A Small Collection of Unrelated Things
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I've joined the gmail revolution. You can now reach me at rsadelle at gmail. I think I lose cool points for still using my email client (SeaMonkey) and IMAP instead of the web, but it's a step toward being cool.
Two Decades Is A Long And Wonderful Time
This fall is my and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
allegram's twentieth friendiversary. I don't know the exact date we became friends, but I do remember the day. Allow me to quote from the speech I gave at her wedding:
How To Stop Eating Chocolate In One Easy Step
My dermatologist is treating my acne as acne-rosacea, and since caffeine can be a rosacea trigger, I thought about giving up caffeine. For the most part, that wouldn't be an issue - I don't drink coffee, tea, or caffeinated soda. However, I was eating a lot of chocolate, and seriously craving it.
Then I got a migraine. I don't get the headache part, but I do get the weird visual aura thing. This only happens every once in a while (maybe a dozen times over the last ten years or so), so it's mostly not a problem. The last one, though, annoyed me because I was trying to read a story before I went to bed. So instead I read up about migraines and found something that suggested lack of magnesium might contribute to migraines.
I know you're wondering what migraines have to do with chocolate. Here's the connection: it clicked in my head that I'd read something before that suggested chocolate cravings during PMS are really the body wanting magnesium. So next time I was at the drugstore, I picked up some magnesium and started taking it with lunch every day.
It's been about two months or so, and I haven't had chocolate since. It doesn't even look particularly appealing. Amazing.
I've joined the gmail revolution. You can now reach me at rsadelle at gmail. I think I lose cool points for still using my email client (SeaMonkey) and IMAP instead of the web, but it's a step toward being cool.
Two Decades Is A Long And Wonderful Time
This fall is my and
allegram's twentieth friendiversary. I don't know the exact date we became friends, but I do remember the day. Allow me to quote from the speech I gave at her wedding:The year is 1989. Our fourth-grade class goes outside for dramatic play, where we act out what we've been learning. We've been studying the Maidu, Chico's local Native American tribe, and today's exercise is hunting, which is mostly just a way to put an academic guise on a game of tag. Four girls stay behind in the village. We're stairstepped in age - I'm six months older than Laura, who's six months older than Erin, who's six months older than Karen. We create our own backstory where we're four orphaned sisters living alone.Happy friendiversary, chosen sister!
Erin and I chose to be sisters from the very first day of our friendship. Our group of four expanded and contracted over the years as we met new people and went to new schools, but through it all, Erin and I have continued to choose to be sisters.
How To Stop Eating Chocolate In One Easy Step
My dermatologist is treating my acne as acne-rosacea, and since caffeine can be a rosacea trigger, I thought about giving up caffeine. For the most part, that wouldn't be an issue - I don't drink coffee, tea, or caffeinated soda. However, I was eating a lot of chocolate, and seriously craving it.
Then I got a migraine. I don't get the headache part, but I do get the weird visual aura thing. This only happens every once in a while (maybe a dozen times over the last ten years or so), so it's mostly not a problem. The last one, though, annoyed me because I was trying to read a story before I went to bed. So instead I read up about migraines and found something that suggested lack of magnesium might contribute to migraines.
I know you're wondering what migraines have to do with chocolate. Here's the connection: it clicked in my head that I'd read something before that suggested chocolate cravings during PMS are really the body wanting magnesium. So next time I was at the drugstore, I picked up some magnesium and started taking it with lunch every day.
It's been about two months or so, and I haven't had chocolate since. It doesn't even look particularly appealing. Amazing.
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Date: 2009-10-21 10:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-21 11:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-22 03:49 am (UTC)You know there are only 3 reasons why I ever even briefly entertain the idea of moving back to Chico, and you are the biggest one.
Hooray for G-mail!
And magnesium huh? I had noticed that in recent years I haven't been interested in candy, particularly chocolate much anymore. I had thought it was just a different lifestyle than I used to live, but it occurs to me now that the time I started taking multi-vitamins and the lack of candy craving line up nicely...
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Date: 2009-10-22 06:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-22 04:29 pm (UTC)Ooh, interesting data point. Do your multi-vitamins include magnesium? I don't take a multi-vitamin, but in addition to the magnesium, I also take calcium + vitamin D and a B-complex.
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Date: 2009-10-22 04:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-23 01:35 pm (UTC)I'm going to try this magnesium thing, see if I stop getting chocolate cravings at odd times.
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Date: 2009-10-23 03:59 pm (UTC)I was pretty amazed at how well it worked. I attempted to read about magnesium, and then I just bought whatever they had on the shelf - it's NatureMade's Magnesium 250mg.