisa Gardner is awesome. 

Any other avid readers?

I have Bette Hagman's bread book.  I have made cornbread (as good as the real thing or better), Boston brown bread (heavy, but wonderful toasted with jelly on it) and a garbanzo and sorghum bread (YUK).  The biscuits were so-so.  The muffins were a disaster, but I think I know why.  Now, her pizza crust from her French Bread Mix (you make it yourself) is absolutely TO DIE FOR.  It is better than the real thing to me.  I had no idea what it was like to enjoy a veggie pizza with a chewy crust without hurting when it hit my stomach and then all the way through.  It was PAINLESS and WONDERFUL!!!

I love the Food Allergy Survival Guide which is free of animal products, dairy, nuts, peanuts, soy, wheat and I don't know what all free.  Stuff in there is a mixed bag.  Some of it is lovely, some is heavy and icky like vegetarian/vegan food in the 1970s and 1980s, so gross. 

Because my celiac piggybacks with lupus, it is imperative to follow the diet as strictly as possible.  Lupus had blown my iron binding capacity so I run around anemic if I don't take daily iron.  I have to be on steriods which will compromise my bones, so I have to take calcium and vitamin D.  Celiac, untreated, flattens your intestinal villi if they don't fall off to start with.  Now, 90% of celiacs can regain them if they watch what they do.  Without villi you risk malnutrition and certainly anemia, brittle bones, canker sores and every sort of ailment related to vitamins and minerals.  I am in a risky position if I don't watch it because the dangerous consequences of both my AI diseases overlap. 

I have lost a much needed 40# or so since I started steriods (prednisone) and a celiac diet.  I had been feeling better, but I think I must have had a dietary indiscretion (like too much protein for about 5 days running) and indulged in things that were no-nos.  I am paying for it.  I can't wait to get back to where I feel good.

Longer nights of rest, back on iron pills, strict celiac and vegetarian eating, no eggs and cheese no more than once a week...I'll get better.  It is no fun being such a pain in my own patooty!

Any good ideas for someone getting married in the next year or so?  A second marriage and not planning to have much of a ceremony.  (Where, what to wear, etc.) 

Thanks for any ideas. 

I have two cars (one antique, one practical).  Every year I get personalized license plates for them.  I'm just wondering if anyone has any good ideas or seen any in their state that were funny and/or good.  Ones I've had in the past include GR8NAKD, PO FOLK, 22TWAIN, IAMSOL8, HAPPIER, IXLR84U, DENT ME, just to name a few.  I get two every year, this year's ideas include HASBEEN, USED2BE, NOTHING and 4MER 10.  (I guess my frame of mind changes yearly).  So, if you have any good ideas, they sure would be appreciated. 

Side note, once when I was in San Diego I saw a great big boat being towed down the freeway --- best named boat I ever did see --- It's name was "Dyspareunia."  Still makes me laugh to this day.  Thanks friends....X

i want to have a couple of games lined out just in case we have time left over.  we are going to have an ice cream party!  we had that last year and the kids really liked it.  i know it's a little cool out, but what kid wouldn't like ice cream.

thanks again for your ideas!

DH replaced the empty toilet paper roll last night.

In the 32 years we have been together, this is the first time I can remember him replacing a roll. Please don't tell anyone else because they would probably kick him out of the He Man Club, which all men who don't replace rolls (and that would be 99% of them) secretly belong to.

This is one of those days where, years from now, I will think back about what I was doing when I discovered it. (Sort of like people do with other significant historical events.)

In my world, this is at least as big as discovering a cure for cancer, landing a man on the moon, or discovering life in outer space, so I just wanted to share the good news with you - because, ladies, it proves that there is hope for the rest of you!

I'm not really one for the classics either though I did like To Kill a Mockingbird.

I haven't read Sue Grafton or Janet Evanovich.  I average at least 40 books a year between true crime, medical mysteries and murder mysteries.  I am also hooked on TV shows like Forensic files, FBI files, Cole Case Files and that show called something "Evil" where the forensic psychiatric examines the minds of serial killers.  What really spooked me was the BTK killer's lack of emotion.  It was just like he was talking about nothing more than an ATM withdrawal.  My husband jokes that I just read true crime and watch those shows because I'm plotting to kill him.